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Wind has really picked up here, bringing some decent flakes with it.

There are a few flashes and bangs here at the moment, just had about 5 mins of very heavy rain. Unfortunately, nothing can now live up to the excitement of the other week when the lightning hit the school :lol:

Usual boring sunshine and showers all day, then about 18:50, a lightning bolt hit the school opposite our house. Heck of a bang, all the power went off, alarms sounding etc. Really upset the local birds as well, all the seagulls and pigeons were flying round in circles and screaming. No other rumbles or lightning before or since.

Good grief! Sitting here minding my own business about 10 mins ago, had been keeping an eye on the Nowcast site, nothing much happening, when suddenly the computer, sky box, router etc all went off, house alarms in road all going off, crack of thunder. Extremely heavy rain (got to an inch deep on the patio, deeper on the road outside as drains couldn't cope). Sadly not much in the way of lightning. All appears to have passed over now. Livened up a quiet sunday morning! As I type another flash and rumble has just happened, probably sensible to turn off the computer now!

Been sleety here on the Wirral all day, for a while had lovely big flakes, now still snowing but threatening to go sleety again. But whilst it's still sticking on the car there is still hope :-) Temp currently hovering around freezing.

Not such a good show on the Wirral toady (although I'm trying to monitor from an internal office!). It's just started raining, and we've had a few rumbles, the strike alert has gone off a few times but it seems quite random, from overhead to 48 miles. Still have high hopes though, cos I've got a banging headache which normally means something will happen!

At last - a storm here on the Wirral!!! The only complaint was not enough cg, I can't capture all that air to air stuff on video (don't like getting wet!). At least now I have the sound of a thunderstorm on the video to play back to remind myself as we hardly ever get storms here (they skirt round us with monotonous regularity, I blame those Welsh hills).

Just started raining and 3 rumbles of thunder (I'm currently on the Wirral). Very humid.

Lancelc1 - I'm about a mile away from you, and the strike alert is now showing hits at 0 - 6 miles, so here's hoping! (tried to PM you, but didn't work!)

Oh please, let it be heading this way!! I've been waiting for the last couple of hours (well, the last couple of days!) - yet again very muggy, strike alert beeping (although not as close now as it was at 20:30), I can't believe we've had nothing at all here yet! I've even got the usual pre-storm headache, so here's hoping!

Oooh, this is like slow torture!!! Met office put out a severe weather warning for here, pressure is dropping, strike alert is going off semi-regularly, but STILL no sign of anything interesting. I should have driven over to Manchester, you guys are having far more fun!!

I can't bear this any longer - the strikealert has been going off all day and there have been almost constant rumblings, but nothing has actually happened here on the Wirral! It's getting dark again and the rumbling is picking up a bit, but if this one goes past as well I'll get very cross!

Snowing when I got home from a party at 2am, and still snowing when I got up an hour ago! About 6 inches on the patio now. Must be the only time Ellesmere Port has looked attractive, when it's buried under snow!

Just started here on the Wirral!

Stubbette, I'm using my trusty Strike Alert lightining detector courtesy of the Net-weather store :-) I never leave home without it!