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AROUND my home at Bessacarr, on the Great North Road, three miles E.S.E. of Doncaster, on June 14, at 5 P.M. B.S.T., heavy rain was followed by hail measuring three-quarters of an inch in diameter, then—after a five-minute interval—by hail measuring one and a quarter inches in diameter—with a density of 85 to the square yard. The duration of the second shower was only one minute. Sound elm twigs a quarter of an inch thick were cut off the trees in thousands. The largest stones weighed 20 grams (3/4 oz.): twenty per cent showed four growth rings about a white spherical nucleus a quarter of an inch in diameter. The intermediate transparent stages were one-eighth of an inch and the final growth three-eighths. None were angular, but a small number showed a quarter of an inch mosaic allotriomorphic crystallisation on their smooth ovoid surfaces.
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SILVESTER, N. Hail Storm, June 14, at Doncaster. Nature 128, 35 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128035a0
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