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snowflakes that fell into supercooled fog and came back wearing frozen armor

also calledsnow pellets or soft hail
the squishcrushes underfoot, unlike true hail
how it formsflakes collect freezing water droplets called rime
size limitstays under 5 millimeters across
avalanche riskits ball-bearing layer makes slopes slide
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