Thunderstorm and lightning (very, very frightening)

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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

CJ, yes Islip bridge. Are you familiar?

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I turned the TV off and the lights and lay on my bed feeling like a caveman

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 10:50 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Nice heat lightning to the north right now. Continuous, like god's own squad car with the flashers rolling, just over the horizon. No thunder.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 27 August 2005 01:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Supposedly people watch storms from East Rock Park. I want to try this.

― youn, Saturday, 27 August 2005 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link

We had a good thunderstorm on Thursday. Yesterday's front-page-story in the local paper: a stupid woman and her daughter who heard the thunder starting - it wasn't even raining yet - and decided to shelter under a tree. They're now in a specialist burns hospital.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:54 (eighteen years ago) link

I love that kind of dry rolling lightning, a while back we had an amazing storm here that had this strobe-effect lightning, you couldnt see any bolts, just flashes, repeatedly for hours, like the sky was a disco, it was brilliant. Seems to only really happen in summer here.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 27 August 2005 07:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Karuna

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― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 27 August 2005 08:47 (eighteen years ago) link

did anyone see that mental london sky on thursday? it was like a week-old bruise. everything orange and purple, and a huge fuckoff rainbow over the whole thing. i had to go hang out of the window at work and gawp, and a small girl across the road was doing the same thing and we had a chat about it. (i guess the britishers really do love weather.)

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 27 August 2005 11:30 (eighteen years ago) link

http://vinyljukebox.free.fr/images/products/Katrina&Waves_walkin200.jpg

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Saturday, 27 August 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Cripes, there's been a MASSIVE thunder/lightning storm for the past half hour around here. There was one blast that had to have been within half a mile, it was that loud. Scariest I've ever heard.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 02:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Pretty intense - haven't seen anything like it for a while. More please!

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link

it is now raining in Los Feliz

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 04:45 (eighteen years ago) link

wait, it stopped

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 04:45 (eighteen years ago) link

back to you, Ned
http://abc7fansite.com/images/dallasraines/dallasraines5.jpg

― Dallas Raines (gear), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 04:47 (eighteen years ago) link

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Still, if you're gonna invoke anyone...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 04:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I have been inside for the past 15 hours.

― the son of dean cameron (dr g), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 05:23 (eighteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

We've got the full works around abouts at the moment - thunder, lightening, torrential rain - I wonder if I should still be on my comp...

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 12 May 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/earth/Atmosphere/images/tstorm_caution.gif

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 12 May 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

According to this...
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Atmosphere/tstorm/safety.html
"Do not use a phone or a computer during a thunderstorm. Do not take a shower or wash dishes. Lightning can strike the plumbing or electrical wires that connect to your house and give you an electrical shock if you use these items."

Luckily I've just finished washing the dishes. Does anyone know of anyone who has actually been hit by lightening while on the computer?

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 12 May 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

No, but I watched a co-worker get knocked across the room once when he was on the phone during a lightning storm.

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Friday, 12 May 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.nowcast.co.uk/lightning/

― caek (caek), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Man, it's pretty crazy out there. Like giant paparazzi popping their titanic flashbulbs one after the other.

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Thursday, 1 June 2006 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link

i got caught in it without an umbrella, but was lucky to arrive under scaffolding harboring a box full of thick cardboard makeshift-rainhats

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 1 June 2006 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link

i had forgotten how cool summer storms are

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 1 June 2006 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

rolling thunder - i can hear it now!

― youn (youn), Thursday, 1 June 2006 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

three months pass...

this lightning rocks

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

It's really close here, and we could do with a good storm to clear it. Not just now when I'm about to go to bed though.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Classic. I could live in a perpetual thunderstsorm if the rain were only periodic. Lightning, thunder, big crazy clouds, wind--all good.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Thursday, 14 September 2006 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link

eight months pass...

OK, so we had a big ball of lightning thing explode over our house this evening. Holy fuck was that scary. I was on the phone to my mum at the time and thought a plane had crashed or something (we live near the airport). Neil was at the window watching our next-door neighbours kids skipping and one had just tied their rope to the washing line (metal pole, eek!) when BANG!! right over their heads: cue two terrifed kids running for their lives.

I wasn't looking out the window, but it was loud and bright and actually went bang before the thunder started. It came totally out of nowhere as well - no warning rumbles, no rain, nothing. It had been freakily close and muggy before, but, my God was that ever scary. Then two wee rumbles of thunder in the distance a few minutes later and nothing.

Anyone else round here get it? Rumpie? It was totally fucking terrifying.

― ailsa, Thursday, 31 May 2007 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link

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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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