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Anyone catch the thunder storms earlier? About 20:45?
Best I have seen for a while, loads of fork lightning lit the sky for nearly an hour right overhead Southend. Massive bolts too, one after the other!
Heavy rain as well, really cleared the air! Nice!
excellent, they are on the way up here aparently, along with some torrential rain.
Looked really good here in Brantham. Major road floodage, Manningtree rail bridge was still closed this morn @ 5:30am
Yeah in SE London we had the most amazing lighting/rain all through the night. Just a pity that im on early shift and didnt get much sleep :(
Been hammering down solid here for the last 4/5 hours, theres something deeply satisfying about watching kids running to school in the rain while your sat on the sofa watching Bill Hicks dvd's :D
Awww so lucky! I want thunder :( hope they come this way soon :) been raining all night and it's still raining :rolleyes: supposed to be taking the little ones on a trip to Telford today, which will be fun seeing as I have a bad cold and have lost my voice! :(
Yup, we had it here in Hockley - was quite funny, as it decided to flood the porch, before my sister had got in :D so needless to say she was soaked when she finally got in. Serve her right tbh :P
In herts it was pretty loud.. first time my flat has actually shaken with the thunder..
Awesome, sounds good to me :D
I love thunder/lightning etc, best lightning i've seen was 5 years ago in Portugal - we were on a bus heading to our hotel at about midnight and it was the most stunning thing i've ever seen!
It was crazy here in Surrey last night, from about 10:30 through to about midnight, lightning every five seconds and mental rain... I love it, when I'm not in it ;)
It was also torrential in SW London. Wimbledon was very wet this am and the ponds on the common even had some water in!
Had the same, obviouly, as I'm only a few miles away from you. Went outside to have a ciggy, ended up staying outside for half an hour watching the amazing fork lightning! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Howard
Last time we had a lightening storm is set off the fire alarm at 4am. Essex is welcome to such weather :P
We had them for 2 hours last night. I did try and get some good pictures but with no luck.
Its the worst I have ever seen.
I had to drive a bus through the preliminary hard rain, which was a nightmare as you can barely see out of your mirrors. When I set off home on the bike it wasn't raining, but I put my £9.99 lidl waterproofs on just in case. Riding home, there was a sheet lightning flash about every 10s- then about two miles from home it started absolutely hurling down, serious monsoon type walls of water. I came across three cars doing 15 mph, presumably because they couldn't see. So I overtook them, obviously. When I was riding up the South Circular to my house, it was literally like riding up a shallow river- I followed a tipper truck and it had a huge bow wave going all the way- anyone on the pavement would have been drenched, if they weren't already.
Amazingly my Lidl waterproofs held- apart from a leak right above my groin:rolleyes:. I think it's where I didn't do the seals up properly though. My shoes and gloves OTOH were absolutely sopping.
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Originally Posted by Rave
That's a biking thing that.. you'll always get off looking like you've wet yourself ;) and neoprene gloves - you won't look back I tells ya :)
Other night we had one with some of the best purple lightning i've seen, every 10 seconds or so. Just had another storm now, heaviest rain i've ever seen apart from Florida and the thunder was so loud! Damn i love thunder :D!
same here in hampshire :)
Just got back from Makros in Rayleigh (Essex) and they've suffered all sorts of problems. The Weetabix box I bought I've noticed is all soggy and they've closed off the wine section because all their items stacked up to the roof got soaked and are unsafe. It must be about 20+ ft up on shelving so you wouldn't want that lot falling on customers.
I've just realised how truly British this thread is, we have the world at our finger tips via the internet and we're using it to talk about the weather ;)
thats nothing me and kitty live at the highest point in notts and the last 3 days we have had some really d storms come over the wind picking up so hard the tree in front of are place looked like it was gonna come down
the first 1 was so bad it was fork lightning 1 after another within seconds
we saw it hit the electric pialon and had a black out
we then saw it do it again and the whole streets lights lit up and suged it was cool
as we spk we have just had another 1 pass over lol
we love storms as after u get that realy fresh smell its gd :P
AWESOME! I would love to have seen something like that!!Quote:
Originally Posted by bad boy
Hope it didn't do any damage to anyone's electrical equipment though! :P
We had one very big one here in north west London yesterday, I could even hear it through my headphone playing music loud, as I looked outside it seemed it was only my room that was lit then so I got scared and switched my lights off immidiately and went to bed, but just before that my foot caught one of my cables and I fell over and bang my head really hard. I hate thunder:undecided
The wife came back from Tesco's, parked the car, it fell down and she got soaked walking 20m to the house! All while I was watching the show out of the back bedroom window!
Was hoping it was going to take the tree out at the bottom of my garden as its 50ft high and the tallest thing around here (until the civic centre!) in Prittlewell!