Frequent close lightning and torrential rain with some hail. Very exciting!

Roy Avis
Current Bracknell Weather plus Latest Statistics at:
http://www.weatherfamily.org/bracknell
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On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 18:23:40 -0000
"Roy Avis" wrote:

Frequent close lightning and torrential rain with some hail. Very
exciting!


Not 'arf! Flashbang a few minutes ago; Can't have been very far away.



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Graham P Davis
Bracknell

On 17/07/2013 19:26, Graham P Davis wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 18:23:40 -0000
"Roy Avis" wrote:

Frequent close lightning and torrential rain with some hail. Very
exciting!


Not 'arf! Flashbang a few minutes ago; Can't have been very far away.



Sferics and white rain on radar centred over some place called
Bracknell. Some people have all the luck - it's only 10 years late!

Roy Avis wrote:
Frequent close lightning and torrential rain with some hail. Very exciting!

Roy Avis
Current Bracknell Weather plus Latest Statistics at:
http://www.weatherfamily.org/bracknell
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The words "lucky bleeder" spring to mind !

On Wednesday, 17 July 2013 19:23:40 UTC+1, Roy the Beard wrote:
Frequent close lightning and torrential rain with some hail. Very exciting!



Roy Avis

Current Bracknell Weather plus Latest Statistics at:

http://www.weatherfamily.org/bracknell

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On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 6:23:40 PM UTC, Roy the Beard wrote:
Frequent close lightning and torrential rain with some hail. Very exciting!



Roy Avis

Current Bracknell Weather plus Latest Statistics at:

http://www.weatherfamily.org/bracknell

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Thanks guys! Nice 9.8mm in half and hour. Lots over gutters, but collected about 400 litres in my water butts! Temp down to 22C - pleasant. Max rain rate around 300mm/hour!

All over now, but possibly some local flooding.

Roy

On Wednesday, 17 July 2013 19:23:40 UTC+1, Roy the Beard wrote:
Frequent close lightning and torrential rain with some hail. Very exciting!



Roy Avis

Current Bracknell Weather plus Latest Statistics at:

http://www.weatherfamily.org/bracknell

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Keith Grant, central Bracknell SU875691 (sorry for last post, I'm unused to this)
Rain: 24 mm, 1744-1830Z, most torrential at 1819Z, when gusty W wind.
Thunder: About 25 occasions 1733-1826Z, close 1812-1822.
Hail: a few 5 mm stones 1817-1819Z.
If you want more details e.g. for investigation, try 9 Drayton Close, Bracknell, RG12 9AY, but I don't have recording instruments like Roy, who lives only a mile away!

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On Wednesday, 17 July 2013 19:23:40 UTC+1, Roy the Beard wrote:
Frequent close lightning and torrential rain with some hail. Very exciting!



Roy Avis

Current Bracknell Weather plus Latest Statistics at:

http://www.weatherfamily.org/bracknell

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Keith Grant, central Bracknell SU875691 (sorry for last post, I'm unused to
this)
Rain: 24 mm, 1744-1830Z, most torrential at 1819Z, when gusty W wind.
Thunder: About 25 occasions 1733-1826Z, close 1812-1822.
Hail: a few 5 mm stones 1817-1819Z.
If you want more details e.g. for investigation, try 9 Drayton Close,
Bracknell, RG12 9AY, but I don't have recording instruments like Roy, who
lives only a mile away!


You had nearly an inch, Keith! More than twice as much as over here
inWildridings.
Just read my 5 inch gauge. It gave 11.3mm, so lost 1.5mm prob due to rain so
heavy, it was missing the bucket!

Roy

On Wednesday, 17 July 2013 19:23:40 UTC+1, Roy the Beard wrote:
Frequent close lightning and torrential rain with some hail. Very exciting!



Roy Avis

Current Bracknell Weather plus Latest Statistics at:

http://www.weatherfamily.org/bracknell

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Thunder heard at Guildford at 1915~1925 BST. Large Cu with some glaciation to north & N.W. Heard about 5~6 rumbles which were barely audible above the traffic. 5th thunder day in 2013 and first event with more than one rumble since Christmas day 2012, which was 2.
Still awaiting the big-one. No heat-storm like today's Bracknell storm, in Guildford since 5th August 2004. Wish we (Guildford) could get an event like 24th May 1989 again - now that would be exciting.

On Wednesday, 17 July 2013 21:31:14 UTC+1, wrote:

Thunder heard at Guildford at 1915~1925 BST. Large Cu with some glaciation to north & N.W. Heard about 5~6 rumbles which were barely audible above the traffic. 5th thunder day in 2013 and first event with more than one rumble since Christmas day 2012, which was 2. Still awaiting the big-one. No heat-storm like today's Bracknell storm, in Guildford since 5th August 2004. Wish we (Guildford) could get an event like 24th May 1989 again - now that would be exciting.

That storm had a huge anvil which spread eastwards and curtailed the rise in temperature. Places in Kent got over 30°C but here in east Surrey the max was 29.2°C. My thermograph trace shows a sharp fall at 1230Z and a reasonable extrapolation would have just topped the 30 mark. No thunder heard here but at least it was my hottest May day.
The storms today showed no trace here. Neither were they mentioned by Stav Danaos at 0030 on Radio 4 despite that fact that they must have produced (almost uniqely) some rain over England let alone the thunder and lightning. This is supposed to be a "Weather report and forecast". I hate these people - they are such crap.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.