Judging by the absence of reports here, could last night's
thunderstorm have been confined to the northern part of
the Isle of Wight where I was staying over the weekend?

My wife heard a distant rumble and wasn't sure if she had
heard thunder but some minutes later at 28/0245Z, a bright
flash was seen through the curtains. Only 5 seconds had
passed when the windows rattled to the reverberation of
quite loud thunder. Torrential rain then fell for about 5
minutes (4.9mm in the rain gauge at 28/0900Z for the
previous 24 hours at Wootton, northeast I.O.W.) but
no further electrical activity was apparent.

Walking the dog in the strong sunshine this morning, I
counted 6 red squirrels (the most I've seen at one time
and uncharacteristically tame) in the hedges and stunted
trees alongside the local footpath (spooked by last night's
storm, perhaps?)

Is this November boring? Not in my view.

Nigel (Romsey, Hampshire)... no confirmed thunder here.

Nigel Paice wrote in message
...
:Judging by the absence of reports here, could last night's
:thunderstorm have been confined to the northern part of
:the Isle of Wight where I was staying over the weekend?

The sferics chart shows thunder in the Channel in the early hours of Sunday
http://imkpc3.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/pics/Rsfloc3.gif

or http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkbeoblar.htm after midnight

Colin Youngs
Brussels

"Nigel Paice" wrote in message
...
Judging by the absence of reports here, could last night's
thunderstorm have been confined to the northern part of
the Isle of Wight where I was staying over the weekend?

Hi Nigel,

27/23Z ascent at 03882 Herstmonceux suggests a moist boundary layer with
potential instability aloft. My guess is that SSTs would easily have
broken the cap at 700hPa allowing plenty of CAPE to be released, an
interesting situation -

http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/soun...Herstmo nceux

Any lumpiness in the imagery is easily masked by the thick Ci from the
cold front/occlusion coming S over the UK -

http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/pdus/BI/...80000BI1_g.jpg

HTH, Joe

i live in newchurch, and MY GOD was the thunder loud and long sounding!

It must have been right ontop of us as when lightning stuck, there was not
time at all until thunder sounded!

It was so loud!

that rain between half past 2 and 4am only brought 2.3mm of rain., but it
felt like more! Thats here in newchurch anyway!

"Nigel Paice" wrote in message
...
Judging by the absence of reports here, could last night's
thunderstorm have been confined to the northern part of
the Isle of Wight where I was staying over the weekend?

My wife heard a distant rumble and wasn't sure if she had
heard thunder but some minutes later at 28/0245Z, a bright
flash was seen through the curtains. Only 5 seconds had
passed when the windows rattled to the reverberation of
quite loud thunder. Torrential rain then fell for about 5
minutes (4.9mm in the rain gauge at 28/0900Z for the
previous 24 hours at Wootton, northeast I.O.W.) but
no further electrical activity was apparent.

Walking the dog in the strong sunshine this morning, I
counted 6 red squirrels (the most I've seen at one time
and uncharacteristically tame) in the hedges and stunted
trees alongside the local footpath (spooked by last night's
storm, perhaps?)

Is this November boring? Not in my view.

Nigel (Romsey, Hampshire)... no confirmed thunder here.

:Judging by the absence of reports here, could last night's
:thunderstorm have been confined to the northern part of
:the Isle of Wight where I was staying over the weekend?

The sferics chart shows thunder in the Channel in the early hours of Sunday
http://imkpc3.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/pics/Rsfloc3.gif

or http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkbeoblar.htm after midnight

Colin Youngs
Brussels


Thanks for the confirmation of those Channel sferics, Colin.
I have since discovered that distant thunder was also heard
at around the same time from Lymington on the Hampshire
coast, 12 miles southwest of Southampton.

Nigel (Romsey, Hampshire).

p.s. current air temp is +2.1C (at 2210Z).