Thunderstorms - 2015

randal · 16 Jul 2015 at 21:46

Just about to kick off here in Surrey. Few flashes and a distant rumble, now hammering it down with good ol' summer rain.

edit - woo 10k posts!

FL630 · 16 Jul 2015 at 22:09

Building SW of London and Bournemouth area. http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en&page_0=12

Helios1234 · 16 Jul 2015 at 23:04

It's a proper light show outside!

explicit4u · 16 Jul 2015 at 23:17

Looks like it's all kicking off just north of london, seen loads of strikes but they're too far away to hear.

taB · 17 Jul 2015 at 00:58

Amazing amount of lightning flashes going on near Cambridge. Cycled a mile home 30 mins ago and stopped counting at 100 flashes. Tropical style rain too. The road was a river and even with full waterproofs I got wet. Lots of fun but the dog's not enjoying it and the good lady hadn't closed the windows before going to bed. Glass of wine for me now and a slower start tomorrow I expect.

CaptainRAVE · 17 Jul 2015 at 02:18

Luckily missed this flying into Gatwick, but some very impressive and numerous forks in the sky on the way to the M25 and then lots of sheet lightning above the M4.

Spamalot · 17 Jul 2015 at 02:46

taB said:
Amazing amount of lightning flashes going on near Cambridge. Cycled a mile home 30 mins ago and stopped counting at 100 flashes. Tropical style rain too. The road was a river and even with full waterproofs I got wet. Lots of fun but the dog's not enjoying it and the good lady hadn't closed the windows before going to bed. Glass of wine for me now and a slower start tomorrow I expect.

Also in Cambridge. The weather is crazy. The rain was so load I woke up thinking we're under siege.

Dave · 17 Jul 2015 at 07:10

Was quite impressive but odd at the same time here in Richmond - almost no thunder to accompany the lightning! At first I thought there were people outside taking pictures with a flash on their camera. Lots of intra-cloud lightning with very little hitting the ground and flashes every few seconds. Almost no rain though oddly, so it's still fairly humid this morning!

PaulieG · 17 Jul 2015 at 08:47

Not seen a sniff of any action up north, you Londoners seem to get all the fun 8o)

Hades · 17 Jul 2015 at 09:11

There were tremendous storms near the M25 around Heathrow late last night. I could hardly see out of the windscreen and the lightning was very dramatic.

FortuitousFluke · 17 Jul 2015 at 09:57

taB said:
Amazing amount of lightning flashes going on near Cambridge. Cycled a mile home 30 mins ago and stopped counting at 100 flashes. Tropical style rain too. The road was a river and even with full waterproofs I got wet. Lots of fun but the dog's not enjoying it and the good lady hadn't closed the windows before going to bed. Glass of wine for me now and a slower start tomorrow I expect.

I'm out in Cambourne and we had a good old light show. Don't envy you cycling in the downpour though. I did it a few times last year during the tropical style storms that passed through, after a while you just have to stop worrying and enjoy it, after all you can only get so wet.

CaptainRAVE · 11 Aug 2015 at 11:31

Looks like there are weather warnings for some good storms Thursday night...hope the forecast stays the same

Cosimo · 11 Aug 2015 at 12:07

CaptainRAVE said:
Looks like there are weather warnings for some good storms Thursday night...hope the forecast stays the same

They're also forecasting them to continue into Friday as well.

MadMouse101 · 13 Aug 2015 at 10:13

Thunder and lightning down here in Brighton

Third Opinion · 13 Aug 2015 at 10:18

Rumbling just started in Horsham. Murky as hell out there.

Cosimo · 13 Aug 2015 at 10:23

MadMouse101 said:
Thunder and lightning down here in Brighton

Third Opinion said:
Rumbling just started in Horsham. Murky as hell out there.

Lightning strikes still over the Channel:

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=lightning;sess=

It's coming north slowly:

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=radar;sess=

Third Opinion · 13 Aug 2015 at 10:34

Yeah the rumbling is very spaced out, haven't seen any lightning yet but the rain has started.

scorza · 13 Aug 2015 at 12:10

All the good stuff seems to be happening in Kent - the one place Carol Kirkwood said would stay dry this morning. Just rain here in Surrey.

Cosimo · 13 Aug 2015 at 12:16

All the bad stuff is to the east and we're just getting heavy rain which will now carry on for a couple of hours.

Neil79 · 13 Aug 2015 at 12:30

It's gone nearly late nighttime, lights are coming on!! Big bangs of thunder too