http://trellia-chan.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] trellia-chan.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] 1word1day2015-04-22 10:13 pm

Wednesday word: graupel

graupel: [grou-puh l]

Another weather term.  Not quite sleet, not quite snow, not quite hail.  Graupel is a small, soft white ice particle that falls as precipitation and breaks apart easily when it is handled or lands on a surface. Also called snow pellets or soft hail. It is formed when cold droplets of water freeze onto a falling snowflake.


Origin: 1885-90. German: diminutive of Graupe meaning hulled grain

[identity profile] iambe.livejournal.com 2015-04-23 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
if I could "like" this, I would! It looks so fluffy :)