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Rob K
28 May 2018 09:57:35

Brum really taking a pounding with flash flooding and large hail being reported. Old report, but the Met Office is reporting 58.5mm in one hour at Winterbourne earlier this evening.

https://twitter.com/tanveer_khatana/status/1000800092352327680

https://twitter.com/StormchaserUKEU/status/1000795456992169985

Originally Posted by: Bolty 

Yes 93.6mm 24 hour total at Winterbourne which I believe is the Birmingham university site at Edgbaston.


Yateley, NE Hampshire, 73m asl

"But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand." — Jerome K. Jerome

Arcus
28 May 2018 12:55:01

Looks like Brighton might win the prize for the first homegrown of the day, rapidly developing cell showing rainfall on radar as well, although no sferics just yet.

EDIT: sferics now showing.


Ben,

Nr. Easingwold, North Yorkshire

30m asl

picturesareme
28 May 2018 13:05:44

Looks like Brighton might win the prize for the first homegrown of the day, rapidly developing cell showing rainfall on radar as well, although no sferics just yet.

EDIT: sferics now showing.

Originally Posted by: Arcus 

yes been watching that lot grow to the east from my garden. Also some growing much closer to home now.. as the crow flies I'm only 50 miles or so west of Brighton

 

picturesareme
28 May 2018 13:12:17
Brighton way..

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picturesareme
28 May 2018 13:50:00
continues to reload that storm to my east, and it appears to be slowly making it's way westwards.

Clouds once again also forming to my south.

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picturesareme
28 May 2018 14:04:24
I think the cloud is trying to tell me something after I complained about it blotting out the sun 😆

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Anyway towers shooting up rather close and very rapidly at the moment... I expect rain within next 2 hours at most.

Bognor Bee
28 May 2018 14:14:01

The storm has hit Bognor Regis.

A fair amount of thunder and lightning and 20 to 30 minutes of torrential rain leaving lakes of water. Eased now but possibly more to come.

Chichesterweatherfan2
28 May 2018 15:00:55
Here in Chichester, we missed the storm...plenty of thunder....and about 10drops of rain...shame...could have done with some on the allotment!
Arcus
28 May 2018 18:44:33
Please, please tell me that a lightning strike or two has stopped the Britain's Got Talent semi-final. God Moves, and all that...
Ben,

Nr. Easingwold, North Yorkshire

30m asl

Arcus
28 May 2018 18:59:35
Ah crap. It was the storm over London currently, but nothing can stop the force-fed gruel.
Ben,

Nr. Easingwold, North Yorkshire

30m asl

thor22
28 May 2018 21:48:34
Love to be in northern France now!
Rob

Marple

SE Manchester

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29 May 2018 06:16:10

This thundery spell is of course very hit and miss. In our location a few miles inland from the sea near Weymouth lightning/thunder has been very noticeable by its absence. Even the rain has been localised and more or less missed us completely. At least that is what it seems when you look at the garden which is quite dry. Maybe todays offerings tantalisingly close according to the rain radar will affect us or perhaps the ones forecast for tomorrow?


Vale of the Great Dairies

South Dorset

Elevation 60m 197ft

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29 May 2018 06:49:12

Here in Chichester, we missed the storm...plenty of thunder....and about 10drops of rain...shame...could have done with some on the allotment!

Originally Posted by: Chichesterweatherfan2 

In Southampton yesterday afternoon, hot, sunny, nice riverside pub garden - got back home in Chichester, could see a cunimb in front of us but otherwise would never have guessed that there was a local storm


War is God's way of teaching Americans geography - Ambrose Bierce

Chichester 12m asl

warrenb
29 May 2018 08:31:37
Can hear distant thunder here in Tonbridge now.
Rob K
29 May 2018 10:17:06
Heavy stuff incoming into the London area by the looks of it.
Yateley, NE Hampshire, 73m asl

"But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand." — Jerome K. Jerome

idj20
29 May 2018 11:19:57

Just reached the 20 mm mark in the form of occasional thundery downpours, and just heard the first real growler of the day. Most roads in the town are now flowing rivers, although the roadside drainage system really need a decent overhaul as half of them are blocked anyway.


Home location: Folkestone Harbour.
Rob K
29 May 2018 12:19:47

A couple of close strikes and booming thunder in central London in the last few mins.


Yateley, NE Hampshire, 73m asl

"But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand." — Jerome K. Jerome

martin h
29 May 2018 12:22:46

Storm was gradually getting stronger here in Belvedere if that's the right word, over the last couple of hours, thunder getting louder, darker and rain heavy for a while in the last half an hour, now seems to be easing.

warrenb
29 May 2018 12:27:19

Loads of flooding now being reported from Mid Kent, luckily here, we are to the west of the line of storms and just have the occasional burst of large drop rain and the distant boom of thunder.

 

M2 now closed, shops flooded in Strood and roads also. Parts of Gravesend also now flooded.


martin h
29 May 2018 12:55:55

Storm got worse again, now eased a little, just off to look at flooding down the road, not as bad as out in Kent hopefully.

DeeDee
29 May 2018 13:00:50

Thunderstorm here 

frequent flashes of lightning 


Harpenden, Herts.
cultman1
29 May 2018 13:45:37
Prolonged heavy rain and thunder here in Fulham 16 degrees this looks like going on for a long time
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29 May 2018 14:04:45

Well, we have been having a cracking time of it.  I've never known so many thundery days so close together before.  Just been over to Maidstone and got caught driving in some of the chain of storms working their way across mid/north Kent.  Not so much lightning and thunder, but plenty of rain, with the roadside drains spewing out water instead of draining it away, and dips in the road with floodwater all the way across a dual carriageway.  What with the windows of the car steaming up, water drops obscuring visibility in the mirrors, and one or two people driving like morons through deep water at full speed, throwing up six-foot high sprays on either side, it wasn't much fun driving, especially as I didn't know the road very well.

Angus


Angus; one of the Kent crew on TWO.

Tonbridge, 40m (131ft) asl

warrenb
29 May 2018 14:23:32
Seems to be a storm just to the north of me over Sevenoaks way at the moment, the trail of storms seems to be slowly slipping South as the day goes on.
DeeDee
29 May 2018 14:39:06
Still rumbling through here, although rain has eased off from torrential

Occasional flash of lightning


Harpenden, Herts.

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