Thunderstorms in SE England last night

[zygalski]

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.

[CAPP0]

Yeah, we pretty impressive here in mid Kent. The thunder was actually rattling things in the house.

[Smiler.]

Very very frightening

[Alucidnation]

A few flashes in the sky for 10 minutes and then rain.

Garden needed it.

And how is this news?

[Dogwatch]

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!

[CAPP0]

Dogwatch said:

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!

This was Blitzortung in the SE UK around midnight last night. Missed you out!

[zygalski]

Alucidnation said:

And how is this news?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44269304

[Deptford Draylons]

Great light show last night. Slightly worrying the hail was hammering down and getting bigger and bigger. Was looking at the car and wondering it it was going to be full of dings and dents.

[AlexC1981]

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.

[Cotty]

CAPP0 said:

Yeah, we pretty impressive here in mid Kent. The thunder was actually rattling things in the house.

Yep North Kent was getting hit quite hard as well. Kept dying down then coming back again

[Matt p]

Was bloody biblical over Putney last night. Never witnessed anything like it in the U.K

[nicanary]

It's His displeasure at the Irish abortion vote. Start building your ark.

[aeropilot]

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]

Damn I slept through it all and missed it.

[missing the VR6]

Was really cool, had only ever seen anything like it on the continent.

[cossy400]

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!

[motco]

My rain gauge shows 15mm rain overnight - mostly around 1 to 2 a.m. Chilterns area.

[Bollycerb]

Smiler. said:

Very very frightening

Indeed.

[woodypup59]

I thought the flashes were the light show at the Slam Dunk festival in Hatfield, until the rumbling started !

[Kccv23highliftcam]

So you've never woken up in winter, wondering what the flashes were, opened the curtains...

..and looked out into a lightning/snow storm.

At more or less sea level too.