What a storm!

Del_GTi · Post by **Del_GTi** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 11:32 am

Whopper of an electrical storm last nite. Started about 2am and was still going at 6am. Not just your usual crappy UK thunder & lightning, this was the real thing, fork lightning, huge claps of thunder which set off car and house alarms, then eventually the power went out for a couple of hours.

Kept me awake most of the nite but was worth it.

wul3er · Post by **wul3er** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 11:36 am

Cool, Wish we had something like that here.

dino · Post by **dino** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 12:36 pm

It was sooooo hot last night, managed to sleep through it though

gorgeous sunshine here!!!! sitting in the garden sunbatheing ( wireless networks rock)

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 4:43 pm

damn, that would have been a killer experience to come out of work (at like 4.10am) to...

think its cuz the summers hotting up, the southern warm fronts hitting all those mountains and arctic air masses = big electrical charges

R1CH · Post by **R1CH** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 5:10 pm

holy [email protected] storms just starting here in leeds .my god i think the worlds about to to end.

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 5:11 pm

f*ck it's heading south then *dashes outside to finish stuff off*

thought the atmos was getting a bit close

Si_GTi · Post by **Si_GTi** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 5:27 pm

Its just passed over here - we now have a new water feature outside the front door where things are now a little waterlogged

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 5:59 pm

Bit muggy here, but no sign of a storm at all. Clear skies and lots of sun

dubpolo · Post by **dubpolo** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 10:39 pm

hit us at about 5, bloody ace!

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 1:14 am

sod

i stopped my outdoorsy stuff because the clouds were drawing in and the temp dropped a couple degrees (still warm and muggy tho) ... unplugged the PC, all that stuff. got nothing for the trouble - a few spots of rain that looked like a single spin of a garden sprinkler and two very distant lightning flashes and that was it.

13twelve · Post by **13twelve** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 10:03 am

manchester thunder storm sucked hard

the air is still thick...

minis84 · Post by **minis84** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 11:29 am

we had nothing in derby.

the atmosphere was very close, then the wind picked up, and the sky went that dark brooding colour, very eerie.

We had a few rumbles, the odd flash, about 6 raindrops.

Then we hear that literally all around us, ie, west midlands, south yorkshire, lincolnshire etc have had it really bad! 6 people SWEPT AWAY in flooding on the moors, (all rescued), localised flooding in sheffield/chesterfield area, also flooding in shropshire/wolverhampton regions.

But bugger all here - kinda disappointed in a way, as it might have made sleeping easier having a cooler night, but kinda glad we didn't have it too!

SpikeyG40 · Post by **SpikeyG40** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:11 pm

we're due thunderstorms down in kent sometime today. its very muggy here but no big amounts of cloud! although the sun isn't out, its kinda stuck behind a hazzy cloud!

had a great thunderstorm a few weeks ago, best we have had in ages, but didn't nock out the power! shame. went on for hours though.