Storm Reports - Wednesday 06th October 2004

[Paul]

Large storm approaching here, about 5 miles or so away still but massive tower visible in the distance and thunder quite loud already :shock: Strikealert detecting regular strikes... Didn't expect this today!

[Matt B]

What a nice surprise for you Paul . Where is it headed ?

[Paul]

Lol, its headed west to east pretty much I think - but that said once it came closer that thunder stopped and all I ended up with was some very heavy rain and about 20 seconds of hail . Still - better thunder than I got throughout the summer even if it was just 4 loud crashes a few miles away!

[Andy Bown]

I got caught in a downpour this morning

Watching the skies today has been fascinating. I thought after the downpour cleared that it seemed to be developing into a cb. 2nd thought was that storms wouldn't surprise me :idea:

Having checked the radar run and lightning detectors I am confident that the clouds I saw this morning moved ESE to give the thundery activity this afternoon.

1500 radar shows a vicious bright red cell south of London

A less active shower this afternoon had lovely mammatus as it cleared away

[Adi F]

I have some really heavy showers today and between 2 and 3pm there were a couple of rumbles of thunder associated with one of the showers

[Kent Snow]

Drove through some extremely heavy rain around the Faversham area of Kent. Visablity was greatly reduced and windscreen wipers on full was hardly clearing the shear volume of water.