The Very Thundery Summer Of 1872

[Weather-history]

The summer of 1872 was a wet and exceptionally thundery summer with frequent and at times severe thunderstorms.

Some reports of the thunderstorms that occurred during that summer.

June

7th: Thunderstorms in the counties of Bedford. Oxford, York, Monmouth, Ross, Tipperary and Galway

8th: Thunder in Devonshire, North Yorkshire, Nairn and Inverness

9th: Thunder heard in Devonshire, Ayrshire and Tipperary

10th: Thunder in Sussex, north Lancashire and Renfrew

18th: Exceptionally thundery with widespread severe thunderstorms.

Pinner Hill: The most severe thunderstorm we have had for 30 years

Ashburton: Fearful thunderstorm at 8pm

Clawton: Terrific thunderstorm during evening and night

Dartmoor: Severe thunderstorm from 7.30pm to 4.30am

Mansfield: A very remarkable thunderstorm; rain in torrents and hailstones of immense size, peal after peal of the loudest thunder.

Chesterfield: Severe thunderstorm at night

Macclesfield: Thunderstorm lasting 12 hours.

Ripon: A succession of thunderstorms from 11am to 8pm

Swansea: Violent thunderstorm

Milford: Lightning almost continuous

24th

Thunderstorms in north Middlesex, Kent, Essex, Norfolk, Warwickshire, Salop, Yorks, Radnor and Ross

26th: Thunderstorm in Norfolk, thunder in Bedford and Nottingham

Culford: 7 days of thunder

Orleton: 8 days of thunder

Boston: 6 days of thunder

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July

4th: Thunderstorms in various parts

6th: Thunderstorms almost universal throughout England and Wales

7th: Particularly violent storms along the English/Welsh border. Tornado near Bodenham in Herefordshire

11th: Thunderstorms in Sussex, Middlesex, Bedford, Norfolk, Leicester, Nottingham, Chesterfield, Chester, Whitby

12th: Thunderstorms at Cambridge, East Anglia, north Lancashire and east Yorkshire

13th: Hailstorm at Dartford, floods in south Yorkshire

16th: Storm in Devon

19th: Storm at Ipswich

22nd: Storms in Middlesex, Kent, Hampshire, Sussex, Bedford, Devon, north Lancashire, Yorkshire, Nairn

23rd: Thunderstorms in eastern counties

24th: Severe storm at Ipswich

26th: Thunderstorms in several counties

27th: Storm in Tipperary and Cork

30th: Sharp thunderstorms in southern England

August

1st: Thunder in north Devon

2nd: Thunder in Pinner, Diss, Chichester, Tavistock

3rd: Thunder at Forest hill, slight storm at Milford

5th: Small storms throughout England and Scotland

6th: Thunder in Shropshire, Yorkshire and Lancashire

7th: Thunderstorms prevalent in most parts.

8th: Sharp thunderstorm in Midland counties

9th: Thunderstorm in Monmouthshire

10th: Thunder at Broughton-in-Furness (15th day of thunder since 7th of June), thunder in Nairn and Inverness

21st: Thunderstorm at Buckish, Ashburton, Llanfrechfa, Swansea

25th: Thunderstorms at Bideford and Beverley

30th: Sharp thunderstorm at Diss

[Nick F]

That would be my ideal summer, with a the odd dry, sunny and very warm day in between

[PersianPaladin]

That would be my ideal summer, with a the odd dry, sunny and very warm day in between B)

Me too.

[Marcus_surfer]

Nice to see Swansea on that list more than once!

[Weather-history]

Very brave or very foolhardy. From June 1872

Edited June 26, 2022 by Weather-history

[Weather-history]

11th June     18th June 

19th June 

[Metwatch]

This year is the wettest in the EWP series interestingly. Consistently above average, but April and May were a little drier, they weren't exactly warm with a CET of 8.2C and 9.7C. Winter not cold either.

July has a CET of 17.1C while also seeing 122.9mm of rain so I can imagine it being quite plumy and so very good for thunderstorm lovers!

Looking through the reanalysis charts and indeed the last 10 days especially that was the case!

Edited February 10 by Metwatch