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Oh my god.
Never seen a storm like this in my life. Lightning strike about every three seconds and rolling thunder, it's like the 5th of November here.
What do other readers think?
Where are you?
Where are you?
I've just heard the rumbling starting in the high peak
not too bad, ive seen WAAAAAY bigger and better in northern queensland tho.
Still chuffin hot darn sarf.
Absolutely belting down here - incredible lightning too (Manchester)
EDIT: Bit annoyed I went to all the effort of spending 10 mins watering the pots when I got home today and it wasn't needed at all.
30 degrees and clear here.
No storms forecast either 🙁
Nothing here. Enjoy your storms. [Richard E Grant] Why do you get storms? Where's mine? Why can't I have storms? [/Richard E Grant]
We've not even had sunshine today. We had sea mist then rain and cloud all day. Bloody Wales. 🙁
Thunder,loads of lightning and just started raining here which is about 5miles from Glossop.
And then the rain came. There's a bloke out back building a big wooden boat and gathering up animals two by two.
It's gone now - looked like a solitary cumulonimbus wreaking havoc on South Manchester. It's still flashing away but over someone else's house, and the sky is clear again here.
Cougar you cad, settling down here, that was great.
The cat just farted,no lightning.
Apart from that,it's all quiet.
Liverpool. No rain. No thunder. No lightning...
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Swapped out my winter tyres and took off my mudguards last night,knew I was tempting fate.Thunder,lightning and now heavy rain here ,Calderdale.
TV reception's gone too,which on the plus side means I can't watch England women's world cup football 🙂
Bit annoyed I went to all the effort of spending 10 mins watering the pots when I got home today and it wasn't needed at all.
Huh, that's nothing . . . I spent 10 mins watering the pots [b]during[/b] the torrential rain 🙄
The rain just bounces off the leaves, and doesn't get through to the compost.
Liverpool. No rain. No thunder. No lightning...
you do have the beatles though, chin up
About 8 miles from Glossop over't tops in Yorkshire and not a peep here.
EDIT - sky in the west is on fire! As good as the storms I've seen in NSW.
Where is this storm happening?
[quote=shermer75 ]Where is this storm happening?
> http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/mobile.php
It's because I took tomorrow off work to go riding, god's wrath is incoming. Luckily, he is a terrible shot
lightening lighting up the whole valley here in Heptonstall. Big fat drops of rain.
If it follows that same course it'll hit here in about an hour and a half which will be annoying as I'll be asleep.
Sat outside in Leeds. No thunder but the lightening is incredible; I've never seen anything like it!
Feel a little shortchanged with the lack of audio, but the view is amazing. Coupled with the fact it's uncomfortably warm indoors, I wonder if I'll fall asle.........
This is why the invented camera phones.
Love a good thunderstorm, one of the best ones I've seen was one night we were play 7s, 14 of us running about like lightening rods while all hell broke loose around us, the rain that followed was marvellous, buckets of it, really warm and refreshing. Best game of fitba I've ever been involved in! 😀 No idea who won!
Clamy as hell here tonight though..could do with a thunder storm to clear the clamminess.
Still taken from slo mo video on iphone 6. Storm over Leigh. Best in years
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cool.
North West of Chesterfield is a massive black cloud full of lightning. Looks like something out of event horizon. Is awesome in the true sense of the word.
Jeez, never seen or heard anything like that. Would have posted earlier but the internet went off. I'm in Clitheroe and it rolled right over us, a good 45 mins of constant sheet and fork lightning.
Passed over us a while ago (Rochdale) but it's still really close and sticky.
I went out for a better look from the top of the hill in Holmfirth :-). Over Yorkshire (estimating North of Halifax currently as of 2330) it's just one big nasty bastard flashbulb cloud that is going off around once a second. I saw no visible ground strikes but constant forks pinging around inside the cloud. Definitely a sight I've never seen on these shores and absolutely nothing to hear. Proper epic.
Scuttler, you may have had a better allround view of it, we got the full audio as it was pretty near, awesome in the true sense
Absolutley incredible, I've never seen anything like it. One patch of highish cloud with flickering lightening, literally every few seconds, and very little by way of audible thunder. It tracked from the South of here, and as we're at 1300 feet we could see it over Derbyshire, it tracked right over the house and then North towards Halifax/Brighouse. I took the dog up onto the tops to see as much as I could, and the horizon is still flickering. Not a drop of rain.
My lad and I both have phone footage, but I can't find a micro SD card to download it.
Wow! North west of Leeds, beyond Otley I'd say. Best lightning show I've seen in this country bar none. Not a sound though, and all the fork lightning is in the sky. Very spooky.
