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    I haven't heard or seen anything yet Shaky, whereabouts you in Leicester? I'm near Western Pub, Western Rd.... We have rain, and it smells right, but nowt anywhere near us on Blitzortung......
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    Line of storms now, Gloucester, Swindon & Andover, all look like they have small but firing cells over them at the moment 22:15
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    Nowt in Leicester, again...... Who fitted our storm shield, i've looked for one for years with no look....!!
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    Met Office now issued a weather wwarning for Midlands, and other north east areas, heavy thundery showers developing.... No mention of anything in Wales .........
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    Hi, thanks for input on this, I meant length as in time thunderclap is heard.. I remember a storm from when I was a kid, ever so weird thunder.. for the first half hour of the storm, I didn't see any lightning, there wasn't any visible, that's no reflection to the fact I was hiding under the bed!!!! At first, I didn't think it actually was thunder... Basically it was a succession of single bangs! Literally a single muffled bang, no rolling/echoing/rumbling etc, and then 1 to 2 mins later another bang, gradually getting louder until my mum rescued me from under the bed and I did see lightning, very quick lightning, and virtually simultaneous bang, very loud bang! These close bangs lasted around 15 mins and they moved further away, and receded in loudness again, but still no rumbling... Thinking about it now, we had large playing fields to the back of the house, I mean it took 10 mins to walk to any of their edges and beyond that in one direction were cornfields, and on another side were water sanitation lakes... Just wondered if it was the open spaces that caused the strange thunder sound now.....
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    Does the length of the lightning bolt effect the length of the thunderclap? I suppose that's difficult to calculate because of the succession of secondary rumbles....
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    Ah, ok, don't think I explained what I was getting at, let me try again.... In a normal storm situation, if it's say 4 miles away and produces a standard -CG then you could count to say 16 seconds before hearing that bolts thunder, yes? If that storm then chucks one of the +CG that travels 8 miles across before heading down so the ground strike is next to you, you would hear instant thunder, yes? Ok, if you are half way so 4 miles from its cloud and 4 miles from its strike point and the bolt has passed directly overhead, yes? Then the bolt superheats it's channel all the along, won't the section of the strike above you create thunder as well, so the 4 second per mile rule doesn't apply as every mile from the anvil/ cloud has some explosive air from the section of the bolt above.... Yes?
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    Thanks, very informative..... Now, does that mean that anyone under the length of that bolt, ie from where it left the anvil/cloud to the point if strike, lets say 7 miles away would here the thunder instantly as it would be directly over people for 7 miles, everyone underneath the bolt would not count past 1 second before they heard the thunder produced from the section of bolt above them, if so, that would be the thunderclap from hell, yes?
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    So, let me try and get this right, this final strike from the anvil, is usually the final strike from that storm? Sort of the last shell in a repeater air bomb, and its usually the loudest!! Perhaps it's what ever electrical charge left in the clould (battery) and has to recharge to a certain level before it can start discharging again, say 30/40 miles away or the cloud disintegrates..... I am sure I watched a prog on national geographical where a person was struck out of the blue from a storm 10 miles away, how would this strike be actuated? I was under the impression that their were leaders rising up from the ground that a stepped leader from the cloud would latch onto for the return power stroke, how/why would a strike decide to choose a leader so far from the cloud, unless it is the clouds last charge and it sends it out until it can't go any further and runs out of charge and connects with the ground almost where it falls....? If that made any sense, I know exactly what I was trying to say... (Normal lightning is the cloud dropping balls downwards out the cloud, the big one it throws it as far as it can sideways and falls, where it falls)
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    Hi, not aware of anything that close, i've lived here since 1993.. Do all lightning strikes hit something? Or can they just flash without any earthing, not Inc cloud to cloud?
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    Thanks chaps.... Just been on the interweb, and indeed there's lots of info on this, and as you say, difficult to tell the difference by human eye alone.... Reading about this subject has a strange effect on my fear of thunder/lightning, as well as understanding it better, it makes me more fearful of it!!! Doh!! Yet, excited about it.... I have over the last few years began to enjoy storms, as long as they are at what I class as a safe distance away, say visible as well as hearable, around 5+ miles away in the day.... When they start to get any closer than that I get all sweaty, jittery, and fearful... & I am compelled to get as safe as possible... Luckily I don't live on a hill!!! In fact we used to have a couple of tallish factories around 40 yards away and that sort of settled me down a bit, but they were demolished around 2years ago and nothing replaced them, eeeek! That sort of worried me as they were taller than my house and well, you know, felt they were a better target..rightly or wrongly.. Now someone is building student flats and there's a crane about 100 metres away and again I have a taller target around which makes me feel safer, is this the normal thoughts of someone scared of lightning/thunder??
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    How can you tell the difference between a +/- strike.....?
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    Think things are gonna swing by north of us in Leicester.... What's the farthest distance you can actually hear thunder from...? I know there's a few things that can modify the results, but what's the recognised maxima??
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    First pics ever taken, not a single comment.... Is there something wrong with the photos....? Or are they 10 a penny type photos..? If so, let me know and I won't take anymore like this .... Cheers Speedway Slider...
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    This cell has just brewed up and passed to my east before firing into action around Birstall, Loughborough I think, now showing several strikes now gone past the City of Leicester... Anyone underneath? Pics taken on my HTC one M7 phone..
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    Can someone point me to a website that has cloud formation/type so I can ID some stuff please??
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    Just had a look outside, rapid convection taking place looking east and west, can't see north or south, obscured by houses.... Leicester seems to be dodging the showers at the moment..
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    A use the Blitzortung lightning app, each strike is a small square, each square (they are called rastars apparently) has a number in it...... Anyone know what the numbers mean? Some squares have duplicated numbers as well??
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    Well, central Leicester had nowt overnight Friday and into Saturday, nowt Saturday day or evening, or overnight Saturday into Sunday, and nowt all day today or this evening!! Not a rumble or even distant brief little glow for a micro-second.... Anything heading my way at all or has someone paid to have the Leicester Storm Shield upgraded?!!!
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    Well, went to bed at 03:30, didn't drift off until 4ish, woke at 05:30, went loo, nothing happening (weather wise!!) Went back bed, woke again around 08:00, nothing happening, woke again at 09:30 got up, nowt happening, 10:40 heavy rain, no thunder, now 11:10, rain again, no thunder... The sky is solid with grey clag, must be the dead storms from down south.... temp reading 16.4C dropped half a degree in last 30 mins... Not looking good, which suits me just fine (central Leicester) How you coping this morning Gordon?
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    Going bed, looks like it's struggling with the channel, and somegoing to vear to Wales, other half gonna break right to Suffolk/Sussex..
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    Bifurcate??
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    What's the new net weather app for storms? Can't seem to find it on Google play store? Ta..
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    trouble is WG, that is exactly what we think is gonna happen, every time we hear even the most distant rumble of thunder, it's in our nature... Bit like being scared of spiders or clowns or, well, you get what we mean.....!
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