Thunderstorm and lightning (very, very frightening)

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some amazing photos of storms in Dorset here

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

Those are fucking awesome.

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

i want a camera like that.

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

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

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

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

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

There had better be no storms tomorrow.

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

Rain in Surbiton, apparently.

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

It's pissing down

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

bring it on

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

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

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

Karuna

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― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 27 August 2005 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

did anyone see that mental london sky on thursday? it was like a week-old bruise. everything orange and purple, and a huge fuckoff rainbow over the whole thing. i had to go hang out of the window at work and gawp, and a small girl across the road was doing the same thing and we had a chat about it. (i guess the britishers really do love weather.)

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 27 August 2005 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://vinyljukebox.free.fr/images/products/Katrina&Waves_walkin200.jpg

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Saturday, 27 August 2005 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Cripes, there's been a MASSIVE thunder/lightning storm for the past half hour around here. There was one blast that had to have been within half a mile, it was that loud. Scariest I've ever heard.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty intense - haven't seen anything like it for a while. More please!

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

it is now raining in Los Feliz

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 04:45 (nineteen years ago)

wait, it stopped

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 04:45 (nineteen years ago)

back to you, Ned
http://abc7fansite.com/images/dallasraines/dallasraines5.jpg

― Dallas Raines (gear), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Still, if you're gonna invoke anyone...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 04:49 (nineteen years ago)

I have been inside for the past 15 hours.

― the son of dean cameron (dr g), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 05:23 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

We've got the full works around abouts at the moment - thunder, lightening, torrential rain - I wonder if I should still be on my comp...

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 12 May 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/earth/Atmosphere/images/tstorm_caution.gif

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 12 May 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

According to this...
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Atmosphere/tstorm/safety.html
"Do not use a phone or a computer during a thunderstorm. Do not take a shower or wash dishes. Lightning can strike the plumbing or electrical wires that connect to your house and give you an electrical shock if you use these items."

Luckily I've just finished washing the dishes. Does anyone know of anyone who has actually been hit by lightening while on the computer?

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 12 May 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

No, but I watched a co-worker get knocked across the room once when he was on the phone during a lightning storm.

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Friday, 12 May 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nowcast.co.uk/lightning/

― caek (caek), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Man, it's pretty crazy out there. Like giant paparazzi popping their titanic flashbulbs one after the other.

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Thursday, 1 June 2006 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

i got caught in it without an umbrella, but was lucky to arrive under scaffolding harboring a box full of thick cardboard makeshift-rainhats

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 1 June 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

i had forgotten how cool summer storms are

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 1 June 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

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seems like the worst possible outcome is 'electrical fire'

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

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

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

maybe i'll go home.

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 9 June 2011 01:23 (fourteen 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 (one year ago)

I didn't hear a thing!

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

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

― Maresn3st, Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:50 (one year ago)

This was last night in SE England:

https://imgur.com/gG5M0jJ

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:39 (one year ago)

This is why I never use imgur

http://imgur.com/gG5M0jJ

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:40 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago)

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

Thunder connoisseurs prefer Blitzortung

― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 2 May 2024 12:55 (one year ago)

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