March 29, 2015

"Is today the day it's getting warm, or is today the ice pellets day?"

"Ice pellets," Meade answers.

20 comments:

Heartless Aztec said...

Ok, I'll bite - what are ice pellets?

Meade said...

You're not from around here are you, surfed?

lemondog said...

Weather Bug says freezing rain....

chickelit said...

Icewater's indecision is whether to freeze out freedom in exchange for heat or to melt again with a shiver. So it goes until overwhelmed by a higher power overhead.

Ann Althouse said...

It's basically sleet that pings more when it hits things. But it's not hail. Hail is a more startling downpour of it's-a-hard-rain-that's-gonna-fall. It makes you worry that your car will get dents. Pellets seem more benign, like something you would feed an animal or would come out of the other end of an animal.

Ann Althouse said...

Hail to the chief.

Pellets to the rest of us.

Meade said...

All hail the mighty Badgers!

Meade said...

Decker rained down 3's on Arizona.

chickelit said...

Hale and hearty birthday wishes, Meade.

Meade said...

I mean — Dekker.

Meade said...

Thanks. You too, chickelit.

rhhardin said...

Spring is on its way. Yesterday the Central Ohio minimum was 17 and today it's 18, a trend.

Wince said...

Ice pellets are what's left behind by snow bunnies.

Original Mike said...

"It makes you worry that your car will get dents."

We have a lot of Hostas. A spring hailstorm a few years ago ripped them all to shreds. Had to live with the wreckage all summer.

Big Mike said...

More snow in Boston! They're gonna set a record that will stand forever, or at least until next year.

traditionalguy said...

With ipad minis comes the mini Ice Age, and one's here. That is what Russian scientists are saying. But it should only last 60 to 80 years. It's not another Big One like Madison enjoyed once.

Unknown said...

Hail to the Badgers indeed, but diamond-stone sleet to the Terps!

Anonymous said...

Here, on the coast of Massachusetts, it snowed yesterday, all day, with no accumulation on pavement but the dirty black snow banks along the streets and highways received a fresh coat of white. Today it is bright and sunny but I'm not fooled.

Anthony said...

Greetings from California, where we've been in a short cooling trend - it's only going to be in the low 70s here by the Bay, and low 80s inland. It was almost ten degrees warmer last Thursday.

ken in tx said...

Ice pellets, in Alabama, are called hominy snow, because it looks like uncooked grits.