snow crystal

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Graupel, also known as snow pellets or soft hail, forms when water droplets freeze onto a snow crystal, according to the National Weather Service.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2024

If the riming is particularly intense, the rimed snow crystal can grow to an appreciable size, but remain less than 0.2 inches.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2023

Powdery snow, the kind you can clear with a leaf blower, forms when critically thick air layers aloft are saturated enough and cold enough for highly efficient snow crystal growth.

From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2021

A single snow crystal can grow to a third of a centimeter.

From Scientific American • Nov. 18, 2019

Sunburst standards modelled in imitation of snow crystal, and resembling monstrance used in Catholic church; two at south of court; only large light sources in court; contrast with other illumination.

From The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth by Barry, John D. (John Daniel)