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  1. We had a few downpours of rain, hail, sleet and something in between today. However, one particular hail/graupel shower which was very heavy the hail was a perfect cone shaped with a flat bottom. Is this a type of hail or does any one know if this is a common occurrence? 

     

    Just found this which answers it! 

    https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_10/March_1877/Formation_of_Raindrops_and_Hailstones

     

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  2. The most beautiful morning here in the Purbeck. The mist is lingering over the river and fields revealing the most delicate of spider lace designs. The sun is rising into a clear blue sky and it still has a kick in it's rays. There is a gentle warm wind floating in from the coast carrying the smell of cooked breakfasts. Gorgeous Autumnal morning :)

  3. Yawn, another one of those, it's going to.........

    No it isn't

    Scenarios,

    .....still stuck right in the middle with nowt to show, and seemingly less unlikely as time moves forward. Going to go rub out the first digit from the forecasted rainfall for Dorset, which was 61mm.

    So looking more like 1mm.

    I share your disappointment Dorsetbred! However, at about 10pm last night I was standing on a high point between Worth Matravers and Corfe Castle and while I could see the lightning out over the channel, I realised that the wind direction had changed and was taking the clouds more East than about an hour before. So I wasn't surprised when we got diddly squat last night :(

  4. It was glorious blue sky and sunshine in Wareham this morning. We decided to walk to Houns -Tout, just out side of Kingston. At about one o'clock the clouds quickly darkened and within minutes we saw what appeared to be a funnel cloud forming travelling along the coast line towards Kimmeridge. We were too far back to see any twisting motion but the cloud split into two and dropped quickly. The funnel never hit the sea but remained in limbo forming the same funnel clouds for at least 20 mins. During this time there was cloud to cloud lightning and a forceful hailstorm. Never had so much weather FUN!! :) What puzzled me was that before and during the storm there was absolutely no wind at ground level. Cant show you the photos of the the funnel cloud as they have come out blurry.

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