Volume 8 , Issue 35

Weather - Graupel & Ernesto

Back here in southwest Colorado we have been having beautiful Fall-like temps around here. We hear that the San Juan Mountains near Vallecito were feeling the pounding of graupel on their roof tops, trees and tender plants left outdoors this week (August 26, 2006). The graupel reached a variety of sizes upto about an 1/8-inch of that frozen snow pellets. From a distance in photos it looked like a thin covering of snow, BUT... it was only the frozen snow pellets deleafing the tender plants and covering the driveways and roadways with a thin white color of Fall. It did cool things down a bit, though, to Fall-like temps around here.

While hurricane "Ernesto" was creating havoc and making itself known along the mid-Atlantic coast this week, the last part of August 2006 has been feeling some much need Fall temperatures, rain to parts of Oklahoma. AND... we hear that they have been witnessing a dip in gasoline prices around the state of Oklahoma.
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