Snow has been falling in the Atlanta metro area and in North Georgia on Saturday morning, but not all of the precipitation has been the powdery stuff this weekend.
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The soft, small pellets that are formed when supercooled water droplets freeze onto a snow crystal are known as graupel.
Graupel looks “like tiny hail/snowballs,” according to the National Weather Service.
When temperatures are right around the 32-degree mark, precipitation can fall in all types of ways: sleet, graupel, freezing rain and snow.
Sleet is liquid precipitation that freezes before hitting the ground.
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