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Taking my family to Hisaronu on may the 7th for a 2 week break,, it;s basicly in Olu Deniz/Turkey.. Whats the usual weather there for this time of year???? I'm hoping for sunshine,,,obviously,, but a friend of mine said there were a few thunderstorms there, this time last year when he went. Either way would be good... Idealy with the storms,

You are right, Thunder city- Cape town have had to stop operating their Lightnings/ buccaneers and Hunters due to lack of funds, which is a huge shame. Probably the only left oppurtunity to see Lightnings or Buccs in the world. We do still have the Vulcan though, which is something to be gratefull for, along with several Hunters,,, at least for now anyway. Did you ever see that taxi run at Bruntingthorpe of the Victor which ended up turning into an aborted landing after taking offf by accident, It's on the youtube channel... AMAZING

Hope your right with the somerset prediction, not had a storm her since 2009. Definately be keeping an eye on this. Will the chance be greater in the afternoon/evening?

Lens used was Sigma 50-500mm

No storms for Bridgwater this year yet, can't imagine going all year without one though. Fingers crossed for August being a more active month for my area

Not sure how many are unusable, but i'll still keep em. Sometimes if a image is no good it may still look good if you convert it to black n white. Got quite a few shots of the Lancaster and also the messerschmitts in formation with the spits, its just finding the time to sort through them all. Yeoviltons good if you view the show from outside the airfield. If you go on base your shooting into the sun all day, making it hard to get a good exposure

Thanks Pat, I seem to get lucky with the weather at Fairford, been going on the Saturday every year since 2000 and always had sun, except for 2008 obviously. I have more but need to sort through them. I took 2300 shots throughout the day, but many of them are not usable.Cheers Paul

Thanks for the comments, I use a Canon digital slr with a Sigma 50-500mm lens, its a fairly good lens as long as you have sunshine, other wise it struggles to focus

Taken on the Saturday. Another successfull year for the RIAT organisers. Roll on next year B52 Vulcan ready for takeoff with B52 in the background Dutch F16 Lakenheath based F15c takeoff Patrouille de france with their Alpha jets C17 Globemaster A rare display by the RAF Harrier GR9 Battle of britains Lancaster bomber Star of the show for many, the F22 Raptor F/A-18F Super Hornet RAF Tornado GR4 Spitfire and Eurofighter Typhoon Red arrows Spitfire LF1Xc

Here are the non F16 shots I took on the 9th of July French Alpha jet German air force Phantom Royal navy Lynx with waving gunner Yeovilton based Sea kings with underslung loads RAF Harrier T10 RAF Tucano German navy Lynx

Just had a very heavy shower here, which would of come from the red blob over somerset on the radar. No thunder yet today but showers have been coming over here all day with more very dark clouds approaching from the south west

Quick question. Is there any risk of storms breaking out across somerset, or the surrounding area?

A thundery feel to the weather here today, but i'm a little too far south by the sounds of it?

Nice photos, quite rare to get a thunderstorm in Egypt. Good videos also. Can't wait for this years storms

more snow now than rain and quite heavy aswell

some light rain here with flakes of snow mixed in, so sleet realy

snowing here lightly at the moment

This could of been your shower this morning Michael, Taken just after 10:00 this morning looking north towards bristol It may have been a bit south for it to have been your shower, but it was taken around that time

Yeah those fireworks make hard work for lightning spotting. Had acouple of looks out the window,plenty of flashes going off but not lightning sadly. Heavy showers very close according to the met office radar,but no rain yet

Some fierce looking weather in southern Ireland at the moment, will this affect the west country later or will it be further north. I can't realy make out any movement

I'd be interested to see any more you get in the future, nice shots

Thats one of the royal navy aircraft carriers. So thats a royal navy seaking. You can see the radar hanging down off of the aircraft,also a couple of harriers aboard. Interesting photos, got any more?

some heavy showers moving up over devon and cornwall now

Heavy shower here about 30 minutes ago. Is there much chance of thunder today as there are some very dark clouds here in somerset