A little group of men of science wish to collect
all available evidence about winter thunderstorms. Some of us watched recently the most curious within our memory or records. Rain came up on the carriage of a stiff south-west wind, which shifted quickly to west and later to north-west. The temperature fell. The rain was first mixed with snow, then it turned to hail of a softer and milder nature than usual, then to small-flaked snow, and at the end to a snow-storm of
the largest flakes that ever I saw. The diameter of each was certainly not less than one and a half inches. The thunder approached from the • direction of the wind. The increase • of cold was queer ; and in. no respect did the storm suggest the phenomena usually associated with thunder. There were no cumulus clouds and •the wind was strong before the thunder broke. All was over in about
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