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SOME very large hailstones fell here about 3.30 p.m. on Sunday, June 2, during a short but sharp thunder-storm. Most of them were ellipsoidal in outline: some were mammillated, and some were evidently compound, formed of several hailstones partially fused together. Ten picked up at random as being fairly large ones measured from 7/8; to 1 3/4 inches (7/8, 7/8, 1, 1 1/8, 1 1/8, 1 1/8, 1 1/2, 1 1/2, 1 3/4, 1 3/4, inches) in greatest diameter. Many of them were formed of four, five, or six concentric layers, which were alternately clear and snow white. Some of these hailstones lying on the grass took more than an hour and a half to melt away (temp. 65° F.)
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HERDMAN, W. Unusually Large Hail. Nature 40, 126 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040126a0
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