OYBBK - I think we just had graupel!

[ElspethDiggory]

On the M6 toll. Within the space of 10 mins the temperature dropped by 5 degrees then it started raining very heavily, turned to thick sleet then soft hail (graupel I think) then snow! Very dramatic!

[OhYouSnowySnowyKitten]

Yay!!!! very cool :)
I think all we had was heavy rain and then sleet(I was walking in it) then somewhere between me going inside and coming out (I was in a building where I couldnt weather watch) it turned much colder and fresher.

[mychatnickname]

I think we had it too. Now turned to snow.

[OhYouSnowySnowyKitten]

Thank goodness some of you have had it

[SuePurblybiltbyElves]

Graupel bingo

[thisisyesterday]

:( i want some graupel

[BoysAreLikeDogs]

oooh had to google graupel

we've had some (SW)

[shinyshoesandglitterypoos]

I had no idea that was graupel but yes we had that. I went haring off to the shops to get some bread just in case as it appeared to be settling, but it stopped :(

Have to go see some friends I'm not keen on tomorrow so I'm hoping overnight we'll get six inches (I hope for this most nights actually, but DH doesn't always wake up).

[missnevermind]

Oooh we had that, I was stood out in it. Shopping, not just playing at being a scarecrow!
Really interesting weather at the mo.
A graupel heyy.

[FoundWanting]

We had some! I tried to phone DH so I could use my new word but couldn't get him. Then I got a text from DH saying "It's graupelling here."

Thanks for expanding our vocabulary, OYSSK.

[OhYouSnowySnowyKitten]

:)THAT IS VERY FUNNY! OOPS SORRY - CAT ON NET BOOKKEYBOARD KEEPING NECK WARM

[JillJ72]

Had graupel in my hair when arrived in the sorting office to collect a parcel... the next lady arrived moments later with big snowflakes decorating her!

Yay - graupel

[BaroqinAroundTheChristmasTree]

ooooo - we had that too today didn't know there was a name for it

[LoopyLoopsOfSparklyFairyLights]

we had it and I'd forgotten your special name kitten!

Graupel, will it stick? hmmmmm...

[IneedacleanerIamalazyslattern]

After a bit of googling can concur we have had it in Aberdeen today as well.
I have just expanded mine and dh's vocabulary.

[piratecatClaus]

none here in south devon BUT i now know that the freak downpour we had 2 yrs back in summer was probably graupel. It was the weirdest thing, one minute the day was normal, not hot at all,(it was the crap summer) sort of cloudy and yet mild. Then we came out of a shop and my god this stuff was falling like rain, and it went cold.

Within 5-10 mins it looked like the whole of the high street has been snowed on! cars heaped up with it.

[Hassledge]

We had a bit of graupel earlier. Now we have on and off snow (East Anglia).

[Lexilicious]

I've been telling people at work about graupel. They were all trying to be cool and uninterested (blokes) and then one of them said oh maybe that why the TWR (military/RAF weather conditions codes for hail is 'GR'. And I grinned. I have still lost all my street cred though.

[BaroqinAroundTheChristmasTree]

ooooo pirate your post reminds me of a time in Zimbabwe, in the middle of summer when they had a bizarre hail storm (very unusual). Within minutes it looked like it had snowed as everything was white - was very very strange........have a photo somewhere of it and it's so wierd to look at this white African summers day

[piratecatClaus]

Baroquin, yes it was so strange, even stranger for you though!

We came out of Woolies (rip) in our flip flops and were battling up the street on this ice!

[teddies]

I'd quite like to have woken up to six inches, har har har.