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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 September 1924, Page 8

We have had au excellent specimen of the summer thunderstorm (says a writer in the London Times of July 31). The flashes and the peals were accompanied by a torrential downpour of rain and hail. The rain began to fall at South Kensington at 2.30 p.m., and in an interval of only 20 minutes, as much as l.lOin was measured, while more fell afterwards. It was estimated that during the most intense phase of the storm 0.39 in fell in three minutes. The rain began to fall at Kingsway at 2.10 p.m., and there, too, the storm w,as very severe. \Some hailstones measured in the Meteorological Department of the Air Ministry, Kingsway, were found to be from o,6in to o.7in in diameter. At Hampstead the total fall amounted, to 1.44 in, of which o.sin fell in five minutes. These falls of rain, measured at the South Kensington branch of the Meteorological Office and at Hampstead, are not unprecedented, but may be allowed to rank with famous falls. The heaviest on record in the British Isles, in short intervals of time, include a fall of I.B2in.in 20 minutes at Camden Square on June 23, 1878, and a fall of 2.09 in in 35 minutes at Preston on August 10, 1893. A feature of our London storm was its extremely local, nature. The official station at Croydon recorded hardly any measurable rain, and Kew had only a tenth of an inch. Kensington Palace, on the other hand, had 0.66 in, or, roughly, half the Kensington amount. Be on guard against influenza. Take “Nazol,” the ready for use and moneysaving remedy j CO doses 1/6. —Advt.