Today, the weather was snailing again (i'm sure Karys will approve of this word) quite heavily. It is a most inconvenient type of weather. Imagine snow (yay!) and hail (meh) and rain (aw man). Snailing is when all 3 of these weather patterns occur at the same time. This makes the bad effects of them worse, and the good effects of snow rubbish.
What happens is you get drops of rain, little bits of hail and big flakes of snow all falling at the same time. This looks rather odd, and I have only seen it a few times before. The snow lands, but that gets turned to half slush by the rain simultaneously. The hail then lands on the slush and makes even tarmac slippery. Instead of a puddle, or a sheet of nice crunchy snow, you end up with an inch thick layer of what I can only describe as something with a very similar consistency to vaseline. Very annoying and slippery.
awesome word! I may just have to steal that one.
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