“Graupel” has been around forever and is familiar to people living in snow country. This is one word that isn’t a new-age, warmist concoction.
I have lived in snow country for the largest portion of my life, and have never heard it used or even seen it.
Of course, then again, I have never in my life seen the weather fear-mongering I see on television when I pass one by, and in my part of the country, they have spent that last four days working people into a frenzy about a winter storm.
We got about four inches, maybe. Then again, from what I saw in my damned blue state, the news cycles were split between the life-changing weather we better be fully prepared for, or the expiration of SNAP benefits.
So I takes what I can gets...
But I take your point at face value, which in your case, is decent currency...:)
““Graupel” has been around forever and is familiar to people living in snow country.””
That is news to those of us who grew up and lived in snow country...
I lived some 40 years in snow country (WV, W. Maryland and Montana) and not one time have I heard that word. Maybe my definition of snow country differs from yours. Maybe it's a case of a word that has been around forever yet rarely used.
news to me, i lived in snow country in minn, never heard that word used.