I'm old and learned something new today - Graupel

[Snattlerake]

Sleet: Freezing rain into small ice crystals sometime with rain
Snow: Frozen ice crystals that form directly from the cloud vapor and fall as snow
Graupel: Snow covered with frozen water vapor usually fragile to the touch. Often called Soft Hail or Hard snow.
Hail: Water vapor forzen solid usually around a nucleus of snow or sleet or graupel. Usually, the hail has made many up and down trips inside the cloud due to updrafts causing more and more layers of ice to form until the updraft is no longer able to keep it aloft and it falls to earth.

 

[Gunbuffer]

Just saw some of that
Would rather have some grappa

 

[Pennyless]

Never seen it. But it definitely graupeled all over me at work today.

Thanks for the info Snattle

 

[Snattlerake]

Something I saw and learned from a few years ago in Arkansas. Frost Flowers.





My pictures

 

[DavidMcmillan]

Been an interesting, and now educational, week.

Only in Oklahoma.

 

[foghorn918]

Looked like snow, sleet, and rain falling all at the same time today

 

[XYZ]

Had a friend who got hailed on as she walked in the house. There was nothing when she got out of her car and got pelted about halfway in. Crazy Oklahoma weather….

 

[TerryMiller]

Memorable events in hail, both while living and working on the farm/ranch. Driving cattle by way of horseback about 5 miles or so to a new field for them to graze and all of a sudden, all the cows and horses made a 180 degree turn AT ONCE to put their backs to the coming rain and hail. We got to sit there in the storm and make sure that none of the cattle decided to move off and head away from the storm.

On another occasion, we had just finished checking cattle via horses and loaded the horses back into the horse trailer. As we were getting into the pickup, I looked up and a hailstone bigger than my fist hit the ground. That certainly made us speed up on getting in. Fortunately, none of us were actually in it, and the horses had a cover over them.

 

[dennishoddy]

We have ran into that soft hail a couple of times during our travels through higher altitudes in the summer of all times.