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WIndow open due to extreme heat.

Woken up at about 7am by some loud thunder. Got back to sleep. Now woken up
by a massive downpour, nice bright lightning and the loudest thunder i heard
in ages.


Ahh lovely birmingham

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Seem to have missed it here. Had a downpour 10 mins ago but it lasted only a couple of minutes and now it's almost sunny!! CVrazy weather! Give me back the sunshine...my legs are still pasty white!

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Not an intense thunderstorm but it did wake me up at 8 this morning.
It seems to be on/off at the moment with some rain (at last!) inbetween.

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Just having a slight shower here at the moment, not sure if it's going to turn into something heavier.

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No rain at all down here in folkestone... kent still seems to be all sunny...

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It's nice now. It thundered/rained from about 7am (i think, well that's when I noticed it, i was asleep at the time though) until about 1 and now it's about 18 C and there's a slight breeze.

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Still rumbling here

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It's doing the works here :)

In fact the power keeps flickering on and off so I don't know how much longer I'll be on.

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Had a storm at about 7-8AM this mroning, ever since that it's just been dull and cloudy.

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All OK in Sunny (East) Surrey, wind got up about midday but now calm and a bit cooler.
Ideal for tonights bowls match and hot dogs afterwards, sitting on the pavilion terrace. (I hope) !

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Now starting to rain in Weybridge (North Surrey), I wouldn't hold out much hope for your bowls evening.

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My hardware is all plugged into a good surge protector, so that should be safe, but obviously the white co-ax cable goes straight into the back of the CM and then on to the Router.....

Is this ok or am I likely to fry my machines if we get a lightning strike?

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Exelent :)

Huge thunderstorm over St Albans.. Realy loud thunder and its chucking it down...... Nice !!

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i wish it would here :(

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If there is a strike local then yes your equiptment will be damaged. If its that bad it would be an idea to isolate the coax m8..

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Cheers for that, it has been realy bad here and I had things unplugged during the worst of it.

It's mostly passed on now (although I still hear the occasional rumble, and the lights flicker every now and then), how local is "local" ;)

<WoW! Cue enormous clap of thunder as I posted that :Yikes: talk about timing :) >

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RAIN!!!!!! YAY!!!!! :D . There was a nice breeze earlier though.

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It has been proved that an underground cable is more likely to be struck than an overground one. The strike would have to be very local and by that I mean 30-40 feet away. It also depends on the character of the strike... Sounds silly I know but no two strikes will have the same patern or travel the same route.

Its all down to luck. When there are hundreds of thousands of volts traveling through the air it will go where it likes !!!

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Well the rain has stopped here and it is started to warm up again....no thunder storm though :(

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Ok, cool. Thanks for that I'll switch it off then, before I get stru............:shocking:

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have a look at these pictures what a sight!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/h...005/html/1.stm

the third one is just simply amazing :eek:

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wow :Yikes:

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Thats some nice shots of lightening strikes !!!

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How are they taken ? I know by camera but the speed of lightning must mean they either got reflex that quite fast or super fast camera shutter speed ?

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From what I gather it is more by luck than good judgement or very long shutter speeds and a tripod...

I would like to take pics like that but whenever there is a storm my camera is usually miles away.

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You were right, not a bowl bowled or a hot dogged. :(

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Generally it's easiest to take lightning pics at night because you can just leave the shutter open on "bulb" setting without worrying about completely over-exposing the film.

It *is* possible in daylight, but you need a very good Neutral Density filter to allow you to do a long exposure and a fair bit of luck (or a convenient high point in the distance that's likely to get struck repeatedly during a storm).

PS And use a tripod and a remote release to avoid camera shake!

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I can see that speed dating would never work for you Graham.

"My hobbies? Well I'm into sadomasochism and photography. Yourself?"

:D

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Hey, you never know! :D

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Actually, you may have a point :erm: :D

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:disturbd:

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We currently have a "dry" thunderstorm here, no rain yet.

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crickets off for it :(

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Just had a thundersotrm here. Took about 20 minutes before it rained. But not raining again but still nice loud thunder and lightning

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This may be of use...

http://www.meteorologica.info/freedata_lightning.htm

It shows the last 60 minutes of UK Lightning activity...

The midlads are taking a battering at the moment!

Come east please!!!

I love a good storm!

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Heard on the weather it is heading this way so fingers crossed

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just started to have thurnder and lighting in south herts/north london

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Just arrived in Cardiff, looking promising too. :D

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Black as the obbs of hell in Rushden, Northants but no flash bangs yet....

:(

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dry storm here

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nothing here, nice and cool though.

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Here it comes, and looking at the charts / sferics this ones gonna be a doozy....

Gonna power down...

Back later, enjoy the show!!!

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Can still hear the clapping and it's been 2 hours now :erm:

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:clap: :clap: :sorry: :Sprint:

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Its returning in birmingham

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it's raining in Sutton.
Alot.

I wish I'd paid more attention to the plans for the ark now

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Was able to record 2 sounds of the storm :D

You will have to excuse the slight "chimes" in the first one, my mother has a wind chime outside and the microphone caught it :rolleyes:

And yes, I do sound editing as a hobby :)

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aw cool it's here now :)

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The first one is so cool!!!!

The chimes make it sound very surreal!

Good job!

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Glad you liked it :D

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It was way better than the damp squib pussy stuff we are getting here at the moment!!!

Oh, and yes, I am tempting fate!

Bring on the good stuff!!!

:)

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I can see a storm off to the right of the house and one off to the left.

I'm hoping that they'll meet up :)

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We have another huge storm here. 3 hours and it's still coming :erm:

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I am still waiting for the good stuff to get here....

:(

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I can hear the rumblings of thunder here up north :erm:

and no it's not my tummy ;)

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Yeah... thats just started down here in folkestone...

was on the bus on the way home from work about ten min ago.. and the sky kept flashing quite bright, and lots of thunder.. just no rain...

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Many years ago (about 1983 IIRC) there was an incredible "atmospheric" thunderstorm over Bristol, masses of lightning discharges which you could watch radiating out from a point or racing across the sky, but not a drop of rain.

It was amazing!

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Woah, almost every second I can see a bolt of lightening out of my window!

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I was going to try and get some piccys - but my digicam is not up to it :(

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Nah, this is more like it:
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/files/richard/storm.mp3 :shocked:

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Still going on and off since just after six (managed to get the bins out without getting too wet) nearest storm was around 8.30pm. Lovely :D

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Only just started raining here (manchesterish) seen one bit of lightening but no thunder as yet. so is that the summer over then?
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Now sky is playing up - picture keeps freezing :mad:

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Very good!

But I have to say the chimes kinda did it for me... :erm:

lol

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The storm here is lighting up the sky! :(

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that was the year i was born :)

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Modem went down for about half an hour.
Saw quite a few direct strikes down to earth. One of the biggest so far this year.
I've seen a lot worse though, but this was good.
A little scary too when I'm up in the roof.

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Got a camera?

Get some pics!!! :D

Gotta be better that the stuff we have here....

:(

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More work tomorrow with all this lightening :mis:

Dead quiet here - no rain AFAIK and definitely no thunder. All hot and humid still.

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Watch the lip, kid, or this could be the year you cop it...!! :mad:

















:jk:

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Would have loved to but just when I was about to, the thunderstorm stopped.
I'm hoping for a repeat performance tommorow.
Although it may come back later tonight. Its boiling here right now. I hope it rains.

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Bah, nothing to write home about in Swindon today... few flashes o' lightning, the odd pathetic rumble, but no great storms.

The best storms I've seen were in the south of France during a heatwave a few years back. That took the electricity out for a very long time, and scared me half to death. Normally I really enjoy storms, but not that one :eek:

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Real proper storm here, started last night about 9pm. Looks like the drains overflowed as there is dirt all over the roads.

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All we have now is rain. And I've got to pop to my college to talk to my tutor too :(

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Around 9/10pm last night we had some lightning and then it rained about midnight and really did come down but apart from that, that was it.

This morning its very cloudy and been drizzling all morning.

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Well as far as I know it never got to Leeds :( the rain did though

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Everytime I read the thread title I get Bohemian Rhapsody in my mind.Damn it! ;)

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The lightening was miserable. It didnt even come back.
Now its just hot and cloudy here.

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Usual short spurts of rain mostly a dry storm.

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Well it's already much worse here than it got last night!!!

Sky has just gone off too - I'm off upstairs to watch my NTL box :)

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Bielzebub has the divil for a sideboard you know.

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We had a cracker in Milton Keynes at about 4.30ish it absolutely tipped it down much to the annoyance of 3 ickle girlies walking down the street that looked like they had been swimming fully clothed!!!

:D

:woot:

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Just started here (again).....looks like it's gonna be a good un as well. :D

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we had some earlier. Where do you live Raist? ;)

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St Ives, Near Cambridge.
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I'd rather live in Nottingham, be nice and close to the Pit and Pendulum then :D

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cool. must be working its way south then. Nice to see you southerners getting northern cast-offs for a change :D

The pit and pendulum is pretty cool i have to say :)

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Yep, can't think of anywhere else you can go for a night of Lust, Gluttony, and Sloth, and watch Nightmare on Elm Street at the same time :D

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The best bit is the mock flame thingies outside that are actually mock hankie-like thingies being turned around.

Inside I spose it's a tad on the pricey side especially seeing as I'm still comparing with student prices.

Go up to Nottm often then?

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Used to. One of my ex's had parents there. They've moved locally now (oh, and I'm not with her any more).

I was up there for a seminar with work last September, don't think I've been up since. There were three of us and I was the only one that knew his way 'round Nottingham so I gave them a guided tour - we ended up rat ar*ed in the P&P every night :D

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A few rumbles earlier (9ish) here in Rushden, nowt but rain since....

:(

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Don't they have the toilets hidden behind a bookcase or something like that?

(Never been there myself, but heard of it).

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It's a nice city- chavs, wannabe gangstas and real gangstas permitting of course!
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yep.

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Yep, first time I went in there I was told:

"The toilets are downstairs, to the right of the bar"

So I went through the door and found myself in the Kitchen.....

Nobody told me I had to open the (faux) bookcase first :)