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Fife hospital car park

Lightning produces sferics (radio waves) like when you had your am/mw radio on in the car back in the day and you could hear a distinct crackle for strikes. THis allows for accurate mapping

one of the best sites that also give accurate waves of thunder is

https://www.lightningmaps.org/

you can customise the map and sounds etc

Oh please Trumpet, make it stop. Or make it rain! It's horrible ....

We had an amazing light show last night...went on for hours. I was outside at 1am just watching the sky...it was still hot, even when the rain came it didn't cool down

They keep promising rain for Norfolk... my apple trees are all droopy :-(

yes its already 29C for you, we have full sunshine and 21 :smug:

I would quite like to get some sleep this side of Christmas so if the sun could jog on, that would be lovely

It's lovely over here right now, between 22-25 degrees the last few days, just perfect :love:

I really hope it's going to rain today.
It's been way too hot. To the point that I can't sleep :bawling:

london warmest yesterday at 36C

Literally just came on to ask you what the **** that was last night LT. I've not seen lightning like that in my life. Every 2 to 5 seconds for 6 hours. Car alarms going constantly. WHAT the actual ****. We watched it until about 1am, then I kept being woken by it right up until 4am. Luckily the kids slept through it mostly - eldest told me she woke up at about 3 and thought something heavy had fallen down the stairs because the rumbling was so loud.

I actually got myself all worried in the middle of the night, half asleep and convinced it was never going to stop. I've never known lightning like that to go on for more than maybe an hour. But actually I don't think I've ever seen flashes that frequent and constant.

Dog wasn't arsed actually - not a huge fan of the thunder but she was larking about the garden in the downpour. Just darting back in for a few seconds with the really loud bangs. She's too dumb to be scared of anything.

I love the warm evenings, it feels tropical sitting out, not found it too bad to get to sleep but we have moved rooms to the back of the house where it doesn't get too much sun :hee:

we hade 8 hours of it. Just been to my main postal depot which is shut as the whole road its on is being pumped but i got in a side way as it goes. all over town are blown drains with tarmac ripped up and stone/gravel debris deposits where floods have been. could not get down the road to the dog fields as its flooded and the big river is brown swollen and angry looking

its by far the longest and most electric storm i have witnessed here

i think you are going to get thunderstruck later

:smug::hehe:

Yeah I know, tbh i won't be too bothered as much as I love the sun, sitting in my hot office isn't great at the moment, I just jealous of everyone who is off, out enjoying it :laugh:

It could have been 8 hours to be fair - we managed to be oblivious to it (watching telleh in the living room) until a neighbour texted my wife the cryptic message of "go to your bedroom window and turn off the lights". She said it had already been going on for a while at that point.

Cant deal with this heat any longer. Its making me so irritable with everyone too! Im not a summer person at all usually anyway!

Didnt get any storms last night but the night before we had it from 10pm to 5am and it kept me up the whole night, at one point it had hit the train barriers across the road from me it was so loud!!

I can hear thunder now here in Wembley.
Finally some rain on the way! :dance:

Thats the worst part of a heatwave, hope it stays over with you :fist:

I fear it's missed you And gone west

When is she leaving?

:clap1:

The rain didn't last very long.
It's cleared up already. But it does feel cooler.

Omg the rain is TORRENTIAL here! My garden is basically a lake after 5 minutes.

Hailstones too, big ones!

West London had Flash Floods

wales is being hit bad

28C in Scotland today

35 C England

The clamminess needs to piss off

Internet connection just went down for an hour :bawling:

so much water in the soil and atmosphere from last night and then a cloudless day of hot sun = high humidity |(90% in the morning)

very hot uncomfortable day in Scotland

Its horrible

the whole village i went to inFife today was underwater (roads) i got a fire brigade escort to the auction - my car was at the flood limit and all my battery indicater warning lights lit up as i hit a deep bit, bloody awful and scary

It’s flooded like crazy around here (Wrexham). The next village up is basically a river and our Tesco has had to close because it’s flooding. Insane.

they say there are orange thunderstorms coming here which is an upgrade on earlier

yes

its time to take action to protect property

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather...1-e1a3d0483957

It's bad where I live right now, the rain is so heavy it sounds like stones hitting the roof.

I quite like it just wish it were a tad cooler

It sure does its been killing today , we've heard thunder seen lightening but no rain... so another godawful night of no food and no sleep .

Saw the flash flooding this morning on news ~ as if folks have not got enought to deal with , flooding is the last thing anyone needs.

Chucking down here, lots of lighting too