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WhoopsJust looked at the radar. Looks like we are in line for a storm
Originally Posted by: DeeDee
It came through here about 20 mins ago. Massive hailstorm.
Hail shower.
Loving the weather whatever it brings, snow, rain, wind, sun, heat, all great!
Awesome DeeDee - Impressive hail and fierce winds here just now and very dark. Thunder heard locally in Basingstoke and elsewhere
Large sized hail shower at in laws near uxbridge! Good to see, very dark also.......
Originally Posted by: Deep Powder
Thunder reported from Uxbridge and Weybridge on FB
Huuuge thunder with bright white flashes here in Esher (work). Stupendous wind gusts also
Booby clouds!
Just caught the core of a downpour with rain rates of 40-50mm/hr.
Some notable hail mixed in but nothing compared to what DeeDee caught! Looks like the cell had peaked over Ferndown, dropping most of its hail there perhaps...?
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That stuff moving through the western Channel has a few features with my name on them - anticipating those with some excitement. Shame about the flooding consequences though - nothing I can do about that though, other than assisting with some sandbags should that be required.
Great photos Dee Dee. Winter zonality at its best !
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Originally Posted by: Gusty
Well its not boring
I witnessed some really intense rain and hail at around 08.30/09.00 this morning with some lightning and earthumping claps of thunder, nice start to the new year.
But it actually wasn't a particularly memorable storm, quite fleeting in nature and it's now become quite still again (am surprised by the lack of any real wind all day).
But, even so, to get lightning in winter is a surprise treat in itself and I'm more than happy to have missed out on the gusty winds so far today.
EDIT: It's become quite squally again.
A rather interesting cell N of Birmingham just now - quite isolated. One to watch.
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Originally Posted by: nsrobins
Its to the SW of me right now heading NE doubt it will be anyting special by the time it gets here!
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Originally Posted by: Charmhills
lol! If history is anything to go by Duane, it'll be tropical monsoon like rain, with dozens of lightning strikes every few milliseconds
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Originally Posted by: Jive Buddy
I wish, but you wait for summer for that here.
Another pretty squally shower marching through here just now. Sounds worse than it is I thinnk, with the rain being hammered against the windows (now watch my phone go, with a call out in the middle of it!)
On the way home from work just now I saw a flash of lightning!!!! Thought that was something you only got in fairy tales ...... It was due west of here and looking at the sferics, it was the one over Llantwrtyd Wells
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Originally Posted by: Sevendust
PMSL! I have never seen them in real life, but hope to some day, great pics Dave and Dee Dee. Back home now, evidence of heavy showers abounds.....dark and still very breezy, but clearing up?
Heard several rumbles of thunder here early this afternoon, as a cell just passed by to the NW; we didn't get the heavy rain or hail, and stormy winds at the time, just ordinary showery rain following the storm.
I would'nt be surprised if there were funnel clouds or even tornadoes in the heaviest of the showers today.
A marked squall line has just been crossing Belgium and Netherlands, with lots of lightning!
http://www.weathercast.co.uk/radar/archive-for-netherlands.html