Thunder, lightning, heavy rain ...

[uglymugly]

... in mid Hampshire, started at about 16:15. The Met Office radar shows quite a big blob (technical term ) of red/white right over us. Time lag between lightning flash and thunder is very small. The street lights, which are sensor-controlled, keep coming on then going off.

I should power down my computer, I suppose.

I like thunderstorms, they're very exciting.

I hate thunderstorms

Oooh, I love a good storm... as long as I am tucked up indoors

We had it too in SW Hampshire. Suddenly went very dark.

same here. wasn't sure if it would come off (was sceptical and clearly wrong!)
overhead so being daring by having pc on!

torro have initiated a convective discussion

was quite impressive here. As soon as I posted dd said 'Mummy the sky is going yellow' then we had absolutely torrential rain, a little bit of hail and some good overhead T&L. So I turned off pc.

Heres hoping for many more thunderstorms this year

Just passing us now, almost dark outside.

Heavy rain starting here now in SW London - will wait for T&L - another one here who loves a good storm!

Sadly I have to go out in it though, as have DS2's parents' evening.

I've got to go to ds's parents evening tonight at 6.20 and its POURING , absolutely TIPPING it down.

I wonder if I might...'forget'

I'm sure he's doing fine at school

Should pass fairly quickly

Why do computers have to be turned off?

Heavy rain here in Surrey, going out for birthday dinner later so hoping it passes in about an hour and a half!

If there is a local hit the surge can take out your computer. This happened a couple of years ago to all our neighbours - a strike hit a couple of back gardens and it took out computers, phones and tellys. Very impressive. Fortunately we were unplugged. Just switching off is no good. Unplugging is needed.

I do have a ups (uninterruptable power supply) installed now, but I wouldn't trust it to handle a close hit.

nice radar

potential is there for this afternoon for some more rumbly storms.