"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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It was little balls made up of tiny little snow crystals. If
you squeezed one, it would easily crush just like a snowball.

Because of the thunderstorms in the area (we never got one), I have to
assume those updrafts had something to do with the formation of this
stuff; but I've never seen anything like it. It was brief,
beautiful, and even a bit funny to watch bouncing off the ground and
the fishermen. Air temps at the time were probably in the low to mid
40s if that helps. Anybody have a name for this stuff or how it's
formed?


They call it 'corn snow'. Seems to only happen in the spring in the
Sierras.


We got the same thing here in W. Michigan late last week. BB sized
snowballs. Wierd. Kinda cool though.

Jeremy Moe