1 JUNE 1929, Page 16

EccEmittic WEATHER.

Wireless and the newspapers make us all weather-wise ; but oddities of the weather are surprisingly omitted. We experienced last week one of the strangest thunderstorms in memory. It began with a fall of immense hailstones which soon turned to tropical rain ; but I looked and listened in vain for any reference to the hail. The storm was so violent that by mere mechanical influence it shook some late beech trees into full leaf. Green leaf succeeded brown bud after half an hour's interval. And how incredibly green the trees

looked against the purple clouds I W. BEACH THOMAS. -