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Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine, June.—Hailstorm at Seaford, Sussex, May 30, 1897. It can be very rarely proved that a shower of hailstones as large as a hen's egg has fallen over a considerable area in England, but from letters received from various observers this is shown to have been the case during thunderstorms which occurred over the east of England on that day between the Isle of Wight and Lincoln. At Seaford several hailstones were picked up measuring 4½ inches round, and at Maidstone the stones were as large as walnuts; the noise there was so great that the services in nearly all the churches were interrupted.—Heavy rain at Port Elizabeth,. Cape Colony, May 5, 1897. The amount measured between 8 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. was over 5 inches, and in three days 7˙29 inches were measured.
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Scientific Serials. Nature 56, 237 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056237b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/056237b0