When the Sky Turned Black and One-Inch Hailstones Fell ; Everybody Who Was There Remembers It. Paul Delplanque Reminisces About the Day When the Skies About Teesside Turned Black at Midday and an Inch of Rain Fell in Just 10 Minutes Teesside's 'Dark Day'

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HAD what happened 40 years ago, on July 2, 1968, occurred in Biblical times it may have appeared in the scriptures.

Because the event of that day was indeed of Biblical proportions - a great darkness did descend and everyone who experienced it has never forgotten that day.

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When the Sky Turned Black and One-Inch Hailstones Fell ; Everybody Who Was There Remembers It. Paul Delplanque Reminisces About the Day When the Skies About Teesside Turned Black at Midday and an Inch of Rain Fell in Just 10 Minutes Teesside's 'Dark Day'

The day began quite unremarkably with the weather forecast predicting warm showery periods. The weather had been quite wet during June, so pretty much like a normal awful, British summer but nobody was prepared for what was about to unfold on that particular Tuesday.

People made their way to work as usual, the Evening Gazette ed...

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