graupel

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Unlike sleet and graupel, a hailstone contains a snowy center, surrounded by clear ice, or when large, by several layers of alternately clear and snowy ice.

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  • Unlike sleet and graupel, a hailstone contains a snowy center, surrounded by clear ice, or when large, by several layers of alternately clear and snowy ice. —  Modern Mechanix
  • Collisions between the rising water drops and the snow particles produce little grains of snowy ice, or graupel. —  Modern Mechanix
  • While boulder hopping around the lake we quickly took shelter, putting on rain jackets to fend off the graupel pelting down. —  GJSentinel - Latest News Headlines
  • By the afternoon, dark clouds loomed on the horizon and before we knew it, we were in the middle of a thunderstorm -- complete with heavy snow, thunder and sometimes, graupel -- a combination of snow and hail. —  TheDenverChannel.com - Local News
  • It's not snow that's falling, it's "graupel," according to the National Weather Service. —  IndyStar.com Top Stories
 

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  1. German Graupel, diminutive of Graupe, hulled grain, probably of Slavic origin; akin to Russian krupa, groats.

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/ˈgraʊpəl/
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