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snow or ice pellets.

Q: When the atmosphere is colder than the ground precipitation falls as?

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snow or ice pellets.

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Not necessarily. Rain is most certainly precipitation but precipitation can be rain, hail or snow for example.

Other recognized forms are ice pellets, snow grains, snow pellets, and drizzle (which is differentiated from rain).

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GRAUPEL refers to iced snow pellets. This is where supercooled droplets of water form on snowflakes. This smaller, lighter precipitation was sometimes called "soft hail".

Specifically graupel is the German word for 'snow pellets'.

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It usually means either rain or snow, but there are several other recognized forms, all of which are water in some form falling to the Earth.

By "recognized" I mean reported as independent phenomena on hourly aviation weather "METAR" reports

Beyond rain and snow, you can have ice pellets (same as sleet), hail, snow grains, snow pellets, and drizzle.

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Yes it does......believe me!!! I was in BCT at "the school of hard knox". They have buckets of salt pellets at every door so they can be thrown out on the steps to melt the snow!!!

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