rare snow in Uruguay
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Rare snowfall was seen across parts of Uruguay on Sunday while graupel resulted in an icy coating across parts of eastern Argentina.

Below are several different videos and photos from twitter showing the incredible snowfall in Uruguay.



The snow fell as cold air rushed across Uruguay following a cold front that brought heavy rainfall to the region from Saturday into Sunday morning.

While not the coldest air of the season, enough moisture lingered in the allow snow to fall in the higher terrain of southeast Uruguay on Sunday.

High temperatures were roughly 14 degrees C (25 degrees F) lower on Sunday than Saturday across the region.

Farther south the same storm system and cold airmass produced graupel across eastern Argentina, near Bahia Blanca.


Comment: Graupel, also called soft hail or snow pellets, is precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets are collected and freeze on falling snowflakes. The term graupel comes from the German language.

Graupel is distinct from hail, small hail and ice pellets: the World Meteorological Organization defines small hail as snow pellets encapsulated by ice, a precipitation halfway between graupel and hail.


An icy covering was seen all the way to the coastline in the pictures below.

A trend toward milder weather is expected in the coming days before another potent storm system arrives with the risk for rain and thunderstorms Thursday night into Friday from Argentina to Uruguay.