The official 2014 warm sunshine and BBQ thread...

[Alucidnation]

fking hell!!!

[RosscoPCole]

Alucidnation said:

fking hell!!!

Care to explain?

Lightning roaming around the Poole area for a while. Thunder has been pretty constant as well. Just starting to calm down here.

[Penfolds]

Managed to capture this on the slo mo iPhone thingy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTFCjUywDR4&fe...

[Art0ir]

Very jealous of you all! Although I did get treated to a whopper in Mallorca last week, so not all bad.

[Petrolhead95]

Anyone know where the bulk of the storm/lightning is heading? Currently watching out of my bedroom window and some of them are so clear, yet so far away. Constant bolts across the sky is absolutely incredible to watch.

[knight]

Just been woken up by a loud clap of thunder, seen a few flashes of impressive lightning and the rain has been torrential, seems to be stopping now so I probably missed the best! This is in West Sussex.

[keslake]

Maldon on the east coast here.

Been watching it get closer for the last 2 hours and now it's right overhead, fecking incredible!

[NBTBRV8]

I hope you guys feel for us Antipodes, mid winter here and at 11:30 only bloody 11 degrees! Can't wait for you guys to give us our summer back so we can make something decent of it.

[bazza white]

Raining since 2:30 ish in Cardiff and thunder started at about 4:30. Tempted to go for an early morning drive

[Alucidnation]

Well that was an entertaining night!

I wish i'd thought of the slow mo on the iPhone as we had the storm pretty much right over us in West Hampshire.

The thunder was incredible, with it lasting a fair few seconds.

I have never experienced anything like this before....and yes, i probably have led a sheltered life.

[knight]

Had another storm about an hour later, a lot more rain, strong winds and some decent flashes of lightning

[Bill]

RosscoPCole said:

Care to explain?

Lightning roaming around the Poole area for a while. Thunder has been pretty constant as well. Just starting to calm down here.

Apparently I slept through it

[Puggit]

Nothing but rain on the Hampshire/West Berks border

Radar shows plenty more bubbling up over France and heading north - anyone could still catch a storm and anyone could get another (and another!)

[iva cosworth]

Lots of rain in Surrey,slept through anything else.......

[RosscoPCole]

Thunder starting to rumble in the background in Poole again.

[Bill]

RosscoPCole said:

Thunder starting to rumble in the background in Poole again.

Yep, radar shows a storm appeared just to the west.

Incidentally, if you zoom out on the rain alarm app you can see various radar pictures from round the world. Although the middle of France is missing. And my brother saw me use it the other day and downloaded it, and got his friends in out of the beer garden with a few minutes to spare yesterday. Apparently they think he's some kind of prophet

[Puggit]

Thunder to the east, thunder to the west. Stick in the middle

[Matt_N]

Huge thunder and lightning storm over Bristol last night, followed by truly biblical rain!

[Mini1275]

We've just had a massive bout of thunder here in Somerset.

I've never heard thunder like it, it was like an explosion tearing the sky open rather than a typical thunder rumble.

Incredible.

[iva cosworth]

Sun's come out in Surrey just now.