[weather]

[wispfox]

You know, looking out the window this morning and seeing small chunks of ice falling from the sky was... disconcerting.

Hail? Sleet? I have no idea...

Bloody weather!

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[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Eek!

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[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

Being the time of year that it is, it is likely to be hail.

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[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Had that thought, but not sure what causes sleet vs hail. :)

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[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

Hail needs warm updrafts; sleet doesn't. It's likely that if it's below freezing, then it is sleet; hail otherwise.

Hail happens when a droplet freezes in the clouds, starts to fall but then is raised up into the clouds with warm updrafts, gaining more water and freezing on the way. It falls eventually when the updrafts are no longer strong enough to continue raising the hailstone again.

Sleet happens when it is above freezing in the clouds and below freezing near the ground. If it's also freezing in the clouds, that would be snow.

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[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Then, yes. Quite probably hail. Although it _was_ getting pretty cold there, I don't think it was quite freezing. :)

[volta]

I definitely encountered sleet on my ride home yesterday. Today, on the ride in, all I got was rain, wind, and downed trees in the road.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Were you on the bike? If so, sleet must have been interesting!

And yes, saw a downed tree on the other side of the road from me on the way in.

It's less than a month from summer solstice! Sheesh...

[volta]

Yep. It sucks--my visor was actually icing over. This is great weather, for the first week of March.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

visor icing over: Yikes! That's _not_ good.

Stupid weather, thinking it's two months ago...

[brother-bliss.livejournal.com]

welcome to New England spring, break out the winter coats and keep warm.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

This is _not_ normal New England spring.

I grew up in New Hampshire, you know. :)

It happens, sure, but it's not even vaguely normal.

[fraterrisus]

no, see, if it were bloody weather, it wouldn't freeze like that.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

That...

would be very messy.

I am glad that there is not, in fact, blood falling from the sky!

[ian-gunn.livejournal.com]

I think I'm glad I slept in this morning.