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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.
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CF.. Wonderful. Oh yes to the lampost watching and I will be with you all.
Just caught the Channel Four news weather, details widespread rain particularly for the south east with some localised flooding. temps arounf 15 degress and feelling muggy. Muggy is good. Looks like you are in the firing line and maybe worth a pop out to seafront now to see what is out to the horizon?
PB x
I could see it from my bedroom window if they hadn't built Butlins!
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Well if we get anything we will both see it but me being closer to the downs encourages me to get up on the hill. Arrangements have just been made that if anything happens a couple of us are going to meet up on Portsdown hill.
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.
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Hello CF!
Was going to pop home to Chichester today and Bognor but other things took over....how are you my friend. GTLW told me you were on here and to get on the thread. Hope this finds you very well and happy.
Hmm I think Chichester may do but am pretty sure you will have some good old thunder and lighnting..
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.
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Providing the tide is not in and its a high tide, I have seen Flooding in Bognor in the past.
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.
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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.
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Well it deffo ain't decent. It's gone all quiet again. Bout 5 flashes and same rumbles or so. 1 very close - 1 bang over head - rest distant..
Sounds like it could be fast moving do you reckon?
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Surreal here is all I can say.
Clear skies overhead with Persoids shooting across the sky from NW To SW - A Setting Moon in the Southern Sky with flashing Lightning further to the South :lol: :lol:
Dreamland surely
Paul S
Ah sounds wonderful. *sigh*
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Why hello! I haven't even been tracking this or knew it was forecast! I think I heard some distant rumbles so on went the strike alert and its going mad then stops lol. I saw the radar and wondered if it was storms. T'will it be my luck night ...
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.
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I do hope I see something XD !!!
You have a chance, but just rain here currently.
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Hello CF.
You are currently under one of the more explosives cells down south. Another is slowly tracking inland NNE'wards possibly towards Fordingbridge and maybe Winchester eventually (heads up slb97) Also Plymouth area is also in line for something good.
It's going to be a long night yet!
Cheers
gottolovethisweather
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.
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The south coast is certainly the place to be tonight.
Good Luck you coastal folk.I'm personally hoping the electrified cell near the ringwood area of the New Forest can start heading NNE-wards towards me in central southern england, please!
Can't get too greedy as I have had 5 thunderclaps already today.
Good Luck all.
gottolovethisweather
Edit: Isle of Wight Weather website is tracking 3 different Thunderstorms as of 9.15pm
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..
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I can see anvil topped towering cumulus or CBs to my south, is that what you've got?? I've got literally a wall of it (or something)
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.
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Ah bugger, but we can still get some storms looking at that lot out in the Channel! My estimate is it will hit either at 2130z or 2200z (2230L - 2300L)?
Just heard thunder rumbles so perhaps we will get a good storm. Keeping fingers crossed anyway.
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Of course there's one problem with this counting. How do you know you're not counting the same one twice???
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.
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Possibly, but not fires!
http://www.bbc.co.uk...ngland-14153116
Have to say I felt nothing here at work at 8am
Never felt a thing here either and we were possibly the nearest town. Mind you, I was asleep at the time.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Hmmmm. Katla seems to be very slow and steady if she is heading for an eruption soon. Another 1.7 quake not too long ago and too deep to be ice collapse. Still worth keeping an eye on I reckon as it looked like it had another harmonic spike on the tremor chart today. Not sure though as I am no expert of course
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.
Good Luck you coastal folk.
22nd into 23rd Aug 2011 - Storm/convective Forecast Discussion And Reports
in Storms & Severe Weather
Posted · Edited by coldfingers
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.