What the Hell?

Glaucus · 8 Jan 2008 at 20:38

AT least my soy stew and dumplings are almost ready. Good warm winter food.

greeny_fastcar · 8 Jan 2008 at 20:38

Atomic said:
It's January and I live in Cheshire near Stockport.

At the moment it's hailing...we've just had a massive clap of thunder and some lightening.

I wasn't aware that we get lightening during winter?

Indeed it is... Still going pretty strong that wind/rain stuff.

Mike UK · 8 Jan 2008 at 20:49

Its been hailing in Huddersfield at one point I thought the windows were going to come in

gillywibble · 8 Jan 2008 at 21:09

It's hailing here now. Me scared

Dreadi · 8 Jan 2008 at 21:19

i just had the a pant wetting moment on the M6, more to follow soon...

Duke · 8 Jan 2008 at 21:19

Hail has just stopped here. It was pretty mental for 10 mins

Viper² · 8 Jan 2008 at 22:25

sr4470 said:
Ice colliding with water in the clouds causes a electrical charge difference = lightning arcing from the ground.

I thought it was warm + clouds?

Psypher5 · 8 Jan 2008 at 22:44

we have just had snow... Stafford.

Dreadi · 8 Jan 2008 at 23:14

well i had just left a service station in Stafford, counted north on the M6 for about 10 mins and saw a large fork of lightening light up the sky in front of me, pretty cool i thought and then it did it again a few mins later.
So im there hammering along, favorite song turned up again thinking that was pretty cool when all of a sudden its starts to rain, and boy do i mean rain! Cue me doing 40mph completely blinded by the rain struggling to see where the hell im going trying to focus on the lights of the car in front which are only just about visable. After a few mins of this a lorry wants to move into the middle lane where i am so i indicate to move to the outside lane, accelerate a bit only to be greeted with my wheels spinning and complete lose of any traction, road was total slush :eek:

Regained control and proceeded to drive blind by rain and spray from lorries (the wind was stupid, felt like my car was going to be thrown from left to right) and that last for about 15 mins, worse driving experience to date!

spp · 8 Jan 2008 at 23:33

It started to hail as I was riding home from work along the M6.. not fun. Beautiful lightning though, lit up the sky for what seemed like miles.

James07 · 8 Jan 2008 at 23:39

The film "Day after tomorrow" suddenly pops into my head, seems like the UK is having an extreme of weather this evening..