Anybody know why it's so dark outside this morning? Are there rainclouds heading this way or something?

I think The Borg are coming...

But as well as that we always must be punished for a few days of glorious sunshine so yep, here comes the rain, thunder, lightning and colder climes - wat joy!
Still wish I was at Glastonbury tho, indulging in the mud fest in rubber!!!!

On the news they have put a severe weather warning out for thunder storms and very heavy rain..Wooo Hoooo !

/me dons wetsuit

Joel

Originally posted by MelonAngel
I think The Borg are coming...

But as well as that we always must be punished for a few days of glorious sunshine so yep, here comes the rain, thunder, lightning and colder climes - wat joy!
Still wish I was at Glastonbury tho, indulging in the mud fest in rubber!!!!
Resistance is futile....... :) Looking forward to a good electrical storm,hope it is a good one. seems to be mainly poor exuses for thunder over the last couple of years

Hears a stampede of Sheffield Housewives and househusbands hurriedly fetching in their washing.

s of a b.
When i looked out the window at 6:30 it was clear and sunny.
So i've worn shorts and t shirt to work.

Halfway there, going up the M42 and I hit a huge thunderstorm.
Everyone in the office has been laughing at me :blush:

Some of us got the weather warning yesterday and while I felt far too hot for trousers I can see I'll be glad I did it!

Originally posted by Cyclone
s of a b.
When i looked out the window at 6:30 it was clear and sunny.
So i've worn shorts and t shirt to work.

Halfway there, going up the M42 and I hit a huge thunderstorm.
Everyone in the office has been laughing at me :blush:

:D Made me laugh! How annoying is it when that happens. I used to commute from about 2 hours away to Sheffield. The number of times I have got here and fellt silly in shorts and t-shirt when it started raining cats and dogs half way.

Originally posted by Cyclone
s of a b.
When i looked out the window at 6:30 it was clear and sunny.
So i've worn shorts and t shirt to work.

Halfway there, going up the M42 and I hit a huge thunderstorm.
Everyone in the office has been laughing at me :blush:

I nearly didn't bring a jacket to work at all but luckily my partner (who incidentally always gets out of bed later than me - you can tell I don't begrudge her that ) told me it was going to rain so I brought a golf pullover with me! Glad I did now!

Just read this on sky news website... makes it sound like the "day after tomorrow" (runs to gather firewood and wooly blankets.....)






PA WeatherCentre assistant manager Paul Knightly said the storms were likely to bring lightning and hailstones up to the size of golf balls.

"Winds in the upper atmosphere will be fairly strong, and this will promote the development of some severe thunderstorms.

"These may bring hailstones up to the size of golf balls, wind gusts up to 65 mph, extremely heavy rainfall leading to local flash flooding, and possibly isolated tornadoes.

"People should remember that with any thunderstorm, the main threat is cloud to ground lightning, and tomorrow's storms are likely to be very electrically active.

"If a storm approaches, try to get indoors quickly, and do not stand under trees."

The Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO), which is a privately funded group researching extreme weather phenomenon, predicted possible tornados.

Originally posted by march
.... it started raining cats and dogs half way.


Been raining for the last 5 mins here:(.


Should be a bit cooler tomorrow though.

Wish I was flying today.

Watching an electrical storm at night over the Alps - from above - was one of the awe-inspriring things I've ever seen.

Being half-cut helped as well :cool:

[mbatey]

Last week's electric storm over Hathersage was an especially brilliant one. It appears that lightning fried all the fish in the pond of my mate's neighbour. Chips, anyone?

At least my rainwater tank will be full now. :) It was nearing the point where I would've had to top it up from the mains.

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JGH

I've just been in the bank in Broomhill and listened to an elderly lady saying how much better today's weather is.

What is wrong with people in this country? A couple of days of warm sunny weather (followed by 11 months of miserable rain) and yet everyone's moaning about it being too hot!

Ke?

Scorching heatwave through to October?

Bring it on.:thumbsup:

was that it for thunderstorms today or are we in for a proper storm later like we had on sunday evening hope we are as i do like a good storm

Its like this bcoz its my birthday, every year no matter where i am in the world it bloody rains, sorry guyz n galz lol xx

Originally posted by craigmason
was that it for thunderstorms today or are we in for a proper storm later like we had on sunday evening hope we are as i do like a good storm

Did you get thunder? am keeping fingers crossed for some..

only had one clap of thunder and one flash of lightning this morning :( hopfully we will get some this afternoon

Maybe it was just having a trial run and will give us a good show later as it warms up a little

Mum told me there had been tornados in Birmingham and somewhere else in England? I did a search here on the SF but no mentioned of that yet. I went to BBCs website and nothing there either. Apparently noone killed but many hurt. What's going on with the weather? Winds up to 130 mph ripping roofs off is not a common occurance in Engand.

Originally posted by Funke88
.....I did a search here on the SF but no mentioned of that yet........ I went to BBCs website and nothing there either. ... :confused:



http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=51623

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4726643.stm

Originally posted by Funke88
What's going on with the weather? Winds up to 130 mph ripping roofs off is not a common occurance in Engand.

The Tornado Research Organisation website says:

"On average, 33 tornadoes are reported each year in the United Kingdom ... When land areas are taken into account, the United Kingdom actually has the highest frequency of reported tornadoes per unit area in the world."

Emphasis on the "reported", and the UK ones are relatively mild, though still bad enough - e.g. the Birmingham one was rated 3 or 4 on their scale, which goes up to 10.

http://www.torro.org.uk/TORRO/index.php

http://www.torro.org.uk/TORRO/severeweather/tornadofaqs.php#faq4

Thanks cgksheff and CaptainSwing. The BBC news article must have been posted after I searched the uk news section this morning. I do admit though that I skimmed through the Sheffield Tornado Campaign thread and thought is was all about something else. I started to read "Sheffield council.. " and then switched off and clicked out.

It's nearly Christmas.
147 days to go!!! :clap: :banana: :clap:

Eet iz so dark beecoz zee sunrays can't get frew