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seriously delayed )

Rain overnight 6th/7th June, 2009: West Moors/East Dorset

Light rain began 06/21Z, soon moderate, with spell heavy rain between
00 & 01Z: three intra-cloud ['sheet'] lightning discharges between
0008 & 0015Z, evenly spaced/first one strikingly vivid - no CG
activity seen. This immediately preceded the most intense phase of
rainfall, which eased again to moderate within ~15/20min, the rain
finally packing-up ~0100Z.

Total rainfall this morning (strictly 09-09, but wholly within the
above period) = 21.1 mm (non-standard exposure, but close to nearby
Hurn, which recorded 20.6 mm.

Ground absorbed well - no flooding locally - grass greened up this
morning - first 'significant' rainfall (i.e. sufficient to penetrate
to any depth before evaporation), since 27th April (May was a dry
month here).

Note that although wind generally light/moderate overnight, as the
most intense phase of the rain set in (accompanied by aforementioned
thunder), a gust of 33 kn was recorded at Hurn between 00 & 01Z.

This breaks our 'duck' for thunder-heard days: we had, up until the
first few minutes of this day, 221 days without thunder-heard: this
represents ~60% of a '12-month' without any thundery activity at this
station (and no, we haven't missed any!).

Martin.


--
Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

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On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 02:31:52 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

Total rainfall this morning (strictly 09-09, but wholly within the
above period) = 21.1 mm (non-standard exposure, but close to nearby
Hurn, which recorded 20.6 mm.

Event totals here 25mm and at work a mile away 19.7mm. I was out and
about so well aware of phases of very intense rain so the differences
are not suprising

Plenty of lightning

R

.... problems caused by lightning ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/8087778.stm

Martin.



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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

.... problems caused by lightning ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/8087778.stm

Martin.

wrote in message
...

... problems caused by lightning ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/8087778.stm

Martin.

Two very loud crashes here in Bournemouth around 0115 local, the first of
which woke me up with such a fright that it took me till around 0400 to get
back to sleep! Normally the more distant rumbles will have woken me first as
I am a light sleeper at the best of times.

First thunder here since September 12 last year - about normal since
thunderstorms are normally pretty infrequent round here. Having said that,
we have had our fair share in the last 4-5 years, particularly 2005 and
2006.

Jim, Bournemouth

"Jim Smith" wrote
snip
Two very loud crashes here in Bournemouth around 0115 local, the
first of which woke me up with such a fright that it took me till
around 0400 to get back to sleep! Normally the more distant rumbles
will have woken me first as I am a light sleeper at the best of
times.

.... In this case, I don't think we had any distant rumbles. Looking
back at the various archives, the sferics seem to pop-up as the
high-intensity/EMBD line-convection rainfall developed across the
Poole/Bournemouth/Purbecks area, swinging north; I was listening-out
for advance warning, but the first indication we got was the 0008Z
'sheet'-then-extended rumble, followed by a couple more.

Martin.



--
Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

wrote in message
...
( repeated via Google - my original via Virgin has disappeared or been
seriously delayed )

Rain overnight 6th/7th June, 2009: West Moors/East Dorset

Light rain began 06/21Z, soon moderate, with spell heavy rain between
00 & 01Z: three intra-cloud ['sheet'] lightning discharges between
0008 & 0015Z, evenly spaced/first one strikingly vivid - no CG
activity seen. This immediately preceded the most intense phase of
rainfall, which eased again to moderate within ~15/20min, the rain
finally packing-up ~0100Z.

Total rainfall this morning (strictly 09-09, but wholly within the
above period) = 21.1 mm (non-standard exposure, but close to nearby
Hurn, which recorded 20.6 mm.

Ground absorbed well - no flooding locally - grass greened up this
morning - first 'significant' rainfall (i.e. sufficient to penetrate
to any depth before evaporation), since 27th April (May was a dry
month here).

Note that although wind generally light/moderate overnight, as the
most intense phase of the rain set in (accompanied by aforementioned
thunder), a gust of 33 kn was recorded at Hurn between 00 & 01Z.

This breaks our 'duck' for thunder-heard days: we had, up until the
first few minutes of this day, 221 days without thunder-heard: this
represents ~60% of a '12-month' without any thundery activity at this
station (and no, we haven't missed any!).

Martin.


--
Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

267 thunder-free days here in Romsey, Martin, until a long, low
grumble spooked the dog around 0115Z on Sunday 7th June...
and that was it... no lightning and no further rumbles. Not exactly
a dramatic fanfare to signal the end of the longest period between
thunderstorms in 35 years of records, a span of nearly 9 months!

So feeble was the sound, that I had to wait until returning home
from work late yesterday afternoon to natter with the rest of
the family and neighbours to be absolutely sure it was indeed
thunder I had heard.

Nigel (Romsey, Hampshire)

On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 at 19:06:01, Nigel Paice wrote
in uk.sci.weather :

267 thunder-free days here in Romsey, Martin, until a long, low
grumble spooked the dog around 0115Z on Sunday 7th June...

You sure that wasn't just the wife?
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)