Meteorologist Mitchel Coombs has explained the factors leading to the development of numerous precipitation types, like rain ...
Liquid precipitation is rain ... is snow if it is crystallized and sleet if it is chunky. Hail is larger than sleet and is formed in the high tower of a thunderstorm updraft. Finally, graupel ...
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Milwaukee saw a 'trace' of snow pellets, or graupel, this week. How is it different from hail?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 ...
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