Topic: A 'picture' of a thunderstorm...

[Trillium]

Not a photo as such - but an image from the weather station graph after the storm went through yesterday. 

[honeybee]

Your weather chart is very interesting Trillium.

We are not very far from you, in Cheshire, it was a corker of a storm wasnt it? :o

[Trillium]

Hi honeybee,

It was fabulous!  We had a ton of work stuff and gardening gear outside  - I saw the sky blackening and enlisted the neighbour's help to tidy up.  He really didn't know why I was in such a rush until the first huge drops fell.  We didn't get hail which was a relief - nothing got flattened. 

I do feel for the poor folks in Yorkshire. Our sandy soil saved us round here I think, it just soaked in.

[Admin aka Dan]

I put a match to the bbq about 5 mins before the first drop of rain.

Ooops.

Still had the barby though, parasol in hand - well it is summer isn't it ?

Interesting to see the chart of the storm, very nice.

Cheers

Dan

[Trillium]

Hi Dan,

Where are you based then?  Must be somewhere north-ish if you got wet yesterday too?

Trillium

[Emm P]

We just had a few rumbles of thunder, and a few spots of rain.
But just a few miles south of us, poor Helmsley in North Yorkshire, really suffered - some may have seen it on the news. Apparently, a dam burst its banks, and one house got completely washed away.

[Admin aka Dan]

Hi Dan,

Where are you based then?  Must be somewhere north-ish if you got wet yesterday too?

Trillium

Liverpool.

Not far from Newton - my aunt used to live there.

We got the rain about 2.45 - must have taken 15 minuets to travel the 62!

[Marianne]

We did not see a drop of rain here in sunny Herts!  We had a temperature of 33 Degrees Celsius and it was awful!  But I suspect we must stop moaning as sun is what our lovely plants require to grow !
 ;D