Norfolk Sheep

OH: My weather app says thunder and lightning tonight. Me:

It's dull, it's grey It's been drizzling all day.... Bring back the hot weather, this is tedious. Can't do anything outside.

Gentle rain here on and off for most of the day, just what the garden ordered, but could we have hot and dry back soon as I've a zillion things to do outside! Sadly just showers feeding in off the coast with no chance of anything thundery (quelle surprise).

Yeah, it was more of a coastal thing, I'm surprised part of it managed to limp inland tbh. Cats are weird.

Horribly out of practice and only 3 opportunities from miles away (I mean come on, lightning every 15 minutes?) plus torrential rain. I'm amazed my knackered old 60D was even roughly in focus never mind facing the right way.

Horribly out of practice and only 3 opportunities from miles away (I mean come on, lightning every 15 minutes?) plus torrential rain. I'm amazed my knackered old 60D was even roughly in focus never mind facing the right way.

I had a thunder (twice!!) out towards Attleborough way, I did drive out but it was remarkably unnoteworthy apart from the torrential rain, the run off from the fields was extrememly quick, many puddles to splash through!

I heard a thunder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No one awake in East Angular? Blimey, that's the most lightning recorded in the area this year!

I do wonder whether that feeble effort off the coast will make it as far as, say Thetford and treat me to one or two distant flashes around 3am. Anyway as usual not worth bothering with.

Haven't seen anything here and I'm nearer! Maybe Thetford is in the way or something....

I'd give several arms to be in Aix right now! Bring on the Tardis....

Lightning now showing up at Marseilles Old Port (apologies to all those who have had lots of nice storms this year but some of us haven't...) Live Cam Hôtel Carré Vieux Port, Marseille - France WWW.IPLIVECAMS.COM Live webcam locate nearby the beautiful Old Port (Vieux Port) of Marseille surrounds a lively yacht marina.

It was the same the other week as well! It's bonkers around Avignon but can I find a decent live webcam in the area? Nope! EDIT: I'm hoping it's heading toward Aix and onto Marseilles.

Thing is, it's been declining since the 1990s (I've lived in Norfolk since 1986). August has traditionally been a reasonably active month historically, occasionally from late July. Plume events usually delivered something, over the last decade or so they have tended to drift eastwards, either into Benelux or grazing the far SE before entering the N Sea. At the moment the average number of thunder days (if I was being a bit NIMBY-ish) is at best 2 or 3, and that includes storms 30 to 40 miles away. Storm intensity has also diminished accordingly, with no more than half a dozen flashes of lightning seen in a whole year (again, rarely within in 10 miles). My late father's (as yet unpublished) book on the geographical history of East Anglia, notes "Distinctive features are very helpful in distinguishing one local weather pattern from the others. The fogs and mists at the coasts, the thunderstorms of the boulder clay plateau, the dust storms of Breckland and most striking of all, the flatness of the Fens, encouraging frosts in nearly every month of the year and the famous "Fen blow", now thankfully seldom experienced." (His specialist period was 1700-1850, and draws on such writers as Mary Hardy, who kept a comprehensive weather diary, as well as the Board of Agriculture's reports, among others.

I'll have to move, Norfolk is getting worse year on year. No idea what's fuelling this annual decline in activity.

Oh lawks, you haven't gone and eaten some of those funny ones, have you?

Jeebus, why is central Norfolk (indeed, most of the county plus a large portion of Suffolk) so dreadful these days? There must be some sort of scientific explanation!

I left my shrooms, In Tesco Extra, Right by the till, They were for my tea......

Storms in the S - tick. Storms in the SW - tick Storms in the SE - tick Storms in the NE - tick Storms in the NW - tick Storms in the Midlands - tick Storms in Wales - tick Storms in Scotland - tick Now, have a wild guess as to which area is missing from this list....

Nothing here bar 15 mins of moderate rain. Lightning detector said lightning 7 miles away. Yeah, whatever....

Good grief, 5 minutes of quite heavy rain, now someone's turned off the tap again. And of course, 0% chance of ever hearing even the quietest rumble in the distance. Once again East Anglia fails.

@Ed Stone Pete! PETE!!!!!! It's belting down here!!!!! Strange how the skies look like that here, yet absolutely zilch apart from a brief burst of heavy rain.

Shh, you'll scare away my slightly darker grey cloud! Don't why there are a load of strikes in the east around Norwich, nothing seen or heard!

I don't even get the luxury of "Aha, a shower has formed on radar"