Thunderstorm potential

[Ohyoubadbadkitten]

Quick heads up, will try to elaborate later, but today is a bit bonkers. Looks like there is potential for some severe thunderstorms tonight/tomorrow. I'll be honest and say that I've not looked at this myself yet have nicked it off a very reputable forum Tomorrows potential depends on what happens tonight - how much cloud cover is left over as we need the sun to get things going.

Will try and be more specific later,

Hope you manage to get more rest later OYBBK.

Nothing too bad overnight here - Woke at 5.45 to see it was raining steadily but not too heavy.

I'm in school all day today, so have elected to wear sandals to keep my feet cool. Am fully expecting soggy feet on the way home though.

I'm not looking forward to later if it does thunder - we have two children in class who are terrified of it.

Am in school too :) Last time we had thunder a chorus of screams came over the playground.
Hope its ok for the kids in your class.

It's started raining in Southampton. OYBBK 1 - BBC 0 !
2 hours, :( Here's a strong coffee for you

raining big ploppy drops here too. Strong coffee sounds good. Not supposed to have caffeine but it is verrrrrrrry tempting.

(plane has taxied and no urgent phonecalls saying dd has lost her passport/bag/head so at least she has made it on to the trip!)
cant believe I have to work in this state! Struggled to sleep the night before through worrying about the trip and other stuff

It's very strange in South Shropshire this morning. There has been a continuous deep rumble of thunder for nearly half an hour now. There have been a few lightening flashes followed by a proper bang of thunder but otherwise just a non-stop rumble that does wax and wane but never stops. There's no apparent wind. It's just rained so maybe it will move on soon.

Absolutely torrential rainstorm in the night (about 4.30) but its sunny now in e. midlands. (About 1cm rain in less than 1/2 hour, according to my inaccurate recording devices.)

it is very dark here... I also feel like I need a machete to cut through the air as it is so thick. thunder and rain should arrive shortly before 2 pm as the children have a torch relay at school. there is also a possibility for rain at 11.35 as this is nursery pick up time.

the ground was wet this morning but to be honest i did not notice anything in the night other than small boy who slept on my arm.

Very much a 'calm before the storm' here in Leicester. It's a horribly muggy 22C with a few rumbles of thunder.

(BTW has anyone got a 'sandy car' this morning?! I think some Sahara sand must have blown the UK's way during the night!)

If you can get it to load (it's really slow atm, possibly because of all the lightning strikes), netweather.tv (can't do links because of its slowness), is showing a huge line of lightning strikes, running from Sheffield down to Gloucester. I think the last time I was able to get it to load, the Strike total was running at over 5000 in the last hour!

Here's the link, Gloria. It's loading fine here.

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

IamtheZombie ~ just been outside for a few minutes and we've got that continuous rumble of thunder too. I don't think I've ever heard anything like it before. It must be really turbulent up in them clouds!

It's very 'rumbly' here. I think its wind squaliing around....but every so often I wonder if its thunder.

I'm still in bed but it looks very dark the other side of the curtains...

Thanks for that, Zombie. Think I'm having computer problems this morning!

Yup. Bucketing it down here, and thunder too.

So much for summer

Ooo I'm leicesterish too...wonder if it is actually thunder...

Well all the rumbles/dark clouds earlier was a bit of a non-event for us. It brightened up, there was great danger of the sun coming out and we had a slightly fresher breeze. But the breeze has gone and the humidity has now returned and dark clouds are looming again.

I'm all for a good storm but I'm not liking this at all!

OYBBK

Excellent - Thank you. I shall try to get DD to have an afternoon nap so that
I can peruse your links.

Very muggy here this morning, then short sharp fat-drops of rain. Beautiful and sunny now. (South)

Well that was a storm and a half.

HUGE hailstones.

Constant rumbling interspersed with some loud cracks.

Hope your dd enjoys her school trip....... and you get some sleep tonight!

tornado watch was issued this morning.
Reports of severe hail damage in Leicestershire - Hinckley area and also Coventry. Also possible tornado in leicestershire ( reports of damage Nuneaton- loughborought.)

Any reports of damage please?

Well, there's an 8 foot lake on my lawn now :( Bloody summer

Haunted. - can you give an estimate of size please ( and perhaps pm me rough location)