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KevBrads1
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 1:32:16 PM

Big storm passing through with phemonenal rain


MANCHESTER SUMMER INDEX for 2021: 238
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Bolty
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 2:03:05 PM
More overhead lightning now. What a convective day this is turning into! 🌩
Scott
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ozone_aurora
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 2:29:07 PM

Thundery showers here. 2nd one of today.

KevBrads1
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 2:31:31 PM
Loudest crack of thunder so far after the heaviest rain had passed



Rain was monsoonal and gusty with it




MANCHESTER SUMMER INDEX for 2021: 238
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ozone_aurora
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 2:39:12 PM

More overhead lightning now. What a convective day this is turning into! 🌩

Originally Posted by: Bolty 


Is the thunder activity for your area above average for this summer, plus May, so far, or is it the same? (I'm new for central/northern England).

Lowestoft (where I came) seem to have missed out on many storms from the land this summer so far. The number of storms in Sheffield since May 2021 has been similar to Lowestoft in a typical unsettled Summer (like that of 2012).  


idot
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Wednesday, July 28, 2021 2:48:00 PM
brief but silly amount of rain here - its a good jobs the showers are moving through more quickly today or there would be issues. Hail too. No Pace as of yet
Bolty
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 2:55:47 PM


 


Is the thunder activity for your area above average for this summer, plus May, so far, or is it the same? (I'm new for central/northern England).

Lowestoft (where I came) seem to have missed out on many storms from the land this summer so far. The number of storms in Sheffield since May 2021 has been similar to Lowestoft in a typical unsettled Summer (like that of 2012).  



Originally Posted by: ozone_aurora 


Below. Only today has seen anything particularly thundery since last August. There's been the odd day here and there with a thundery shower, but they've more or less been "one rumble wonders" this summer.


Manchester can get some decent storms. I have recorded a few over the last 7-8 years, but we don't get anything like what the usual areas get.


Scott
Blackrod, Lancashire (4 miles south of Chorley) at 156m asl.
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Crepuscular Ray
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 3:03:20 PM
Cracking storm in Upper Wharfedale this afternoon, 2nd day in a row. Some bright discharges coming down onto the limestone pavements above Hubberholme. We managed to get to the pub in Buckden as the heavens opened!
Jerry
Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill
Col
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Wednesday, July 28, 2021 3:03:27 PM
Very heavy rain, hail and some gusty winds too. Quite a lot of thunder now.
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Bolty
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 3:04:12 PM
Looks like the Bolton/Horwich and the Stockport areas are getting a bit of a belting now. Been a great day for Greater Manchester!
Scott
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Roger Parsons
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 3:18:23 PM

Looks like the Bolton/Horwich and the Stockport areas are getting a bit of a belting now. Been a great day for Greater Manchester!

Originally Posted by: Bolty 


Looks like it's all circulating around Lincoln - so we are missing out on everything in the "eye of the storm" ! Grrrr!


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West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
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Crepuscular Ray
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 3:19:57 PM
Back to Hebden Nr Grassington and the 2nd storm of the day from the SW, frequent thunder
Jerry
Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill
Crepuscular Ray
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 3:30:56 PM
Looks like the Trafford Hospital in Manchester got a direct hit with lightning setting the roof on fire. Our 2nd storm here in upper Wharfedale has died away for now after some crashing thunder
Jerry
Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill
Bolty
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 3:41:09 PM
A good few lightning flashes this afternoon, with some loud thunder to boot:


Scott
Blackrod, Lancashire (4 miles south of Chorley) at 156m asl.
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Crepuscular Ray
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 5:40:01 PM
My daughter is reporting largish hail and thunder from Nottingham
Jerry
Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill
Roger Parsons
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 5:48:10 PM


Looks like it's all circulating around Lincoln - so we are missing out on everything in the "eye of the storm" ! Grrrr!


Originally Posted by: Roger Parsons 


Problem sorted - a nice tight little storm eventually came through! A bit of thunder but saw no lightning.


Roger


RogerP
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
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David M Porter
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 6:02:55 PM

I experienced 3 separate thunderstorms today in the Yorkshire Dales. First rain I've seen since 13/7 in Edinburgh. Quite novel to get wet!

Originally Posted by: Crepuscular Ray 


3 storms in one day! I don't think I can ever recall experiencing that, either at home or anywhere else.


Lenzie, Glasgow

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KevBrads1
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 6:21:50 PM

More claps of thunder 


From the storm earlier this afternoon




MANCHESTER SUMMER INDEX for 2021: 238
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richardabdn
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 6:39:47 PM

No thunder here but astounding rainfall this morning. In less than 3 hours between 6:39am and 9:30am I recorded 41.8mm 


Never seen anything like it in the years I've been recording or before. Almost as much as my wettest July day in 2015 which had 43.8mm for the entire day.


Peak rainfall rate - 123.8mm/hr.


Peak totals falling within:


5 minutes - 4.8mm


15 minutes - 13mm


30 minutes - 19.4mm


60 minutes - 26.6mm 


I have seen greater intensities over short periods but to get over an inch in an hour is incredulous.


I have data on frequency of intense rainfall at Dyce from a 1969 publication covering the years 1946-1968 and there was only one day in that 23 years when an inch fell within 2 hours and 2 days when 0.8 inches/20mm fell within 1 hour.


Aberdeen's wettest day on record occurred just after the publication on 24th July 1970 when 109mm fell at Mannofield so probable there could have been a similar hourly rainfall rate on that day which would imply a 1 in 50 year event.


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KevBrads1
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 8:48:12 PM
Very active convective day.

Looking towards Manchester


Looking towards WNW



MANCHESTER SUMMER INDEX for 2021: 238
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Bolty
Thursday, July 29, 2021 1:54:18 PM
My time-lapse for yesterday - a very turbulent day with several thunderstorms:


Scott
Blackrod, Lancashire (4 miles south of Chorley) at 156m asl.
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