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Jimmy Deguara
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Hail drifts Valletta Malta December 27 2008
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Hail drifts in Valletta and in B'Kara
Hail drifts are too uncommon in Malta during the winter period.
(Please let us know if you definitely own copyright to these images as we wish to place a courtesy message back to you).
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Re: Hail drifts Valletta Malta December 27 2008
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04 January 2009, 03:57:16 PM »
Jimmy,
what are haildrifts and what conditions cause them - i've heard of snow-drifts, but not hail drifts before.
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Re: Hail drifts Valletta Malta December 27 2008
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06 January 2009, 03:40:09 AM »
The pictures look like wet snow to me....
Haven't heard of hail drift either.
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Re: Hail drifts Valletta Malta December 27 2008
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06 January 2009, 01:23:29 PM »
Interesting pics. Malta seems to have a highly convective climate so nothing surprises me regarding severe weather there.
There was a similar event in Devon in the UK at the end of October.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7700167.stm
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Re: Hail drifts Valletta Malta December 27 2008
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08 January 2009, 10:24:22 PM »
Wow Jimmy, that's lot of ice!
This is definately not the snow - you can see cut/thrashed tree leaves in the piles, work of hailstones. Looks like the water brought down the hail with it and it just piled up.
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Re: Hail drifts Valletta Malta December 27 2008
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10 March 2009, 01:28:14 AM »
Here is a link of a blog that seems consistent with this event:
http://buntsblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/freak-hailstorm-in-malta.html
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