Very heavy rain. Thunder every approx every 30 seconds. Street lights are on
as it is very dark. My road is flooded 2ft deep due to leaves being washed
on the drains where the trees have been shedding leaves due to lack of
water. The beach in town was packed a couple of hours ago.

No one on the beach now!
http://www.a1surf.com/surfcheck-bournemouthcam.html

Gary
Bournemouth town centre, Dorset.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Livemore"
Newsgroups: uk.sci.weather
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 12:41 PM
Subject: [WR] Thunder Bournemouth Sat 22nd July


Very heavy rain. Thunder every approx every 30 seconds. Street lights are
on
as it is very dark. My road is flooded 2ft deep due to leaves being washed
on the drains where the trees have been shedding leaves due to lack of
water. The beach in town was packed a couple of hours ago.

No one on the beach now!
http://www.a1surf.com/surfcheck-bournemouthcam.html

Gary
Bournemouth town centre, Dorset.



Just spoke to my mum near Christchurch and she said it was pretty
horrendous; the rain sounding pretty heavy over the phone. I noticed the
clearance on the beach :-)
Radar currently showing a further development in a fairly intense line from
Bournemouth up towards Brize Norton. Thorney Island's reported 2.4mm in the
hour to 1100Z but not much elsewhere .

Jon.

Yeh, I have never seen it get so dark so quickly in Bournemouth town centre,
just before the heavens opened. It was pitch black. People were coming out
of the shops and staring upwards in disbelief. Just before the rain started,
the wind got up very quickly and swept up sand into the town centre from the
beach. Not sure if it was the ionisation of the air or something, but 15
minutes before all of this I came over very strange ! Anyone else get this
sort of premonition ? All quiet now at 13:40. Sun should be out soon, I
think. Wow, that was something else.. !

"Helios" wrote in message
...
Yeh, I have never seen it get so dark so quickly in Bournemouth town
centre, just before the heavens opened. It was pitch black. People were
coming out of the shops and staring upwards in disbelief. Just before the
rain started, the wind got up very quickly and swept up sand into the town
centre from the beach. Not sure if it was the ionisation of the air or
something, but 15 minutes before all of this I came over very strange !
Anyone else get this sort of premonition ? All quiet now at 13:40. Sun
should be out soon, I think. Wow, that was something else.. !


Yep - that was a good-un!!

It went so dark here in Springbourne that the streetlights all came on.
Wind got up, gusting over 20kt, pressure jumped by 2mb and 17mm of rain fell
in 20 minutes.

Walking across Kings Park on my way to the footie 2h later and the grass was
still waterlogged.. probably just sitting on the very hard surface.

One of the better weather events I've experienced

Jim.