On 2013-07-23 03:04:49 +0000, jbm said:

On 22/07/2013 23:00, Simon S wrote:
Lightning visable for a time after 21:30 to the east and south of
Sheffield. These seem to have been from 2 separate cells and must have
been a fair distance as thunder was barely if at all audable and no
preciperation close by. Thunder head visable to the SSW glowing red
just before dusk.

Simon S (South Yorkshire)


4am.

The main band has moved slightly north-east and now covers an area from
Kent through Essex & Suffolk up into Cambs and Northants and across to
the West Midlands north of Birmingham. Wellingborough and Kettering are
still badly affected.

A second massive and very lively storm stretches from Gloucester down
through Bristol and Somerset to Devon and Exeter.

Here in Somerset, despite how the radar may have appeared, it was not
one massive storm in the usual sense, but what appeared to be a large
number of individual Ac Cast cells. Just after 3 a.m. looking to the
south there was just continual lightning, often 3 or 4 a second, but
too many to count really, and for an hour the thunder was just a
continuous noise.

So much so, that after about 4.15 a.m. when there was a short gap
between individual rumbles of thunder, the quiet seemed almost sinister
because it had not been like that for 75 minutes.

I never saw any ground strikes, although there may have been some close
by which I missed.

Very little rain though, 4mm was all I recorded, and that must have
arrived later in the night after I fell asleep.


Some activity north of Hull and up the east coast to Sunderland and Tynemouth.

Strike rate per hour = 757.

jim, Northampton

On 23/07/2013 07:29, Vidcapper wrote:
On 23/07/2013 04:04, jbm wrote:


A second massive and very lively storm stretches from Gloucester down
through Bristol and Somerset to Devon and Exeter.

Didn't get very much of it here in Cheltenham, though - a few moderate
rumbles & brief heavy rain.


I spoke too soon - a line of storms came of from the south behind the
main belt! Ended up with a useful 16mm.


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Regards,

Paul Hyett

On 23/07/2013 09:11, yttiw wrote:
Very little rain though, 4mm was all I recorded, and that must have
arrived later in the night after I fell asleep.

At least you got 4 mm. Nothing here. Drought continues. Countryside brown.

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Nick G
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk