"Alan White" wrote in message
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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'.

.... sorry, didn't make myself clear - it's the *name* I was querying;
has anyone heard this before? Some sort of Devon dialect word?

Martin.