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 ...

"There's a key difference between graupel and sleet,” explains weather.com senior meteorologist Jon Erdman. “Sleet is precipitation that starts as snow, melts completely while falling ...

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 ...

"The snowflakes form as air rises, cools and condenses, usually around an area of low pressure." Whether precipitation remains snow or becomes rain, freezing rain, sleet, hail or graupel by the time ...

It wasn't only graupel; sleet, hail and rain also fell from the heavens Tuesday. All frozen precipitation, including graupel, is categorized as snow in NWS records, according to Campbell.

FARGO — Fall can bring us all types of precipitation: from rain to snow ... to donuts. Snow is the easiest comparison: ...