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Dec 5/6th major coastal/ west Atlantic cyclogenesis ...?


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35 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Sort of... graupel is partially refrozen aggregate pieces ...which is sort of the same thing .. but those under thundersnow/CSI banding...they are larger and really do appeal as though they were suspended by updraft for a period - graupel is snow falling into an incomplete melting layer.  The end result may be similar but not quite, and also different formation sequencing -

But alas ...many of these process in this crazy business in reality share processing/physics so ... the seams can be rather "cloudy" - haha... puns are free by the way -

I feel like it’s more common in the inter mountain west, and areas in the Great Basin.

the most common time I would see graupel in Reno, it would be in late winter/early spring during weak disturbances, where the sun was stronger, and you’d have partly sunny days with scattered quasi-convective “snow showers”. Sun would heat up ground in shallow ways, then a snow shower comes in, temp at surface drops from 50 degrees to 30-35 quickly with lots of graupel. 

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