PM Update: Rain mainly done, but a few showers possible through Thursday

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6. The failing Washington Post says:

D.C.-area forecast: Chilly afternoon showers could produce graupel
It dries out but remains cool into the weekend

By David Streit
April 4, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. EDT

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Storms could dump graupel on the DC region Thursday. What even is that?

Thomas Robertson | [e-mail]
Ciara Wells | [e-mail]
April 4, 2024, 2:32 PM

A week of April showers continues Thursday, but it’s not just rain that’s expected to fall from the sky. Widespread showers and isolated thunderstorms that could produce graupel are in the forecast.

Here’s what you need to know.

A system moving into the D.C. area from the west will begin to form isolated thunderstorms Thursday between 2 and 7 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. Given the below average temperatures and other factors associated with this system, it’s likely to produce graupel, the NWS said.

So what even is graupel? ... “That’s a snowflake with supercooled water droplets around it,” 7News First Alert Meteorologist Steve Rudin said. “It’s not going to cause any accumulation but just something neat to say and neat to see because we don’t get to see it very often around here.”


(Courtesy National Weather Service via X)

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Thomas Robertson
Thomas Robertson is an Associate Producer and Web Writer/Editor at WTOP. After graduating in 2019 from James Madison University, Thomas moved away from Virginia for the first time in his life to cover the local government beat for a small daily newspaper in Zanesville, Ohio.
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Ciara Wells
Ciara Wells is the Evening Digital Editor at WTOP. She is a graduate of American University where she studied journalism and Spanish. Before joining WTOP, she was the opinion team editor at a student publication and a content specialist at an HBCU in Detroit.
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