Summer 2019 weather thread

[desy 10]

Poorer down with rain at Swallownest never heard it so hard before. Is everyone ok any flooding?

 

[bassett one 450]

NON AT LOWEDGES ha ha

[Padders 2,863]

I"m waiting patiently for the thunderstorms, love a good storm... not seen a proper storm since the 60s.

[hardworker 10]

Agree. We just don't get them anymore. The sky used to light up on a summer night with lightening. It helped to ripen the wheat in the fields.

[Baron99 794]

Slightly off the thunderstorm thread.  Ever heard the guy who Paul Hudson interviews on his Radio Sheffield Sunday show, every 3 or 4 month for a long range weather forecast? 

 

Dave King runs his own website, 'Weather without technology.' 

 

He uses past records / trends & old weather lore.  He's predicted  in South Yorkshire, a hot spell from 11th to 15th July & another from 11th to 15th August.  The rest of the time he reckons it'll be a typical British summer; 3 hot days & a thunderstorm. 

 

Wait for it.... end of October, he's predicted heavy snow; a wet & stormy Christmas Day & at the end of February next year, a few weeks of severe winter weather, that'll make the Beast from the East, look like a minor cold spell. 

 

You've been warned. 

Edited June 24, 2019 by Baron99
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[Annie Bynnol 612]

If you are awake now don't go to bed, the storm has started. Currently in a line over Manchester Airport, Derby and Nottingham and coming North.

[Colin Foster 70]

Best storm I've seen for years!

[Padders 2,863]

5 hours ago, Colin Foster said:

Best storm I've seen for years!

Was it that good !   Went to bed at 11pm and never heard a thing.

[francypants 441]

I was still up at 3am this morning and here in Birdwell it was nothing.   A few lightning flashes and a bit of rumbling then it was gone.

[Colin Foster 70]

15 hours ago, Padders said:

Was it that good !   Went to bed at 11pm and never heard a thing.

The lightning was spectacular, big flashes every second for a while at one point all over the sky. Thunder wasn't as good though there were a few really long loud rumbles.

[melv 16]

On 24/07/2019 at 12:05, francypants said:

I was still up at 3am this morning and here in Birdwell it was nothing.   A few lightning flashes and a bit of rumbling then it was gone.

Sounds like a good night out in Birdwell:-)

[Dales 10]

There is a weather warning in place for thunderstorms today starting at 3pm.  Fingers crossed.  I love thunderstorms!