Thunderstorms 2026

[UTmaniac]

Possible thunder in Hampshire this afternoon made me look at my site of choice for live data, a few little clusters out there.

Real Time Lightning Map

See lightning strikes in real time across the planet. Free access to maps of former thunderstorms. By Blitzortung.org and contributors.

www.lightningmaps.org

 

[petridish]

Possible thunder in Hampshire this afternoon made me look at my site of choice for live data, a few little clusters out there.

Agreed it's such a brilliant website.

I was on the M27 yesterday evening and drove through a short but biblical downpour. Thought I saw flashes of lightning in my periphery but couldn't be sure it wasn't headlights on the rain somehow while I was focused on working out where the lanes were under the surface water. No thunder to confirm it either, at least none that I could hear over the pelting the car was getting.

 

[Diddums]

We had loads of thunder near us yesterday and Weds. Proper thunder too, went on for ages. None of this namby-pamby shrinkflation nonsense.

We also had rain, sun, sleet, hail and wind. So yeah, mother nature was very drunk and/or angry.

 

[Sinbad2000]

Agreed it's such a brilliant website.

I was on the M27 yesterday evening and drove through a short but biblical downpour. Thought I saw flashes of lightning in my periphery but couldn't be sure it wasn't headlights on the rain somehow while I was focused on working out where the lanes were under the surface water. No thunder to confirm it either, at least none that I could hear over the pelting the car was getting.

There was proper lightning and thunder in that area, we even had some hail!

The blitzortnung app is pretty cool, has notifications for nearby strikes etc

 

[Liquiduk]

I got annihilated by the hail yesterday, thought I was clever getting out of the office early but on my walk back from the station to home I paid for it .