"Will Hand" wrote in message
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Thunderstorm started circa 1945. Rainfall so far to 2015 2.3 mm. Occ. heavy
bursts but now 2.0 mm/h rate.
Bright lightning to west, about one flash/3 minutes, loud rolling thunder.

2010

Temp 8.6 deg C
Dewpoint 7 deg C
Wind E 6 knots
Weather - Thunderstorm
Visibility - moderate
Bar 1008.4 hPa - falling


2035

Awesome lightning flash cutting across the sky from south to north at
mid-levels
at 2025. Loud booming thunder. Quickly followed by another and then another.
Flash rate 1/minute for about 3 or 4 minutes. Now moving away to the east.
Whhhheeeeeyyyyyyyy, big flash to my east, loud thunder as I type. This is as
good as some of the SE storms I enjoyed in Crowthorne. Rainfall rate 26.4 mm/h
at one stage. Rainfall from storm now 5.1 mm, so nothing special in that
regard.
But the lightning display has been magic. One thing about living on Dartmoor
is
that it is normally dead quiet so when you get a storm you hear everything,
from
the slightest murmur to all the deep rumbles.



2050

Flash rate back to one flash per 5 minutes and storm moving away to northeast.
Still raining hard at 6.9 mm/h with the storm total now up to 6.9 mm.

Bar 1008.4 hPa and steady so trough now through.

Lights just flickered for some reason as distant lightning flashed, thunder now
murmuring.

Well that was fun :-)

Will.
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