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Default Soft hail in Wembury 1215Z

Temperature 3C and graupel falling in shower.
Nice shelf cloud proceeded the arrival of the main shower cloud.

Len Wood
Wembury, SW Devon, 275 ft asl

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Default Soft hail in Wembury 1215Z

On Jan 31, 12:25*pm, Len Wood wrote:
Temperature 3C and graupel falling in shower.
Nice shelf cloud proceeded the arrival of the main shower cloud.

Len Wood
Wembury, SW Devon, 275 ft asl


Turned to sleet on the back end of the shower.
Now there's some interesting cloud physics which will explain it as
Martin mentioned in a previous post.
Different temperature and humidity regimes in cloud and sub cloud no
doubt.
Also updraught and downdraughts.
Fascinating!

Len



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