Thunderstorm and lightning (very, very frightening)

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you could do worse mel!

― Josh, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

arhargghhhar, har. I know I am not alone with this brain hardwiring rain = sex

― jeska, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thunderstorms are fantastic, esp. running about in them and getting soaked through, or, more classic, kissing in the rain.

― Anna, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sorry, Felicity, I have to confess to not being very strong on Deep Purple. (Actually, I'm not in the slightest bit sorry generally or I wouldn't have avoided them so much, but I am sorry I can't help here.)

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Skidmore musical knowledge finite Shock! Thanks anyway. ;)

― felicity, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

No near misses, but just before I hit my teen years I had a phobia of thunderstorms so extreme that a party cloudy sky in the dead of winter would make me fidgety. I don't want to bore you with the details but it all had something to with abandonment issues and my parents divorcing and all. I snapped out of it after a year and a half.

― Michael Daddino, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I love it, it's a great thrill to hear and feel that sort of chaos unfolding...call it a touch of the sublime in the 18th century sense.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

but what about my poodle you bastard!

― hugh walpole, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

i like being indoors watching or listening to thunder and lightning. it's strangely relaxing. i'm doing it right now, and i have a great view out of this big University Library window.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 10:39 (twenty years ago) link

Angela doesn't agree: she'd like to go out down the shops for some food, but it's been thundering since 10 last night.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 10:47 (twenty years ago) link

It's nice when you're in a dark room and the flash lights it up for a split second. there were some cool storms when i was over in venice over the summer.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 11:00 (twenty years ago) link

jesus yeah,the thunder this morning was unreal

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 11:53 (twenty years ago) link

And we've just got it here. My washing is outside and has been for days, but I am too ill to venture into the garden in sopping rain and collect soaking clothes.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:48 (twenty years ago) link

six months pass...

"ah stevem, welcome back to Britain - just for you we've arranged some chubascos tormentos so you can feel better about the crap but not stormy weather stateside during your visit"

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link

that was PROPER thunder just then actually, like BANG not rrrummmmble - it had the oddest effect on me, usually i furrow my brow nervously (a reflex maintained from childhood) but this time i just laughed

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Bloody hell, I came here searching for a Thunder thread coz there was just a huge clap of scary thunder outside...you aint in Glasgow are you Stevem?!!

― smee (smee), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Ok, I take it back - it's Thursday and the scary thunder has made me forget what day it is!!!

― smee (smee), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Scary thunder in glasgow. the rain is ridiculous and i'm wearing a moleskin jacket. humph.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link

a thunderstorm, in the daytime, is a swizz.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Hah you Glaswegians - you have our Sassenach London weather from yesterday!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link

as suspected, we're london's sloppy seconds.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:04 (nineteen years ago) link

i heart lightning. i miss it.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw the most incredible thunderstorms in WA. I used to have all the wheat farmers buring their heads and praying it wouldn't be their farm that got hit.

― Nellie (nellskies), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link

There was so much hail it looked like it had snowed!

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

some amazing photos of storms in Dorset here

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Those are fucking awesome.

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:28 (eighteen years ago) link

there was a huge thunderstorm around here recently, it knocked out my internet for two days!

― ra's al latebloomer: not a dolphin lover, honest (latebloomer), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

i want a camera like that.

― monsanto and yanni (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Manual controls set for long exposure times and a bit of luck.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link

london's supposed to be getting some storms this afternoon. still sunny here, but Knowing My Luck it'll start immediately i leave the office. it will be disappointing if it does, because thunderstorms look so much better at night.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm hopinh we get a good storm here, I love them, they very rarely happen around here though.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:46 (eighteen years ago) link

No clouds here yet, but the wind's picking up.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link

My girlfriend's house was struck at about 5am. No one was hurt, but it blew the main fuse and totally fucked a stereo, a camcorder, a TV, the phone, the Sky and a couple of other things.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link

There had better be no storms tomorrow.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I hate nearby thunderstorms -- I'm always scared I'm going to get my livelihood (computer) blown up.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I love thunderstorms. I just wish I had somewhere decent to watch from. Back in Oxon we (my family) would all troop outside as soon as a storm started to go and stand on the river bridge to watch the storm over Otmoor. Lovely stuff. With my luck today it will start as soon as I step off the bus. It is darkening in Kentish Town.

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link

if i had a pound for everytime i've had to buy a new modem due to lightning strikes, I'd have 3 quid.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Rain in Surbiton, apparently.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link

It is very dark and still in EC1 so I'm predicting POUNDING rain.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

It's pissing down

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 24 June 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link

bring it on

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 24 June 2005 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link

to go and stand on the river bridge to watch the storm over Otmoor

Which bridge, lix? Islip?

