Big storm started at 17.35, torrential rain, frequent lightning every 30
seconds or so and load claps of thunder with a couple of really nasty ones
shaking the house. Really dark at one point some localised flooding. Rain
ceased around 18.40 but thunder still rumbling in the distance.


Total rainfall 29.6mm

Was hoping this month would be our first drier than average month of 2016
but looking unlikely now as we already have 73% of the average rainfall for
September.


Graham (Weston Coyney)

On 13/09/2016 18:43, Graham wrote:
Big storm started at 17.35, torrential rain, frequent lightning every 30
seconds or so and load claps of thunder with a couple of really nasty ones
shaking the house. Really dark at one point some localised flooding.
Rain ceased around 18.40 but thunder still rumbling in the distance.

Similar spectacular storm over Manchester too. I expect it will make the
news since Media City is pretty much underneath the epicentre. It looks
very black doom laden clouds and seemed to come from nowhere.

Rainfall so far looks like ~50mm. I'm not going out to look closer.


Total rainfall 29.6mm

Was hoping this month would be our first drier than average month of
2016 but looking unlikely now as we already have 73% of the average
rainfall for September.

Storm here is now backing off a bit for thunder and lightning but it is
still putting rain down at a fair clip. Localised flooding likely.

Regards,
Martin Brown

On 13/09/2016 18:43, Graham wrote:
Big storm started at 17.35, torrential rain, frequent lightning every 30
seconds or so and load claps of thunder with a couple of really nasty ones
shaking the house. Really dark at one point some localised flooding.
Rain ceased around 18.40 but thunder still rumbling in the distance.


Total rainfall 29.6mm

Was hoping this month would be our first drier than average month of
2016 but looking unlikely now as we already have 73% of the average
rainfall for September.


Graham (Weston Coyney)
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Please send it my way Graham ! 9mm for all of August, 5mm so far in
September and July was only 16mm. Probably driest July to September
spell since 1976 or before.
Dave, S.Essex

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On 13/09/2016 18:43, Graham wrote:
Big storm started at 17.35, torrential rain, frequent lightning every 30
seconds or so and load claps of thunder with a couple of really nasty ones
shaking the house. Really dark at one point some localised flooding.
Rain ceased around 18.40 but thunder still rumbling in the distance.


Total rainfall 29.6mm

Was hoping this month would be our first drier than average month of
2016 but looking unlikely now as we already have 73% of the average
rainfall for September.


Graham (Weston Coyney)
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Please send it my way Graham ! 9mm for all of August, 5mm so far in
September and July was only 16mm. Probably driest July to September
spell since 1976 or before.
Dave, S.Essex

Before, I should think. September 1976 was very wet in most places IIRC.
--
John Hall
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin"
attributed to Sir Josiah Stamp,
a former director of the Bank of England

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Please send it my way Graham ! 9mm for all of August, 5mm so far in
September and July was only 16mm. Probably driest July to September spell
since 1976 or before.
Gladly Dave!
Everyone keeps going on about how good the summer has been, but not here.
Dullest and wettest since 2012 with temps just above average, never seen the
garden so green!
Best week of real Summer weather for me was last week in stunning Jersey,
now that was Summer



Graham (Weston Coyney)

Plenty of lightning over the sea. This the last gasp of CAPE as it slips west.
All rather exciting in the black of night.
Len
Wembury,SW Devon