Scotland - Weather Chat - Spring 2016 Onwards

[snowidea]

Don't normally check in in the summer but golly some of these thunderclaps are loud. Got back from 2 1/2 weeks in France last night and had to use car aircon in Scotland at 23.00 pm. Not something I thought I'd ever have to do. 

 

[Ravelin]

Nice to see a bit of activity on here for the first time in ages. 

Thunderstorm hit over night here but was a brief affair (4 to 4:30am) with plenty of flashes but very few direct sightings. Next one is on the way in looking at the radar but only one flash off to the SE so far. 

[mardatha]

Stonking thunder and lightning here at about 9.30 - firs time in my whole life I've heard continuous thunder. We thought it was a plane going over low but it just kept roaring. Went really dark and then the power went off. As usual lol

[NUT]

Might have had our fun for the day. Skies looking a lot brighter now. Feeling a good deal cooler too

[Ravelin]

This mornings heaviest stuff missed Aberdeen/Dyce, radar showed it just to the West. No repeat of the early morning light show either. 

[Northernlights]

2 hours ago, Northernlights said:

Hot 20c ,humid very ,more thunder and lightning almost certainly today .You can feel it coming!

Just had 30 minutes of frequent lightning and rumbles of thunder . Getting closer all the time with torrential rain.House windows rattling just now with the latest thunder.

[Richard Taylor]

Agree with Rav locally, storm here 4-4.30am, had one audible rumble/burst of rain about 10am, but the heaviest stuff thus far missed the city - just! - and Aberdeenshire took the pasting.

 

However, skies looking VERY threatening here from the SW apparently, although cannot get a good look back that way yet (my window face N/NW but seems to be getting dark!  

Edited July 20, 2016 by Richard Taylor

[Stuart]

10 minutes ago, Northernlights said:

Just had 30 minutes of frequent lightning and rumbles of thunder . Getting closer all the time with torrential rain.House windows rattling just now with the latest thunder.

 

yes I am getting thunder at  from that storm

[Richard Taylor]

Things beginning to fizzle out now, or are people still seeing lightning/torrential rain? Just cloudy, wet, miserable here now. Some of the skies this morning were amongst the angriest I think I've ever seen!

[SW Saltire]

All went away by 12 here, rain wise.

Intermittent sunshine now.

Very humid, 22.4c. So still nice and warm (for now)

[Stormeh]

Here are some pics from Aviemore last night. What a great night it was, epic thunder and lightning! I also have some great video footage that I will upload once I get home this weekend 

[ciel]

After some thin sunshine late this afternoon, it is now overcast again, mild and very humid.

I have had an outside door open, and the smoke alarm in the hall kept triggering with the help of some slight heat and moisture emanating from the kitchen when preparing the evening meal - unusual.

 

 

[Methuselah]

Well, ciel... you like Runrig: 

 

[Northernlights]

On reflection of last nights storms I can"t say  that I have ever heard continuous  thunder or lightning going on for so long. This on top of that it  was the middle of the night and we had a period of dry storms before the rain started and with the evidence of some of the photos on this thread I think I can safely say that this was the severest weather I have seen in my life here in the north of Scotland. More evidence of climate change.

[Jo Farrow]

Been rumbling and lightning here since 9am for a good part of the day, still going now

[Norrance]

Lost tv and internet about 15 minutes ago in another intense downpour with close by thunder and lightning. Sun back out now and you would never know! Didn't see this one coming as had just hung out the washing!

[Jo Farrow]

3 minutes ago, Norrance said:

Lost tv and internet about 15 minutes ago in another intense downpour with close by thunder and lightning. Sun back out now and you would never know! Didn't see this one coming as had just hung out the washing!

 

someone by me was having a BBQ!

[Hairy Celt]

I was in Buckie last night.  There was a colourful sunset over an oily smooth sea, but no hint of what was to come.  I was first woken at 3 and the banging kept me awake a fair bit from then on.  Breakfast was cool with the kitchen door open and a breeze coming in after lying in a sweaty bed all night.  Then mid morning there was a classic storm with huge dark clouds rolling up and lightening flickering on the leading edge - then the rain, some rain!  The sea went red with all the muck washed down the rivers and burns.  No birds to be seen.  Back home now and tales of streets becoming rivers.... no rivers of potatoes this time though.

[Northernlights]

15 hours ago, Northernlights said:

On reflection of last nights storms I can"t say  that I have ever heard continuous  thunder or lightning going on for so long. This on top of that it  was the middle of the night and we had a period of dry storms before the rain started and with the evidence of some of the photos on this thread I think I can safely say that this was the severest weather I have seen in my life here in the north of Scotland. More evidence of climate change.

Speaking to a neighbour  this  morning with an even better view of the Firth who said he woke at 4.00am and looked out to see   in his words  "a sky completely illuminated by a spiders web of lightning and the surface of the sea a powder blue colour" He only wished he could have got a photo. This is the severest storm or storms he had seen in his lifetime (He is mid fifties)

Edited July 21, 2016 by Northernlights

[Hairy Celt]

1 hour ago, Northernlights said:

Speaking to a neighbour  this  morning with an even better view of the Firth who said he woke at 4.00am and looked out to see   in his words  "a sky completely illuminated by a spiders web of lightning and the surface of the sea a powder blue colour" He only wished he could have got a photo. This is the severest storm or storms he had seen in his lifetime (He is mid fifties)

The storm I saw yesterday morning by Buckie was the most intense I've ever seen in Scotland - only beaten by one in near Birmingham in 1990ish and a couple more recently in the French Alps.  You almost needed a torch to see where you were going when the cloud had built up, and the lightening flickering along the advancing cloud wave was like a CGI sequence in a film.

[Polarlow]

A couple of my Videos from yesterday in Dundee

 

 

 

[mardatha]

Quite cold here today..

[101_North]

Looks like there was some funnel cloud action during the storms on Wednesday near Edinburgh. No confirmation that it actually touched down anywhere. 

Edinburgh Evening News

[howham]

On ‎21‎/‎07‎/‎2016 at 11:15, Northernlights said:

Speaking to a neighbour  this  morning with an even better view of the Firth who said he woke at 4.00am and looked out to see   in his words  "a sky completely illuminated by a spiders web of lightning and the surface of the sea a powder blue colour" He only wished he could have got a photo. This is the severest storm or storms he had seen in his lifetime (He is mid fifties)

The best storm I ever saw in Scotland was the early hours of 19 August 2004.  I lived in Kemnay, Aberdeenshire at the time but it went on for hours, constant thunder, forked lightning, purple crawlers just crazy.  On a par with anything I've seen abroad.

[Richard Taylor]

Absolutely torrential rain here in Aberdeen - need to build an ark!!! Been warm today as well.