A Dramatic storm Yesterday here...

cumulus1978 · 14 Jul 2011 at 08:04

you can see some videos with gusts up to 130 km /h, at my location I think a 70 - 90 km /h. In any case a lot of damages and then hail with diameter from 3 to 6 cm. Rain amount in some places more than 200 mm in some hours... :eek:

http://www.meteosottoceneri.ch/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=54

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Beans on toast Dave · 14 Jul 2011 at 08:30

JHeaton · 14 Jul 2011 at 08:37

Amazing photos as always, cumulus. That's quite scary, to be honest.

Kutter · 14 Jul 2011 at 08:38

Some good pics there.

Mr^B · 14 Jul 2011 at 08:54

Here is Pfaeffikon we had a storm like that last week:

Cosimo · 14 Jul 2011 at 08:56

Scary stuff. We do seem to be getting a lot of weather extremes these days.

Col_M · 14 Jul 2011 at 09:02

There was a big storm here last night too, there was almost constant lightning for about 45 mins to an hour
You can see a video here - http://www.novinky.cz/domaci/238959...ic-blesku-mnoho-domu-je-stale-bez-proudu.html (click the little bar at the top of the video to skip the advert)

Badly translated text http://translate.google.com/transla...ic-blesku-mnoho-domu-je-stale-bez-proudu.html
The long and the short of it is that there were 40,000 flashes of lightning, some roads were blocked by trees and some places are without power.

SCMRubix · 14 Jul 2011 at 09:10

Crazy photos
I'm guessing the second picture is some hail. Took me a few seconds to figure out, thought it was some blue tac on a desk.

Dr House · 14 Jul 2011 at 09:22

Col_M said:
There was a big storm here last night too, there was almost constant lightning for about 45 mins to an hour
You can see a video here - http://www.novinky.cz/domaci/238959...ic-blesku-mnoho-domu-je-stale-bez-proudu.html (click the little bar at the top of the video to skip the advert)

Badly translated text http://translate.google.com/transla...ic-blesku-mnoho-domu-je-stale-bez-proudu.html
The long and the short of it is that there were 40,000 flashes of lightning, some roads were blocked by trees and some places are without power.

Yah it was crazy. I was trying to drive home in it last night. I dont think I have ever seen anything like it.

J.B · 14 Jul 2011 at 09:26

Well that's put me off visiting Switzerland for my holidays

Seriously though, good pictures

cumulus1978 · 14 Jul 2011 at 10:21

Vanquish-Storm · 14 Jul 2011 at 11:24

My girlfriends been in Switzerland for 2 weeks.

She was saying its had really bad thunder/lightning but i didnt assume it was as bad as those pics!!

physichull · 14 Jul 2011 at 12:22

Always interesting threads thanks cumulus1978.

cumulus1978 · 14 Jul 2011 at 14:48

after the storm some spectacular view...something postive...

benneh · 14 Jul 2011 at 14:54

Looks like the work of a troll to me...

cumulus1978 · 14 Jul 2011 at 16:32

Look at that picture from my collegue over the lake of Locarno

Mason- · 14 Jul 2011 at 17:08

Strange aspect ratio.

Tephnos · 14 Jul 2011 at 17:13

Mason- said:
Strange aspect ratio.

Panoramic maybe?

Either way, that's some ownage by nature.

cumulus1978 · 15 Jul 2011 at 08:35

and what a damaging hail video I see...

http://www.meteosottoceneri.ch/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=55