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Even the happiest place got snow: Disneyland graupel

It even snowed at Disneyland Wednesday
It even snowed at Disneyland Wednesday 00:57

It even snowed at the happiest place on earth Wednesday. Disneyland got a momentary snowfall, technically called graupel. 

Twitter user@laughing_place shared the video, and you can hear the amazement in his voice.

NOAA describes graupel as soft small pellets that form when supercooled water droplets freeze onto a snow crystal. Graupel is also called snow pellets or soft hail as the graupel particles are particularly fragile and generally disintegrate when handled.

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