On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place
Spring graupel, already starting to melt We’re nearing the end of the graupel season, as the weather warms up and moves into late spring and early summer, it seems like it’s less and less likely to see graupel fall. I associated it with convective sorts of showers, and this time of year it may be … Read more
Today’s weather was getting to be like people sometimes refer to as herring weather. Perhaps more strictly we would have needed to see more rain in the mix, as today was just mostly graupel and little bits of snow falling in sometimes heavy showers. Between showers the sun would shine, and throughout it all there … Read more
Graupel is a type of snow that forms when snow flakes fall through parts of the atmosphere that have supercooled water droplets. Instead of maintaining the form of flat snow flakes and/or elongated snow crystals, the supercooled water condenses as a rime on the surface that results in a pellet shape. Superficially, graupel looks a … Read more