Storm risk - Monday 9th May onwards

[Harry]

OMG...it's fair to say we just core punched!!! Deafening noise, roads flooded in seconds and an extremely close bright CG as I type...this has been worth it already and I'm still in the car (just passed Ashford)

[Delka]

What's the chances of Norfolk getting any action this weekend?

[carl1980]

36 minutes ago, IanR said:

going dark to my south , sure i heard very distant thunder, but now think it was a wheely bin,  damn

Heard the thunder in the distance to my east

[Delka]

I imagine I'm not the only person here very jealous of those down in Kent! Good show around Canterbury last 5 minutes, more for a lot of people this evening aswell!

[Callie]

Nice little storm here about 20 minutes ago

[Chris.R]

7 minutes ago, carl1980 said:

Heard the thunder in the distance to my east

 Really, I apologise then I  must've missed it. nothing on Blitzortung  either. 

[Harry]

Looks like the remaining lot is kicking more easterly so that could be it for these shores. Odd that the first batch tracked more northerly yet these next batches are chucking more easterly.

[IanR]

19 minutes ago, carl1980 said:

Heard the thunder in the distance to my east

 not a wheely bin , a definate rumble ?,  must be what i heard then too,  quite distant though, like a low faint grumble

[Summer Sun]

36 minutes ago, IanR said:

as suspected, damn those wheely bins 

They can be wheelie annoying

You need a brick on the top

[IanR]

if that was just a rogue single strike that thunder sound carried a long way , that looks to the south east of warrington , maybe 15 miles away from here, wonder if it was a positive cg groundshaker 

[Gordon Webb]

3 minutes ago, Summer Sun said:

They can be wheelie annoying

You need a brick on the top

my neighbours do that put bricks on wheelie bins , don't see the point of it myself just another obsticle to me putting stuff in it

Edited May 21, 2016 by Gordon Webb

[Staffordshire]

That storm that is heading through the channel between Dover and Calais has intensified a lot in the past 15 minutes, would love to be around that - although preferably not on a boat.

[stainesbloke]

So I take it the Channel had no effect on this storm? 

[Gordon Webb]

Just now, stainesbloke said:

So I take it the Channel had no effect on this storm? 

don't think so

I'm watching BBC1 and that channel has had no effect on it whatsoever

[stainesbloke]

Just now, Gordon Webb said:

don't think so

I'm watching BBC1 and that channel has had no effect on it whatsoever

Funny that....Must be elevated?

[William Grimsley]

2 minutes ago, stainesbloke said:

Funny that....Must be elevated?

Yes, definitely elevated.

[Mapantz]

Interesting how fast they're moving, the rain is torrential, but not much is accumulating in a single area.

[William Grimsley]

I'm surprised to see that some heavy showers have developed over inland parts of Devon and Cornwall!

[Dami]

and definitely not heading to me.

[essex coast matt]

Thunder heard here.storms to south and east

[Paul]

Looking impressive on radar in the SE

 

[James 'Jamie C' Croucher]

Gutted I live at the wrong end of the south coast... Always the way

[Ellozee]

I won't go on about it, but did get a good look at the top end of that line of storms, WOW! Going to head down the beach now the rain has slowed, see what I can of the rest to the east.

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

Been watching a fantastic little lightning display over the channel from the Dover Patrol Memorial car park.

not as flashy as the radar would have you believe - perhaps once every 20 seconds now, but big mighty ones when they go off. Got some good photos, the structure is also amazing. Big storm - shame it's all wasted over the sea!

[William Grimsley]

Well, I have to say it was nice to see Kent and the English Channel getting hit hard by lightning tonight! As others have mentioned, it's a shame that most of the lightning was "wasted" on the sea! LOL!

Edited May 21, 2016 by William Grimsley