Thunderstorm and lightning (very, very frightening)

It's been sunny and nice and warm here(Scotland) all afternoon. The world has gone topsy turvy.

i haven't read any reports saying 'wettest June since records began (not very long ago)' yet - what gives?

They haven't released the June data yet, but apparently (according to the Met Office) May was the wettest May since 1967 (in Britain, that is) and fourth wettest EVAH. Seeing as it rained from about 10 June onwards and half of South Yorkshire is at the bottom of the sea I reckon it's a pretty safe bet June will be a record breaker.

Whatever it was in Central London, it's over now, coz I can see sun.

I wonder if I should leave work now, and run for the train station as I forgot my umbrella and I know it won't last. I don't fancy getting caught in a hailstorm if it's only the eye of the storm. :-(

TEH STORME RETURNS!

There was snow on the ground in Brixton as I went through on the bus. WTF?

End times? Finally!

I'm in Fitzrovia/ Bloomsbury and we have lumps of hail the size of small peas and thunder every twenty seconds or so.

Which is probably what Kate saw!

It was early Christmas in Clapham last night, coming in on the 137; the hail-snow began about halfway up Queenstown Road and persisted until King's Avenue, at which stage it abruptly vanished, so the eye of the storm was obviously very narrowly concentrated. The Common looked pleasingly Christmas card-ish but the pedestrians didn't seem to be enjoying slipping and skidding their way along the pavements.

monsoon season.

Book your tickets now for the 2011 George Harrison Memorial Putney Heath Disaster Fund concert featuring Lily Allen, Elton John, Duran Duran and Ricky Gervais.

my god this rain!

my dog would say 'dud' as he cowered in his kennel

It's been sunny and nice and warm here(Scotland) all afternoon. The world has gone topsy turvy.

-- Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, July 3, 2007 6:02 PM

Make that Central Scotland, since my mum's just emailed me a picture of a fucking TWISTER over Inverness yesterday.

Ugh, we're in year 2 (at least) of drought. You bastards quit taking our rain.

Have some, really, we have an EU rain mountain to spare over here.

After the thunderstorm had passed over SE19 last night, we got a lovely double rainbow with proper supernumerary arcs and that:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1422/708761699_eb61fb4a68.jpg

Pouring (again) on the fourth of July.

I think I must have moved to Seattle and forgot.

It's all a promotional tie-in for the new Steve Carrell movie.

Glub glub glub hasn't rained yet here but cloudy all day with that kind of wind that promises to be carrying new weather with it.

It's happening again!

BOTHALLCHORACTORSCHUMMINAROUNDGANSUMUMINARUMDRUMSTRUMTRUMINAHUMPTADUMPWAUL TOPOOFOOLOODERAMAUNSURNUP!

lol my friend wants me to go all the way across london to play football with him and mates this evening

weirdest weather right now!

short-lived, but fun for a minute back there

i was abt to go out for a run looked outside and was all is it raining then like 10 seconds later water everywhere

yeah, we had like one flash and a really loud boom and pouring rain but it's settled now.

me too, xp, cept i just looked out the window

imna go running now :)

i am gonna get one in 10 min, with hail

tornado siren. hmmmm.

Christ on a bike.

(Woke up about twenty minutes back thanks to a *MASSIVE* blast that had to have been near overhead that sounded like a garbage truck exploding in a dumpster. Further blasts and rain followed.)

Austin's been getting rumbly thunder and cloud-to-cloud lightning all night... fantastic.

Yeah I was driving over the Congress bridge about 11ish to get to graveyard shift and I looked west and saw the coolest yellow cloud-to-cloud stuff. If I hadn't been running late I would have stopped to take a photo.

had crazy cloud-to-cloud lightning last night, very unusual for Oregon.

I was running late at Town Lake when I saw most of it! Was worried I wouldn't make back to my car before a deluge, but it never did actually rain on me.

IT IS THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW!!

holy fuck this thunder is loud

but can you FEEL it?

it's really thundering and raining here. i'm away from my house, but i left my box fan running in the window. i'm assuming it's getting wet. is this really dangerous or is the worst that's likely to happen is i ruin my fan? should i run home and turn it off even if it's inconvenient?

might short and cause your fuse to trip?

hmmm. maybe. i guess that itself wouldn't be the end of the world. i just don't want it to cause a fire or something... obv.

seems like the worst possible outcome is 'electrical fire'

but it's raining so that should put out the fire

seems like the worst possible outcome is 'electrical fire'

― british sb power (dayo), Wednesday, June 8, 2011 8:22 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

aieeeeee

maybe i'll go home.

A new world record lightning has been recorded! A World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has established two new world records for the longest reported distance and the longest reported duration for a single lightning flash. The longest lightning flash duration is now set at more than 16 seconds in Argentina, while the longest distance is set at more than 700 km (nearly 450 miles) in Brasil!

just trying to imagine what a 450 mile lightening flash that isn't on one of the gas giants, but here on this rock, looks like. jeez!

comma comma comma chameleon!

That's terrifying.