Video recorded in Powell, Tennessee, shows graupel falling from the sky on Tuesday ... missiles and exploding drones Do you know the first band to go platinum? Here are 50 bits of music trivia ...

It was a mixture of hail and graupel ― two kinds of small, pellet-like frozen droplets. So, what is graupel, and what makes it different from hail? Here's what to know. What is graupel?

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 ...

Lake effect in itself is pretty neat, but on Tuesday, we've had "bonus weather". Graupel forms when snowflakes fall through a layer of supercooled water droplets — yep, tiny droplets of liquid ...