[cdcdawg]

That is the first time I have ever encountered the word “graupel.” I have a feeling that it will not be the last.

[canuck_conservative]

“graupel”

formerly known as “snow pellets”

[ClearCase_guy]

Climate Change is something we all have to graupel with.

[Hatteras]

Gaupel must come from bomb cyclones and polar vortexes having babies. Just wait til the ARkstorms hit! Then we will be talking Megagaupel!

[rlmorel]

I have always prided myself on having a decent vocabulary, but I am with you, I had no idea what that was.

“Graupel”. Soon to be added to the dictonary of “Climate Change”, “Polar Vortex”, and a host of others.

I love language. Words have meaning. And sometimes, though there are many different words that can somewhat describe a single thing, often, there is only one word that describes it perfectly. When writing, using that one word is gratifying, though as I get older, sometimes I have to hunt around in my head for that word.

I do not like it when there is a perfectly good, well understood word that is superseded by a new word in culture that is intentionally meant to carry emotional or ideological baggage.

I dislike it as much as someone who uses specific words to try to convey just how intelligent they want you to believe they are.

[BobL]

“That is the first time I have ever encountered the word “graupel.” I have a feeling that it will not be the last.”

I guess the term ‘sleet’ was too male-centric.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“ That is the first time I have ever encountered the word “graupel.” I have a feeling that it will not be the last.”

It’s the new hip word for sleet.

[hadaclueonce]

Sleet

[Thank You Rush]

I have to add my voice to others who agree with your post.

“”That is the first time I have ever encountered the word “graupel.” I have a feeling that it will not be the last.””

[Lockbar]

This is San Francisco graupel, they love it there....

[Flash Bazbeaux]

“That is the first time I have ever encountered the word “graupel.” I have a feeling that it will not be the last.”

I saw it last week, and recognized it as the latest “trendy” weather word. The last being “bomb cyclone”. I googled it, and I got two hundred sites all within the previous three or four days, all treating it as a brand new word that no one ever used before, and telling you it was a brand new word (except to experts, of course) that you suddenly “needed to know.”

It’s amazing how these trendy weather words which may have existed in obscurity are suddenly used everywhere at once, all within a day or two.