South East & East Anglia Regional Discussion 2nd August 2013>

[Ruthie]

Lightning to our sw here. Boyfriend was sat outside and strangest thing happened, I heard a rush and whoosh sound, i was sat indoors. Was a very heavy burst of fat rain drops for a few seconds, was so brief! Left rain drop marks on patio.

Most odd !

[john pike]

just had some thunder without the lightning

[MeteoF]

Lightning to our sw here. Boyfriend was sat outside and strangest thing happened, I heard a rush and whoosh sound, i was sat indoors. Was a very heavy burst of fat rain drops for a few seconds, was so brief! Left rain drop marks on patio.Most odd !

 

Had that too. A very intense burst of rain that lasted about 1 second then "normal" rain.

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What a storm constant lightning and thunder epic rainfall more firing in the channel?

[Chloe]

Storm approaching from my west first night storm T and. L Torrential rain

[SMU]

channel storms will sweep up towards SE London & NW kent

[Ruthie]

Heavy ish rain here now, a few rumbles and lightning. Can't tell what type as we live in a park and surrounded by trees. So sky obscured.

[Heretic]

Just had the heaviest burst of rain I've probably ever seen. And some thunder and lightning too. WOW.

[john pike]

here proper now

 

huge lightning thunder and torrential rain

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Cells firing all over the Channel maybe the met taking down thier warnings did us good

channel storms will sweep up towards SE London & NW kent

Add west London to that too

[Robbie Garrett]

Webcam of the storms.. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/robbiegarrett1993

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More firing behind the first one

[SMU]

Cells now lining up over brighton!- intensifying just off the coast

[Bluebreezer54]

A nice suprise tonight.

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More flashes to my south lmfao?! What a treat!!

[Nick F]

Nice little storm just passed through here in SE25 heading towards E London and Essex now:

 

[john pike]

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/mobile

 

i wonder if these storms could intensify as they pass over london heading to the north of the region

[SMU]

Much Lightning Nick?

 

Casting my eyes out that way from greenhithe- didn't see much flashes- although its a good 10-15 miles

 

 

S

[Tom Jarvis]

Will the ones just off the coast of Brighton miss and pass to my south or r they heading straight for me??

[wintrywend]

Lots of lightning in the distance now

[Chloe]

channel storms will sweep up towards SE London & NW kent

and west london

[Nick F]

Much Lightning Nick?

 

Casting my eyes out that way from greenhithe- didn't see much flashes- although its a good 10-15 miles

 

 

S

 

Not particularly frequent, but a few close cgs, storm moved through pretty swiftly.

[stainesbloke]

Nice little storm passed thru, some v heavy rain and bright lightning, thunder wasn't mega loud which was a bit odd?! Great to see, I'm finally out of the NSC, yay

[Steve C]

What passed this morning. So pleased to have seen this!

Fantastic photos!

 

Feeling a bit peeved myself, as I've heard that the cloud structures were superb where I live, but unfortunately I wasn't there and had to observe the storm from a truly lousy location and could do nothing about it!

[john pike]

got alarms going off now

 

that rain overloaded my gutters and made the bedroom window leak

 

looking at the radar got a feeling things are starting to shift and we may have to start looking south west to west

 

feels like it has got warmer now as well