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 rime Super-cooled tiny water droplets (typically in a fog) that quickly freeze onto whatever they hit (for example, the small droplets of rime on large snow crystals).

 graupel Loose collections of frozen water droplets, sometimes called ‘soft hail’.

 hail Large, solid chunks of ice.

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The story of a snowflake begins with water vapour in the air, caused by evaporation from oceans, lakes and rivers. When a parcel of air cools down, at some point the water vapour it holds will begin to condense; when this happens near the ground, the water may condense as dew on the grass. High in the atmosphere water vapour condenses into countless minute droplets, each one containing at least one dust particle. A cloud is nothing more than a huge collection of these water droplets suspended in the air.