Too Soon?

We are back home and wondering if we have come home too soon. We heard last week that it was in the 70's, so we packed up and had a fine trip north, and are now ready for lots of yard work and projects. However, today it's 50 degrees (maybe) and raining. The weatherman has predicted something called graupel that I have never heard of. Naturally I Googled it and found out that graupel can turn into balls of rime. Huh? Apparently it all has to do with ice pellets and conditions that we people that are used to 75-85 degree weather know nothing about. Brrrrrrr!