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3am this morning and I was staring out the window watching probably the best electrical storm I have seen for many years. I'm always amazed to watch such a great display of nature.
jealous!
where are you?
Awesome here. Camping on the south coast and moved right past us just out to sea. No rain just a disco sky
Yes, was 1 am here on Dartmoor.
We both woke up and sat outside with hot chocolate watching it. Light flashing from side to side of the sky. Amazing...
Between Poole & Dorchester on the south coast.where are you?
Was ridiculous here, right on top of us too, no time gap between thunder and lightening. Torrential rain of the tropical variety. Amazingling our 5 month old slept through as I thought she'd have been petrified
Jealous + 1
Not much going on now:
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Bit wild in west Devon about 1.30am
A really good one in Cardiff, went on for a while too! Had time to get in the car and drive to a nice vantage point about a mile away.
I'm always amazed to watch such a great display of nature.
Same here, love a good thunderstorm. Get amazing ones back home in Crickhowell, they would be funnelled up or down the valley by the mountains so would be really intense.
Some major thunder on South Coast (Hamble) but short and sharp rain
+1 for the power and wonder of nature
You can see the intensity of it by selecting the 2-24 hours checkbox on this historic lightning site. Each dot iwas a strike 😯
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Impressive here at 5:30 ish. Although I would have slept through if it wasn't for my kids running about excited and counting noisily.
Woke both me and my wife up it was that bright! like somebody kept turning full daylight on for fractions of second, amazing!
Never seen anything like it, opened the curtains up to watch for a hour and considered unplugging electrical stuff as it got closer (would have been a first if I had actually done it)
Dog didn't like it very much and when it had stopped woofing decided to join us upstairs had spent the night in my daughter's room.
Forecast for thunder here this afternoon. Hoping we get to see some lightning.
>-100 lightning strikes per minute apparently.
Was watching it in Torquay around 1.30am. Was bizarre . No rain , no thunder just various bits of the sky lighting up. But not in a random way, it seemed to follow a pattern. It was so synchronised that I thought it might be some laser display etc
Apparently the Wife wasn't too pleased when I woke her up to watch it. Especially as I went to sleep as soon as my head hit the pillow , and she was awake for the next few hours.
Got some of this heading my way (north east England, by the coast) later today.
Not a big fan of it over my head, TBH.
Over Truro was moderately impressive at 2am but it looks like we just grazed the edge of the storm. Watching all the gulls panic at once (presumably as the pressure front rolled in?) and circle the valley was quite awesome.
I think the thunder must have woken our daughter up around 3am. There was quite an impressive lightning display over the Quantocks, we watched it from her bedroom window for a while.
Saw it in the distance from south west London, It looked like an avalanche of lightning strikes going on, the clouds were lit up all the time.
Incredible noise over Bradford at minute continual booming with no gap, and the storms not here yet !
Just starting here in York. Can't beat a good storm
Gutted in Sheffield.
A bit of rain between 10 and 11, not much else.
Just cloudy & breezy.
Was incredible in North Somerset.
Had to go out and sit with the sheep (newborn lambs yesterday and rest pregnant) and make sure they were well clear of the metal trailer. Neighbours radio pole should be the most attractive thing in the area though.
Cracking down here in NW yorkshire. Glad I got the new pond liner installed this morning rather than leaving it for tomorrow!
Huge amount of thunder at about 3 in Leeds with crazy rain. Was out in the woods on the bike and got a soaking. Nice and fresh now though!
Cracking here on the coast in Lee.
Lasted over an hour early doors with zero delays between strikes
Was supposed to be with us a couple of hours ago. Instead we had to sit outside the pub in 26c drinking beer.
Woke me at around 4-5am, but only a few long rumbles, so I guess most went west up the Severn Vally, the other side of the Cotswolds from Chippenham.
Belted down last night and lots of lightening. I love a good storm, have to admit though whilst it woke me up, I had a quick look and fell straight back to sleep.
Sunday night from 2300 to 0200 the sky lit up amazingly, look like something out of war of the worlds to start with, with the sou'western horizon over the Downs flashing away many times a minute before the rain and forked lightning arrived, by about 0100 I gave up trying to sleep as every time I dozed off it would really bang and wake me up. Proper good storm.
Got woken here in Kent about 00.30hrs. Spent a happy hour watching the lightening. Only two of us in a house of 7 noticed though.
Youse do know you have cameras in your pockets, right? They can even take those new fangled moving pictures! 😆
South along the coast from Calais - impressive storm last night!
I was in a wheat beer coma but the Mrs tells me she was up for an hour watching it out the window. Apparently like nothing she's ever seen before.
Friend just posted this on Facebook.
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The lightening map site was recording ~ 400 strikes/min over the Kent area. Must have been pretty spectacular.
Never known lightening like that in this country. At one point it was constant for about 5 to 10 minutes with barely a second between flashes.
Very impressive, can't believe there wasn't more damage from strikes.
Here's one illuminating the 'famous' stranded excavator known locally as Moby Dig.
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I was looking at that photo thinking to myself "why is there a digger in the sea?"Here's one illuminating the 'famous' stranded excavator known locally as Moby Dig.
Great shot of lightning!