Thread: Raining snowballs
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Old October 18th, 2006, 09:36 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
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Default Raining snowballs
George Cleveland wrote:
Probably graupel.
Its frost covered ice crystals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graupel

Yep; that looks like the stuff. The upper limit of the 2 - 5 mm
diameter about matches what I saw.

Tx,
Joe F.