Thunderman

I was woken up at 1.30am by very loud Thunder! Checking net weather radar showed a storm developed at just after 1am about a mile or two off shore. We had Thunder for about an hour, but storm never moved inland. Hardly any rain, but a mile out to sea, rain rates were impressive. Why did storm just sit there!?

Light covering here on the south coast :lol:

Sun out strong here now. 49mm recorded from 6Am-10AM

Well this is serious weather torrential, thunder since 7am. It now looks like the worst, for now anyway, is over. I have two rain gauges, the electronic Oregon gauge reads 37mm, however the glass manual one reads 49mm? The Oregon book states the gauge in heavy rain can have a +-15% accuracy range! Which is correct!!

Never thought I'd use the word 'torrential' on my reports, but today, well never seen rain and thunder like this!

Morning all. I woke up at 5am to 0mm rain, now its 23mm and counting with loud thunder and rain so heavy it's like a fog outside. Freaky weather!

New warnings on www.estofex.org/

Distant Thunder here

Howerer there seem to be a mass of storms forming over northern France. I speak too soon! heavy rain!

Incredible! that area of rain/storm is passing just to the east of me! I have lost count how many times this 'summer' that has happened! hey Ho

Hi CB I think you're right, later in the night for me.

A few flashes here and becoming very humid outside. Not a breath of wind

Thanks for the replies chaps.

Why do some areas of the UK seem thunderstorm hotspots where as others totally miss out? When I was living in Cambridgeshire ( St. Ives) our town 99% of the time was always on the edge of summer thunderstorms. I remember as a child seeing a storm brewing to the south of the river and then veer off so all we got was the tail end of it! This I witness every summer without fail. The odd times we did have an overhead storm was if it came from the North-west. Did the river play a part in the direction the storms would take? So I now live in Portslade 4 miles west of Brighton. The same thing seems to happen here! Last Tuesday night is prime example! <_< MCS heads towards Kent, storms also Hampshire area, here in the middle one rumble and 2mm of rain! This patten repeats for the 5 years I have lived here! Where are those so called Spainish plumes I used to hear about as a teenager!!! One last point, any one else noticed that the sound of thunder ( when we do here it hear on the coast!) sounds so much different to inland? Any views?

Just had a heavy snow shower here in Hove :huh: Wow snow on the south coast!!