― C J (C J), Friday, 24 June 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Amazing storms in London last night. The loudest bang of thunder I think I've ever heard came as my train trawled through Peckham.

Flashes of lightning every 6 seconds if the most frequent I've witnessed too personally, in the UK at least.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 09:51 (eighteen years ago) link

So great to be indoors, fed and warm as the hail rattled down and the lightning flashed closer and closer.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 09:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I winced at a few really close strikes but didn't get quite as het up as the wee girl in Poltergeist.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Last night was the biggest storm I'd ever seen! Our flat has nice big windows and we got a great view of the lightning bolts which seemed to be coming down around Friern Barnet or thereabouts. I suspect one hit Ally Pally cos the TV went out for an hour or so.

It was a great feeling being safe indoors watching! Our elder cat was scared shitless though, hid under the duvet all night. Kitten Pogo wasn't bothered! He even slept through some of the thunder.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I happened to leave the pub last night at the exact point when the slight drizzle turned to an absolute downpour. We tried running but eventually was so wet that I just gave up and walked, given I wasn't going to get any wetter.

It was very exciting though, given that the storm was directly over us. Although sheltering in the metal bus shelter may have been a bad idea in hindsight.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:19 (eighteen years ago) link

it was just on the tele! looks glorious

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:20 (eighteen years ago) link

yea it was good last night, there was that really huge bang as well, much louder than the others, that was something!

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I felt very smug that I managed to transfer from the 59 to the 159 right before the first burst of the storm really kicked off.

However, during the second, later burst of the storm (sometime during CSI) there was the legendary HAILSTONES THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS bouncing off my windowledge.

I suppose I should have gone downstairs and looked at them more properly, but Catherine looked like she was going to Get Some for the first time in, well, ever, last night.

― MIS Information (kate), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:33 (eighteen years ago) link

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― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link

my god this rain!

― Ste, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 14:35 (sixteen years ago) link

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

― the sir weeze, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link

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

― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link

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

― Anna, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link

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

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link

Pouring (again) on the fourth of July.

I think I must have moved to Seattle and forgot.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link

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

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link

one year passes...

It's happening again!

― the pinefox, Monday, 7 July 2008 16:22 (fifteen years ago) link

BOTHALLCHORACTORSCHUMMINAROUNDGANSUMUMINARUMDRUMSTRUMTRUMINAHUMPTADUMPWAUL TOPOOFOOLOODERAMAUNSURNUP!

― ledge, Monday, 7 July 2008 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link

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

― Just got offed, Monday, 7 July 2008 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

weirdest weather right now!

― tehresa, Friday, 3 April 2009 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

short-lived, but fun for a minute back there

― loaded forbear (gabbneb), Friday, 1 May 2009 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link

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

― p?nico (ice cr?m), Friday, 1 May 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link

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

― tehresa, Friday, 1 May 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link

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

― loaded forbear (gabbneb), Friday, 1 May 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link

imna go running now :)

― p?nico (ice cr?m), Friday, 1 May 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link

i am gonna get one in 10 min, with hail

― erudite e-scholar (harbl), Friday, 1 May 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link

tornado siren. hmmmm.

― erudite e-scholar (harbl), Friday, 1 May 2009 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

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.)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 09:33 (fourteen years ago) link

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

― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 09:39 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 09:41 (fourteen years ago) link

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

― sleeve, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

IT IS THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW!!

― James Mitchell, Thursday, 16 July 2009 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

holy fuck this thunder is loud

― vike me down (dyao), Thursday, 6 May 2010 23:04 (thirteen years ago) link

but can you FEEL it?

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 6 May 2010 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

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?

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 9 June 2011 01:14 (twelve years ago) link

might short and cause your fuse to trip?

― british sb power (dayo), Thursday, 9 June 2011 01:17 (twelve years ago) link

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.

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 9 June 2011 01:19 (twelve years ago) link

seems like the worst possible outcome is 'electrical fire'

― british sb power (dayo), Thursday, 9 June 2011 01:22 (twelve years ago) link

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

― british sb power (dayo), Thursday, 9 June 2011 01:22 (twelve years ago) link

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

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 9 June 2011 01:23 (twelve years ago) link

maybe i'll go home.

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 9 June 2011 01:23 (twelve years ago) link

nine years pass...

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!

― calzino, Monday, 29 June 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link

comma comma comma chameleon!

― calzino, Monday, 29 June 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link

That's terrifying.

― peace, man, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 12:43 (three years ago) link

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