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Sky Darkening Associated with a Severe Thunderstorm
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Sky Darkening Associated with a Severe Thunderstorm

  • D. R. BARBER1 

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IT may be of interest to record some observations made here of the abnormal degree of sky darkening associated with a very severe thunderstorm which affected a large area of south-west England during the morning and early afternoon of Thursday, August 4, 1938.

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BARBER, D. Sky Darkening Associated with a Severe Thunderstorm. Nature 142, 359 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142359b0

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