That's why it is sometimes called "snow pellets" or "soft hail." Graupel forms when snowflakes are coated by super-cooled water droplets from updrafts — upward currents of air — in the atmosphere.

Dear Tom, You have mentioned ice pellets in your telecasts. Aren’t ice pellets the same as sleet; if not, what is the difference between the two? —Paul Mishke Dear Paul, Sleet and ice pellets ...

Sleet is made up of ice pellets that bounce off objects. Even though that may sound more hazardous than freezing rain, that's not the case. WHAT IS LAKE EFFECT SNOW?

Also, hail pellets are usually much larger than sleet pellets. During strong thunderstorms, small ice crystals get blown upward into the colder part of the atmosphere by updrafts, the Weather ...

The local National Weather Service office recorded a "trace" of snow pellets, or graupel, in Milwaukee on Oct. 12 and 15. News Sports Packers Business Suburbs Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals.

It seems snow pellets or sleet/ice pellets appear before flakes in some circumstances. A: Outside of large hailstones, the precipitation type that gets reported at the surface depends entirely on ...

StormTeam5 meteorologist Danielle Vollmar reports from Lowell, where, despite cold temperatures, the snow has turned into sleet and ice pellets. Skip to content. NOWCAST NewsCenter 5 EyeOpener.

A storm with a 2,000-mile footprint threatened to frustrate Christmas travelers from Texas to Nova Scotia with a little of everything Mother Nature has to offer, from freezing rain, ice and snow ...

Graupel - Soft ice pellets forming when water droplets reach temperatures below 32 degrees and freeze onto a snow crystal. This form of precipitation is more milky white in color.

First snowfall of the season brought "graupel" in areas of the North Side and north suburbs Saturday afternoon.

As noted above, sleet forms when snow melts in a warm layer and then refreezes into ice pellets as it falls though a cold layer. Hail, however, forms in spring, summer or fall thunderstorms.

The local National Weather Service office recorded a "trace" of snow pellets, or graupel, in Milwaukee on Oct. 12 and 15.