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Features of Transvaal hailstorms
Author(s) -
Carte A. E.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49709239214
Subject(s) - storm , northern hemisphere , geology , troposphere , meteorology , southern hemisphere , climatology , atmospheric sciences , geography
Hailstorms in the vicinity of Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa, are being studied mainly by means of a dense network of voluntary observers. The storms have shown great variability. A characteristic of sustained storms is their tendency to move to the left of the mid‐tropospheric winds, whereas in the Northern Hemisphere movement is to the right. One of these storms appeared to be multicellular at a stage when hailstones up to 6 cm diameter were falling. Another produced large spongy hailstones along part of its path.