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Offline Jimmy Deguara

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Hail drifts Valletta Malta December 27 2008
« on: 02 January 2009, 04:52:20 PM »
Hail drifts in Valletta and in B'Kara

Hail drifts are too uncommon in Malta during the winter period.

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Re: Hail drifts Valletta Malta December 27 2008
« Reply #1 on: 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
« Reply #2 on: 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
« Reply #3 on: 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
« Reply #4 on: 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
« Reply #5 on: 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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