Megacryometeor Misses Scottish Family’s Home

nivek

As Above So Below
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Of all the weird and unexplained weather phenomena, megacryometeors are some of the strangest. These huge blocks of ice have been known to fall from perfectly clear skies and in all types of temperature conditions.

Meteorologists don’t currently have a solid explanation for what causes these massive chunks of ice to form and fall, and some even contend that they’re not a natural phenomenon at all and instead likely fall off of airplane fuselages.

Reports of these meteors, however, predate the invention of air travel and have come in from areas outside of flight paths. Scientists still barely understand this phenomenon due to its rarity and unpredictability.

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A family in Scotland got a lucky close-up glimpse at one lately, though – too close, in fact. The Helliwell family of Busby, Renfrewshire were at home when they heard a loud, dull explosion outside and their dog began growing agitated. The family ran outside to discover a crater measuring 1.4m by 1.2m (4.5 ft by 4 ft) just a few feet from their home and cars. Inside and around the crater were solid chunks of ice.

Very few scientific studies of megacryometeors have been conducted, but a 2005 study concluded that many of “these large ice conglomerations occurred during non-thunderstorm conditions, suggesting an alternative process of ice growth was responsible for their formation.” Since they are rare, unpredictable, and usually melt shortly after falling, scientists rarely get to study these mysterious icy death traps.

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Jesús Martínez-Frías, a planetary geologist from Madrid, Spain, believes megacryometeors could form under a specific and rare set of atmospheric conditions in which the troposphere is warm, the stratosphere is cold and humid, and there is wind shear in the upper atmosphere.

Solid particles of dust and other small particulates can trap water vapor and cause it to freeze, starting a chain reaction that results in these large meteors spontaneously forming. Scientists still aren’t quite able to test these theories, though, making these megacryometeors an unsolved mystery to this day.

Megacryometeor Misses Scottish Family's Home by Mere Feet
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Just as we have rock asteroids perhaps we have ice only ones that are not comets either.

Thats a good possibility I think, or they had rock around them which burnt off in entry to our atmosphere...
 

SOUL-DRIFTER

Life Long Researcher
I'd say its just a weather anomaly......there is so much we don't understand......controlling the earth is just a pipedream.
I do not can not imagine a weather anomaly that could produce a chunk of ice of that size.
The largest recorded hail stone was less than 2 pounds.
Going by the impact it looks like that ice chunk may have been closer to 20 pounds.
 

SOUL-DRIFTER

Life Long Researcher
There are other reports as well.
Here are just some of them:

Huge Chunks of Ice Fall From The Sky - WeatherImagery

The following reports are from The Books of Charles Fort:

1802: During a storm in Hungary on May 8, a mass of ice fell which was three feet long, three feet wide, and more than two feet thick.
1808: The sun suddenly turned a dull brick red on May 16. At the same time there appeared, on the Western horizon, a great number of round bodies, dark brown, and seemingly the size of a hat crown. They passed overhead and disappeared on the Eastern horizon. It was a tremendous procession lasting two hours. Occasionally one fell to the ground. When the place was examined, there was found a film which soon dried and vanished. Sometimes, on approaching the sun, the bodies seemed to link together in groups not exceeding eight. Under the sun they were seen to have tails, Away from he sun, the tails were invisible. Whatever their substance may have been, it is described as gelatinous “sopy (sic) and jellied.”
1811: Lumps of ice, a foot in circumference, fell in Derbyshire, England, on May 11.
1828: A mass of ice about a cubic yard in size fell in Candeish, India.
1829: A block of ice weighing four and one-half pounds fell at Cazorta, Spain, on June 15.
1830: A profound darkness came over the city of Brussels, on June 18, and flat pieces of ice, an inch long, fell to the ground.
1844: A block of ice weighting eleven pounds fell at Cette, France, in October.
1849: An irregular-shaped mass of ice fell at Ord, Scotland, in August, “after an extraordinary peal of thunder.” It was said that this was homogenous ice, except in a small part, which looked like congealed hailstones. The mass was about twenty feet in circumference. The story, as told in the London Times, August 14, 1849, is that, upon the evening of August 13, 1849, after a loud peal of thunder, a mass of ice, said to have a circumference of twenty feet, has fallen upon the estate of Mr. Moffat, of Balvullich, Rosshire. It was said that this object fell alone, without hailstone.
1851: Ice the size of pumpkins fell in Gunfalore, India, on May 22.
1851: Masses of ice, each piece about a pound and one-half in weight, fell in New Hampshire, August 13.
1853: Masses or irregularly shaped piece of ice fell at Pouen, France, on July 5. They were about the size of a hand and described as looking as if all had been broken from one enormous block of ice.
1854: At Pourhundur, India, December 11, flat pieces of ice, many of them weighing several pounds each, fell from the sky. They are described as large “Ice-Flakes.”
1857: The London Times of August 4 reported that a block of ice, described as “pure” ice, weighing twenty-five pounds, had been found in the meadow of Mr. Warner, of Cricklewood. There had been a storm the day before. As in some of our other instances, no one saw this object fall from the sky.
1860: January 14, in a thunderstorm pieces of ice fell on Captain Blackiston’s vessel. “It was not hail, but irregular-shaped pieces of solid ice of different dimensions, up to the size of half a brick.”
1860: In a snowstorm in Upper Wasdale, England, on March 16, blocks of ice fell which were so large that at a distance they looked like a flock of sheep.
1864: During a storm at Pontiac, Canada, July 11, pieces of ice fell which were one-half inch to two inches in diameter. What is most extraordinary is that a respectable farmer, of undoubted veracity, says he picked up a piece of ice, in the center of which was a small, green frog.
1869: Near Tiflis, large hailstones fell which had long protuberances. The most remarkable point is that a very long time must have been occupied in their formation.
1877: Ice as large as men’s hands killed thousands of sheep in Texas on May 3.
1880: In Russia, June 14, red hailstones, blue hailstones and gray hailstones fell in profusion.
1882: A mass of ice weighing about eighty pounds fell from the sky near Salina, Kansas, in August. Mr. W.J. Hagler, a North Santa Fe merchant, collected it and packed it in sawdust in his store.
1882: Pieces of ice eight inches long and an inch and one-half thick fell at Davenport, Iowa, on August 30.
1883: A lump of ice the size of a brick, weighing two pounds, fell in Chicago, on July 12.
1883: There was a storm at Dubuque, Iowa, on June 16. Great hailstones and pieces of ice fell. The foreman of the Novelty Iron Works stated that in two large hailstones, melted by him, were found small living frogs.
The pieces of ice which fell at that time had a peculiarity as bizarre as anything in this book. They seemed, evidently, to have been motionless for a long time floating somewhere. There could be no more perfect description of ice suspended in meteoric orbits.
1886: In a small town in Venezuela, April 17, hailstones fell, some red, some blue, and some gray.
1887: In Montana, in the winter, snowflakes fell which were fifteen inches across and eight inches thick. (Snowflakes?)
1889: Intense darkness at Aitkin, Minnesota, April 2; sand and “solid chunks of ice” fell.
1889: At East Wickenham, England, on August 5, an object fell, slowly, which was about fifteen inches long and five inches wide. It exploded, but no substance was found from it.
1891: Snowflakes the “size of saucers” fell near Nashville, Tennessee, on January24.
1893: A lump of ice weighing four pounds fell in Texas, on December 6.
1894: From the Weather Bureau of Portland, Oregon, a tornado was reported on June 3. Fragments of ice fell from the sky. They averaged three to four inches square and about an inch thick. In length and breadth they had smooth surfaces and “gave the impression of a vast field of ice suspended in the atmosphere, and suddenly broke into fragments about the size of the palm of the hand.”
1897: Rough-edged, but smooth surfaced pieces of ice fell at Manassas, Virginia, August 10. They looked much like the roughly broken fragments of a smooth sheet of ice. They were two inches across, and one inch thick.
1901: On November 14, lumps of ice fell during a tornado in Victoria, New South Wales, which weighed a minimum of one pound each.
1908: A correspondent wrote that, at Braemar, Switzerland, July 2, when the sky was clear overhead and the sun was shining, flat pieces of ice fell. Thunder was heard.
1911: Large hailstones were noted at the University of Missouri. They exploded like pistol shots.
 
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