SATURDAY 7TH THUNDERSTORM

[stevestorms]

Im a bit late with this one, months and months have gone past and I have seen nothing well one distant flash! Saturday afternoon and into the evening was agood chance of something but as it approached from the NW it came as one quick flash to far off for me to hear then a load of rain and small hail--------------------later that very night!-------------------04:45

Asleep in my bed I was :shock: whats that my wife nugged me ha ha no not that whats that flashing ???? as I opened my eyes FLASH---- :shock: i WAS IN ME CAR AND DOWN THE ROAD IN 3 MINS i COULDNT SEE A THING! it was like a blizzard of hail and snow few more big flashes and crashes found myself a nice lay by and parked up, staring through my window screen my eyes were nearly fried! brillant bright flash big BIG CG couple of hundred yards in front of me KERRRRRRRRRRRRBANNNG! OHCH MY BLEEDING EARS! it lasted for around 20mins start to finish as it moved quickly to the east and died, the info I found is that the cell grew and died very quickly over the Long Stratton area in south Norfolk---lucky me ---again :lol: but the best thing is that is my first CG in snow

[Ross B]

sounds amazing steve :lol: , i have never had snow with thunder and lightning :cry:

[Tim B]

There was some thunder and lightning in manchester where I was staying on saturday evening.

[stevestorms]

Yes Tim I see that on Radar, I thought it was the same area you had but it wasn't, it developed over the lincolnshire area and moved down just west of the wash and into Norfolk, I have since heard that there was an RTA just south of my position due to the roads suddenly becoming covered in ice and snow with no salt on the roads, it was very unexpected,

Im really glad I got my butt out of bed and went to have a look, My mate is building a Barn Conversion and he and his family are living in a caravan on site in my area, he said he was actually quite scared as the gust front from this Storm was quite something and the noise of the hail on his caravan----well! you can only imagine :shock:

[Guest ChaserUK]

Sorry I missed your report until just now Steve - sounds dramatic! I have seen lightning in snow once. Well I am not sure if it was snow but more soft hail - it looked like big balls of polystyrene which gave a fantastic covering within minutes. Anyway, lets hope this forum gets filled with more reports like this (perhaps without snow) in 2004.

[stevestorms]

YOU BET MATT! With at least 5 main groups leaving the UK in May for the Alley some of us should see something, I hear there is a Torro meeting 20th March that might be worth a look with Isabel being one of the features/talks---one of your mates?? if I can get the night off I might go :lol: