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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. |
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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 |
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![]() "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 |
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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. |
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: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). |
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