<p>We are really lucky, for a change. Savor it while it lasts, and feel compassion for almost everyone else in the US who is suffering with cold, snow and rain. I will try to hold this in my mind when it is beautiful and sunny everywhere else in May-June, and it’s raining nonstop here.</p>
<p>Graupel in San Diego?? Maybe it is nearing the end of times, after all.</p>
<p>The big storm front blew through earlier today. We got a lot of wind and rain but i didn’t see any graupel. But then I’m not sure I’d know graupel if I saw it.</p>
<p>I live in Orange County, California and we’re supposed to get more rain this week than we normally get in two years. I joined a group on facebook that says “southern california: the only place where kids get excited for tornadoes.” It’s so true.</p>
<p>Southern California is also about the only place where you get floods and drought at the same time. Streets are flooded. Homes are threatened by torrents of water. But the local water officials keeping nagging endlessly that we are still in a drought and need to conserve every drop. </p>
<p>What is really discouraging is when you are driving through a blinding rainstorm and you pass a city park and see the sprinklers running - mindlessly watering the grass that is already under three inches of water.</p>
<p>I had never heard of graupel so checked it in that source authority Wikipedia and realized we get that all the time on the NJ shore. It happens when it is snowing on the mainland, but a little too warm on the barrier islands for snowflakes. I never knew it had a name, we just called them snow pellets.</p>
<p>Southwest Florida has had the coldest winter in 35 years. We have taken cataclysmic hits in landscape and agricultural vegitation. As a community we are barely hanging on, we are now on our 4th year of economic depression in the construction/real estate markets and now the farmers are in trouble too. Thankfully the weather has turned now, but the full brunt is just now being calculated.</p>
<p>I have the biggest umbrella ever devised in the history of mankind, but that didn’t stop my legs from getting wet from the rain–it was going sideways!! :eek:
Lol @ CA Brain…I also thought that possession of an umbrella rendered you immune to water. Apparently not :(</p>
<p>I think I ate some graupel for breakfast this morning.</p>