Graupel in Seattle

[mattp]

We just had a burst of thunder that was incredible. I told my wife that it might be something else -- did an airplane blow up or something? It rolled on in a way that I don't associate with thunder.

 

Five minutes later, we heard a humongous crash and the sky opens up. Our deck was covered with graupel in less than a minute.

 

Wow. I've never seen such a storm except in the mountains. And I grew up in tornado alley.

 

Smack. Bang. Graupel. No wind. No rain. Storm over.

 

[EWolfe]

I had to look it up:

 

grau·pel

Pronunciation: 'grau-p&l

Function: noun

Etymology: German

: granular snow pellets -- called also soft hail

[Dru]

Matt is just a graupel groupie

[olyclimber]

do you think there is any graupel on rapple grapple?

[dalius]

Yikes! My entire house shook from that thunder. I didn't think it was thunder though at first - way too violent. Glad it was just thunder and not something else.

[mzchristy]

That was CRAZY last night! I thought a plane had crashed, too. My room mate thought we were being bombed. (By who?? Pittsburgh, perhaps?)

[Dru]

do you think there is any graupel on rapple grapple?

 

Would you like some graupel in your Snapple?

[Dr_Flash_Amazing]

Graupeling champion:

 

[Dru]

I don't think graupelling is a valid technique in Rex Kwon Do

[Dr_Flash_Amazing]

 

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