Storm Reports 31 July - 3rd Aug

[SnowBear]

An unexpected down pour this morning with thunder.

The storm built over this area, started of really close/muggy ( and still is). Some very high based darker clouds built over Colchester, and then thunder from what I would call an elevated storm began. As time went on it began raining, heavier and heavier until we had a veritable monsoon! Thunder was never storm level, more like thundery rain, but the rain was warm, almost tropical.

[Thundery wintry showers]

Isolated storm cell passed to the east of Norwich just ten minutes ago, with thunder every 2-3 minutes or so, about 5 flashes of lightning and 10 rumbles of thunder.

[maidstone weather]

1 lour rumble and bright flash of lightning around 10.05pm, completely unexpected and out of the blue! No rain, nothing on the radar and nothing since

[Delta76]

about 5-6 flashes including a CG strike just gone through here with torrential rain.

[stormchaser1]

THUNDER AND LIGHTNING HERE in the North East

started at 0300hrs this morning , a few rumbles then stopped , its just strated again

its hammering down of rain outside

nigel

[NL]

A couple strikes directly above South Shields @5am, bright pink lightning,

loud lingering thunder, not very active but a Ts nevertheless.

[Geordiesnow]

2 embedded storms(maybe 3) last night at around 3AM and 4:15AM and the 3rd possible storm at between 5-5:30, lightning was infrequent but counted 20 flashes, still pleased and glad i stayed up to capture this rare sighting.

[multi cellular thunderstorm]

2 storms here, first about 2:30, next about 4:30. Saw plenty of flashes (by North East standards anyway), about 20. A lot of deep thunder but not never very loud.

[snow_mad_09]

i was out on a night out in town , stumbled out of the nightclub at 2:30 a.m and it was pretty calm all of sudden its start lashing it down and lots of flashes of lighting , less lightning was about away from the city centre

[ballybabe12]

After 24 hours of very heavy rain I can happily report a thunder storm over east Belfast. Not raining as yet but have had three very loud deep rumbles no visible lightning.

[AGOH]

Yes, at long last ballybabe12, some thunder for Belfast! Only heard 3 or 4 rumbles but it's better than nothing! The rain has been torrential and the sky is incredibly dark and angry looking.

[snow_mad_09]

a lot of thunder and lightning here in newcastle, twice in two days now thats a first.

[NL]

Now thats what i call a storm, frequent lightning, loud rolling thunder,

hail and huge raindrops!! Moving off into the north sea.

[Mesosphere]

a very nice storm here in the last hour

loads of thunder , quite a bit of lightning , and heavy rain

I aslo saw a huge flash of fork lightning to my NE at around 12.50pm

it's still quietly rumbling away into the north sea

all in all a fantastic storm!

[Rollo]

A fairly strong storm cell move over me whilst on the golf course at around 11 am this morning with many rumbles of thunder and several lightning stikes to my South East. The main concentration of the storm was around Cramlington which is about 7 miles from Ponteland and if anyone was in that vicinity at the time mention I would like to hear their report.

[stormchaser1]

Evening MIKE

Im sure the cell moved through my area at around 1130 this morning, Hail stones bouncing off the road, heavy rain , worse ive seen for a long time, quite a few rumbles of thunder,

between 1137 and 1139 3.6mm rain accumulated , so im assuming with this amount of precipitation in such a short time the cell went directly over me

nigel

[stormchaser1]

Mike

also during this period ive just been checking the temeprature

1136- 18.2c

1137= 17.8c

1148= 15.7c

1214= 15.0c

1308= 16.4c

NIGEL

[stormchaser1]

SATURDAYS STOM PASSING OVER

[g7tfl]

Heavy shower just crossed wisbech, cambs ... dumping 13mm of rain between 1600 and 1630hrs!!

Three flashes of lightning, one was seen to be cloud to ground.

.... Then a call from my works alarm receiving centre, one activation ... keyholder response required.

It was nothing more than water running down the wall in front of a dual-technolegy pir.

Edited August 3, 2008 by G7TFL

[Greeny]

Well about an hour ago to my surprise, heard thunder in the distance and when I looked outside I could see the rain to the nw from my northerly view. Distant rumbles heard for 3/4 to 1 hour every on average 4 minutes. No lightning seen or even flashes. Rain moderate to heavy at best. Now stopped and everything is brightening up.

From Sheringham (north norfolk coast)

[Rollo]

A fairly strong storm cell move over me whilst on the golf course at around 11 am this morning with many rumbles of thunder and several lightning stikes to my South East. The main concentration of the storm was around Cramlington which is about 7 miles from Ponteland and if anyone was in that vicinity at the time mention I would like to hear their report.

Just as a rider to the above,at Arcot Hall GC which is adjacent to Cramlington 2 of my old buddies were struck by lightning while standing under a tree-however I believe they are both ok after being checked out at hospital.

[Callie]

Most reports on the extreme weather thread, but just to say huge storm over Eastbourne last night from about 10.30pm to midnight and still rumbling on in the distance after that.

Callie

[Kent Snow]

Thunderstorm last night from 11PM onwards. Lots of thunder and lightning.

[Merlin.huff]

Heavy rain and rumbles of thunder in Lowestoft now. Not as good as last night

[sunny scunny]

A thunderstorm here now with torrential rain.