Michellelovescats

was that the one a month ago sat night 21st april? that one started at 7pm here (south coast near iow) and went on til nearly 2am came from france (we had some short spells without storms but most of that time there was at least distant lightning)

one of mine sometimes watches lightning at the window.. not tonight, shes asleep, 2 in my bedroom (got 4 cats) one was in window and has moved to my bed when storm got close, both in my room were asleep but rudely awoken then straight back to sleep again :O

thought this was meant to move east during early hours... its going south at moment

just had 2 power cuts before storm even got here, 1st power cut 10mins, 2nd 20mins

getting a storm in lymington now...

distant storm for over 2hrs here now, nothing on radars at any point anywhere near here, not even within 20miles

they later updated and said chnged due to error and something about meant for thurs not weds

ah i only did those up north, forgot there was some down in sw too

Netweather.tv 11 mins · Over 18,000 lightning strikes so far on the #HottestDayOfTheYear

46 a min according to realtimelightningmaps

why wasnt there warnings out for down south? sites have warnings for north/north west rain but nothing for down our way

i use this to track stuff http://www.null/radar/ but it doesnt show every lightning strike so the one to watch for that is lightningmaps.org netweather have a radar but it doesnt zoom in as much as the link above

more stuff heading my way just started up east of iow and west of iow. hail only lasted about a minute.

OMG the power just went off and then back on immediately... dont know if it was lightning but it really scared me, coz it was a huge flash as everything went off now we have hailstones

lightningmaps shows a storm over boldre which is only a few miles from me rumbles are louder here but no actual storm on us yet