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I wasn't expecting a storm here today, and I'm happy it remained mainly off the coast! We've had rain here solidly now since 10pm. Had a fair amount of thunder and lightning, which lasted around an hour. Some of the strikes were fairly close, but not very loud at all.

Getting the odd rumble of thunder. Not sure whether it's going away or coming closer with another shower.

We did have a thunderstorm last night, and fortunately I slept through it! I was told the worst part of it was the torrential rain. In fact the rain seems to have woken more people up last night than the thunder did. It also managed to set off the burglar alarm at work.

Just had another between 10:00 and 10:25, and it dropped a fair bit of snow. Thunder every 3 minutes with bright lightning.

No snow, but we had a fairly mild storm here starting at 7:10 and (I assume, as it hasn't thundered for a while now) ending at 7:40 with the weirdest sounding thunder I have ever heard. I could literally hear the electricity!

Just had a very heavy shower here with one distant boom of thunder. Came out of the blue and stopped almost as soon as it had started.

Just woken up by a loud crash about 20 mins ago. Raining hard now, but was monsoon-like a while ago. Is it me or does it seem like all the stuff from France is heading my way? I was sure it was supposed to be heading further east by now?

Just had thunderstorm move through quite close to my town. Wasn't too intense, although I'm glad I wasn't directly under it. Strikes quite far apart and oddly our lights didn't even flicker, so it made me wonder whether it produced mostly IC? Stopped raining now, but from the look of the rainfall radar looks like we're in for some more shortly.

Heard two rumbles or rather two bangs. Would say it's quite some way away. Raining here and feeling cool now.

Thanks for the answer! :blush: That's what I thought, but just wanted to make sure it wasn't a dead cert. Guess just wait and watch...

Sorry for asking - just one question, I promise :blush: I've been all over the net trying to find out what's happening, and I know how hard these things are to predict, but could anyone give me an idea on my chances? I'm a bit of a brontophobe so if there's any chance of far south-west missing the main band from France I'll be a happy bunny! If we do get any I'm guessing they won't be as intense as those that may occur further up the westcountry?

Can see a small anvil when I go out into the back garden. Mostly sunny here, but it looks on the radar as if far south-west is becoming active. Praying we miss it here :lol: I'm guessing any storms we get here won't be very intense?

Apologies if there is already a current storm thread! We had a very small storm pass over us about half an hour ago. Three rumbles and one flash of lightning.

Just had a very heavy shower with one very long, quite loud, rumble of thunder. Scared me half to death! Wasn't expecting it in November!

We've had three to four rumbles so far from a storm cloud right above us. It's quite weak as far as I can tell, but it could be that it's just getting started?

A friend of mine has just told me that they had a storm in Holsworthy near Bude at around 11am which lasted about half an hour. He said the thunder was the loudest he'd ever heard, but the lightning was mostly CC. A river broke its banks and the town was closed off in the afternoon so the fire brigade could pump the water out.

We had a small storm here at around 2pm. It produced maybe 5 flashes with fairly loud thunder. It was on a par with the last one, I'd say.

Appears I do not know what day of the month it is, and rather stupidly posted in the old thread by mistake My apologies! Anyway, shall repost report here: Had around 6 flashes of lightning, which started around 4am. Some were very frequent, but I wouldn't call it particularly powerful. It was quite distant, and I could still see flashes with no thunder until 5:45 or thereabouts.

Had around 6 flashes of lightning here, which started about an hour ago. Some were very frequent, but I wouldn't call it particularly powerful. It was quite distant, and I can still see flashes, so it's still active, unless there's another cell moving through somewhere. The rain that accompanied it was torrential!

A friend in Bude has just told me that they've had quite a violent storm there.

My mum often gets a headache before a storm occurs. She seems to be able to feel more when it is close and muggy. I really can't tell at all.

Nice documentary, but still not convincing. Darwinian evolution may have some flaws (still yet to be found), but it is still way more convincing than intelligent design. Having an alternative to evolution may not be a bad thing, but surely we are past "the guy upstairs made it all happen" stage? Not to mention the threat that intelligent design poses on education - most notably overseas in the US - where the flagellum "debate" became a legal battle (but possibly a problem for us too after hearing that Blair spent his traveling time reading religious literature, and not political reports, which I am sure required his attention more urgently), plus the aspect that it would render all subsequent scientific investigation obsolete because apparently the answer would already be there - God did it all. Sounds a little too convenient, and too much of a cop-out to me. I like the fact that the big questions still haven't been answered. Why should every hole be filled with God? And where would it leave those of us who do not believe in a Higher Being?

Can report two thunderstorms - the first beginning at 2:00, and the second about 10 mins after the first one stopped suddenly (about 2:25 around about). First one was closer and made a few not very loud bangs maybe about a mile or two away (although I would certainly not have wanted to have been underneath it at the time!!), and the second was was distant and interfered with the electricity. The second had vivid lightning, despite the fact that I couldn't even hear it most of the time. I remember hearing about high-altitude thunderstorms (from this forum), and even seeing one above my house last year. At the time the second storm struck we had an absolute deluge of rain, very vivid lightning, but as I said, no thunder most of the time, so could it have been really high up but still local to me? Excuse me if this sounds like crap - I am still very shaky from the remnants of the last one (and maybe another one moving in?)so it is all making me go a little odd in the head (heh, if I wasn't already!)... Just to add - can hear another one in the distance - guessing it is the storm moving just beyond the coastline?

Convection picking up here. I can actually witness it as it is happening! Looks like the cloud tops are unravelling before my eyes! Got some okayish pics. They're not great, but considering only an hour ago there was really no convection in sight, I think it must be a definite sign that conditions are shifting here. They also remind me a little of the beginning of The Neverending Story (ahem...or not, as the case may be):

Would you like to do a swap? :lol: We've had a surprisingly active year so far. So much for the one gentle storm a year! Looks like a dead cert for tonight and tomorrow for southern Cornwall! And the clouds are already starting to head upwards, whereas earlier they were as flat as a pancake. Less haze and murkiness though...