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by jeepers4559 from Wildwood

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Did anyone get any sort of precipitation last night?  I must have, and it's the strangest thing...Looks like 'little balls', sort of what styrofoam peanuts look like when you crush them.  I noticed this out of my kitchen window this morning.  Collected in the grooves of the roof of a kiddie playhouse, located in the shade.  It also collected in the base of the slide of our playstructure (not in the shade).   I'm thinking that this must have been a small amount of sleet, but the tiny 'ball like' structure is really interesting.  

I've uploaded two pictures, but they have not been approved yet.  Please let me know what you think and whether or not you got any yourself.

I wouldn't have noticed this if the kiddie house roof wasn't such a dark color and if it wasn't located right next to my window...

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BRTNWXMAN read my blog view my photos
Nov 23, 2007 | 2:02 PM

Hey jeepers, that stuff was called grauple, or snow pellets. It bounces like sleet, but you can squeeze it. We got quite a bit up here in Brighton too, at least enough to cover roofs and anything else besides pavement. More snow than grauple though.

jeepers4559 read my blog view my photos
Nov 23, 2007 | 4:27 PM

It's got a name! LOL Thanks for explaining that. Never saw anything like it before. I did squeeze it because it certainly didn't look like normal snow or hail.

ChrisHiggins read my blog view my photos
Nov 25, 2007 | 10:54 PM

It's pretty cool stuff...it looks like little styrophome balls.

It forms when snowflakes fall through a small slightly above freezing layer causing the edges to melt. It then passes back into subfreezing air where the edges refreeze...sometimes with a tiny coating of new ice surrounding it creating the "ball" look.

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