STORM TRACK: November 30, 1985 (Volume 9 Issue 1)
ST now comes to a natural break in its May account and concludes with a missive from John Weaver.
"Found this account, while looking through some old Monthly Weather Reviews, and thought the readers of Storm Track would enjoy it," (From Vol. 32, July 1904, pg. 324).
(Editor - Incidentally, for those who don't know, John was not a subscriber then.)
An Italian Hailstorm in 1545
"Mr. E.L. Cooley of Chicago, has kindly communicated to the Chief of Bureau the following account of a hailstorm that occurred in July, 1545, about a day's journey south of Lyons. The description, as given by artist, Benvenuto Cellini, who was then journeying from Paris to Florence, will be found in vol. 2, p. 88, of his autobiography, published in London,1903:
