Graupel vs. Snow — What's the Difference?

Graupel (; German: [ˈɡʁaʊpl̩]), also called soft hail, corn snow, hominy snow, or snow pellets, is precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets are collected and freeze on falling snowflakes, forming 2–5 mm (0.08–0.20 in) balls of crisp, opaque rime.Graupel is distinct from hail and ice pellets. Hail is common in thunderstorms, while graupel typically falls in winter storms and in convective showers especially at higher elevations.

Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes. It consists of frozen crystalline water throughout its life cycle, starting when, under suitable conditions, the ice crystals form in the atmosphere, increase to millimeter size, precipitate and accumulate on surfaces, then metamorphose in place, and ultimately melt, slide or sublimate away.

Precipitation consisting of snow pellets.

Atmospheric water vapour frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer

A precipitation that forms when supercooled droplets of water condense on a snowflake.

A mass of flickering white spots on a television or radar screen, caused by interference or a poor signal

The result of this process, a small ball of rime.

A dessert or other dish resembling snow

Cocaine.

Snow falls

Mislead or charm (someone) with elaborate and insincere words

Frozen precipitation consisting of hexagonally symmetrical ice crystals that form soft, white flakes.

A falling of snow; a snowstorm.

The white specks on a television screen resulting from weak reception.

(Slang) Cocaine.

(Slang) Heroin.

To fall as or in snow.

To cover, shut off, or close off with snow

(Slang) To overwhelm with insincere talk, especially with flattery.

(uncountable) The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.

(uncountable) Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid.

(countable) A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water.

(uncountable) A shade of the color white.

(uncountable) The moving pattern of random dots displayed on a television, etc., when no transmission signal is being received.

Cocaine.

Marine snow

A two-masted, square-rigged vessel, trysail-mast stepped immediately abaft the main mast.

(impersonal) To have snow fall from the sky.

(colloquial) To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information.

(poker) To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards{{cite-book

A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.

Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms.

Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes.

To fall in or as snow; - chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.

To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow.

Precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals

A layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground

English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980)

Street names for cocaine

Fall as snow;

Conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end;