Leicestershire weather reports please.

[Ohyoubadbadkitten]

Would be very interested in reports of today's storms please especially with regard to hail and any damage that occurred. If you don't want to out your location here then please pm me or send a report to torro who can keep who you are confidential
Thanks!
( please bump if you read this, as it was a very interesting storm and we need lots of reports )

It's bright in le2 at the mo, where are you?

Oh, usual suspect! Was it you who was going to come to mum and baby at st johns?

Its sunny again now

No wasn't me Elkie, I'm LE5

Sorry, you can still come if you are bored on a Friday and fancy some tea and biccies

My youngest DC is 19 , so I don't think he would enjoy it much

Ohyoubadbadkitten Wind suddenly ramped up a lot immediately prior to torrential rain, but while we now have some clouds, it has dropped again.

Fantastic storm, best forked lightning I've seen in this country. Driving along the A6 through Oadby was pretty ropey though - the road was seriously flooded in places - like driving through a lake. Hope I haven't damaged the car

Ha! It's nice and sunny now. Just hope it holds long enough for DS to do his bicycle training up at the school.

Darts, can you tell me anything about the direction of the wind?

Ha! there's lots of Clarendon park yummy mummies (I'm not!) and we have a sing song at the end. I have a voice that kills birds

Im in le14

my house is trashed. Greenhouse smashed to bits, polytunnel full of holes as hailstones tore through them, gutters are full of holes, my car is trashed and the insurance have just booked it in for a new respray.

I can honestly say it was really frightening as i was at home with my baby and my other dd was at preschool. It was awful knowing dd1 was somewhere without me prob frightened.

I filmed it on my phone, it was horrendous. Hailstones like golf balls hammered the house, my driveway was a swirling flooded mass within minutes and all our greenhouses just smashed to the floor. The noise was terrible and the house was as black as night inside.

Never seen anything like it in my life.

Doctors wife that is extraordinary, it must have been utterly terrifying, I'm so sorry you had to go through that.

Please, can you post this report to torro the tornado and storm research organisation. They will be exceptionally interested in this.

Off out for a bit to sit in a pub garden but will read any reports when I get back

Yes i need to upload the video/photos because believe it or not we're vacating the house and it was due for an end of tenancy inspection and ive had to photo everything to prove it wasnt me!! I'll put some pics on my profile tonight if u want to see.

TheDoctorsWife46 LE14, you can't be that far from me. Anything I can help with?

Ohyoubadbadkitten Wind direction west (ish) to East (ish) very roughly.

Hi Thedoctorswife, you are near me as well. Hope that you are ok. X

Oh it was wild wasn't it?!

It went so dark, then massive hailstones started falling, and sirens were going off everywhere.

Wish I'd have filmed it, I've never seen anything like it.

I opened my front door and a hailstone came in-I put pic on my profile.
Doubt its one of the biggest ones, but I wasn't going outside to get one
They melted very fast out there.

Im in asfordby?

Coolkat werent you on my antental thread (nov 08)? I keep thinking i know i was meant to meet up with either ceebee or coolkat and couldnt remember who was who. I lived in nw leics before.

Thank you for offers of help. Landlords are coming tomorrow to sort the house and the car is booked in for repair. It looks like 50 golfers took a shot at it. Village is flooded.

yes drswife that's me, I live in Melton. How are you doing? I see you have a new addition?

Are you moving out of the area or staying local?

Cool. Thanks dart :)

Thedoctorswife, i would be really interested in seeing your pictures please.

Will take a look eek :)

I can upload off my phone so i'll do it all tomorrow when i send to my letting agent.

Coolkat pm'd you.

Brilliant, I'd really appreciate it, thank you :)

Bump :)

My local Co op was flooded and closed for hours, my DSs friend has just come round her house flooded and they have lost everything downstairs

LE3 signing in.
Some reports of damage ~ loads of cars have been damaged in the Burbage/Hinckley area. And one of DH's work colleagues got a call to go home (between Leicester/Melton) this afternoon, as hail stones had damaged his conservatory roof and his conservatory was flooded.

We missed the 2nd lot of torrential rain that seemed to have occurred for our area around 4.15pm. I was over Narborough way (about 5 miles SW from where we live) and we had a heavy rain shower with chunky rain drops for about 5 minutes. But when we got home, there'd obviously been something more than that as there was very wet ground and we seemed to have gained a 2nd pond!

Things seem to be a bit fresher now. Hoping for a quieter day weather-wise tomorrow!