It's (almost) snowing

A flurry of small white flakes, too soft to be hail, fell from the sky; at first, I thought it was ash from some catastrophe or something, but then, some ancestral memory awoke and I realised that that what I was seeing was snow. Well, almost snow; it never reached the critical mass of covering anything, and within an instant of hitting the ground, each flake turned to water, essentially making it somewhat fancy rain.