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)

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)



I just looked at the lightning radar
(http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?a...ightning;sess=) to see what
was going on. You couldn't see Derby on the map for little blue crosses,
even at maximum magnification. They must have got clobbered.

Your easterly lot was between Thorne and Goole, and it looks like they
got clobbered too.
The southerly lot was half way between Sheffield and Nottingham, but
fairly scattered.

Fair bit of activity up at DIRFT near Crick, about 10 miles NW of here,
J17&18 on the M1, which was clearly visible when I took the dog out at
10.30. Not many lorry drivers getting any sleep up there tonight.

jim, Northampton

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)


Some storms sparked off around Northants, and truddled up the M1.
Another cell sparked off between Donny and S****horpe.

On Monday, 22 July 2013 23:00:37 UTC+1, 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)

Some thundery activity in S London (Crystal Palace) around 2330 BST. Moderate rain, huge drops, not all that many of them. That smell! A couple of flashes to the north and accompanying rumbles. The full moon was visible throughout and I must have been on the southern edge of the rather feeble storm. No evidence of rain one mile to the south. Temperature at 2215 BST 27°C by car thermometer, therefore 26°C.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

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)



2am

The sky to the north and east of here is lit up like a Christmas tree,
though too far away for anything audible. I was going to count the
number of strikes in the last hour on the Netweather site, but the
crosses are too close together, even heavier than Derby 3 hours ago.
Bedford caught a packet a couple of hours ago, and now Wellingborough,
Rushden and Kettering are receiving the brunt of it. Can't see Kettering
under the mass of red crosses. Looks like it might miss us if it keeps
tracking north as it is. The latest screen shows a lot of activity to
the north of here heading up to Coventry and Leicester. And a cluster on
top of the centre of London must be playing havoc with a certain
new-born's sleeping habits.

Another massive cluster is coming into Kent across the Channel, with
another active bunch just north of Hull. Strike rate across the country
349 per hour.

In a nut shell, the whole area from Hastings up to Leicester, about 30
miles wide, is being hammered.

All the activity has woken most of the neighbourhood cats up, and a five
way fight has been going on outside the front of the house for about 10
minutes, with another half dozen sat across the road watching. If that
hasn't woken the neighbours, the dog's expressions of displeasure must
have done.


jim, Northampton

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.

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

Strike rate per hour = 757.

jim, Northampton

On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 04:04:49 +0100, jbm wrote:


4am.

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

Very quiet down here in Dorset but then the main action was bound to
be your way Jim.
There was a brief rattle of rain on the conservatory but not enough to
even register a shower on the VP2.
At least this means I can almost certainly have a normal day outside
in cooler conditions!

R

Hilton

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.


--
Regards,

Paul Hyett

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.


--
Regards,

Paul Hyett

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