I was on the allotments at One Tree Hill, Honor Oak Park when the
storm started at about 1650Z, it wsa too heavy to leave so I took
shelter in a hut, which has a polycarbonate roof, torrential rain
thunder and lightening continuously for over an hour, a couple of
minutes after 1700Z the hail became lager and larger, the rain had
dropped of and I thought it was all over, for about 3 minutes there
was hail up to 25mm giving a light scattering, some of it apeared
to be conical in section, some of it was smashing on the polycarbonate
roof. Never seen anything like that before, truly awsome.
Rain finally eased off enough to go home about 1730Z.

--
Martin Smith

In uk.sci.weather on Tue, 27 Apr 2004 at 19:35:39, Martin Smith wrote :

I was on the allotments at One Tree Hill, Honor Oak Park when the
storm started at about 1650Z, it wsa too heavy to leave so I took
shelter in a hut, which has a polycarbonate roof, torrential rain
thunder and lightening continuously for over an hour, a couple of
minutes after 1700Z the hail became lager
^^^^^
Must...resist...making...comment...

and larger, the rain had
dropped of and I thought it was all over, for about 3 minutes there
was hail up to 25mm giving a light scattering, some of it apeared
to be conical in section, some of it was smashing on the polycarbonate
roof. Never seen anything like that before, truly awsome.
Rain finally eased off enough to go home about 1730Z.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

Paul Hyett wrote:

thunder and lightening continuously for over an hour, a couple of
minutes after 1700Z the hail became lager

^^^^^
Must...resist...making...comment...

Reminds me of a typo I once saw where someone mentioned cidereal time
(as opposed to sidereal time)!

Jonathan
Canterbury, Kent

Jonathan Stott wrote:


Reminds me of a typo I once saw where someone mentioned cidereal time
(as opposed to sidereal time)!

Jonathan
Canterbury, Kent

Nearly 40 years ago, I saw a copy of a letter the Met Office had sent to
a famous explorer. In this letter, a typo had led to his name being
mispelt. The Explorer? Sir Vivien Fuchs.

--
Graham Davis
Bracknell

"Graham Davis" wrote in message
...
Jonathan Stott wrote:


Reminds me of a typo I once saw where someone mentioned cidereal
time
(as opposed to sidereal time)!

Jonathan
Canterbury, Kent

Nearly 40 years ago, I saw a copy of a letter the Met Office had
sent to
a famous explorer. In this letter, a typo had led to his name
being
mispelt. The Explorer? Sir Vivien Fuchs.

^^^^^^^^ Oy!

They spelt it 'Vivian'?

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