Storm Reports - 30th May 2005

[SizzlingHeat]

Thunder and lightning now being seen and heard in SW london. Pictures to follow.

[Roo]

Thunder and lightning in St. Albans......

[nanu]

Thunderstorm Developing right above me 3 crashes of thunder so far

[snow raven]

storm developing in Bexleyheath. Large storm cloud, had a couple of rumbles of thunder so far......

Edit: Storm didnt really come to much. No lightening and a bit of fine rain. Around 4 rumbles of thunder all together and it seems to be passing now.

Edited May 30, 2005 by snow raven

[Callie]

The skies to the west are very dark and the sound of thunder is getting louder!

Callie

[matty8]

3 Claps of thunder, torrential rain and a large, possibly damaging, tornado here in Soham (South Eastern Cambridgeshire). It was very stormy indeed with large pea sized hail smashing down, looked like the storms they get in Texas . Vue pictures in storms and extreme weather section..

Matt !!

[Guest Mr_S]

3 Rumbles of thunder so far.... 10mins, now brightening up again

Fun while it lasted lol

Edit: jus as i send this.... now 4! make up ya mind lol

Edited May 30, 2005 by Mr_S

[Kent Snow]

Thunder, Lightning and moderate rain currently.

[WBSH]

Just heard an amazing series of thunder and lightening. Each about a few minutes apart, been raining heavily as well...

WBSH

[rob-lancs]

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13360952,00.html

[Ditzy]

3 Claps of thunder, torrential rain and a large, possibly damaging, tornado here in Soham (South Eastern Cambridgeshire). It was very stormy indeed with large pea sized hail smashing down, looked like the storms they get in Texas  . Vue pictures in storms and extreme weather section..

Matt      !!

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OMG tornados?? I'm in cambridge, must have slept through all the fun bits. But its starting to get very black now....

[Casper]

I can confirm a storm over Croydon (south London) around 12.15, lightening and torrential rain.Only visiting the reltives

[Michael Fishermans Friend]

A storm here at around 1.30pm but no lightning, several crashes of thunder with moderate to heavy rain for nearly half an hour!

[canadian snowchaser]

was a big storm in colchester earlier, lots of loud thunder and torrential rain/hail

[PB22]

A heavy shower this evening around 6pm gave a rumble of thunder.

[Tom D]

My only storm this year was a whi9le back and i cant remember the date, but it was very small with 3 rumbles of thunder.

I'm just thinking whether there was any more - cant think of any..............

oh yes, late at night back in april, 4 big rumbles or something like that....

been fairly quiet in storm terms however we have missed about 10 which have travelled just to the north/west/east/south of us!!!

i'm in Ware, Herts by the way.

[Paul Sherman]

2 Storms from yesterday, the 1st at about 1245pm with a Thunderbolt which must have been close, lightning and instant thunder which shook the house, 2nd storm at about 4pm with a few crashes of thunder. Screwed the BBQ Up just a tad!!

Paul Sherman

[fullerphotos]

Yes like to verify Paul's assertion there. A thunderbolt in the direction of Hockley Woods in the storm circa 13.00 whilst I was in Rayleigh and then another storm at about 16.15 with cg observed over Southend.