B725 Posted August 12, 2020 Report Share Posted August 12, 2020 Is anyone else having a lot of lightning but no thunder this is the second night we have it. Last night it was none stop all night it's quite surreal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walshie Posted August 12, 2020 Report Share Posted August 12, 2020 Yep. Spent a good hour watching it earlier. News said it's from about 100 miles away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diver One Posted August 12, 2020 Report Share Posted August 12, 2020 We've got lightning, thunder, torrential rain water is flooding UP the drive and cannot see the road. Lived in this house 40 years and never seen it like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjaferret Posted August 12, 2020 Report Share Posted August 12, 2020 Wish we had it, duck pond's are very low.......................................................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted August 12, 2020 Report Share Posted August 12, 2020 22 minutes ago, Diver One said: We've got lightning, thunder, torrential rain water is flooding UP the drive and cannot see the road. Lived in this house 40 years and never seen it like this Where are you roughly in the Northwest? Monday night in Barrow was unbelievable, it went on for 4hrs or more, with lightening like I've only seen abroad. Just hope it breaks this heat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr gen Posted August 12, 2020 Report Share Posted August 12, 2020 22 minutes ago, ninjaferret said: Wish we had it, duck pond's are very low.......................................................... same with us really worried fox will get them or die in the mud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbird Posted August 13, 2020 Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 1 hour ago, Mr gen said: same with us really worried fox will get them or die in the mud I can just see mr Fox sitting on the side of the pond thinking to himself ( few more days of this weather & it’s lunch time ) 😀😀😀 Only kidding 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted August 13, 2020 Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 We had around four hours of torrential rain , with a wicked hailstorm , and most of the estate flooded . The lightning show was awesome , bolts of lightning every few seconds for hours . My mate lives about 8 miles away and all they heard was a little bit of thunder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnfromUK Posted August 13, 2020 Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 Tuesday night - spectacular lightning - and bizarrely silent. Someone said it was high and distant 'sheet' (cloud to cloud) lightning. Wednesday evening - very hot (over 100F initially) and absolutely dead still; not a breath of wind. Then about 19:00, a thunderstorm passed a little way away, with an hours moderate rain and some very sharp gusts of wind. Light rain continued for a while longer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benthejockey Posted August 13, 2020 Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 Tuesday night we had lightening that went on for hours, mainly sheet but also a lot of fork lightening. Lots of individual cells all combining to make a good show. And a little bit of rain. Last night I lit the bbq and the thunder started in the distance and about 7 it started raining and the storm really got going. It was still raining heavily at 11pm when I went to bed. It's still very hot and humid here. The baby didnt sleep very much all night so it will be a very long day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted August 13, 2020 Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 Well another gorgeous sunrise, the sun in Cumbria looks almost like a red moon, now off to sleep before the heat builds, bring on the rain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted August 13, 2020 Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 Just got back from my morning walk , and the flooding was quite bad locally , it looks like the rain didn't slow a lot of drivers down , the flood on the main road is littered with plastic sump guards and wheel arch covers that have been ripped off cars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strimmer_13 Posted August 13, 2020 Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Just intense bloody heat. I look at the weather app on the phone, it says rain and thunder/lightning every day and all I get is heatstroke. Just a day off would be nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yates Posted August 13, 2020 Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 (edited) Most of weather apps are carp. I’ve never seen so differing predications according to which app I look at for my area!!! We had the thunder, rain and light show yesterday night but the damned heat returned yesterday afternoon Edited August 13, 2020 by yates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted August 13, 2020 Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 if we dont get rain here soon all the sugar beet is going to conk out.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted August 13, 2020 Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 3 hours ago, mel b3 said: We had around four hours of torrential rain , with a wicked hailstorm , and most of the estate flooded . The lightning show was awesome , bolts of lightning every few seconds for hours . My mate lives about 8 miles away and all they heard was a little bit of thunder. Yes, I was sat in a high seat some 40 miles north of you and could see the thunder cloud, I don't know how high it was but certainly one of the biggest I have ever seen. Didn't hear or see anyhting and not a drop of rain unfortunately. 