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Re: (meteorobs) Comets hit Spain?


Hi all

Sorry to dwell on the meteorological side, but similar events to this in
Spain have been reported at other times throughout history. These are
mentioned in the terrific book by Paul Simons entitled "Weird Weather". 
Here are some passages:

"Another peculiar event occurred in Timberville, Virginia, USA on 7 March
1976. The sky was clear and Wilbert Cullers and his family were watching
television when at 8.45pm there was a loud crash which shook the house. A
block of ice about the size of a basketball smashed through the
plasterboard ceiling of the living room and fell onto the floor. Deputies
from the Rockingham County Sheriff's Department arrived about an hour
later and collected some of the ice samples. A neighbour saw the ice and
another ice ball fall about 50 yards (46 metres) away, but when he looked
up at the sky for any sign of aircraft he saw nothing unusual. Later
chemical and physical analysis of the ice at a local college found it was
fairly unremarkable; it appeared to be made of tap water."

 "Sometimes the ice falls out of a clear sky, such as at Long Beach,
California on 4 June 1953 when about fifty ice lumps fell, some weighing
165 pounds (75 kilograms), and the total weighing about 2200 pounds (1
tonne)." 

"The greatest ever natural ice chunk recorded fell at Ord in Rosshire on
the evening of 13 August 1849 on the estate of Mr Moffat of Balvullich.
The monstrous block was some 20 feet (6 metres) across, and The Times
reported that it had a beautiful crstalline structure, almost transparent
appearance, formed of diamond-shaped ice coalesced together. 'Immediately
after one of the loudest peals of thunder heard there, a large and
irregular-shaped mass of ice, reckoned to be nearly 20 feet in
circumference, and of a proportionate thickness, fell near the farmhouse.'
And of course, no aircraft could have been responsible for it."

The book is very readable and mentions accounts of severe snow storms,
tornadoes, hurricanes, etc. It is definitely well worth a read!

And, I suppose this email isn't too far from the subject of the list.
After all, ice/water in the atmosphere are, in fact, HYDROMETEORS! 


Cheers

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Robert A. Goler        

E-mail robert@neumann.maths.monashdot edu.au
http://www.maths.monashdot edu.au/~robert/

Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Monash University
Clayton, Vic 3168
Australia

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