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

WAVE 3 meteorologist Tawana Andrew breaks down what we know and what we don't about the climate and weather here in ...

A: Graupel is a type of frozen precipitation. Southern Wisconsin experienced this on Thursday afternoon. Most clouds outside the tropical regions have temperatures that are below freezing somewhere in ...

Graupel, also referred to as snow pellets, is different from snowflakes, sleet, and freezing rain. They’re ice particles, usually about the size of a pea, and they require very specific weather ...

Scientists think that small hail particles, called graupel, within a cloud collide with other ice particles and transfer electrical charges. As they collide, one of the two parties involved in the ...

Graupel, also known as “soft hail” or “snow pellets,” is formed differently. It starts as a snowflake but collects supercooled water droplets on its surface as it falls through the atmosphere.

Snowflakes on a window. | Kristina Strasunske/Moment/Getty Images Snow can also precipitate as graupel or sleet. Not to be confused with hail, graupel (or snow pellets) are opaque ice particles ...

Snowflakes aren’t the only form of snow. Snow can also precipitate as graupel or sleet. Not to be confused with hail, graupel (or snow pellets) are opaque ice particles that form in the ...

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 ...

Graupel is also called snow pellets or soft hail, as the graupel particles are particularly fragile and generally disintegrate when handled. You can remember this precipitation type because the ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Soon, the News10NBC First Alert meteorologists will be talking about something called graupel. These are little pellets that fall from the sky and are sometimes referred to as ...