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Fantastic thunderstorm in Kent
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Caporegime
Pretty much most of the night and morning in Birmingham.
It's currently hailstoning.
It's currently hailstoning.
Soldato
It was pretty spectacular; I was travelling back from central London and got home around 1130pm in SE London. Was seeing constant strobe type lightning as cloud cover was heavy but hardly any thunder claps at all! However, I think it was around ~1am when it really hit; had to get that bedroom window closed sharpish with the hail!
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Need to get your eyes checked, either that or you are 6-7 hours late to the party
Nothing here mate. Bone dry this morning think it went around me!
Soldato
So gutted I missed this, currently on holiday in Cyprus. I love a good thunderstorm and it sounds like it would have been amazing to watch last night, more forecast too.
Soldato
A decent size storm in Fareham last night; not much rain and didn't last for ages, but such significant flashes. The storms down here on the South Coast are so much better than up in manchester
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You haven't missed much -- looking at those two videos I feel a bit of exaggeration is coming from those in the south east
or they haven't seen a real thunder storm yet 
We had a few bangs around 7.00 but nothing to write home about - It's still looking black over Bills mothers though - that will be Wem - Ellesmere way.
You haven't missed much -- looking at those two videos I feel a bit of exaggeration is coming from those in the south east
We had a few bangs around 7.00 but nothing to write home about - It's still looking black over Bills mothers though - that will be Wem - Ellesmere way.
It's pretty hard to get a good video using a mobile phone. It doesn't pick up the constant rumbling over the rain noise, and only the close lightning flashes get picked up. It was much more violent in person, and lasted much longer. No doubt you've seen better but its still the most intense storm I've witnessed in this country.
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I'm staying on the IoW, at Whitecliff Bay. We're in a static caravan by the edge of a cliff and spent half an hour last night watching two storms moving about. Was pretty epic tbh.
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I got home to SE London just after 12 and had to clean rain off about 4 windowsills and the venetian blinds, once I remembered mine were all open
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I was woken up last night at about 00:30 with severe thunder, lightning and rain. Was epic!
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Was so strange, actually didn't get much rain at all, the storm passed from sea through the Rye/Camber area and I live just west of that which is roughly Hastings. The cloud was thick so lots of the lightning was just smaller flashes but saw plenty of fork lightning that was closer. The constant rumble of sound was amazing, I've never heard anything like it before. It was literally non stop rumbling so near constant lightning going off over a large area.
Got some videos of it but they are at the moment pretty large and not sure about uploading.
Got some videos of it but they are at the moment pretty large and not sure about uploading.
Caporegime
Started again in Birmingham. Loads of hail and seriously loud thunder.
Soldato
Was just about to post this. My 2.5yr old is hearing this for the first time. She somehow slept through last night. She's coping really well actually, we are just letting her watch out of an open door. Would rather she knew it wasn't dangerous than be scared of it.
Yeah same here, just outside Birmingham, it’s been thundering for almost an hour non stop, haven’t seen any lightning yet though.