Lauren
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I know this isn't current. But we were in Croatia in late August 2006 and the weather there towards the end turned cyclonic. One of the people we spoke to in the hotel worked for mediterranean meterological people (no idea what they are called). He said that the system was likely to turn into a tropical storm, but I'm not sure it ever did and looking at the records it doesn't have appeared to.
Either way for the last couple of days we were there it was pretty 'tropical storm' like. We had hot mornings which tunred extrememly humid and by afternoon into the late evenings we were getting strong winds, lashing rain and severe thunderstorms. When we flew home we had to go a long route to miss the sytem and i distinctly recall the pilot saying the weather sytem was extrememly unusual and normally seen in the tropics.
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I don't know if this helps but the 12z charts from the 2-7th. If you could narrow the evening referred too down a bit could produce an 18 and 00 for the day.
Thanks for those, how do you get hold of this stuff???
Can't narrow it down I'm afraid, my memory isn't that good!
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Found this website which has weather diaries from almost 15 years ago. It gives detailed daily summaries of the weather for each day of each month for different years. This one is 1999, but just type in the year you want and it should come up (not sure it goes back further than1999).
It's painfully apparent thunderstorms were much more in abundanc back then.
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Ah that could very well have been what caused it. I spoke to my Mum earlier and she said it was definitely the beginning of August 1997 as we were supposed to be going on holiday the next weekend.
There were several MCS overnighters that year if I recall.
How did you find this, I have been looking for a while.
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Thanks for that Coast. None of those seem to be in the area (kent) or for the duration. Odd.
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Does anyone remember the series of stormy nights we had at the beginning of August 1997. The days had been incredibly hot and the late afternoons brought serious humidity. For several nights we had a series of small outbreaks none lasting longer than about 15 minutes. Then one night we had the big one. It started up at about 7.30pm with the oddest looking sky I had ever seen. It was almost a dark green colour, whilst it was still light and just built and built and built. It was a very big MCS with lightning every 5 seconds at least and almost continuous thunder. It was so loud it was impossible to sleep. In fact I distinctly remember my whole family gathering in my Mum and Dad's bedroom and just watching out of the window all night. We could also see most other families on the street just looking out their windows. We saw a house a few streets up get struck by lightening and burn until the fire brigade came. We saw on the news the next day that dozens of houses had been hit throughout the area and many houses had lost power.
The storm didn't let up all night and only started to quieten down at around 8am the next morning. There wasn't that much rain if I recall which seemed weird to us at the time. The rain did come over the next few nights and it pretty much torrentially rained solidly all night throughout those evenings. I should add this was in the SE and |I'm not sure if it happened over the rest of the country.
I have asked several people about this storm and many remember it but I can't seem to find any news articles on it (there were lots!) or any data from that evening. If anyone can remember this or can find the data on it, that would be great.
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I was just and still am just dissapointed with the outcome of the weather.
Personally I am quite hurt that you said this. I don't understand what else I am suppose to do.
We all get disappointed, but it's waste of time doing so as that is simply the nature of the weather and is why we love it and hate it.
Just relax and let it happen. They say a watched pot never boils!
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Surprised not to hear thunder in that downpour, but our potential is more for tomorrow apparently.
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Crikey, just drove through some seriously heavy rain on the way home.
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Most annoying how most of the storm symbils for tomorrow have gone
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BBC and Met forecasting lunchtime storms for tomorrow. Annoyingly I will ne in work so hopefully they will kindly delay themselves until I get in.
As Harry said the charts are looking good for this time of year.
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Looks like there's some serious rain coming on the horizon. Very grey and lots of bright white Cu.
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Cold, grey and dry.
Like it has been today. Loathe it. If you're going to be cold you might as well rain or snow or something!
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Wasn't sure where to put this, but found an interesting docu on lightening here:
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I like it. It looks 'prettier' and is easy to use.
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Here in faversham had three hail showers the first of which laid on the ground, the second topped it up, the third was the heaviest, all three accompanied by lightening, although infrequent....just had a big flash and rumble and its tipping it down.....torrential rain.....
You're only about 25 miles from me!
*stamps foot*
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Despite having some serious CB and soe angrty looking skies, the best we've had is heavy rain, not even hail.
This years storm activity (or lack thereof) can go get lost .
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Chucking it down here all of a sudden, which is weird because it's really sunny.
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Looks interesting Robbie, there is certainly a lot of convection in the air judging by the clouds. maybe I'll get lucky today?
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Heavy rain is all we got.
No good stuff again!
*throws tantrum*
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Do I have permission to sulk yet?
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Nothing here, it was looking promising earlier
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About A 70mb Pressure Drop In Less Than A Week
in Historic Weather
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I can't believe they have weather charts from back then!