On Jun 6, 10:12*pm, Joe Egginton wrote:
On 06/06/2010 18:58, Paul Hyett wrote:

On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 at 00:38:26, "Keith (Southend)G"
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

Thunder and heavy rain woke me up last night at about 1:30am. A total
of 9.0mm of rain. (Shoeburyness 6.0mm)

A storm passed about 3 miles to the north of here this afternoon - all
we got was about 30 seconds of heavy rain, though.

I was at Toddington steam rly stn , we had a storm that last for about
an hour from 15.45. *Sheet lightning and torrential rain.

With such a long lasting Atlantic anomally I suppose it is worth
reapraising events. No doubt this persistent anticyclonic weather over
Greenland, we shall have to get used to short lived weather phenomena
until the ice depth is rebuit?

Whatever the cause or case, the fact that storms at sea/ground surface
levels are short lived at the moment is due to the flaccid nature of
sea level pressures; is that not so?