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Title: Spectacular thunderstorm...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 19 July 2017, 01:37:32
Hit the south coast at around 11:30 and still going strong... looked like someone was carpet bombing everything from Chichester to Brighton as it approached :o

Just about overhead now, with almost continous lightening. Awesome 8)
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Post by: BazaJT on 19 July 2017, 07:35:10
Not reached this far North as yet.They were saying on the news this morning there's been something like 100,000 lightning strikes in the channel and over the South of England and Wales.
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Post by: aaronjb on 19 July 2017, 09:47:22
Not reached this far North as yet.They were saying on the news this morning there's been something like 100,000 lightning strikes in the channel and over the South of England and Wales.

It certainly came this far, although had largely petered out.. about 10pm or so there was a fair bit of lightening (some distance away) but not a huge downpour.
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Post by: cam.in.head on 19 July 2017, 10:15:33
lucky sods .it never got here. you cant beat a good thunderstorm although they are not like the ones we used to get when i was a kid. the air used to go a yellowy colour and you could smell the tension.sort of an electrical /ion smell? .i suppose its the modern versions now ! 
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Post by: 2boxerdogs on 19 July 2017, 11:13:48
Got here around 4am , very noisy got to confess couldn't be arsed to get up & watch it though.
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Post by: Kevin Wood on 19 July 2017, 11:27:24
Mrs. KW being a bit of a storm chaser, we found ourselves watching it from Butser hill at 1 o'clock this morning. ::)
Title: Re: Spectacular thunderstorm...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 19 July 2017, 11:29:15
Mrs. KW being a bit of a storm chaser, we found ourselves watching it from Butser hill at 1 o'clock this morning. ::)
Well, you wouldn't have slept through it :D
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Post by: zirk on 19 July 2017, 11:30:58
Hit the south coast at around 11:30 and still going strong... looked like someone was carpet bombing everything from Chichester to Brighton as it approached :o

Just about overhead now, with almost continuous lightening. Awesome 8)
Yep, was kicking off about 10.30 around here, no rain and still nice and warm, we were in the Garden of one of our local pubs in the middle of Epping Forest (No Street Lamps) quiet spectacular, lighting strikes accross the sky every few seconds, quiet eerie really looked like something out of a War of the Words Film.
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Post by: Nick W on 19 July 2017, 11:48:01
Mrs. KW being a bit of a storm chaser, we found ourselves watching it from Butser hill at 1 o'clock this morning. ::)
Well, you wouldn't have slept through it :D


I'm not sure what was louder, the thunder or the cat howling at it ;D
Title: Re: Spectacular thunderstorm...
Post by: STEMO on 19 July 2017, 11:49:26
Hit the south coast at around 11:30 and still going strong... looked like someone was carpet bombing everything from Chichester to Brighton as it approached :o

Just about overhead now, with almost continuous lightening. Awesome 8)
Yep, was kicking off about 10.30 around here, no rain and still nice and warm, we were in the Garden of one of our local pubs in the middle of Epping Forest (No Street Lamps) quiet spectacular, lighting strikes accross the sky every few seconds, quiet eerie really looked like something out of a War of the Words Film.
That film used to show on here every night.
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Post by: redelitev6 on 19 July 2017, 12:33:23
Thunderstorms ? what are you talking about ,not a peep in Newcastle  ???
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Post by: Doctor Gollum on 19 July 2017, 13:35:40
Mrs. KW being a bit of a storm chaser, we found ourselves watching it from Butser hill at 1 o'clock this morning. ::)
Well, you wouldn't have slept through it :D


I'm not sure what was louder, the thunder or the cat howling at it ;D
;D Dog wasn't fazed by it although one of the larger cracks did make her sit up...
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Post by: iansoutham on 19 July 2017, 20:07:51
Must admit we had it here and I slept right through it, even with the window open next to me.....
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Post by: henryd on 19 July 2017, 21:12:34
Coverack down here in west Cornwall was badly hit yesterday.made national papers ???
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Post by: STEMO on 19 July 2017, 22:05:30
We haven't had so much as a solitary drip of rain.
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Post by: ronnyd on 19 July 2017, 23:56:36
Sat on the front door step until gone 3am last night watching it, it just never let up. Luckily street lights go off at midnight. 8)
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Post by: neil74 on 20 July 2017, 14:21:23
All we got in south wales was some rain and the odd flash of lightning nowt else.
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Post by: TheBoy on 20 July 2017, 18:29:07
Bit of drizzle earlier, but nothing else here in deepest Brakkers.