Hail, hail, the Gangs all here?

 Following the dramatic hailstorm of 16 November (image by Larry Gray, from the Golf Club)

.... we had another serve, albeit of much smaller calibre on 1 December.  This is our back lawn.

After the earlier event a question was raised about how rain gauges etc handled the hail.  I was able to get a snap of some of the stones in the collector of my weather station (that which fell into my plastic Nylex backup gauge had all melted by the time I got out there).

It is possible that during the earlier event some of the stones bounced out, so my rainfall for that date could be a little understated.  For this event the WS recorded 3mm between 1500 and 1600 hrs, although some of that would have been the rain which followed.  More rain followed through the rest of the day totalling 8.6 mm for the day.

There were a few flashes and bangs around the time of the hail.  

Some more strikes were seen around 1930hrs when a very dark storm passed to the North of us (sorry, I didn't capture any radar images).  The Tempest system I follow recorded 167 strikes for the day, mainly in the mid-afternoon. (As a contrast Tempest recorded 6,941 strikes in February 2025 of which 3,444 occurred on the 7th and 1,290 on the 8th.)