Las Vegas gets graupel while Lake Tahoe grapples with snow
The flurries of white, fluffy precipitation that Las Vegas residents saw Wednesday morning actually weren't snow, according to the National Weather Service.
What people saw were snow pellets, or graupel, which are similar to a very small piece of hail.
Farther north, though, people were experiencing some real snow, with overnight storms blanketing much of the Lake Tahoe region's highways and roads, and leaving between one and two inches of snow in the valleys.
