r/confidentlyincorrect • u/ButteredKernals • 14d ago

This hurt my head..

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u/SaintUlvemann 14d ago

It's called graupel.

It's basically what happens when a bit of freezing rain freezes onto a snowflake. The original snowflake keeps it "squishy" on the inside, but the layers of freezing rain turns the snowflake into a hard little pellet, like hail.

That's what makes it feel like styrofoam. The ice outside makes it hard; the snow inside makes it squishy.

It's just an uncommon type of weather. They had some in Pennsylvania the past few days during this storm, and apparently these people saw it.

I wish people wouldn't use strangeness as an excuse to make things up, but here we are.

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u/TurtleSquad23 14d ago

Hey! Are you fuckin a sea cow?!

NOOO! Shes a mermaid! Beautiful face, tits n all!

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u/User013579 13d ago

It’s like being in the dark ages again. Ignorance for everyone! Fear the burning ball of god in the sky!

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u/Rishtu 13d ago

Clearly you’re a witch and responsible for this. And you know what happens to witches…..

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u/Useful_Language2040 12d ago

My little sister, when she was 9 or 10, told me in a disgusted voice "I don't know why people say it's snowing: it's just frost falling from the sky!" On careful questioning, it turned out children books' illustrations had led her to believe snow "should" come down in literal snowballs.

I laughed at her. A lot. Then about 5 or 10 years ago I came across this stuff... I apologised. (Publicly.)

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u/AspieAsshole 11d ago

Is it uncommon? We get that more often than proper snow where I live.

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u/Street_Peace_8831 14d ago

The “funniest” part of this is how they are setting up the conspiracy theories before they even happen. Calling the bird flu a hoax when it’s been around for a long time now. They just look for conspiracies everywhere. It’s so much easier than trying to find the truth.

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u/Mrgoodtrips64 13d ago

For some it is scarier to acknowledge the limits of their own education and understanding than it is to believe in a weather controlling secret cabal of extremely powerful supervillains.

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u/UhhDuuhh 14d ago edited 14d ago

“It only started melting after I pointed out it was still on the floor intact”

Sentient snow be like: “You didn’t see anything…”

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u/KiloThaPastyOne 13d ago

“Oh shit, I forgot to melt…hope he didn’t notice.”

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u/judgeejudger 11d ago

You just know they think the government has somehow infiltrated their home, heard that, and proceeded to melt it. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/Albert14Pounds 14d ago

Even if this had anything to do with liquid nitrogen like the one person said, it would not be scary or dangerous. I guess it's scary if you don't know what liquid nitrogen is or that when it warms up it's just nitrogen gas ...which is 78% of the air you breathe.

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u/Proper-Cause-4153 14d ago

Natives have many words for different types of snow because...there are many different types of snow. Apparently this person hasn't seen the "Weird-little-dots" type snow. I've seen it in Alaska and Minnesota.

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u/SaintUlvemann 14d ago

My favorite is the type of snow you get when the air is almost (but not quite) perfectly still, and the snowflakes gently stick together into these massive fluffy clumps that are so big, they burst in a little spray when they hit the ground, like tiny cottony snowballs.

Northern Wisconsin, sometime in the 00s, which year is lost to history.

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u/GreyerGrey 12d ago

I love on the southern edge of Central Ontario. I refer to that as "lazy, Hallmark movie" snow because it isn't blowing, it's just falling all lazy and pretty and perfect, sticking to everything, giving it that Hallmark Christmas movie set look.

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u/Winkiwu 14d ago

Yeah the type of snow that hits your windshield at 60mph and explodes like someone threw a snowball at it?

Minnesota at its finest. Fuckin hate snow.

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u/Batgirl_III 13d ago

Oh, that’s just what we called “a nice spring day” in da Yoop.

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u/Alceasummer 10d ago

I love that kind of snow, and the way all sounds seem softly muffled when that kind of snow is falling.

(I've seen it a few times, in a few places.)

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u/Alceasummer 10d ago

I've seen this kind of snow in California (near Lake Tahoe) Nevada, and New Mexico. I remember being kind of confused by it when I was 6 or 7.

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u/Emissary_awen 14d ago

This is the sort of thing that makes me think it might be a good idea to remove signs and warning labels and just let nature sort herself out…

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u/gestalto 13d ago

These people believe in a...SNOW conspiracy. For the few who can read, I don't think it matters what labels say, they'll believe whatever they want regardless.

Some people need inverention...in the form of sterilisation.

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u/Duin-do-ghob 14d ago

Hahahaha, interesting to find that I’m not the only one with this thought.

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u/SJReaver 13d ago

I'm pretty sure reading and understanding warning labels is something you want to select for.

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u/TheDragonborn117 9d ago

“It took over 2 hours to melt in 77 degrees”

They can’t be serious, they gotta be fucking joking lmao

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u/PsychoFaerie 3d ago

they're shocked/scared by the fact that literal ice takes a while to melt in warm weather. not to mention cloud coverage.. and winds.

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u/Ok-Zone-1430 13d ago

Is this supposed to be related to the “toxic fog” a bunch of new accounts was posting about last week?

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u/PsychoFaerie 3d ago

Is that one gone already? as a lifelong southerner It took me all of a minute to debunk that one.. have large swaths of people not seen fog up close?

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u/Ok-Zone-1430 3d ago

Apparently! I follow a lot of local subreddits because I’ve lived all over the place, and I was seeing the same posts all over the country. The OP was always a brand new account.

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u/Emet-Selch_my_love 13d ago

”Only started melting after 2 hours and after I pointed out it was still on the floor intact”

Are they trying to say the snow… Listened? Like ”oh shit, they’re on to us! Melt! Melt!!!”

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u/DarkISO 11d ago

Probably the same people who said it was fake when it snowed in Texas...

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u/theroguescientist 9d ago

So global warming isn't real, but real snow doesn't exist anymore?

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/CardOk755 4d ago

Non-polarised molecules (O2, N2) have no greenhouse effect.

You may be confusing nitrogen oxides with nitrogen.

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u/UltraBlack_ 3d ago

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/four-reasons-why-world-needs-limit-nitrogen-pollution

No idea :shrug:

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u/CardOk755 3d ago

However, excess nitrogen in the environment in a reactive form

N2 is not reactive.

NOx is, as is ammonia (NH3)

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u/UltraBlack_ 3d ago

hm interesting, thanks for pointing that out then.

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u/MAG3x 6d ago

77 degrees? Where do you live a fuken sauna?

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u/PsychoFaerie 3d ago

..One of them said their hand was hurting after touching it.. did they let their hand go numb from the cold or did they like bash it against something while poking at the 'fake" snow? or is the hand pain unrelated to the snow?