Storm Reports For 6th-10th May 2006

[Stuart]

Post any storm report here

[Thundery wintry showers]

Currently a very unexpected thunderstorm in Leeds- the heavens opened about 10 minutes ago and there has just been a big loud crack of thunder.

[Callie]

No thread for May 8th, so posting here, but woke at 5am to heavy rain and a rumble of thunder.

Callie

[SP1986]

storm report for early hours (6.30am) on the 8th May - there was just a few flashes of lightning and a rumble of thunder just to the north of here

[DB]

Distant crackle of thunder 05-50am, this morning 8/5/06 Uxbridge Middlesex area. The rain area was just moving in.

Moderator, please set up a 8th May 2006 thread & move as needed.

Edited May 8, 2006 by DB

[Ross B]

Sorry but more thunder and lightning <_<

[Guest Mr_S]

Basically the same as marks report but IC pics as proof - Sorry for the Quality

[ilsewin]

Storm here right now, been going for about 5 mins.

[Matt B]

Thunder and lightning reported in my home town of Reading, Berkshire by my good lady !

[watcheroftheskies]

Spots of rain here and gone very dark. Rumbles of thunder in the east.

Looks like the massive cell that has popped up out of nowhere along the M4 corridor is about to hit us!

Has been upto 22.3C here this afternoon, currently 19.2C

[justinflavin]

very ominous clouds to the north of where i am (basingstoke).

no thunder or rain to report yet.

[I can't believe it's not better]

Regular lightning all around, with moderate rain.

[Tim]

It's a nice storm but I'm a bit dissapointed with the rain so far

[rig69]

Some rumbles of thunder in the distance, and sky looking very ominous here in Caldicot. This looks huge.

[wallopweather]

thunder and lightning Middle Wallop hants. no rain yet

[A Gower Guy]

Thunder heard,

Edited May 10, 2006 by button-wales

[tinybill]

http://www.upminsterweather.co.uk/test/live_lightning.htm

http://www.isleofwightweather.co.uk/live_storm_data.htm

huge storms in thesouth east

Edited May 10, 2006 by tinybill

[J10]

A bit of thunder here and the clouds are very dark.

[Jackfrost]

Had a few tremendous claps of thunder in the past 2 hours, one piece of fork lightning but the rest was just sheet, did cause the lights to fail for a minute or so though! More coming now, looks to be the main storm.

[Lorraine]

had around 4 hours of thunder and lightning so far and still going strong now...yipppeeee

dare i say its better than sex!!!!!

[Cakie]

had around 4 hours of thunder and lightning so far and still going strong now...yipppeeee

dare i say its better than sex!!!!! :blush: :blush:

Careful now :unsure: It was good but .......

Rumbles for over 1.5 hours then a few good strikes of lightening and some thunder

More flashes of lightening recently

Edited May 10, 2006 by Katie Loo

[stratty]

Stormy evening! Such a brilliant sunny day, suddenly turned into a brilliant stormy evening around 6pm - the works!

[Somerset Squall]

A few flashes of lightning and low rumbles of thunder in the last 15 mins, with a little bit of rain.

[Andy Bown]

Unlike my earlier waffle in the general storm discussion, here is a concise report for this evening.

18.30 was the start of action with cloud thickening from the NE, as I drove a few miles E it became dark with low rolling cloud that lifted into Mammatus & Alt Cas, I saw lightning approx 5 miles away.

Several storms seemed to affect the village I was in (Bratton) with intermittent thunder and quite frequent orange CC & IC lightning - some of it overhead but without rain. It was high based cloud.

That storm cleared about 20.00 and it was quiet for about an hour until flashes appeared over Salisbury Plain around 21.00. These happened approx every 2/3 minutes until 22.00 and then sparingly (but spectacularly with a reasonably close strike) until 22.30. Nothing since then.

Very little rain here, no measurement will be taken until the morning as it's still raining now.

[J10]

A Decent Storm here tonight with the first thunderclaps around 8, and lightning before 9, it lasted until about 11, but it seems all clear now.

As Jackfrost says some of the lightning tonight was very impressive.