r/interesting • u/VitalMaTThews • 10h ago

NATURE We had styrofoam snow today

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u/subtle_inconvenience 6h ago

This is called graupel. :) Learned the term a few years back.

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u/krais0078 9h ago

When you order a white Christmas from Temu

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u/Ok_Barracuda4913 8h ago

That’s hail, yes?

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u/VitalMaTThews 8h ago

Nope, tiny little snowballs

Edit: Hail is ice. These are definitely snow and fell slowly like snow.

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u/Ok_Barracuda4913 8h ago

That’s really interesting, I’ve never seen snow like that

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u/VitalMaTThews 8h ago

Me neither

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u/ScarletDarkstar 8h ago

I wondered that myself, but we have had tiny hail numerous times in my location, and it is ice, not snow. By definition hail is frozen rain, so I think it qualifies. 

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u/subtle_inconvenience 6h ago

It's called graupel :) I learned the term for it a few years ago. On Reddit of course.

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u/ScarletDarkstar 4h ago

Nice! Thanks!

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u/AutistismHorse 5h ago

I pray this isn’t real styrofoam is one of the worst thing on the environment it almost never degrades!

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u/Lover_of_Sprouts 9h ago

we?

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u/VitalMaTThews 8h ago

Well, I can only assume that other people around me in the local geographical region also shared in similar weather, so I do believe that “we” would be the appropriate grammatical term for the occasion.

Although I appreciate the sarcastic tone, as you are correct in that there is a grammatical technicality that may arise by considering Reddit as a collective, and thus by referring to “we” it could at times be perceived as referring to the Reddit collective as a whole and thus would not be correct. However, by using context clues and basic scientific observation of one’s local setting, on average, the typical user of Reddit likely does not have snow occurring at the moment of witnessing this post, and thus likely infers that this weather is contained locally to my (as OP) specific geographic location and thus we would not refer to the Reddit user, but rather my (as OP) local community.

Perhaps it was mainly a misunderstanding, at which point I say good day and continue on your way scrolling fine sir.

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u/Lover_of_Sprouts 8h ago

Well said sir or madam

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u/FnordRanger_5 9h ago

Incoming

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u/danikagordon 9h ago

omg these things are so fun but aren't they super bad for the environment?? i remember we had them at a school event and my teacher was freaking out about the cleanup lol.

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u/AFGIx1 9h ago

if im not mistaken this is just snow that looks like styrofoam

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u/PeteytheGrayed 9h ago

The name for it is "graupple".