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LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — If you’ve ever seen that hail or sleet-like snow that resembles little pebbles or rocks, then you’ve seen graupel. This little-recognized form of precipitation is ...

You would be forgiven for thinking it was sleet or hail, and in some areas it may well have been. But for the most part, the solid precipitation that fell on Columbus Tuesday was graupel ...

Sleet falls from the clouds as snow but melts as it passes ... You can have different kinds of sprinkles though: the ...

Whether precipitation remains snow or becomes rain, freezing rain, sleet, hail or graupel by the time it reaches the ground is determined by the temperature fluctuations the snowflakes encounter ...

Showers dropped graupel, or soft ice pellets, on the Great Lakes region on Tuesday, October 15, the National Weather Service (NWS) reported. According to the NWS, some showers in the area could ...

Graupel is often mistaken for sleet or small hail, because the appearance is quite similar. These tiny ice pellets originate from snowflakes. As the flakes fall, supercooled water droplets cling ...

From left to right: Hail, graupel, sleet and snow. "Much of the precipitation that falls throughout the year begins as snowflakes high in the clouds," AccuWeather explains. "The snowflakes form as ...