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  • Location: Irlam
  • Location: Irlam
Posted

Remember this day well. It was hot and sunny but it became cloudier to the west and then in the mid afternoon it went bang with a thunderstorm and temperatures dropped about 10C. It was a scorcher, a number of stations recorded maxima of 30C or over

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Posted
  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, Weather-history said:

20 years ago

 

I remember this well.  Was down in Brighton that weekend.  Can’t believe it’s 20 years ago!  Not a patch on last week’s heatwave......

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Posted
  • Location: chellaston, derby
  • Weather Preferences: The Actual Weather ..... not fantasy.
  • Location: chellaston, derby
Posted

47 years ago we enjoyed a tremendous thunderstorm.
a line of black clouds gradually drifted north from france, in a southeasterly surface breeze, hit our west first. i was between derby and nottingham.

Posted
  • Location: Sheffield
  • Weather Preferences: Sunny and dry, thunderstorms, mild temps (13-22°C).
  • Location: Sheffield
Posted (edited)

August 1999 - I was in France that summer, it was exceptionally stormy in France. 

Massive terrifying storm in the first week of August with intense close CG lightning and it sent a lightbulb flying out of a lamp and across the room. Big powercut affecting wide areas.

Edited by Thundershine
Posted
  • Location: Leeds
  • Weather Preferences: snow, heat, thunderstorms
  • Location: Leeds
Posted (edited)

Christ, I had just finished my first year of secondary school. I do remember it being quite hot - it was 31C in Leeds on both the 1st and 2nd.

After the first week, it was a fairly disappointing month.

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Posted
  • Location: Irlam
  • Location: Irlam
Posted

Can't believe it was 25 years ago.   If something synoptically  happened today, it probably ended up being a dud. That's how cynical I have become of thunder chances these days.

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Posted
  • Location: Hessle
  • Weather Preferences: Cold Snowy Winters, Hot Thundery Summers
  • Location: Hessle
Posted

Ahhh the old classic hotter then Ibiza headline when it got above 30C! I barely bat an eyelid when it gets above that now.

I vaguely remember the heat at the start of August being 10 at the time. Don't recall thunderstorms when it broke down however. 

Also went to Cumbria later that August during the week of the eclipse, it was mostly cloudy and cool but surprisingly not that wet.

Posted
  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
  • Location: Longden, Shropshire
Posted

Remember it well, was in Brighton that weekend.

Posted
  • Location: Edmonton Alberta(via Chelmsford, Exeter & Calgary)
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine and 15-25c
  • Location: Edmonton Alberta(via Chelmsford, Exeter & Calgary)
Posted

 Weather-history  i don't remember this at all do remember that phone though..was the first mobile phone i ever had 

Posted
  • Location: Hampshire
  • Weather Preferences: Warm-by-day sunny thundery summers , short cold snowy winters.
  • Location: Hampshire
Posted (edited)

Remember this one quite clearly.

One type of weather which seems rare in the UK is the kind of warm, slack conditions with lowish pressure which typified both 31 July 1999 and 1 August 1999.

On both days the southernmost counties of UK were sunny and humid with temps around 31C, but on both days you could see large Cbs some distance to the north indicating extensive thundery activity. We don't seem to get those conditions much at all, though if they do happen, May and early June seem to be favourite times.

The 2nd saw a more emphatic end to the fine conditions with a cold front producing general rain and a drop in temperature. Interesting that the forecast doesn't mention this and just talks of showers developing, despite the front showing on the chart.

Even still the next week saw something of a battleground with low pressure to the west and higher pressure to the east. Consequently the week produced an alternation of sunny and still rather warm days due to "extreme rPm" air which had been dried out via a track over France, and active frontal systems producing heavy rain. The 3rd, 5th and 7th were all dry and the 4th and 6th produced evening rain.

On the 8th there was a full-on breakdown and then for most of the rest of the month it was both unsettled and cool.

Interesting also to see that, even at the end of the 90s, Fahrenheit precede Celsius in the weather reports. This was not typical: I remember Celsius coming first in most reports around 20 years earlier in the early 80s.

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