The official summer sun, optimism and thunder thread 2022

[Digger]

I've just discovered . . . real-time lightning maps -

www.lightningmaps.org/#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;z...

Edited by Digger on Wednesday 18th May 23:47

[addams]

Past us here in Brighton now, rain is easing off and the lightning has moved to the NE of us.

Was pretty good for a short while, lightning like a strobe light and continuous rumbling for a while with some decent rain. Definitely the best I've seen here for a while - we usually seem to miss all the best storms here

[leglessAlex]

A storm cell (I’m guessing too small to be a ‘supercell’) passed over Winchester and then to the side of us here in Whitchurch. I say ‘cell’ rather than just some clouds as it was a really tight ball, and all the lightning was bouncing around inside it. Didn’t seem to be forking down to the ground much, but that was possibly just obscured from our view.

I managed to get some screen grants from a video, it’s poor quality but shows the shape of the cloud pretty well!

[SeeFive]

I’d say Gatwick is still shut. Only that plane which was holding over the channel has gone in. Everything else still holding all over place.

[SeeFive]

…and now it is like the start of LeMans with planes heading in from all directions. Air Traffic Control is amazing when you see something like this.

[Digger]

[twohoursfromlondon]

Romsey in Hampshire last night.

[Puggit]

As usual, storms split and passed either side of us. Lost count of the number of times this happens

Could see and hear it in the distance for around 5 mins

[Paul_B]

twohoursfromlondon said:

Romsey in Hampshire last night.

It felt like one of those hit our house, about 10pm ish. Ashurst way. Whole house shook. Few more rumbles after and then all quiet.

[Puggit]

That gap...

[TheAngryDog]

We had more flashes than thunder, but it didn't last long.

Nothing like the storms of 2018 with rolling thunder.

[Scabutz]

Few flashes and a couple of distant rumbles in MK. Wasnt worth getting out of bed for to have a look

[Blib]

Half an hour of heavy rain/hail, wind, lightning and distant thunder overnight in NE Suffolk.

Apparently.....

I slept right through it.

[Celtic Dragon]

Quite a light show here on the Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire border, bit miffed that I didn’t capture the lightning bolts though, and it wasn’t for lack of trying.

Quick video clip

Edited by Celtic Dragon on Thursday 19th May 10:20

[colin_p]

Puggit said:

That gap...

We would have been in it as well at the old place, but here nothing, nowt, not even a distant sniff.

[jimmyjimjim]

Wow, could hit 30C today in Colorado, it just keeps creeping up. I wonder how much hotter tomorrow will be.


fks sake.

[anonymous-user]

SeeFive said:

I’d say Gatwick is still shut. Only that plane which was holding over the channel has gone in. Everything else still holding all over place.

I was flying in the London area yesterday evening and it was really bad. I can’t remember seeing such active convective weather like that in the U.K. before.

It reminded me of the sort of thing you get in the tropics.

[JakeT]

Lots of thunder and biblical rain in Stuttgart.

I was sat outside at dinner and became quite drenched.

[Puggit]

JakeT said:

Lots of thunder and biblical rain in Stuttgart.

I was sat outside at dinner and became quite drenched.

Some awful weather due tomorrow for you.

[Ashfordian]

jimmyjimjim said:

Wow, could hit 30C today in Colorado, it just keeps creeping up. I wonder how much hotter tomorrow will be.


fks sake.

I have a friend in Colorado Springs and your weather is 'amazing' with how it changes, not just between days but during the same day (those temperature swings).

However I would happily take your weather for the 300 days of sunshine a year I'm told you get.