Thunderstorm and lightning (very, very frightening)

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I love it, it's a great thrill to hear and feel that sort of chaos unfolding...call it a touch of the sublime in the 18th century sense.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

but what about my poodle you bastard!

― hugh walpole, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

i like being indoors watching or listening to thunder and lightning. it's strangely relaxing. i'm doing it right now, and i have a great view out of this big University Library window.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Angela doesn't agree: she'd like to go out down the shops for some food, but it's been thundering since 10 last night.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

It's nice when you're in a dark room and the flash lights it up for a split second. there were some cool storms when i was over in venice over the summer.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

jesus yeah,the thunder this morning was unreal

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

And we've just got it here. My washing is outside and has been for days, but I am too ill to venture into the garden in sopping rain and collect soaking clothes.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

"ah stevem, welcome back to Britain - just for you we've arranged some chubascos tormentos so you can feel better about the crap but not stormy weather stateside during your visit"

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

that was PROPER thunder just then actually, like BANG not rrrummmmble - it had the oddest effect on me, usually i furrow my brow nervously (a reflex maintained from childhood) but this time i just laughed

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Bloody hell, I came here searching for a Thunder thread coz there was just a huge clap of scary thunder outside...you aint in Glasgow are you Stevem?!!

― smee (smee), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Ok, I take it back - it's Thursday and the scary thunder has made me forget what day it is!!!

― smee (smee), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Scary thunder in glasgow. the rain is ridiculous and i'm wearing a moleskin jacket. humph.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

a thunderstorm, in the daytime, is a swizz.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Hah you Glaswegians - you have our Sassenach London weather from yesterday!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

as suspected, we're london's sloppy seconds.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i heart lightning. i miss it.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw the most incredible thunderstorms in WA. I used to have all the wheat farmers buring their heads and praying it wouldn't be their farm that got hit.

― Nellie (nellskies), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

There was so much hail it looked like it had snowed!

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

some amazing photos of storms in Dorset here

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Those are fucking awesome.

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

there was a huge thunderstorm around here recently, it knocked out my internet for two days!

― ra's al latebloomer: not a dolphin lover, honest (latebloomer), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i want a camera like that.

― monsanto and yanni (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Manual controls set for long exposure times and a bit of luck.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

london's supposed to be getting some storms this afternoon. still sunny here, but Knowing My Luck it'll start immediately i leave the office. it will be disappointing if it does, because thunderstorms look so much better at night.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm hopinh we get a good storm here, I love them, they very rarely happen around here though.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

No clouds here yet, but the wind's picking up.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

My girlfriend's house was struck at about 5am. No one was hurt, but it blew the main fuse and totally fucked a stereo, a camcorder, a TV, the phone, the Sky and a couple of other things.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

There had better be no storms tomorrow.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate nearby thunderstorms -- I'm always scared I'm going to get my livelihood (computer) blown up.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I love thunderstorms. I just wish I had somewhere decent to watch from. Back in Oxon we (my family) would all troop outside as soon as a storm started to go and stand on the river bridge to watch the storm over Otmoor. Lovely stuff. With my luck today it will start as soon as I step off the bus. It is darkening in Kentish Town.

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

if i had a pound for everytime i've had to buy a new modem due to lightning strikes, I'd have 3 quid.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Rain in Surbiton, apparently.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

It is very dark and still in EC1 so I'm predicting POUNDING rain.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

It's pissing down

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 24 June 2005 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

bring it on

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 24 June 2005 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

to go and stand on the river bridge to watch the storm over Otmoor

Which bridge, lix? Islip?

― C J (C J), Friday, 24 June 2005 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Amazing storms in London last night. The loudest bang of thunder I think I've ever heard came as my train trawled through Peckham.

Flashes of lightning every 6 seconds if the most frequent I've witnessed too personally, in the UK at least.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

So great to be indoors, fed and warm as the hail rattled down and the lightning flashed closer and closer.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

I winced at a few really close strikes but didn't get quite as het up as the wee girl in Poltergeist.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

Last night was the biggest storm I'd ever seen! Our flat has nice big windows and we got a great view of the lightning bolts which seemed to be coming down around Friern Barnet or thereabouts. I suspect one hit Ally Pally cos the TV went out for an hour or so.

It was a great feeling being safe indoors watching! Our elder cat was scared shitless though, hid under the duvet all night. Kitten Pogo wasn't bothered! He even slept through some of the thunder.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

I happened to leave the pub last night at the exact point when the slight drizzle turned to an absolute downpour. We tried running but eventually was so wet that I just gave up and walked, given I wasn't going to get any wetter.

It was very exciting though, given that the storm was directly over us. Although sheltering in the metal bus shelter may have been a bad idea in hindsight.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

it was just on the tele! looks glorious

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

yea it was good last night, there was that really huge bang as well, much louder than the others, that was something!

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

I felt very smug that I managed to transfer from the 59 to the 159 right before the first burst of the storm really kicked off.

However, during the second, later burst of the storm (sometime during CSI) there was the legendary HAILSTONES THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS bouncing off my windowledge.

I suppose I should have gone downstairs and looked at them more properly, but Catherine looked like she was going to Get Some for the first time in, well, ever, last night.

― MIS Information (kate), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

CJ, yes Islip bridge. Are you familiar?

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

I turned the TV off and the lights and lay on my bed feeling like a caveman

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Nice heat lightning to the north right now. Continuous, like god's own squad car with the flashers rolling, just over the horizon. No thunder.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 27 August 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

Supposedly people watch storms from East Rock Park. I want to try this.

