picturesareme
24 June 2019 23:46:28

Originally Posted by: thor22 

One near Cardiff and Essex now.


not sure what your looking at 


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Gusty
25 June 2019 02:26:21

Deep booming and some decent lightning appearing with frequency to my south. It looks like Kent and East Sussex will take a hit from this. 


 


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idj20
25 June 2019 03:01:14
Seeing forked lightning here at Folkestone, also raining.
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warrenb
25 June 2019 04:21:55
All going just to the east of here
stophe
25 June 2019 04:26:35
No thunder or lightning yet just heavy rain at Stansted.
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25 June 2019 04:37:00

Nothing here at all overnight except mugginess but it has just started to rain.  Yes, a damp squib as far as night time pyrotechnics go, but we’ll see what day light brings. 


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25 June 2019 04:59:50

It seems to be moving fairly quickly now but with most of the lightning going up the Strait of Dover and staying off shore in the North Sea. 


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speckledjim
25 June 2019 05:46:06

Originally Posted by: Caz 


It seems to be moving fairly quickly now but with most of the lightning going up the Strait of Dover and staying off shore in the North Sea. 



Seems to be some action heading NNE towards you, currently east of Cardiff


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25 June 2019 06:05:46

Originally Posted by: speckledjim 


 Seems to be some action heading NNE towards you, currently east of Cardiff


I can’t see anything on lightning map https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en  What are you looking at?


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Sevendust
25 June 2019 06:20:08

Bust for here. Just a little rain

speckledjim
25 June 2019 06:22:50

Originally Posted by: Caz 


I can’t see anything on lightning map https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en  What are you looking at?



 


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25 June 2019 06:24:35

Just heavy rain here, now easing (I'm currently staying in N Essex). If there was any thunder, it didn't wake me up


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25 June 2019 06:39:42

Originally Posted by: speckledjim 


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Aah, Yes I’m Looking at that as well.  Yes you’re right!  There are some dark echoes of rain around that area but no lightning showing. Do you think it’s now taking a more Northerly path?  


It often happens that the Pennines keep it to the West of us but I think in this case, the system is too high for topography to make a difference. 


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Bugglesgate
25 June 2019 06:39:59

Originally Posted by: Sevendust 


Bust for here. Just a little rain



 


Ditto here - didn't even get woken up !


 


 


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25 June 2019 07:01:30

Looks like the lightning has finished for now!  Glad I didn’t stay up to watch because I’d have been disappointed.  This recent period of weather has differed quite a bit from what we were told to expect, which shows just how unusual it’s been and how difficult it’s been to forecast. 


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Crepuscular Ray
25 June 2019 07:56:49
I agree Caz a huge damp squib! Very poor forecasting!
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25 June 2019 08:05:29

There were some flashes & booms here at approx 4-5am but nothing too exciting, well not enough to totally wake me from my slumber!


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25 June 2019 08:29:09

Originally Posted by: Crepuscular Ray 

I agree Caz a huge damp squib! Very poor forecasting!


I have noticed though that the figures for your Scottish place of abode in the south of Edinburgh are quite interesting though.


I looked on the website for Swanston weather station which is your closest weather station up here to see what impacts yesterday's events would have been there.


As I write, that still hasn't been fully updated to include that and only goes up to 9am on yesterday morning. However, I have noticed that another major rain event was picked up on 12 June 2019 which I missed out on here in the north of Edinburgh, and which therefore wasn't picked up at either Edinburgh Gogarbank or the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.


What I noticed was that a total of 42.0 mm of rain was recorded for Swanston on 12 June 2019 which meant that the total for this month as at 9am yesterday morning was 102.4 mm.


Just recently, noodledoodle has been standing in for you in the south of Edinburgh in your absence, and he was saying that it was actually the west of Edinburgh which was the most badly hit by yesterday's event. That would have accounted for the exceptionally high rainfall total for Edinburgh Gogarbank which I reported for yesterday and since the west of Edinburgh also includes that NW corner of Edinburgh where I live, that would have accounted for those real monsoon-like conditions which I witnessed where I live.


Further east within Edinburgh though, it was a different story which then meant that relatively little in the way of rainfall was recorded at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh despite the fact that it is actually the closest station to where I live.


However, it is going to interesting to see what the totals for Swanston come out like once that data is updated to include yesterday's events. If I was to make a rash guess about that though, I would expect that total to be quite high since Swanston isn't far from Fairmilehead and lies more towards the SW of Edinburgh, and other locations within SW Edinburgh such as Murrayburn also recorded some very high rainfall totals for yesterday.


 


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25 June 2019 08:32:50

Slept through the whole event, so probably no thunder, but 10.9mm of rain.


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25 June 2019 08:42:40

Originally Posted by: Crepuscular Ray 

I agree Caz a huge damp squib! Very poor forecasting!

The saving grace being that Lincolnshire didn’t get flash floods from storms last night.  Although there is some persistent moderate rain here now and the radar shows it heading that way. 


I suppose it was always going to be difficult to forecast, given there were some unusual and extreme values being shown in the models.  It makes you wonder if we’ll ever get it right, as once again nature gets the upper hand on technology!  


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