Thunderstorms

opstrat · 23 Jul 2013 at 10:46

wow, one just sounded like a gunshot

CrispyOtter · 23 Jul 2013 at 10:48

Yay! Finally started up here in Glasgow

Ryan-3 · 23 Jul 2013 at 10:55

Love those gifs!

All is calm here. Feels like it may start again soon though. I hope the lightning is as good as the storms we got last year, but not the rain.

randal · 23 Jul 2013 at 10:56

Just had a clap of thunder down here so loud I shot out of bed lol. Never heard anything like it, the cats jumped 6ft in the air too lol.

Surrey btw, near Berks border.

Cosimo · 23 Jul 2013 at 10:58

randal said:
Just had a clap of thunder down here so loud I shot out of bed lol. Never heard anything like it, the cats jumped 6ft in the air too lol.

Surrey btw, near Berks border.

Heard thunder in the distance. Looks like it's coming our way:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/...&fcTime=1374534000&zoom=6&lon=-4.00&lat=53.27

XeNoN89 · 23 Jul 2013 at 10:59

Currently at work in Leatherhead and it's just started to get dark and I can hear the odd rumble in the distance!

hargi · 23 Jul 2013 at 11:01

TwoSaints said:
Had a thunder storm just in time for going to work, the sheer amount of rain overwhelmed the drains and flooded most of the roads on my journey. This drain was now a particularly spectacular fountain!

Which road was that TwoSaints? It took me 3 attempts to get into darlo this morning

Nexus · 23 Jul 2013 at 11:07

That was a pretty miserable night of sleep in London, so hot and humid. I also had my window open to try and keep cooler, yet I was woken up by thunder a number of times through out the night.

Can hear faint rumbles of thunder in the distance again now.

randal · 23 Jul 2013 at 11:11

Cosimo said:
Heard thunder in the distance. Looks like it's coming our way:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/...&fcTime=1374534000&zoom=6&lon=-4.00&lat=53.27

Utterly insane 5 minutes of weather, that clap of thunder signified the start then it absolutely pelted it down tropical storm style and then a little rumble of thunder marked the end.

It's glorious again down here now, little humid still but a fair bit cooler. Airing out the house before it warms up again.

Cosimo · 23 Jul 2013 at 11:20

randal said:
Utterly insane 5 minutes of weather, that clap of thunder signified the start them if absolutely pelted it down tropical storm style and then a little rumble of thunder marked the end.

It's glorious again down here now, little humid still but a fair bit cooler. Airing out the house before it warms up again.

Getting a little dark and starting pouring here now but the thunder is a long way off.

Andy Pandy · 23 Jul 2013 at 11:27

Just heard the biggest bang of thunder ever. It felt like the house was shaking!

Dave85 · 23 Jul 2013 at 11:35

ha I had just nodded off again just after 10am and heard a massive boom I nearly fell out the bed

Thunderstorms are awesome.

Cosimo · 23 Jul 2013 at 11:38

Still chucking it down. Shouldn't have bothered getting the car washed on Sunday.

Neil79 · 23 Jul 2013 at 11:42

Holliday said:
Posted one of these on the gif thread, but may as well post them all here. Taken last night

impressive!!! How did u do these wicked gifs?

Elixir · 23 Jul 2013 at 11:46

alexthecheese said:
In your third gif, the lightning hitting straight down - it seems to hit the floor for a good long time, does it not?

It's massively slowed down (I think) so that will actually only be a split second.

Holliday · 23 Jul 2013 at 11:47

Neil79 said:
impressive!!! How did u do these wicked gifs?

Took some videos on my camera.
Loaded said videos into VirtualDub. (which was a pain as it doesn't like .mp4)
Selected the parts of the video where the lightning was and extracted it as individual frames.
Loaded images into Photoshop and made a gif.

Probably easier ways than this but still, worked out pretty well.

smr · 23 Jul 2013 at 12:00

Woke me up at 4:22am... I feel tired today.

The loudest thunder I've ever heard an hour later as well... even louder than the one I heard in Jamaica which almost made me **** myself.

cainer · 23 Jul 2013 at 12:16

randal said:
Just had a clap of thunder down here so loud I shot out of bed lol. Never heard anything like it, the cats jumped 6ft in the air too lol.

Surrey btw, near Berks border.

im not far from you and it sounded right overhead, along with the heaviest rain ive seen for a long time

bliss · 23 Jul 2013 at 12:25

Lovely and sunny here now.

Dave · 23 Jul 2013 at 12:28

XeNoN89 said:
Currently at work in Leatherhead and it's just started to get dark and I can hear the odd rumble in the distance!

Would probably be rumbling from over here - it finally started thundering over here at about 11. Few were directly overhead with no noticeable lag between lightning and thunder - was pretty loud!