COURSE OF A HAILSTORM.
A hailstorm followed the course of an eectrac transmission line m au cluse, France, last June. As reported by an observer, this storm swepi over an area, about a mile and a quar ter wide and nine miles long. rn< storm started to- follow a narrow val ley m tho side of a mountain chain but on meeting the electric line, whicl cuts at right angles across a Jseries oi such valleys, the hailstorm joined and followed it, until exhausted. Th< effects of the storm were most violent close to the line and decreased toward both sides. Hail fell near Hhe lin< rain on tho edges of the storm's path' Another observer reports that thrc balls, of globe lightning appeared nea' the cables at one point, bursting jus J before the hail fell. There seems t' be no doubt that the line conducted the storm, but probably the presenc of the electric current had nothing t' do with it. Further observations o: electric storms m the same locality ma; throw light on the occurrence.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXiX, Issue 7729, 24 February 1909, Page 1
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