Sunshine and traces of snow both showed on Spring’s first Saturday.
Graupel is sometimes described as pellets of snow or as frost- covered snowflakes. This mildly exotic atmospheric concoction showed up Saturday in Arlington, and places farther off.
Nothing that fell on Saturday seemed too remote from possibility, given the day-long display and interplay of cloud and sky. Often at a single moment sunshine and blue sky coexisted with dark and ominous clouds.Story continues below advertisement On a breezy, almost raw, day of temperatures in the 40s and 50s, a single cloud might seem rimmed with orange sunshine at its top, but freighted with dark menace below.It seemed in a way symbolic of early springtime, with emphasis on transformation and change.
Spring clearly had arrived, as witnessed by the smiling sun that sometimes could be seen despite a 40 degree wind chill at 2 p.m. But winter’s remnants seemed to live in the gray tendrils that stretched from clouds to ground, and brought traces of snow to some spots, while renewing for many our acquaintance with graupel.
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