Everyone understands how amazing water is and how important it is to life on the planet Earth. 71% of the Earth is comprised of water and water makes up approximately 60% of the human body. There is ...

Graupel is soft, pelletlike precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets freeze onto falling snowflakes, creating ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - They look like “dippin’ dots”, or even small pieces of Styrofoam that is falling from the sky, but this is actually a type of winter precipitation that is called graupel. Also ...

This weekend may preview the upcoming seasonal change with the development of graupel: soft and crushable ice pellets.

Tiny, pea-sized balls of snow fell from the clouds. Some called it snow, others called it hail, but there is a way you can tell for yourself. What is graupel? Here's what fell in the Sacramento area ...

They are soft, small pellets formed when supercooled water droplets (at a temperature below 32°F) freeze onto a snow crystal, a process called riming. If the riming is particularly intense, the rimed ...

Rain and low-level snow wowed Southern Californians as a series of cold storms swept through the region in February. We've also seen hail or graupel — a form of precipitation that might often be ...

A pretty rare phenomenon was seen over Western Washington on Wednesday and several KIRO 7 viewers sent us photos. Fallstreaks, often called “hole punch clouds,” occur when conditions in a mid-or-high ...

It's not hail, however – that is typically formed in thunderstorms. Rather, the small, soft pellets are what is known as graupel, when supercooled water droplets high in the atmosphere freeze into a ...