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bouncing off the ground here in Staffs, great stuff. Half a mind to go out riding in it, I love extreme weather.
The lightning is making the whole sky light up and the thunder is shaking the building.
It's like Mordor here in Bury.
It's like Mordor here in Bury.
yeah, but whats the weather like?
*looks out of wide open window at blue sky*
Quite nice here on the east coast...
Apocalypse in Stockport - and we all know there's bugger all to do after an apocalypse. or indeed in Stockport.
Funky clouds & bit of rain now after a scorching 32C down on the S'th Coast.
🙂yeah, but whats the weather like?
Boom, tish.
I've been using this URL for some years.
http://www.isleofwightweather.co.uk/live_storm_data.htm
Lightning radar.
we had it from approx 11am til 2pm here in the south west. enjoy!
I'm sat in Edale signalbox and can hear the distant rumbles but it's all taking place on the other side of the hill! 🙁
Bonkers here near Macclesfield!
Was interesting on the Ducati today riding the horseshoe pass in it. Never has a sportsbike gone around corners that slowly before. Sun was cracking the flags when I left the house for my 1 ride a year.
Wow, it's made it over the hill and is hitting hard. Absolute mayhem!
Heading towards Bradford at the min.
Wet commute from Manchester to Stockport that, helped push a car out of a foot of water near Parrswood, local brook is up by about 1.5m, all after I sent an email assuring a client that extreme rainfall hardly ever occurs and that it's unlikely that their car parks will flood in heavy rain... Looking forward to the phone call tomorrow...
It's turned biblical here in South Yorks,thunder, lightning ,rain,hail,and the wife's still out!
cycled in this morning, chickened out and got a lift back! To be fair it was flooded and horrible everywhere, so glad of the lift.
the wife's still out!
I thought indoor bogs had made it up there. Evidently not. Hope she's got enough paper.
The apocalypse is occuring here in Skipton.
More of a rum and raisin man myself
Nothing here. Nice sunset as I rode over the Ashdown Forest.
CFH,I'm trying to bring her round as we type.
Just got home to find the TV on.
More peculiarly, a Roberts Radio that has a rotary power/volume knob was blasting away too?!?
Asda in Burnley took a direct hit, roof's partially collapsed.
Just managed to get through Cliviger Gorge, but it's flooding badly between Portsmouth and The Ram.
I just witnessed the mother of all lightning storms travelling back towards Manchester on the M62 from milnrow. Just been out on the bike for a few hours from Hollingworth lake which we couldn't have timed better as the first rain fell as we got back to the car.
Shouldn't be sarky,she's a district nurse about to go to work on nights 😐
Nothing but a bit of wind in Harrogate so far.
And managed a BBQ earlier too.
Its still 23°C and a glorious clear night here in MK
It threatened rain earlier when we were doing the Gunneraide Gill loop and thundered once but the lightning now is continuous! One hell of a storm!
It was stupidly hot earlier though.
I think a tree got hit on the big roundabout in Rawtenstall as well, leaves everywhere and a big chunk of branch down. Drive up the M66 was harrowing from Manchester, so dark at 6pm.
Just saw it blow up the power supply to the next village down - you could see the pylon fall down off the top of the hill...
manchester city centre flooded, all tram cancelled lightning stike hit 2 substations, lots of trains canceled and some football match cancelled made the news, now seems to be east cheshire flooding , dark and very warm here on the wirral.
It was like the end times in Macclesfield about two hours ago. I was outside poking a drain with a piece of bamboo trying to get the water flowing down it. It was getting a bit too close to the house. Came back in to my toddler running around laughing and shouting boom, daddy, boom 🙂
you could see the pylon fall down off the top of the hill...
That wasn't a pylon.
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Jealous. 10 mins of wet rumbles on the South coast.
Saddleworth seemed like a good idea at 5pm
https://www.strava.com/activities/711089945 fork lighting all around and no jacket ..... mildly moist is think is the phrase
Boom, tish.
thunder and lightning then. Why didn't you just say so. 🙂
If its any consolation up here we've had the loveliest sunset I've seen in a long time.
Arran on fire in the distance
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phone pics don't convey it really 🙁
Was a shit more than 10mins earlier today on the south coast!
Hit Bournemouth at 12 and didn't move through till gone 1:30pm.
Was so heavy it was flooding the road onto the pavement.
Ground strikes, immediate rumbles lasting 10-20s at a time.
We couldn't even see Bill's mothers (Bakewell)
@Woody21 I stopped top of Beeley Moor to take this, bright sunshine behind me but the cloud in front certainly delivered!
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We set off night riding from Bingley at 7.15. The storm hit at about 7.25. Made for an interesting ride, we stayed in the woods and didn't venture onto the moors!
Not the dry, dusty ride I'd been looking forward to but still a lot of fun.
Not a drop on this bit of the South Coast. Just been for a Ride where it didn't drop below 21deg. Ended up standing in the sea watching the sea light up orange with a distant lighting storm.
Summer, marvellous stuff.
Meh, I am a bit nonchalant about thunder/lightening now as currently in Singapore which is apparently one of the most lightening stricken places in the world. There are usually several large thunder storms a week.
I was browsing lightening triggers for my camera the other day but by browsing was intercepted and any potential purchase wifeblocked 😡
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Blue skies and 24 degs in Surrey ATM 8)
two pages in and nobody has pointed out the Thin Lizzy album of the same name as the thread ... shame on you yongsters, one of the best albums. Get it on and get a bit of Cold sweat.
Asda in Burnley took a direct hit, roof's partially collapsed.
Lightning strikes in Burnley could have the potential* to do millions of pounds worth of improvements.
(* - sorry)
House just over 50m away from mine got hit in Huddersfield last night 😯
Almighty bang, my house shook and then a load of car alarms went off
Had to ride through it for 2 hours to get home from work last night. Storm started 3 minutes after I'd set off, not sure it was really worth stopping to put my jacket on. I was so wet I thought I may as well stop and take a couple of photos!
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Missed this thread yesterday, storm started as I was getting changed to leave work, hosed it down for the first 10 miles never seen lightening like it, it was constant. Took me about 10 minutes longer than normal, no way I was risking the flyovers, if the half blinday cars didn't get me the lightening would have
Down 'ere in Cornwall, thunder and lightning is a scone with clotted cream and golden syrup. Ansum!
5 o'clock on a September morning Sheffield. Big storm.How can there be enough heat in the air? The weather is getting weirdererer 🙁
Loads last night on south coast
masses around here in Guildford around the early hours. both kids slept through, wife and thought the sky was falling in.
Millau viaduc 7 pylons hit at same
theotherjonv - Membermasses around here in Guildford around the early hours. both kids slept through, wife and thought the sky was falling in.
Same here, power cut around Newbury at 2.48am and tonnes of thunder and lightening, i got up and watched, assumed it would wake my lad up, was gutted he didn't get up and watch with me.
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