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I'm still in the club - and i'm smack bang in the middle and its astounding that we have just had the distant flashes from last week!
1. The Notts storms got close then just went north
2. the next morning they all went to the East - missed us again
So been visiting in Poole since and just got back a few hours ago. Down in Poole they all went to the IOW!
looking at the radar this morning the storms skirted LB and hit MK - then they switched and are all going just to the south! (Wycombe - Luton - Stevenage). Honestly, if you looked out of my SW facing bedroom window, its like the parting of the red sea!
It is starting to get a bit silly now...
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Down at folks place in Poole, off for a very sweaty run I would have thought. Looks like a line of showers that have just popped up in the channel south of Devon will be coming our way.
Or that big Bertha could come more north than NE!!
Whatever happens, bound to be better than the damp squib of last week at home!
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It looks as if Berkshire/Wiltshire might get a serious soaking with possible thunder & lightning, so with that in mind, the ever eternal optimist in me can surmise only one thing............................
"El Berko is Coming!!!!!!"
El-Berko? Thats a Spanish idiot from Berkhamsted....
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My big 2 below....
1. Ibiza 1996 - Non stop lightning and a constant roar of thunder for 3 hours! - all lights out and just bottled beer LOL! And a tornado! (Bit of detail below!!)
In spite of the limited period considered, the overall tornado occurrence relative to the area seems to be as high as in Oklahoma or Texas (Grazulis et al., 1993), and much higher than in other Mediterranean countries (Dessens and Snow, 1993). Fortunately, however, there have been no fatalities, but damages can occasionally reach several millions U.S. dollars, as on 12 September 1996 when the outbreak "O" case affected touristic and industrial zones. This episode is also noteworthy because during its final stage on 12 September, a small cyclone with tropical characteristics developed near Ibiza and crossed Mallorca (Gili et al,. 1997). SRH and CAPE for this case (Fig. 9a) are both quite appreciable.
2. Bmth (from BBC site) - remember trying to watch 'return of the Jedi' at the cinema but the hailstones were too loud!
On 5 June 1983 a series of violent thunderstorms swept eastwards from Lyme Bay across Weymouth, Poole, and Bournemouth, and on into Hampshire and Sussex. They were accompanied by torrential rain (74mm fell at Winfrith) and heavy hail with stones the size of golf balls (43mm) in the Poole and Bournemouth areas, with one stone measured at 65mm across
Been downhill ever since!!
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Pretty rubbish at home in LB last night. The stuff that went up to Notts was on its way, then went north - and then the stuff this morning was to the east!
Heard my first rumbles today at work in London - but not even any lightning, plus some heavy rain for 2 mins. Pretty poor all round. Hey ho, thats life!!
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Finally!! my first thunder heard so far at work in Camden.
The one man storm shield has been weakened LOL. How I have managed to dodge them so far has been miraculous!
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We've managed to just miss the storms from last night and also this latest lot too! Trying desperately to balance my childlike jealousy of missing storms with being a responsible parent LOL!I'll have to sulk quietly....Guess where that gap in the middle of the arch is... although i did just have a flash and rumble
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Are there storms about then? Absolutely diddly squat here. Amazing storm avoidance yet again! Oh well, at least the kid slept through I suppose!!!
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Flashes here to the south. Must be the London cell, 35 miles away!
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Yes suddenly a lot of beds now has precip showing on radar. Our lone orange pixel came over, bringing its 15 drops of rain!! Some heavier stuff up the road in bletchley. Best place for it ;-)Small area of very heavy precipitation popped up to the south of MK in the last 10mins, friend just messaged me to say they had 5 mins of pea sized hail falling, no thunder or lightning as of yet but possibly a new cell springing into life from nowhere. Very strange outside too, winds picked up and i can see the moon illuminating huge thundery looking clouds to my south, Can now see huge flashes of lightning firing off to the north of MK towards northampton.
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Great shot. Looks like the main bolt hit behind a ground. Either meadow lane or Trent bridge!!
The storm was heading towards me, but our storm shield moved it north. At least I have a sleeping 3 year old though!!
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Can confirm a scattering of small mid-level "towers" around S.W London. Plenty of work to do yet though!
Agree - looking west from Camden, nothing that exciting...
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That's why being in the middle is always a good place to be
Afternoon all,
Bit of a busy couple of days for me - the pay off for which is another weekend away so it's well worth it !
Hopefully I will have time to chase anything in the area this evening if MK is not in the firing line...that's the plan anyway
Happy Monday anyway (what's left of it) and hopefully those of that want the storms will be happy and those of you that don't like them will either miss out or find some way of blotting it out - I will probably be on the top of Dunstable downs doing my best to get some lightening shots
As my boy is only 3 he hasn't really had much t-storm action yet, apart from that short hailstorm last June time? (the sat lunchtime one - there's so few, we know them all personally!!)
So is going to be interesting to say the least...
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Yep had a look at that earlier - just where the BBC said it would be.
I presume they look for convergence zones (not being a weather techie etc..)
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In Camden. Very dark and second lot of rain just started again. Will post again if any hail or thunder etc..
Rain very heavy.
Edit..Nah. not too bad again - showers just don't want to let loose properly. Afew years ago, we'd have thunder now - I tell ya!
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Very dark in Camden, NW1.
Second shower just about to hit. Got to run to Euston in 25 mins, I might be getting VERY wet very soon!...Here it comes!!
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Signs of slight intensification on that cell nearing Hinckley and another cell has popped up just west of Luton.
DP's are between 15-17c which is why it feels so sticky and should help with shower development this evening
Cell west of Luton - Yep looks just over my house up in Leighton Buzzard. Might be a bit wet underfoot when I get back from the smoke..
The things I have to go through just to go to work ;-)
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Rain not as heavy here as radar suggested. Never a black square ;-)
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I like the way the precipitation (light I suppose) is basically marking out the Chilterns on the radar at the moment. Nature in action eh!
Living where I do - its always darker to the SW on the Chilterns - Just the higher ground I suppose..
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We need one like that one coming into the NW French coast!
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Off to the Bro in laws for a barbie near Stantonbury MK - hopefully no pesky rain from that front (come a lot further in than suggested on BBC1 last night).
But it just HAD to, didn't it.
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Wine
I don't think it works like a calendar though!
I'll cling onto any hope!
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Seriously though....If the summers carry on like this, many will consider emigrating. I think its worse coming off the end of cold winters year after year.
I suppose the only crumb of comfort is that if 2006 is considered to be the last decent summer, we are getting closer to ten years of naff summers. Surely it will just be a phase, like the no snow period in the 90's (when we seem to have snow every year now)
I'm a runner and its the windy weather I can't stand. Always feking windy!!
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Hi there everyone, Hope you are all well. I've been so busy updating my other blogs as there is so much happening worldwide. Yesterday's mild and sunny day was great and what made it even better, Palace winning the play-off final in style. One of my daughters went into Croydon's town centre and she said there were crowds celebrating...............Well done Palace.............Just need to stay up this time
Happy with that - much easier trip to watch Bournemouth at Watford than Palace
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..'Flashes to the left of me,
rumbles to the right..
Here I am stuck in the middle with f**k all as usual'
If Gerry Rafferty had lived in Leighton Buzzard