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It's still pretty lively out there, but these are the strikes so far today.
Don't know how accurate that is but I can guarantee there has been zero storm activity in and around Norwich, not even a moderate shower
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Anywhere south of Bristol - The Wash looks to be devoid of anything today
Thought that was yesterday's weather.... -
Finally managed to get back online after a power surge during Tuesday's storm, managed to wipe out my phone line and some rather expensive electrical gadgets! I got about 10mins of this storm on my phone, it's in HD but was a bit of a rush job - so excuse me for that! and for the dog who you might hear in the background, he won't be appearing on storm chasers any time soon :-)
If you don't fancy watching it all, T&L peaks around 6-8 mins and about 4:45 I nearly dropped the phone with a rather unexpected rumble!
Seriously terrifying - how did you not turn the air blue?
FWIW the telegraph pole near my sister's house (she lives up a bridleway near Haslemere) was struck - her nearest neighbour had just about everything fried, including exploding lightbulbs and he was chucked out of his office chair
She said she staggered backwards when it happened and felt quick sick afterwards. Somehow they only lost the Sky box (no great loss ) and the landline was only sorted yesterday. I know we often wish for storms like this but.....hmm......
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Some exceedingly heavy showers between 12 - 2pm - got caught on the southern bypass round Norwich - visibility zero. Haven't seen rain like that for months!!
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JEEEEZUS!!!!! I've just brained myself on the ceiling !!!!!!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRSiaPRRbkg
oooooo cool
Another quality video
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Ye Gods!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank heavens we didn't have anything like that here!!!
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1st Solo today. Managed to get the storm to my East, moving south to north. Passed withing a mile of my position. Well pleased.
All Taken between 1 and 3 pm.
ooh lovely captures Dave
It's really strange, but I don't think I've actually seen a proper flash of lightning for at least 5 years, and that includes today
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Interesting post from Ian Williams on UKWW (at around 4pm)
"According to the ATD there has been roughly 8000 strikes in the South and East in the last 2 hours, with a peak of 419 in a 5 min spell at 1505 to 1510 bst"
That's a shed load of lightning...
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Quite a few diffuse flickerings atm, though I can't see from the radar where they're coming from.
Still seeing the odd flicker here too - bit odd as the radar has just dissolved into moderate rain. Front should clear through in the next hour or so, wish it would hurry up as I need to shuffle my sheeples round
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Good glow of lightning now seen, followed by a decent rumble.
Yep still doing it's stuff here too
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the upper winds and low level winds are sometimes in very different directions as in this case. The whole system is moving along the line of the storms at higher level whilst very high up the upper trough is pushing things erratically east. Hence why there is so much more activity further east today. The low level winds will be partly caused by minor convergence zones set up by a lot of individual CB cells within that zone I mentioned.
hope that helps/
Thanks Paul and John
Had a northerly flow til about 2pm, then everything whipped round to the WSW, now I can see low level cloud racing back in from the NE. Can't complain, had almost 2hrs worth of storm so far and just now some house shaking thunder
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[Thunder etc still continuing, albeit a little less frequent. Torrential rain though, driveway flooded as per usual but don't think I'll paddle over to clear the outflow just yet
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More thunder, and heavy rain - me mate's turned up to fix the annex boiler, I had to drag him out of his van
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Now raining here - heavily! Main cell has paased to the west of us - Rob at Garvestone must be getting a pasting.B)
A sort of embryo pasting har har!! Nothing like further south though (after June 2009 my expectations are rather high
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well that was nice, almost continuous thunder for 10 mins, some nice pink lightning and a bit of heavy rain. Moved off very quickly though, but very welcome crumb from the rich man's table - even lost TV signal and power for a brief period
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Thunder heard to my south - storms pushing up through Essex and Suffolk are now nearing the area. Rob, I think you'll get some - get on the radar and look to the south.
Yep, looking more hopeful now
OK, just heard thunder, I swear it was! You should get something too
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There there lozza *pats head*
At least you have a chance though, you are surrounded by storms, the nearest one to me is about 70 miles away and it's not getting any closer.
Same here, although that teensy cell near Ipswich might hop over the border, depends what effect this ghastly cloud cover has on it.
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The thunder lightning and heavy rain just keeps going and going here! Got some decent rainfall too, useful for the farmers in particular.
Edit: Torrential rain here now with big raindrops and frequent +CG lightning.
Which is where I was yesterday...oh well, too late now. I think I'll do some gardening instead
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The front has to clear the east at some point Rob, so you do have a chance. It's hardly moving at the moment though!
Actually I was wondering whether in fact the front could clear eastward without crossing Norfolk and Suffolk - i.e. just progress NE and clear into the N Sea around the Humber area, trailing a few light showers behind it over the far west of the region. Sounds about right
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I do question the accuracy of those lightning strike maps, it shows lightning strikes as far West as Bristol and it shows lightning over my area and I can assure you there isn't even rain let alone thunder and lightning.
Me too, there's absolutely nothing in Norfolk, the skies haven't changed colour or appearance since 10am this morning...
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What are the chances of this continuing for the East into the evening?
Knowing our luck, 0% Whoever said Thetford was the lightning capital of England was sadly mistaken...(ok, he said it about 20 years ago
)we might get some nice thundery rain though
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The front has to clear the east at some point Rob, so you do have a chance. It's hardly moving at the moment though!
That's a nice positive comment Steve
After yesterday I'm as nauseous as the proverbial exotic bird and I expect you are too
Still, listening to the thunder at Wimbledon is a bit of a bonus (says she, clutching at a very short straw) -
Somone tell me that the far East is likely to get even just a rumble, otherwise I'll have to load up the van and go looking for the damned stuff again
Gutted? You bet.
Thought that was yesterday's weather....
She said she staggered backwards when it happened and felt quick sick afterwards. Somehow they only lost the Sky box (no great loss 
:bomb: 
Definitely slightly envious!
8 July 2011 - Storm/convective Forecast, Discussion And Reports
in Storms & Severe Weather
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er...never?
We'll have to wait until August now...or maybe October...or possibly next June....