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Anyone been in 'interesting' weather?

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GoldStarAngel · 28/09/2021 13:16

I was on the edge of a rain storm today. Literally being rained on one side of the street but not the other. Loved it - felt v cool and like I was inside a scientific experiment. Any others?

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freshcarnation · 28/09/2021 14:37

Earthquake. In the Midlands

stripetop · 28/09/2021 14:52

We live in a rural hill farm with BIL and SIL. It has its own weather system.

She lives about 100 yards away.

Standing joke we text on a Friday and say what's the weather like with you. If it's windy here, sunny there and vice versa. To the point of gale force here and scorching there. Sometimes it snows at one and not the other. Just bizarre.

LovePoppy · 28/09/2021 14:59

@PhoboPhobia

Not interesting as such but my only time experiencing sub zero temperature was an eye opener.

DH and I went to Hamburg in January a few years back. Went well equipped for the cold but nothing quite prepares you for it. It was between -7 and -12 over the 5 days we were there.

giggles in canadian

waybill · 28/09/2021 15:07

I went to a wedding in June some years ago (in England), and while they were taking the photos outside the church it started to snow.

MadameOvary81 · 28/09/2021 21:43

I am so sorry your mum lost her house to hurricane Sandy, @crispinglovershighkick It was the most awful storm. We had encountered others in Florida prior to this, but Sandy was something else.

Isababybel · 28/09/2021 22:00

Saw a smallish tornado in Florida in 1997. Ive tried to look it up as i remember it being on the local news as it caused damage but can find no evidence of it.

GenevieveLenard · 28/09/2021 22:07

Low key but I love driving around when low thick fog fills lower valleys or hovers over some fields but not others. I wonder if it’s actually square white patches from above as it seems.

TracyBeakerSoYeah · 28/09/2021 22:15

@freshcarnation ooh yes remember that well.
Was sat on the sofa & heard an almighty bang (actually thought that DH had fallen out of bed!) then wondered why the sofa was vibrating & things on the mantelpiece were shaking.
You could actually see the air wobble, bizzare.
DF & DM were nearer to the epicentre & people in the street had roof tiles fall off etc.

It was only a magnitude of 5.2 but it did make think of how awful it must be for those people who've experienced much stronger earthquakes.

And yes yes to the monsoons in the Caribbean & Central America.

swapsicles · 28/09/2021 22:17

Used to live on the coast and you could see the sea fog roll in, enveloping everything as it went inland like a wave. Within seconds it went from clear and bright to thick fog!

Ylvamoon · 28/09/2021 22:29

Massive downpour / thunderstorm while driving on the motorway in Central Europe. There was no time to pull over, so people just stopped in the middle of the road.as visibility just went very quickly. Lasted about 30 minutes.

MooseBeTimeForSummer · 28/09/2021 22:47

Canadian here too. Current record -52 with the wind chill.

Blankspace4 · 28/09/2021 22:49

Saw a really epic thunderstorm one afternoon over the sea in Miami. It went SO dark!

Thunderface · 28/09/2021 22:54

@insancerre

In Menorca we experienced a storm that lasted all day with torrential rain and spectacular lightning We dodged the rain to eat out. The rain flooded the restaurant and knocked out the power. The staff calmly picked up our table and food and moved us further inside where they lit candles and we carried on with our meal

We had the same experience in Menorca about 20 years ago. I've never seen rain like it. Everywhere flooded. Crazy thunder and lightning. I bought a hoodie in a gift shop because we were on a day trip when it started and I was so cold and wet.

Zeal · 28/09/2021 22:57

Easter 1998. It started grey and then the rain came. Gradually at first, then stealthily building up so that it was torrential without you noticing it. But it didn't just give its all for 20 minutes and then stop, like a midsummer storm. Rain just continued to fall the whole day. By 5pm the roads were closing due to rising flood water and I needed to go home. As I drove past the local canal, barges had been lifted clean out of the water and deposited on the meadows, ready to be claimed as salvage. As I drove over the hills, there were pools of water in high places that had never collected there before. Drowned lambs, just two days old, and sheep were floating towards gateways. My car died as I went through a dip in the road, before I abandoned it on the verge perched over a drop. A lady gave me a lift to the next village in her waterproof landrover, then I walked the rest of the way home, a good 6-7 miles, without seeing or hearing another car or another soul. It was wet, but most of all it was eerie.

MrsPear · 28/09/2021 23:04

Laying on a sun lounger 30 plus heat on a beach in brilliant sun. Behind me was dark clouds and rain - not close enough to step into but close enough to feel bloody strange.

I’ve also had rain on one side and not the other at home.

CorianderAndCream · 28/09/2021 23:08

Yes! In Greece last year I was playing table tennis on a roof terrace when we suddenly saw a bit of a whirlwind... and then realised the napkin in the air was actually an entire sun bed really high up. It quickly turned into two massive cyclones which touched down on the ocean.

The hotel had us all locked in the stairwells staring at this enormous tornado/cyclone barrelling towards the hotel.

It took deckchairs, beach umbrellas. The roof off the bar, there was all sorts just flapping around.

It was so cool.

Blankspace4 · 28/09/2021 23:09

@Zeal good god that’s a horrible image!!

CorianderAndCream · 28/09/2021 23:10

Oh and my first ever car was totalled by a flood that filled the entire first floor of my student digs. I saw a bot go past my second floor bedroom window 😂

CorianderAndCream · 28/09/2021 23:24

Boat*

MrsFin · 28/09/2021 23:30

@PhoboPhobia

Not interesting as such but my only time experiencing sub zero temperature was an eye opener.

DH and I went to Hamburg in January a few years back. Went well equipped for the cold but nothing quite prepares you for it. It was between -7 and -12 over the 5 days we were there.

I'm guessing you're not from the U.K.? 🤔

PickAChew · 28/09/2021 23:35

I've had a few situations where it's been raining in one side of the house and not the other.

Got off a bus in the pouring rain, this afternoon. Threw my hood up and the rain was hitting it hard and clattering loud then in the space of 2 steps, wasn't falling at all. That was weird.

PickAChew · 28/09/2021 23:37

Where are you from, @PhoboPhobia

Scarby9 · 28/09/2021 23:37

On a beach in Samos, Greece. Hot, sunny, with a gentle breeze.
Suddenly all the beach furniture from one small area - maybe 5m square? - blew up quite high into the air and were tumbled about 10m inland. Several people were injured, although not badly.
Justt thst one tremendously strong gust of wind in one small srea for about 3 seconds. Weird.

PickAChew · 28/09/2021 23:41

There were tornadoes around Hull and Grimsby, yesterday - my parents lost power for several hours. Also water spouts reported up here, at Seaham.

Bontanics · 28/09/2021 23:56

Me and my mum at the top of Westbury white horse Hhill where it was snowing up on top and everywhere around us we could see sunshine in every direction. Something in the air pressure effected the static as our hair was standing on end.

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