VIOLENT STORMS.
Thunderstorms and cloudbursts • of severity unparalleled in recent years occurred during the week-end in different parts of the countrj-, 'Yorkshire suffering most severely. It is a curious fact, however, that though the stornis were of great violence both north and south of the Thames, London itself and the districts around escaped the visitation, East Kent and Buckinghamshire being the localities nearest the metropolis to suffer. In- most places the thunderstorms broke in tho early part of the day, and the lightning and thunder were tropical in violence, whilst the rain was torrential. Six persons tfere killed by lightning, anil tho damage .dono to buildings and growing crops was-also exceptionally severe.— of Empire,
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 864, 9 July 1910, Page 11
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114VIOLENT STORMS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 864, 9 July 1910, Page 11
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