Every lightning strike begins as a silent exchange of charge — leaders reaching down, streamers rising up — until, in an ...

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Graupel is also called snow pellets or soft hail, as the graupel particles are particularly fragile and generally disintegrate when handled. Advertisement. Sleet.

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Graupel is also called "snow pellets" or "soft hail," as the graupel particles are fragile and generally disintegrate when handled, the NOAA says. While we're at it, here's a look at what makes hail.

Lightning is a giant spark of electricity in the atmosphere between clouds, the air, or the ground. In the early stages of development, air acts as an insulator between the ...

NOAA describes graupel as soft small pellets that form when supercooled water droplets freeze onto a snow crystal. Graupel is also called snow pellets or soft hail as the graupel particles are ...

Sleet and graupel, two types of icy precipitation, are often confused for one another. ... Sleet, or ice pellets, forms when raindrops freeze into small, solid particles before hitting the ground.

The slightly positive ice crystals continue to rise, and the slightly negative graupel particles continue to sink, resulting in the top section of the cumulonimbus being positively charged and the ...

Researchers said rimed crystals, which are attached with cloud particles, and graupel characterize the snow that often falls in the Sea of Japan side of the Hokuriku to Tohoku regions of the ...