Topic: Graupel Fall in Michigan

[Garth Bock]

Graupel is a snowflake that has extra “rime” on it - freezing water that collects on it after passing through a supercooled cloud. It freezes and bulks up the snowflake to look like a little snowball.


https://www.mlive.com/weather/2024/10/tiny-snowballs-were-falling-from-the-sky-in-part-of-michigan-heres-why.html

[miraculon]

Graupel is a snowflake that has extra “rime” on it - freezing water that collects on it after passing through a supercooled cloud. It freezes and bulks up the snowflake to look like a little snowball.


https://www.mlive.com/weather/2024/10/tiny-snowballs-were-falling-from-the-sky-in-part-of-michigan-heres-why.html

I live in NE Lower Michigan, near the "tip of the mitt".

Graupel is common here in the colder months. I usually comment on it in my CoCoRaHS reports.

Greg H.