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  • graupel—Heavily rimed snow particles, often called snow pellets; often indistinguishable from very small soft hail except for the size convention that hail must have a diameter greater than 5 mm.
    Sometimes distinguished by shape into conical, hexagonal, and lump (irregular) graupel.