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UNDER the above heading in NATURE of January 26 (p. 295) there is a short paper by Cecil Carus-Wilson, in which the writer assumes that under certain conditions, drops of water, whilst falling from the upper branches of a tree, become converted into ice before reaching the ground, whilst other drops falling from the same tree, but at 10 feet less altitude, came to the ground in a fluid state. There is, I think, a simpler solution of this question than the one given. Suppose the following conditions—namely, a frost sufficiently severe as to lower the temperature of the leaves and branches of a tree to a few degrees below the freezing point; after which a very gradual thaw comes on, accompanied by a fine rain or Scotch mist which freezes on the tree.
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RAE, J. “Is Hail so formed?”. Nature 37, 344 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037344b0
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