Speaking of snow: I saw how CNN and a couple of the other national news outlets said Phoenix got a rare snow but a friend of mine out there said the NWS and TV weather guys out in “the Valley of the Sun” are going way out of their way to say this was not snow, apparently there is something called graupel which is technically not considered snow or winter precipitation but is a cousin of hail.
Speaking of snow: I saw how CNN and a couple of the other national news outlets said Phoenix got a rare snow but a friend of mine out there said the NWS and TV weather guys out in “the Valley of the Sun” are going way out of their way to say this was not snow, apparently there is something called graupel which is technically not considered snow or winter precipitation but is a cousin of hail.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-weather/2021/01/25/what-graupel-soft-hail-fell-phoenix-area-monday-not-snow/4253612001/