On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 09:29:36 GMT, "Martin Rowley"
m wrote:

At one point, the people whose reminiscences were recorded were relating
tales surrounding what sounded like a major 'Rain Ice' event during the
1947 winter ... but they called it something like 'Ammel', or 'Hammel',
or 'Hemmel'. Not heard this name before and wondered if anyone had come
across it.

I remember the event itself, I was living in Camberley in Surrey then,
and its mentioned in 'Climate and the British Scene'.

Rain fell through a very cold layer, the droplets became supercooled
and froze upon impact with anything solid. So far as we were concerned
it meant quarter inch plates of ice forming on the old lying snow
which we could then lift and throw at one another.

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
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