This month’s word is graupel. Per Wikipedia, “Also called soft hail or snow pellets, is precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets are collected and freeze on falling snowflakes, forming 2–5 mm (0.08–0.20 in) balls of rime. Graupel is distinct from hail and ice pellets.” I mention this because we got some in Phoenix the Monday before last, a rare chilly phenomena in the Valley of the Sun. But it was appropriate, given the D-backs’ off-season remains largely frozen in place like a disgruntled woolly mammoth, awaiting a thaw which will eventually come soon. This inertia might just be reflected in last month’s confidence figures.
Arizona Diamondbacks February confidence poll
