El Gordo! - Spanish Plume Thunderstorm Discussion 5

[andy_leics22]

Yep

Screwed over by all 5 Models which showed the Cold Front cleared and gone by 12 Noon today

So we had to alert the BBC With 48 hours notice (Eg Saturday or Sunday for Monday or Tuesday) and everything even on Sunday night was pointing towards Monday being the Day!

Kids from school today so no chasing for me - Seen enough this year anyway

The Weather does us again!

Anyone watching Wimbledon? Hear that thunder a minute ago?! Sounded like a bomb had gone off haha.

[badwind]

mmm yum yum second helpings!!

[Guest Quantumsnow]

What the???! On lunch break sat in car, just looked at the radar, wow! Very humid here and clouds darkening. AHHHH come on storms!

[newben]

Just watching Wimbledon and there was a massive rumble of thunder half way through the point and the players just stopped.

[john w]

Well heard the first rumble at long last, next 30 mins I think will be the best to date...eeerily black sky now

[Calamity James]

If you live in Suffolk or anywhere else for that matter that has a lot of overhead power cables rather than underground ducted cables then lightning will often cause lights to dip and surges/millisecond power cuts that will make your pc turn off. If your pc turns off unexpectedly and without following the shut down procedure then you run the risk of damaging your hard drive and/or losing data. The bit about windows was with reference to it being an often unstable and unreliable o/s without added complications. Hope that clears things up for you.

That does make more sense, we're all underground cables down here. Having said that, I've had to rip the power cable out of plenty of PCs and I very rarely encounter data loss, usually only if data in the delayed write cache hasn't been written yet.

If you do experience that many power cuts it might be prudent to invest in a cheap UPS.

[95 Degrees]

Cell just exploded in the channel, all it needs to do is keep heading slight NE and surely its enough! please be enough

[icbinb]

Wahey! We have action here!

[Katherine Birkett]

Oh, and the sun's trying to come out here in Boston. Well, thankyou. Thankyou sooooo bloody much..... NOT!

[paul m]

As promised here is a cg from last nights elevated storms.

Got hd video of it all last night so will post a link later tonight.

Superb well done

Edited June 28, 2011 by paul m

[whatever1]

Been thundering for an hour now in Cambridge, getting darker and louder, but still very little rain....

[West Sussex Kate]

Really cold air blowing in, nice after all this heat!!

[ZONE 51]

Yep second one rolling in now!..

yeah all eased at the mo..had first pulse from 12.30 .second around 1..

checking radar the cold front line is incredible, look at the temperature ahead and behind it..cold and hot air battle it out!...oooh here comes the 3rd!!

[Neilsouth]

It's going to kick off big time in east kent

[loopydreamer]

Cell just exploded in the channel, all it needs to do is keep heading slight NE and surely its enough! please be enough

yay!!! i mentioned those little blobs a few pages back and they have exploded!! its game on!!!!

[lettice]

Thunder here in Gosport

Got very dark here and a few rumbles just after 1pm

About 0.4mm rain so far, a glimpse of sun coming through now

[95 Degrees]

Really cold air blowing in, nice after all this heat!!

That'll be the approaching cold front, still feels like a warm breeze but very dark now

[newben]

I finally hear some distant rumbles (Reigate Surrey)and its going very dark with a strong breeze picking up and as I type the first proper thunder overhead.

[Polar Bear]

Hey all think it is about to kick off here in Reading - I am sure there was a rumble and a flash! can anyone else comfirm. Very wodnerfully dark and mysteroius!

[Lauren]

Oh come on!

[coldfingers]

Can everyone west of Bognor please blow hard. All the storms are missing me by about 5 miles, I hear the thunder but all we got is one very brief shower that just about laid the dust. Paths are now dry! Surely it could stretch just a little eastwards? For everyone getting these storms do enjoy, they are very persistent as it has been rumbling for well and hour and a half now.

[Craigers]

Superb well done

cheers mate. I will have the rest posted tonight on this thread with the video

[Neilsouth]

BOOM , keep hearing booms :drinks:

[Purplepixii]

Bah it's all stopped here. Didn't see much in the way of lightning despite standing outside to watch for it (neighbours must think I am barking mad lol). I kinda get the feeling it passed to the east of me and judging by the tracker that seems to back it up. Ahh well, a little bit was nice, but would like some more please!

Have noticed that Wimbledon keeps dropping out to a black screen - don't know if that's a Sky problem or problems transmitting there?

[simonperkins]

I finally hear some distant rumbles (Reigate Surrey)and its going very dark with a strong breeze picking up and as I type the first proper thunder overhead.

Very cool breeze too, looks very dark to the south west now!