The world is about to end?

[Deadwasp]

It has gone really dark outside ie it's 0948am and the street lights have come on. Very very spooky.

central scotland here also, its awful. i am about to spend 2 weeks in a caravan with 3 children, god help me!!

I've got a car PomBear- It's walking 10 metres from the house to the car that's making me crap myself. :(
Phobias are so shit. My friend has a rodent phobia and she can't even watch cartoons of mice without freaking out.

First bit of lightening, 6 seconds away. I'm actually quite excited (about the lightening, rather than the end of the world).

It's coming this way now (E Mids) gone very dark and still.

Iawn, I can feel a bit of a headache as well, does seem like air pressure. for you and hugs. It's not stupid at all, don't think like that. Stay here and keep talking x

manic are you in NE too?

We went yesterday, still got to get the mud off the pushchair and boots

for you Iawn and tissues.

Ummm, it's thundering again, and the light is fading again.

Chickens. Is the entire puppy spinning in circles, or just the puppy's head?

See one is the sign of the apocalypse and the other is a sign that you will have to spend 20 minutes playing unless you want to chase after your washing.
Not sure which is worse though?

Sky signal gone again.

Here's a chart of lightening strikes:

www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=lightning;sess=

Really loud thunder and flickery lights again.

There is no weather here at all (Suffolk / Essex border)

It's just nothing, not sunny, not really cloudy, not raining but not really dry, not windy or still...it's just weird

waves to sparkling

I really thought it was gone then it came back louder than ever! crazy. Heading out in a bit so hope it gets a bit better

It got VERY dark here and the sky signal went. I tried to calm myself by reading books to my toddler. About 5 mins of heavy rain and then it passed. More is heading this way (mid west wales).
I am supposed to be going out tonight. I never ever go out but I know I'll just worry the whole time.

It might have passed right over by tonight Iawn, and be totally gone.

Okay, I've looked at the netweather forecast, and where it says "storm chance" it says 32% for 10 this morning, but 0% for the rest of the day (although heavy rain forecast at one with a high temp.) How can they work that out?

Had brown dust in the midlands here also. Weather was gorgeous going to school, and asked DS if he fancied helping me clean the car/have a water fight again this evening and he got excited at the thought.

Car is yet again sparkling after that downpour. He won't be impressed.

Is the storm moving west or east?
Must. Stop. Googling.

It's starting rumble again here...

Still continuous rumbling. Now raining heavily. Sky signal lost.

Iawn, I think it's all to do with how the clouds are behaving; if there's a masisve updraft, it creates a difference in electrical cahrge within the air column, and the spare charge discharges as lighening. If you've got heave rain at 1pm, it sounds like it's just a normal shower.

Britain doesn't generally gets that much in the way of thunder, and it doesn't tend to last long. Certainly where you are in mid-Wales, the vast majority of the rain clouds are formed by the warm damp air coming up from the Gulf that then gets forced up over the mountains, cools at the higher altitude, condenses and falls as rain. Those sorts of cloud formations aren't typically associated with thunder & lightening, so for the vast majority of the time, you'll be fine.

Man at Tescos told me to 'get plastered tonight its the end of the world tomorrow' - but that was on Sunday and I'm definitely still here!

It's thundering and pissing it down here. Pity really as the Olympic torch is meant to be passing through at some point

JammySplodger Thank you, thank you, thank you. I shall cut and paste that, it's ridiculously comforting for me.

The worst storm we have had here in SW Birmingham for years.