South East & East Anglia Regional Weather Discussion 18/12/13

[Bluebreezer54]

Picking up quite a few sferics on my trusty old lightning detector.......it's a £3 fm/mw radio set on medium wave !!

[Tom Quintavalle]

Thought I heard a rumble of thunder, a few minutes ago, here in Chislehurst! 

 

Tom.

[Robbie Garrett]

Fork lightning here and heavy rain, some booming thunder. Wind picking up!! Very Summer esque...

[Sno' problem]

Some very impressive fork lightning for a few minutes, has slowed down a bit now, but plenty more rain to come looking at the radar, so let's hope for some more strikes eh?

 

Wahey!! My 2,000th post!! Nice weather for it!!

Edited December 19, 2013 by Sno' problem

[Mikel Nimbus]

Two big flashes and loud rumbles within about 3 minutes of each other. Got soaked getting off the bus.

[tadpole]

Thunder and lightening here too.

Hubby just called from a warehouse near Ikea croydon and said heavy hailstones there.

[john pike]

hail here as well

 

brief covering but cleared now

[Lauren]

Please, please let it come here *crosses fingers*

[tadpole]

Thunder, heavy rain and hail now.

[Nick F]

4 flashes and bangs so far here near Croydon, probably more active than any storms last summer!

[Tom Quintavalle]

More long, low growling-type thunder here!

 

Tom.

[john pike]

[john pike]

wow that was close

[chilly milly]

I want some!

[Tom Jarvis]

send some to mee pls lol

[nanu]

This is one of the best storms ive seen this year, sod summer storms.. happy xmas storms!!  its even got the cloud to ground lightning type as well, the ones that make you jump!!

 

Ive got got a xmas scene outside as well with hailstones have turned everything white

Edited December 19, 2013 by nanu

[Crepuscular Ray]

Wheeee - lightning on the way home, including a couple of spectacular CGs none too far away.

[blackprince]

Thunder and heavy rain in Docklands at the mo,keep missing seeing the lightning

[anything-but]

Came through that hailstorm around junction 6 on the M25 a little while ago,didn`t notice any lightning tho.

[john pike]

has 5 flashes and rumbles

 

cars are covered in hail

 

at least i have seen some of the white stuff now

[Jax]

We just had some rain here as the band passed through (not aware of any T&L), and now it has passed it seems a lot cooler.

 

No mention of it on Look East that I remember (was only half paying attention to it as was reading at the time).

[Great Plum]

Some pretty spectacular lightning and downpours here!

[HighPressure]

Came through that hailstorm around junction 6 on the M25 a little while ago,didn`t notice any lightning tho.

I am on jnc 5 and we have a light show to our north and hail to our west but it is calm and dry here. 

[JennyJane1]

This is one of the best storms ive seen this year, sod summer storms.. happy xmas storms!!  its even got the cloud to ground lightning type as well, the ones that make you jump!!

 

Ive got got a xmas scene outside as well with hailstones have turned everything white

WOW.calm here.

 

We discovered though that the pilot light on the gas is out so I guess it happened in the strong wind last night, its happened before when it was windy.

 

I've also just remembered that I asked Southernman to go and see if anything had happened at about 1am this morning, as Smokey and Benny woke up and started crying, they never do that as like all birds they sleep when its dark and wake up when its light.Southernman couldn't see anything wrong but I wonder if there was a particularly strong gust of wind which frightened them or something, and maybe that's what put the pilot light out.

[Jimmyh]

Hailing hard here