Big storm passing through with phemonenal rain

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

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Thundery showers here. 2nd one of today.

Loudest crack of thunder so far after the heaviest rain had passed



Rain was monsoonal and gusty with it

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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).  

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

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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.

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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!

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Very heavy rain, hail and some gusty winds too. Quite a lot of thunder now.

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

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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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Back to Hebden Nr Grassington and the 2nd storm of the day from the SW, frequent thunder

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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

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A good few lightning flashes this afternoon, with some loud thunder to boot:

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My daughter is reporting largish hail and thunder from Nottingham

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

Roger

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

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More claps of thunder 

From the storm earlier this afternoon

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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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Very active convective day.

Looking towards Manchester


Looking towards WNW

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My time-lapse for yesterday - a very turbulent day with several thunderstorms:

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