Thunderstorms in SE England last night
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Wow!
The longest, most intense lightning I've ever seen in the UK. The storms started about 22:30 over East Sussex & it was still raging nearly 2 hours later.
The sky was lit up constantly and a couple of the strikes were pretty close. On average the instances of lightning seemed to be 2 or 3 seconds apart, yet the thunder wasn't very loud at all.
The longest, most intense lightning I've ever seen in the UK. The storms started about 22:30 over East Sussex & it was still raging nearly 2 hours later.
The sky was lit up constantly and a couple of the strikes were pretty close. On average the instances of lightning seemed to be 2 or 3 seconds apart, yet the thunder wasn't very loud at all.
zygalski said:
Wow!
The longest, most intense lightning I've ever seen in the UK. The storms started about 22:30 over East Sussex & it was still raging nearly 2 hours later.
The sky was lit up constantly and a couple of the strikes were pretty close. On average the instances of lightning seemed to be 2 or 3 seconds apart, yet the thunder wasn't very loud at all.
Oddly there was very little in West Sussex apart from a couple of rumbles, in fact Blitzortung showed no activity between Eastbourne and Southampton. 69% humidity now!The longest, most intense lightning I've ever seen in the UK. The storms started about 22:30 over East Sussex & it was still raging nearly 2 hours later.
The sky was lit up constantly and a couple of the strikes were pretty close. On average the instances of lightning seemed to be 2 or 3 seconds apart, yet the thunder wasn't very loud at all.
I was woken up around midnight and in my sleepy state it took me a while to work out where all the flashing was coming from and this was with the curtains closed! I went up to the window to have a look and the brightness of one flash was almost like having a torch shone on your face in the dark. It was certainly an unusual storm.
Matt p said:
Was bloody biblical over Putney last night. Never witnessed anything like it in the U.K
Agree, not seen anything like here before, and here in outer West London suburbs, it was clear that the worst of it was skirting across from south-east to north-west and was worse looking to the north and east of where I am.Astonishing storm.
DIW35 said:
Damn I slept through it all and missed it.
I went bed at 12, dry as a bone here in Ashbourne, woke up at 6 am came downstairs to see we'd had some rain. Neighbours just wondered over asking if I fancied a pint (working tomorrow so no) but he's just asked me if I saw the lightening or heard the thunder?
Heard nothing captain, not a bean.
Most upset love a good storm!
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