coldfingers

Please let it come my way.

WOW. Just checked out the window. A beautiful fiery sunset with stormy red clouds. Not sure this a shepherds delight sunset, looks more like a saiors beware one! Haha, I see Callie beat me to it.

Oh dear, Just been checking the rainfal radar on http://www.raintoday.co.uk/ and it shows all the rainfall dissipating before it reaches Bognor. I sincerely hope that changes soon. I need that rain.

I could see it from my bedroom window if they hadn't built Butlins!

Ah, would love to be up there in a storm! What a view! Sadly hubby is the nervous type and thinks i am mad to love storms and violent weather.

Hi PB, I am doing fine thanks and hope you are too. Wont be long until we are back lampost watching eh? The sky is starting to turn darker to the Southwest so I am hoping for something good later. looks like a good storm heading toward St Malo at the moment so i am really hoping there will be no dissipation or direction change before it reaches me.

Hi Adi, Rare nowadays to get tidal flooding in Bognor as the prom was raised some years ago and also tons of shingle dumped on the lovely sandy beach! Not saying it can't happen but usually only happens in a southerly severe storm now and those are rare enough. Anyway here's hoping we both get to see some lightning tonight, Chichester is more likely than us to see it i reckon being closer to the Downs.

Harry you said "I'm sure I don't need to point out torrential rain + rock hard ground = high risk of flooding"" Happily living right on the coast here in Bognor it isn't a risk for us. So I can safely carry on wishing, also not quite so much risk for ther area on the coast perhaps as they have had a bit mor rain than Bognor recently. Here we miss most of it and even the band that gave us the earlier rain was much heavier either side of here.

Had a small amount of much needed rain here in the last 20 mins. I would be happy just to have some very heavy rain tonight as the ground is rock hard again at the moment.

Sounds like it could be fast moving do you reckon?

Ah sounds wonderful. *sigh*

Hiya SB. Here's hoping we get some. I have a headache now so who knows, later maybe.I had no idea it was forcast either, just checked in when I heard a couple of rumbles.Rain now much heavier but no lightning.

You have a chance, but just rain here currently.

Oh how I wish was under it! Instead it seems to be flirting with the coast here and looks to move ashore further west (OOPS meant East) around Worthing. It has just started raining now though so here's hoping. But not extremely heavy as in Brighton mentioned below, I reckon further east the better for this one.

Hello gotto, long time no 'see'. Still getting quiet rumbles here but you really have to listen hard to hear them now, so I am really hoping they move ashore soon as it seems they are getting further away by the sound of the thunder..

Here it is weird at the moment, light sunset to the north in a rapidly narrowing band as the sky clouds over. To the south an inky blackness on the horizon with a wall of grey clouds ahead of it. The strong breeze we had all day has dropped off and now just a very slight breeze stirring the trees. Just heard another very slight rumble. Much quieter than the first one though. Will let you know if anything develops here.

Just heard thunder rumbles so perhaps we will get a good storm. Keeping fingers crossed anyway.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023425/1980-UFO-Roswell-sighting-Suffolk-dismissed.html Any comments?

No problem with that this year PIT!!! None at all in my garden on the day in question. I am wondering if it is possible that many come out in a warm spell in February and maybe they laid eggs early and the eggs got eaten by birds that are still very hungry at that time of year? Just an uneducated guess. I wasted a lot of money this year planting flowers in my garden that butterlies are supposed to like! I have probably seen 6 in the garden all summer and they were mostly the dreaded white ones coming over the fence from the allotments.

Never felt a thing here either and we were possibly the nearest town. Mind you, I was asleep at the time.

Hmm, Daily Mail showing Bognor had a tornado yesterday, obviously a much smaller one than eleven years ago though as only one street appeared to be affected this time but the last one touched ground for around a mile. We are in an area for frequent tornados though, It stretches from the Isle of Wight to around Worthing area. The closer to the I.O.W though the more frequent the tornados. Selsey has had quite a few. I have only ever seen a small funnel reaching down from a storm cloud but it never completed contact with the ground but slowly retracted instead.

Hekla has unusual activity according to the volcanologists. This unusual activity is almost certainly the recent uplift on the GPS recording. This is likely to be evidence of magma movement., therefore an eruption is more likely than in recent months. Don't be made nervous by recent newspaper reports of historical devastating eruptions from this volcano. It is always possibly for a severe eruption but since the relatively recent series of eruptions on an approximate decade long cycle the eruptions have been of a VE3 size. The really severe eruptions from Hekla have all been when it hasn't erupted for 60 to 100+ years. So the next eruption, whenever it comes, (could be tomorrow, could be months or even years) is more likely to be between the level of the recent Grimsvotn eruption and the Eyafjatlajokul eruption of last year. Really no reason for panic I reckon.

Hooray, the storms have finally reached me!!!Woohoo, thunder, lightning and pouring rain with evening darkness. The whole hog in other words. Wonderful!!! Very frequent lightning and crashing thunder, this is more like it. Oh how I love those crackling, rolling thunderclaps!

Can everyone west of Bognor please blow hard. All the storms are missing me by about 5 miles, I hear the thunder but all we got is one very brief shower that just about laid the dust. Paths are now dry! Surely it could stretch just a little eastwards? For everyone getting these storms do enjoy, they are very persistent as it has been rumbling for well and hour and a half now.

A max of 26C today after a very cool start because of a lot of sea mist.. From 2:00am though the temp rose rapidly to a peak of 25.9C. Still at 20.5C with a high humidity of 70C. Phew, it is really going to be difficult to sleep tonight with a temperature of 26C indoors despite having all the windows wide open. For the coast here this is unusually high temperatures considering last week it was often a max of 16C.