Lovely thunderstorm!

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*Aldom*, a dd in Oxford said they had ‘loads’ of ‘lovely tropical’ rain yesterday afternoon.

That's right, my family said the same on Sunday in Oxford. We also had heavy rain Sunday, but not as heavy as Saturday's torrential rain.

Here in north Nottinghamshire the sky has gone from blue to cloudy and now dove grey over the last couple hours.
My allotment really could do with a downpour, but I don’t think it’s going to.

I do love a really good thunderstorm, especially if there is also spectacular lightning. We don't get them very often around here though.

Well my water butt is now full, proper storm with a downpour.

Thunder has been rumbling around for a couple of
of hours in this part of Cheshire and gradually getting louder, but no rain yet and still horribly close and humid.

We just had another, loads more rain, and one thunderclap directly overhead - that one did give me a bit of a shock! Water butts will be well filled by now. 🙂

I’m glad we live on a hill, though - I can imagine that there’ll be some flooding in the flat roads closer to town.

I'm in NW London and we've had a storm rumbling around for the last 2+ hrs. A few spots of rain now and then no lighting just continuous rumblings. I wish we had a good lot of rain my water butt is empty and I'm going to have to start watering from the tap or hose not good now I'm on a water meter.

Nothing in west yorkshire, it would be lovley tho as very hot today

We then had a huge downpour, no need to water this evening!

Longing for a really good thunderstorm here in the NW of England. (Had some rain on Saturday, but not enough!) I love a good storm, and one is needed now for the poor dessicated gardens (and crops?)

I posted this on another thread because I couldn't find this one. This happened a little bit earlier this afternoon.

I was sitting in the conservatory, the thunder was rumbling gently but then there was an enormous flash of lightning right in my face and the loudest clap of thunder I've ever heard in my life. It was truly terrifying!!
Storms don't normally faze me but I've rushed into the sitting room, heart pounding!
🌩

My head is still aching, usual when there is a thunder storm around.

Dammit - I missed it here (NE London) as I had a nice little snooze after lunch. I can see it's rained, but only a little. We need much more before I can stop watering the garden.

Looking at the Lightening map, the storms are currently north of Oxford, running from Milton Keynes and passing between Bambury and Bicester, heading westwards.

Other foci, are west of Peterbrough, north of Aberystwith and the South Wales valleys.

Many posters say they were waiting on the storm yesterday but did not get it.
That's probably because it all came over where I live in
Buckinghamshire. It went completely dark at about 4.pm and the thunder rumbled lightening flashed and the heavens opened up. That wasn't enough here we then had hailstones with it almost the size of golf balls. On top of that some more rain. Once it was over it was even more humid than it had been. Apparently we are in for another one later this afternoon. Lovely.

Not really here in south Dartmoor. Just a few short power cuts which indicate thunder is around somewhere. We had some showers on Saturday, thankfully, but desperately need more rain.

Aldom, a dd in Oxford said they had ‘loads’ of ‘lovely tropical’ rain yesterday afternoon.

MOnica I was counting my blessings on Saturday afternoon. I had been into town for an eye test at 1.30pm. This took rather a long time. I walked home in glorious sunshine. I'd been back about 15 minutes when the heavens opened. A couple of weeks or so ago my daughter and I were caught in a similar storm when in Oxford. Water was syphoning up through the road and pavement. We were drenched. On Saturday afternoon I let the Oxford family know we had a storm. Not a drop of rain there. I think they had some later.

As Wyllow said, the rain gods are ignoring our part of the world. I live on the South Yorkshire/North East Derbyshire border and we had a small rumble of thunder about tea time (or maybe it was my tum) but no rain. My water butt is empty and I’m saving all the waste water I can so that I don’t have to use the hose, but needs must occasionally. I am watering selectively and find myself apologising to the plants that don’t get any!!

Aldom I know I only live a few miles from you, and as with all summer storms, my story is entirely different.

We had some rain Saturday afternoon, enough to damp the road and leaves, but Sunday afternoon, roughly from 5.00pm - 6.00pm, we had the mother and father of thunderstorms, it got so dark we had all the lights on the rain fell so heavily it bounced back through ventilators just above a flat roof, and soaked my cookery book shelf. Two cookery books are complete write-offs and another half dozen have the bottom inch of each page wet.

However, I am not complaining. Following building and landscaping work, our back lawn was full of bare patches where building materials had been stacked , so, a month ago, I got a company to come in who specialising in lawn care and they scarified and aerated and then reseeded large areas of the lawn. Since then, we have mainly been away, there has been no rain and the pigeons grow fatter daily eating the grass seed.

I have yet to go out, but it will not surprise me if, when I do go out what is left of the seed will already have germinated.

I love a good storm, it was a good one too last night. Everything clean and fresh.

I was wondering how long it would be before we were wanting rain.
Been great here for 4 weeks. One of the first to get the prolonged nice weather.
Now, grass is going brown.

Staying in Cambridge for little break nothing but wall to wall sunshine so far. Very high temperature but lovely breeze cooling it down a bit.

Oxfordshire, Saturday afternoon, prolonged torrential rain and very windy. Sunday, early evening heavy rain lots of thunder and lightning.

Thunderstorm predicted yesterday and it did not materialise. Just about an hour of rain in the morning. Very disappointing. North Devon.

M0nica

DS, who lives 200 miles away rang us this afternoon to ask about the storm we were having.

He then sent me the link that enabled him to tell that we were having a storm in Oxfordshire when he was in Yorkshire
www.lightningmaps.org/#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;z=10;y=51.4797;x=-0.94;d=2;dl=2;dc=0;

Activity showing on the map is much reduced from this afternoon. Such activity as there is, is in a rectangle bound by Stafford, Nantwich, Whitchurch and Newport.

Other clusters are in southern Switzerland/northern Italy and along the Atlantic coasts of Spain and France between Bordeaux and Bilbao.

That's really interesting!

We were waiting to see lightning and hear the thunder as forecast for here but had none at all, just rain today.