8 minutes ago, ditchman said: if we dont get rain here soon all the sugar beet is going to conk out.......... The estate east of Stamford has a couple of fields of kale sown and they need rain badly. Typical summer storms, nothing unusual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted August 13, 2020 Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 7 minutes ago, Walker570 said: Yes, I was sat in a high seat some 40 miles north of you and could see the thunder cloud, I don't know how high it was but certainly one of the biggest I have ever seen. Didn't hear or see anyhting and not a drop of rain unfortunately. Another strange thing was that the high winds seemed to be blowing is opposite directions at the same time , the neighbours conifers were at almost 90 degrees , then would instantly flip to 90 degrees in the opposite direction . My living room is covered in soot this morning that the hailstones picked up as they rattled down the chimney . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted August 13, 2020 Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 1 hour ago, ditchman said: if we dont get rain here soon all the sugar beet is going to conk out.......... Hello, even us oldies 😆 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted August 13, 2020 Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 4 hours ago, oldypigeonpopper said: Hello, even us oldies 😆 Yep it seems to be for acute than it did when I was 21 back in 1961 when we had a similar very hot spell. They come through as does most of the weather at intervals. 1961 as I say and then of course 75/76 when i saw the hills in North Wales burning . Back in 1952 we had a serious hot year and I got sun burnt . Remember lying on our stone floor in the kitchen to try and stop the itching as the blisters healed on my back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
100milesaway Posted August 13, 2020 Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 13 hours ago, walshie said: Yep. Spent a good hour watching it earlier. News said it's from about 100 miles away. I swear it was nowt to do with me....😃 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted August 13, 2020 Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 Intense relentless heat past few days, with spectacular thunder storms Tues night. Nothing since, just the same intense heat. Although we heard the thunder and had a few spots, it did nothing to alleviate the heat, and we watched it pass us by, but local town Penrith got it apparently. This morning at 0545 I was out with dog and clouds were creeping down the Fells like lava, clear blue sky above! It has left a Helm bar, a local phenomenon which creates a horrendous wind in the right circumstances, and we now have a fabulous strong cool breeze round the back of the house. The sheltered front is like a greenhouse however. 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted August 14, 2020 Report Share Posted August 14, 2020 17 hours ago, Walker570 said: Yep it seems to be for acute than it did when I was 21 back in 1961 when we had a similar very hot spell. They come through as does most of the weather at intervals. 1961 as I say and then of course 75/76 when i saw the hills in North Wales burning . Back in 1952 we had a serious hot year and I got sun burnt . Remember lying on our stone floor in the kitchen to try and stop the itching as the blisters healed on my back. Hello, as Scilly mentioned our weather patterns seem to be more intense now with very hot/ then storms, and flash floods, most of us remember 76 but in 52 being only 3 that's to far back to remember anything, 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted August 14, 2020 Report Share Posted August 14, 2020 Seen it all before. I remember having to dig a trench out of our tractor shed to let the foot of water out, but it filled up as it ran down the lane into the yard as fast as it went out. The Chet as the Chetwynd Arms was known, stood four feet above the road surface in Polesworth square and the flood water would lap at it's door as the Anker flooded. Happened two or three times a year. There again the media wasn't about then to write 'explosive' stories about such things. Might be a line or two in the local paper that weekend. In the 50s summer storms would force us to take shelter under the trailer in the middle of a field half way through harvest and the Royal Show held first week in July was notorious for having a thunderstorm. It became known as Royal Show week weather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted August 14, 2020 Report Share Posted August 14, 2020 hearing thunder for the first time this year........rekon it is on the north norfolk coast...........nice and cool overcast here........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted August 14, 2020 Report Share Posted August 14, 2020 20 minutes ago, ditchman said: hearing thunder for the first time this year........rekon it is on the north norfolk coast...........nice and cool overcast here........ A better temperature for shifting stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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