Weather warnings part 2 - will they fade away, or is bad weather set to remain?

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

new thread. other one full.

Dry here in south devon. For once. I am eagerly awaiting some snow.

OYBK, posted last night about thunder, loudest ive ever heard.
local radio now saying it cant have bern thunder as none on the radar for last night.
With your knowledge, is it possible to rule thunder out like this ? and also what else could it have been ?
East Yorkshire area, loads of other people heard it, not just me

SE.
Sky did clear late morning and has been sunny since with some clouds.
Really want it to cloud over in the night to avoid frost but is almost a clear sky atm

Oh joy. A weather warning

caz1010

I heard it too, it woke me up

Apparently, a light earthquake hit uk early hours this morning, according to the daily mail.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-139475/Earthquake-shakes-Britain.html

I blame fracking

the ice warning spotty spotted.
Unsurprising given cold temps and standing water!

caz and cj tell me more about what you heard.

Geckos

I have been woken by a UK earthquake twice in the past, thugh not the one last night. And yes, it can sound a bit like a long rumble of thunder - though is different too. It seems to build up - we were woken before the shake itself, but the noise. It sounds different to thunder in that is sounds much lower - both in noise and direction - and lasts longer too in my experience. The shaking then happens as it reaches its peak or just after for us. Luckily shortlived in the uk with no real damage - but an unpleasant experience as I think it reminds you of what it must be like for those who have bigger quakes.

It sounded like very loud thunder to me, it seemed to go on for ages too.

Even though i was half asleep, I remember thinking it didn't sound like normal thunder.

I'm in East Yorkshire btw

www.quakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthquakes/recent_uk_events.html

UK earthquakes in last 50 days.

wonder why the bgs doesnt seem to have the birmingham earthquake?

went on for over 20 seconds and just the 1 rumble.
Got louder as it went on. Was raining heavily at the time. Sounded like it was moving. All very strange.

ok. Was there any evidence of tree damage or other wind damage over night?

Hampshire.

Brighter and colder today. But NO rain .

nope, been quite windy during the day but no wind at the time. ie rain was coming straight down, not sideways as other days this winter.
Local news saying now was not thunder, no confirmation of raf activity but possible, also possible asteroid
Sooo loud, sooo long and a one off.

Sorry ignore my dailymail link, i think it is an old story

See, this is why I should just stick to lurking

Not certain what the noise was, it did wake a lot of people up round here though, maybe thunder

I must learn to type faster. I've just refreshed and seen your latest post, cj, but here's what I'd already typed:

The Daily Mail article doesn't have a date; I think it could be referring to this quake: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2008/us2008nyae/.

Even if it wasn't an earthquake, it still sounds scary. I'm quite fascinated by this event, caz and cj, so if there's anything definitive, please post back. (Especially if it was an asteroid .)

Weather report from Winchester: Bright and sunny and mostly dry - that's a novelty . From my nearest online weather station I see we've have 111.5 mm of rain so far this year. As I'm old and there's a limit to what I can grasp in metric, I've had to translate that to English - good grief, that's 4 inches!

alcibiades This is our local news story about it, if you are interested

www.hulldailymail.co.uk/People-baffled-awoken-sound-like-single-explosion/story-20422945-detail/story.html

I promise, this is Today's story

Ooh, I will phone my mum first thing she is local to that area and a light sleeper. She will have lots of gossip.

That's fascinating reading, cj.

I wonder whether it was a meteoroid. A bit of space debris breaking up in the lower atmosphere could well give rise to the sounds that everyone heard. Similar, perhaps, to the event in Russia last year.

Perhaps alci - the time and the weather would limit potential observations.

Or perhaps it was a military aircraft being naughty and going supersonic over land.

So no hugely snowy aspect this week, though I wouldnt rule it out entirely in the usual suspect hilly areas. But next Saturday night GFS has rather a snow fest cold pool of air and a low pressure over us.

No snow for me ta. I have just returned from the 12 mile round trip into the countryside to drop DS1 off. VV icy, even though there's floods everywhere. Could feel the car sliding. Scary.