In uk.sci.weather on Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Simon Wyndham
wrote :

Has just gone quite dark followed by some VERY loud thunder and heavy
rain here in Malvern. While there has been some sporadic rain down in
Guarlford apparently in Malvern town itself around 2 miles away it has
been absolutely bucketing it down.

We missed the worst of that rain here, but got some gusty winds.
Fortunately the newly-repaired fence survived.
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)