Strange Weather Phenomenna

[ukdane]

I experienced somw pretty strange weather over the weekend.

It rained icicles, between 1cm and 6cm long for most of Sunday.

Has anyone else experienced any unusual weather like this?

[Devons Daddy]

i wish.
out here we get constant sunshine and occasional bouts of warm rain showers in the afternoon. its gets very boring after a few years.

[WoD]

You should write into Fortean Times.  They used to print stuff like this all the time.

WoD

[Art]

That?s very weird...

Heavy rain looks kind of like its elongated, but that?s apparently just an optical effect, so my initial thoughst that it might be rain that somehow got flash-frozen is wrong.

[Queen Firey-Bou]

Ouch, very bizarre, what are the science dudes saying? or aren't you blessed in denmark with BBCesque analysis upon such vital matters as the weather?
what did the European health & saftey exec' say about allowing such lethal objects to be precipitating randomly?

[ukdane]

None I've spoken to except Mrs Dane seems to have noticed it. But we did. I picked them up to show her. They were just like mini-icicles.

Very strange.

It's snowing here again!:-(

[Quirkafleeg]

Was there a lot of them?

[Art]

Very strange

Borderline fortean, I'd say.

[ukdane]

"Were there a lot of them?"

That's also pretty strange- it didn't "Rain" like normal. There were a lot of them, but they fell extremely sparsely. I actually wondered if it was something falling of a plane (as we live within walking distance of the airort). I'd say they fell in spats throughout the day (when it was light).

[Quirkafleeg]

Yeah that's what I was wondering... icicles fall from planes all the time.

I can't think how they could be a natural ... to get to any reasonble size they would have to be refrozen several times (like hailstones) and end up round

Avoid yellow ones!

[Bolt-01]

Don't touchthe loo bloo ones either!!

rotts

[Art]

Just a thought, are there any trees immediatley above the affect area?

[ukdane]

The trouble with the Airplane theory is that the icicles fell in a fairly large area, all day. If it was more concentrated, or most likely fallen over a short period of time, then I would have guessed it was froma plane. Also the clouds were Mega-grey.

There are tree's nearby, but not in the direct area that they fell. Also I did look at some trees (specifically pines) and there were no icicles (or snow) on them.

Today it's been snowing all day.

My conclusion: It really did rain icicles.

[Queen Firey-Bou]

Bizarre, have you contacted the local meteorology people ? i would... or somebody, go hassal people, we demand answers !

[ukdane]

" have you contacted the local meteorology people "

B: You know, like, how you're in the middle of the Styx...

... me too (there just happens to be an airport here).