Very significant storm as I left Southampton on the train this
afternoon. Torrential rain with significant deterioration in visibility
- hard to tell, but probably down to 100m or less. Hail too. Many
lightning strikes, mainly to the southeast over the docks and probably
the west of the Isle of Wight. Covered a large area too - the storm was
moving NE and I was going SW on the train and it was torrential from
Southampton Central to just beyond Ashurst (probably about 10 minutes).
Large areas of standing water in the fields/forest west of Ashurst.

Nice and dry in Bournemouth though - doesn't seem to have been anything
at all here!

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in 226717 20070619 184119 Jonathan Stott wrote:
Very significant storm as I left Southampton on the train this
afternoon. Torrential rain with significant deterioration in visibility
- hard to tell, but probably down to 100m or less. Hail too. Many
lightning strikes, mainly to the southeast over the docks and probably
the west of the Isle of Wight. Covered a large area too - the storm was
moving NE and I was going SW on the train and it was torrential from
Southampton Central to just beyond Ashurst (probably about 10 minutes).
Large areas of standing water in the fields/forest west of Ashurst.

Nice and dry in Bournemouth though - doesn't seem to have been anything
at all here!

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Jonathan Stott
Canterbury Weather: http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/
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Had some really loud bangs and heavy rain here (just N of Portsmouth)

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:49:50 GMT, Bob Martin
wrote:

in 226717 20070619 184119 Jonathan Stott wrote:
Very significant storm as I left Southampton on the train this
afternoon. Torrential rain with significant deterioration in visibility
- hard to tell, but probably down to 100m or less. Hail too. Many
lightning strikes, mainly to the southeast over the docks and probably
the west of the Isle of Wight. Covered a large area too - the storm was
moving NE and I was going SW on the train and it was torrential from
Southampton Central to just beyond Ashurst (probably about 10 minutes).
Large areas of standing water in the fields/forest west of Ashurst.

Nice and dry in Bournemouth though - doesn't seem to have been anything
at all here!

Had some really loud bangs and heavy rain here (just N of Portsmouth)

Halfway between the locations of the last two posts, here in West
Fareham, we had the dark cloud (anvil) and the sound of distant
thunder from all directions but no measurable rain... only a trace and
the grass is already dry again.

Just goes to show the localised nature of such activity and how hard
it is to forecast it for any particular place.

--
Dave
Fareham (West)