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    Storms and Convective discussion - May 2024

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    Hi @Supacell; I was based near Eastbourne for the entire duration of the storm, and like you I have around an hour and a half of video. I have also been disappointed with the appearance on camera and agree that there was a lot more activity than now appears on my screen. I think this is a technical issue to do with the camera sensors. You have to make a choice with a camera; it's either set to pick up the tiniest amount of light, when the image looks grainy and odd when edited such as the image here. This does actually show an illuminated cloud behind the trees which simply appeared as a dull flicker on the night to me watching but I had forgotten to turn a light off in the depths of the house and it's clearly shining into the garden - but completely invisible to me until I saw this image and turned it off. However, if there is a proper CG or even a cloud strike nearby then I would just have a completely white rectangle as the sensor would be overwhelmed. People want to capture those wonderful images of CG and so set cameras completely differently to to let much less light in. Once you do that, it becomes insensitive to these faint strokes that the eye still registers and so you get a distorted idea of the totality of the event. I was using two cameras and a smartphone in my attempts to bridge this gap.

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    Storms and Convective discussion - May 2024

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    @Flash bang flash bang etc (GREAT handle) there was a LOT of activity. I had a great view from the house (we are one street back from the sea) and the number of flashes for the two hours was stunning. I posted a brief clip (83 seconds) earlier, and I tried to count the flashes. I think it is 63. That's 1.3 a second and for the 75 minutes I was recording that was pretty much sustained. That's 5928 - not far off your estimate, but that's just my area - you suggested the storm lasted 3 hours so that is over 14,000. I did notice that I saw more flashes than seemed to be being recorded officially; Jo Farrow says that there were 8100 or so.

    @wimblettben - your activity has drifted over to Ireland.

    SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion - Dec 2023 on

    in SE, London and East Anglia Weather Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Summer tyre

    Hi @Tom Montalbano

    Thank you for your interesting and heartfelt posting. I think your counsellor may well be quite right. I have a list-making approach to these free floating anxieties, and it starts with asking what the worst thing is that could happen? Once you have understood what that may be, you develop a coping strategy for it. I do recognise that you have had some awful times, but many people have told me that they find it a valuable approach to phobias and anxieties.

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    Storms and Convective discussion - May 2024

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    Well, that was mega. @Daniel* - down here on the south coast we had over an hour of strikes (mostly C2C, I didn't see a single ground stroke but I have yet to review all the video) and it was at least a strike a second, and often 90 a minute. That's a phenomenal amount of energy and one of the most impressive storms I have witnessed in the UK. Only beaten by storms in places like Florida and the Mediterranean area in my experience, but even then the duration was extremely unusual.

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