snow pellet

"A snow pellet that breaks apart when it hits the ground," he explained.

The snow pellets re-covered the ice, and made a good start on me as I stared into the gray sky.

They stood for two or three seconds, the snow pellets peppering the garage, the big man's beard going white with it.

Unlike snow pellets, snow grains do not bounce or break up on impact.

Witnesses said they heard thunder about 30 seconds before the man left the chair-lift and that snow pellets were falling.

This process forms graupel, or snow pellets, as the droplet continues to accumulate on the crystal.

Snow pellets borne by 70-knot gusts stung my face; any exposed flesh was instantly frozen.

Also known as snow pellets.

The storm around them quieted for a moment, but the snow pellets still whipped through the trees, stinging like so many BBs.

Outside, the sky had started to spit snow pellets, those horrible little white bits like micro-popcorn that sting the face so badly when the wind is strong.

Smaller-sized hail, as well as snow pellets, use the coding of GS, which is short for the French word grésil.

The wind shrieked at him, mocking, as it went fleeing down the river and in between the gusts of wind he could hear the dry, rattling sound of hard snow pellets shotgunning through the willows.

While graupel is sometimes referred to as small hail, the World Meteorological Organization defines small hail as snow pellets encapsulated by ice, a precipitation halfway between graupel and hail.

The name is chosen to evoke snow pellets - smaller arare are similar in size and shape to snow pellets, though others can vary significantly in size, flavor and shape.

Types that fall in the form of a ball due to melting and refreezing cycles, rather than a flake, are known as graupel, with ice pellets and snow pellets as types of graupel associated with wintry precipitation.

Dr. Michael Cherington Sr., author of the report, explained that two factors stood out in both cases: the appearance of convective clouds, which carry an electrical charge, and the presence of precipitation in the form of large ice particles or snow pellets known as graupel.