What bike for... 😉
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Stuck in the hole that is Bradford - seen nothing.
Sort ya vids/pix out please 🙂
Good over edinburgh and the pentlands just then, quietened down now. can't remember the last time i saw a storm like that in the uk
Sort ya vids/pix out please
It was a Klein with Nightstorm paint...dunno why the previous one isn't visible. 😳
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We had a good one yesterday afternoon but had another in the early hours that was epic. I still rolled over and went to sleep though.
Huge hail stones at 0100 here, well I say huge, about marble sized. I'm sure someone will come along from the prairies with tales of football sized ones.
Very kind, but I was thinking of pictures of the actual storms 🙂 Nice looking bike though!It was a Klein with Nightstorm paint...dunno why the previous one isn't visible.
It passed just west of mine last night, it looked like those films you see of air raids with the constant flashes of light and sounds of explosions. Incredible sight.
Apparently Manchester airport was shut for a while. And a mate was driving over the M62 and as he came over the summit and down towards Manchester he said the heavens opened, said it was like driving along a river!
Biblical rain yesterday afternoon in Sunderland at work. GF had hailstones in County Durham, big enough to make the news. 20mm she says.
Got woken up at 0100 as it passed over Peebles so got up to watch it over the hills. Awesome ! Lighting and thunder at the same time as it passed overhead. Even the cat was scared, and she doesn't scare easily (as the neighbours dog has discovered to his pain and humiliation).
Waited all day for it in Edinburgh, looked like it was going to pass us by completely, but finally made an appearance just after 1 (after scaring hel's cat 😉
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great pic!
Ooh, nice shooting, Tex.
[b][i]THAT'S[/i][/b] what I'm talkin' 'bout!
Brilliant photo.
Reports around Northumberland of golf ball sized hail damaging cars. Luckily not where we are.
Ha! Just been on the radio about it 😀
Came right over head in Bolton last night. Incredible. Almost constant lightning, then biblical rain and 2" hail stones. The sound of them hitting the car was epic.
Not my pic but one from Facebook (by Isaac Sibson of Marsden) showing the scariest cloud of the year
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Superb pics, more please! 🙂
Hit us at midnight - awesome
Cracking show at about 1am here in the North East.
Clearly the ancient gods have been angered though.
Only a blood sacrifice shall appease them.
Any thoughts?
Bacon and black pudding butty obvs.
I've never seen a storm like that in this country. The cloud formations that preceeded it were insane. I was expecting an alien invasion 😀
Heres a picture taken by Quarryman, of this parish, over Rammy last night
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I've only seen a storm like this in France before and my housemate witnessed one in Vietnam
I managed to film a bit (sorry about filming in portrait, it was very gusty and i didn't want to drop my phone out the first floor window)
Fire the video up on the youtube site, stick it in HD and slow the speed down to 0.5
great photo Kit - heard it but didn't see enough flashing in darkest morningside to drag my ass out of bed.
wasn't a night for camping on Arthurs seat then!
You're famous Kit:
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(hope they paid you for that!)
Never seen anything like it before.
Passed over Burnley with pretty much continuous thunder and plenty of lightning - I was quite happy with that.
Proper fizz in the air too.
Then as it drifted off towards Halifax it just went off big style.
I was convinced aliens had taken Leeds at one point.
🙂
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-33359707#1 ]Superb pics, more please[/url]
#2 looks familiar
You're famous Kit:
More famous than you think. I was interviewed by STV today for a wee piece to be on at 6pm, after the weather (of course). Tune in...if you dare 😀
And no, I didn't get paid for that, but it might be in a few of the Scottish papers tomorrow, which I'm being paid for.
Good work
(I'm slightly bemused that "Man photographs lightning" makes national news, but fair play to you!)
Me too, but hey, not complaining!
Happy to sign autographs, now I've had my 10 seconds of fame 😉
Video interview in link:
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/1323942-storms-create-spectacular-displays-of-lightning-over-scotland/
turn on sound and check out the dutch coast.
Someone call Denmark and tell them to get under cover 🙂
http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en&page_0=11
Anyone know how that blitzimijig website actually gets its data? Is it radar or satellite or what? It's very clever though 🙂
More famous than you think.
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Now lets not get too carried away with the fame, eh? 😉
(I'm not saying who is who but all are forum members...)
@v8 (guessing) triangulation of radio emissions
Oh dear...
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😀
Stoner - Memberturn on sound and check out the dutch coast.
Someone call Denmark and tell them to get under cover
http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en&page_0=11
Its still thumping away in the Netherlands, still it should clear the air for the start of the TdF Grand Départ in Utrecht