VIOLENT HAIL AND THUNDER STORM.— A very violent thunder and hail storm visited us on Tuesday last. The thunder began to peal about 1 p.m., and about a quarter to 2 the rain and hail descended with such violence as to turn the streets into rivers. The drains being insufficient to vent the water from the streets, the cellars came in for their share. Fortunately the storm lasted a short time, but the hail was so large as to do considerable damage in the neighbourhood. One gentleman’s loss in his greenhouse and windows is estimated at £50.
Hampshire Independent - Saturday 04 June 1859
PETERSFIELD.]—THE HAIL STORM—in this locality on Tuesday was unusually heavy, and did considerable damage to the fruit trees and vegetables in the gardens. An immense quantity of glass was also broken in the different hot and green-houses in the neighbourhood for miles round.
Hampshire Telegraph - Saturday 04 June 1859
PETERSFIELD.
Agent—Miss DUPLOCK.
HAIL STORM.—This town and neighbourhood was visited on Tuesday last, by one of the heaviest storms that we have witnessed for many years past, hailstones were found measuring three inches in circumference, and in some sheltered situations bushels of them as large marbles, were to be seen next morning. The range of the storm was limited and its course very irregular, it was extremely heavy at Rogate, on one side of the town; and also at Ashford and Langrish on the other; while at Weston and Ditcham there were scarcely any rain or hail. Several vivid flashes of lightning were seen, some of them of the forked character, but although directly overhead the thunder was not particularly loud, shewing that the explosions took place at a great altitude, and it is probably owing to this circumstance that no damage was done by lightning, although we hear that the damage to conservatories and greenhouses by the hail was very considerable, amounting to several hundred pounds.