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I was a student in Birmingham at the time and we were at a house party all night before dossing down on sofas etc. it was a warm balmy night but I do remember some big storms arriving in the early hours. The following day was cooler but quite dull and muggy before sunnier and fresher conditions moved in two days later.
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Here in Leicester I remember the following biggies:
4th June 1982 - massive storm from around 7pm until well after 10pm
18th August, 1996 - shotgun blast of thunder around 9pm followed by an hour of the most intense rainfall I have ever seen. 3ft floods in the street.
28th June, 2012 - lunchtime, barrage of the loudest thunder I have heard, followed by an intense storm and what appeared to be a tornado going through my garden. Similar to storms I have seen in Florida and videos from Kansas.
2019 was the worst - absolutely zero activity wherever I was.
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How far away can you actually observe lightning?
in Spring Weather Discussion
Posted · Edited by AndrewJM70
I was the poster on the other forum which the OP mentions in the first post and I can confirm that I did indeed see lightning located somewhere near Eindhoven, around 150 miles away from our location near Stowmarket in Suffolk.
if anyone has access to historic sferic data, I think I remember the date as Friday August 21st, 2009 and the time was around 2330 BST.
We were staying in a cottage in a small village and walking back from a pub in the next village along a deserted country lane. There was near zero light pollution and the sky in our area was crystal clear so conditions were perfect for seeing distant storms.
I looked up the location later and the closest storms were over Eastern Holland. The flashes were fairly faint but there was no doubt they were lightning.