London Thunderstorms

HEADRAT · 4 Jul 2006 at 16:04

Mat said:
Yup, just heard the thunder....

Ooh ooh really! gonna stick my head outside in a minute

HEADRAT

Shikkaka · 4 Jul 2006 at 16:06

I really hope it starts raining hard here in Nottingham. Will teach my fellow office monkeys to shut the damn windows.

*See thread 'Air Con and Windows'

Jonny69 · 4 Jul 2006 at 16:10

JoeBoi said:
Had the thunder but no rain its still too humid over bromley area

Must have been close, I'm in Beckenham :eek:

Yas786 · 4 Jul 2006 at 16:13

\o/ Yayyyy gone back to being hot and sunny

\o/

Abraham · 4 Jul 2006 at 16:15

brightening up again just south of cambridge, think it must've swept past to the east

Charlie Bravo · 4 Jul 2006 at 16:17

We've had a massive storm here at Luton Airport. The air con went off in the office but all the PC's stayed on thanks to the emergency generator.

The fork lightning is a couple of miles away now but I can hear sirens so I would imagine people have been flooded out or hit.

Each time there is a close strike, our VHF radio makes a strange noise :cool:

Haven't seen anything like it for a while.

Mikeyboy · 4 Jul 2006 at 16:18

Nothing at all here in NW London, just been cloudy all day and about 29 degrees.

GSDog · 4 Jul 2006 at 16:20

We just missed one here in Kent.

Aparently the met office has said there could well be some mini-tornado's :eek:

DJammyRasta · 4 Jul 2006 at 16:21

tis very very wet in luton right now... the rain seems to have calmed down a bit (10 minutes ago might have been the worst rain i have ever seen in england) but there is still thunder and lightning every 10 seconds or so !

ps. i will join u playing in the rain

Dj_Jestar · 4 Jul 2006 at 16:21

Bugger all here just off J4 M4 (West Drayton)

Very Humid, you can feel the air is much more dense when you walk out the door from this office. (Stockley Park)

dakaiez · 4 Jul 2006 at 16:22

Berserker said:
Happened round here a month or to back (including the jumping out of skin part). Turned out someone half a mile away lost their roof. No injuries fortunately.

Yeah thing was i don't know why i looked out the window. I just heard rumbling and as i turned it just shot out which looked pretty cool but the bang was deafening and made me jump out myskin. I don't think it hit anything though as if it did, you'd have thought it would have destroyed it seeing how big it was.

Update: It's stopped now here, skys are a bit clowdy but clearing up. Suns out shining again and it's boiling

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Abraham · 4 Jul 2006 at 16:31

possibly spoke to soon
it's raining at the moment
but barely

Freeman · 4 Jul 2006 at 16:32

Hope we get some storms down here, englands storms are always so crap compared to SA.

Puzzled · 4 Jul 2006 at 17:13

Had really really heavy rain in Aylesbury at around 16:20.

Was like a bloody tropical storm, I've never seen it rain so hard before. :eek:

Bit of lightning and thunder, but so so wet!

Weird things is once I drove about a mile out it was bone dry and sunny.

Some muppet in a rover was drifting on the roundabouts though, ok on empty roads but not when your in line of traffic. :mad:

JoeBoi · 5 Jul 2006 at 15:19

Jonny69 said:
Must have been close, I'm in Beckenham

You didn't get the thunder there?

Yas786 · 5 Jul 2006 at 15:31

Quite dark around where i am, Docklands...im sure the sun was out a few mins ago :confused:

. Oh well looks like ill be walking home in the rain, didnt bring the brolly with me today

HEADRAT · 5 Jul 2006 at 16:33

Just done the Thunder/Lightning/Rain thing in Cambridge.

HEADRAT

cheets64 · 5 Jul 2006 at 18:58

ITS COMING

eeek

first bit we have had all week, feel this is going to be a big one.

Chasser · 5 Jul 2006 at 19:14

cheets64 said:
ITS COMING

eeek

first bit we have had all week, feel this is going to be a big one.

Looking at the map, it ought to be bucketing it down over Wigan right now!!

Luke · 5 Jul 2006 at 19:17

A row of houses about a quarter of a mile from me was struck by lightning yesterday. 5 houses, no roofs left... :eek:

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