"Martin Rowley" wrote in
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squally wind to Bft 6 around 1500Z ... very threatening sky
1510Z ... rain now moderate, squally wind.
1512Z ... now moderate thunderstorm, with moderate, ocnl heavy rain:
hail also observed - no great quantity.
Visibility 1515Z: 1km


1525Z ... rain now light, no hail for some time - a few CG strokes in
VCNTY. Emergency service sirens now evident all about, and have been
for
some 10 - 15 minutes.

1610Z ... thunder still rumbling around: nothing very frequent, much of
it CC (some quite lengthy rumbles), but the occasional CG strike
visible - frequency of these about 1 every 5 minutes. We seem to have
daughter cells developing in-situ, rather than storms advected in from
elsewhere. No *extreme* rainfall - enough to wet the garden etc., quite
well but no rivers of water or anything like that.

Martin.


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Bracknell (Wooden Hill/Tawfield), Berkshire
NGR: SU 854 667 Elev: 80m
Lat: 51DEG23MIN30SEC(N): Long: 00DEG46MIN28SEC(W)