― youn, Saturday, 27 August 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

We had a good thunderstorm on Thursday. Yesterday's front-page-story in the local paper: a stupid woman and her daughter who heard the thunder starting - it wasn't even raining yet - and decided to shelter under a tree. They're now in a specialist burns hospital.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

I love that kind of dry rolling lightning, a while back we had an amazing storm here that had this strobe-effect lightning, you couldnt see any bolts, just flashes, repeatedly for hours, like the sky was a disco, it was brilliant. Seems to only really happen in summer here.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 27 August 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

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I was running late at Town Lake when I saw most of it! Was worried I wouldn't make back to my car before a deluge, but it never did actually rain on me.

― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 15:30 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

IT IS THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW!!

― James Mitchell, Thursday, 16 July 2009 22:34 (sixteen years ago)

nine months pass...

holy fuck this thunder is loud

― vike me down (dyao), Thursday, 6 May 2010 23:04 (sixteen years ago)

but can you FEEL it?

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 6 May 2010 23:48 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

it's really thundering and raining here. i'm away from my house, but i left my box fan running in the window. i'm assuming it's getting wet. is this really dangerous or is the worst that's likely to happen is i ruin my fan? should i run home and turn it off even if it's inconvenient?

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 9 June 2011 01:14 (fifteen years ago)

might short and cause your fuse to trip?

― british sb power (dayo), Thursday, 9 June 2011 01:17 (fifteen years ago)

hmmm. maybe. i guess that itself wouldn't be the end of the world. i just don't want it to cause a fire or something... obv.

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 9 June 2011 01:19 (fifteen years ago)

seems like the worst possible outcome is 'electrical fire'

― british sb power (dayo), Thursday, 9 June 2011 01:22 (fifteen years ago)

but it's raining so that should put out the fire

― british sb power (dayo), Thursday, 9 June 2011 01:22 (fifteen years ago)

seems like the worst possible outcome is 'electrical fire'

― british sb power (dayo), Wednesday, June 8, 2011 8:22 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

aieeeeee

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 9 June 2011 01:23 (fifteen years ago)

maybe i'll go home.

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 9 June 2011 01:23 (fifteen years ago)

nine years pass...

A new world record lightning has been recorded! A World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has established two new world records for the longest reported distance and the longest reported duration for a single lightning flash. The longest lightning flash duration is now set at more than 16 seconds in Argentina, while the longest distance is set at more than 700 km (nearly 450 miles) in Brasil!

just trying to imagine what a 450 mile lightening flash that isn't on one of the gas giants, but here on this rock, looks like. jeez!

― calzino, Monday, 29 June 2020 22:51 (five years ago)

comma comma comma chameleon!

― calzino, Monday, 29 June 2020 22:53 (five years ago)

That's terrifying.

― peace, man, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 12:43 (five years ago)

three years pass...

Feeling half dead today after being kept awake last night by what seemed to be endless thunderstorms.

― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:36 (two years ago)

I didn't hear a thing!

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:41 (two years ago)

This is my favourite website - https://www.lightningmaps.org/

― Maresn3st, Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:50 (two years ago)

This was last night in SE England:

https://imgur.com/gG5M0jJ

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:39 (two years ago)

This is why I never use imgur

http://imgur.com/gG5M0jJ

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:40 (two years ago)

Ok, you just have to imagine it, while I crawl back to the mid-'00s and Flickr BBCodes

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:41 (two years ago)

Yeah slept through last night's. Looked at the radar map and seems a bit unusual for the storms to drift from south-east to north west as they seem to be.

― nashwan, Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:49 (two years ago)

This is my favourite website - https://www.lightningmaps.org/

Thunder connoisseurs prefer Blitzortung

― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 2 May 2024 12:55 (two years ago)

two years pass...

Crazy thunderstorm last night, woke me up at 3am or something. Lasted a good hour...

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 June 2026 08:50 (five days ago)

A solitary thunderstorm cell erupting out of nowhere today over southern England. pic.twitter.com/unkQltQgGw
— Backpirch Weather (@BackpirchCrew) June 22, 2026

kind of jealous, it looked like a pretty cool storm

― calzino, Tuesday, 23 June 2026 08:55 (five days ago)

It felt nice and cool for a bit this morning.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 June 2026 08:57 (five days ago)

It looked pretty intense, but nothing compared to the vid my brother sent me on whatsapp of an absolutely fucking mental storm in Dubai.

― calzino, Tuesday, 23 June 2026 09:03 (five days ago)

(xp) It did but it's warming up rapidly!

― stanes on the knees and blood on the jumber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 June 2026 09:04 (five days ago)

Think the storms might mean it's a couple of degrees less than forecast later fwiw (not a lot, v muggy outside).

― nashwan, Tuesday, 23 June 2026 09:11 (five days ago)

last night was p wild - i woke up as the thunder was so loud, as loud as i've ever heard probably. lightning was properly strobing too.

― LocalGarda, Tuesday, 23 June 2026 09:16 (five days ago)

My heart did skip a beat at one of them.

Wonder if it was a month's worth of rain in that hour.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 June 2026 09:24 (five days ago)

yeah actually the noise of the rain was absolutely crazy, prob the loudest and fastest downpour i've heard.

― LocalGarda, Tuesday, 23 June 2026 09:37 (five days ago)

It was crazy, but living here means you can’t even really enjoy the rain to cool off cos it just means humidity. The cats were complaining about the storm once they realised we were awake lol, but has been quiet up to that point

― hat stays on (gyac), Tuesday, 23 June 2026 10:37 (five days ago)

Biblical thunderstrom, it was amazing show. Terrifying and exhilarating in equal measure.

So the predicted temperatures have gone down in the forecast for the next 3 days. I guess we can thank the storm for that, reducing atmospheric pressure. Genuinely happy about this lol

― glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 23 June 2026 12:13 (five days ago)

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