noun. Precipitation consisting of snow pellets.

noun. A form of soft hail or half-melted snow or sleet.

noun. A precipitation that forms when supercooled droplets of water condense on a snowflake.

noun. The result of this process, a small ball of rime.

"But even below that, there was the type of frozen precipitation known as graupel, which "certainly looked like real snow," said Stuart Seto, a specialist at the weather service."

freezing rain  ice pellets  sleet  snow