Thunder and Lightning

[Roy Bham UK]

:o Very very frightening :o here in Brum, dimmed the lights and PC for a split second :o should I go hide under the stairs ??? will I need my wellies 2morrow for the lottie ???

Well we've been asking for it and now we've got it, this will be a great test for the guttering I put up around my shed recently, just hope I got the flow right :P

[Roy Bham UK]

[Linda Tal]

Roy,

From where I live (south Derbys) we can see Brum on the horizon and am watching lots of flashes of lightning  :o and they seem to be getting closer.

Should we brace ourselves for a stormy night???

Linda.

[Curryandchips]

Dimming here a bit too, and now it is chucking it down good and solid. I am always a shade apprehensive in an electric storm now, after we had a strike which came down the aerial, and took out most of the electrical equipment in the house. Surprisingly the aerial was ok ... Had another hit while we were on holiday in Turkey, the central heating electronics were whopped, and my radio alarm ... everything else was unplugged luckily ...

[Robert_Brenchley]

We had thunder and lightning overhead a while back. At that pont the rain was merely heavy; it's now torrential, and despite adding to my flood bank over the weekend, I've a horrid feeling I'll have been flooded.

[Hyacinth]

...and I've a horrid feeling that the large courgette I saw earlier this evening is going to be a Monstrous Marrow tomorrow :o

[Mrs Ava]

Had gallons today.  I said the same to my darling as you thought Roy, we were all moaning our little gardening gloves off a few weeks ago about the lack of rain, and now we are getting GALLONS!

[Robert_Brenchley]

We still need it, unfortunately.

[baggieboy]

im in west brom , could hear it but dident see it. Did move away from window into the hall for an hour tho.  Dunno why hall is safer just feels it  :)  Only 3 things in my life that really do scare me flying, lightning and moths  :-[

moths especially make me lose it dunno why makes me go funny typing bout them

[Roy Bham UK]

You should feel reassured if you see lightning, because if you see it then it has missed you ;D airplanes don't bother me, if your numbers up it's up, my only concern would be if the pilots number is up. :o I used to have a fear of moths when I were a lad as my mum used to keep moth balls in her wardrobe, I'm OK now that I know they didn't belong to the moths ;D

[Mrs Ava]

Cor, it hasn't stopped raining all night, it woke me twice, and it is raining more now!  I wanted to get the sheets dry and it looks like the tumble drier will have to go on.  GROAN!

[katynewbie]

 :o

Was at the plot yesterday when huge storm happened! Trapped in the greenhouse for 30mins quaking, with walkman-type thing plugged into my ears, then thought about it...

Ripped headphones out of ears (does lightning strike aerials?), caught my earring, swore and went home!!!

Got most of brassicas planted though!

;)

[Lazy Daisy]

We had lots of rain over the last week, yesterday was horrendous, torrential rain, thunder claps that sounded like nothing on earth. lasted all afternoon. Believe Wakefield had it bad. We are in Huddersfield. Today is quite sunny but a bit on the chilly side. Have not been able to 'deadhead' all week, at work during the day and heavy rain in the evening. Weeds are enjoying it though.

[Robert_Brenchley]

Lightning's been known to hit mobile phones, so why not earphones? A greenhouse might be a target as well because of the metal frame.

[katynewbie]

 ;D

I know Robert! That's why I was quaking!!

:o

[froglets]

Hmmm,  would a greenhouse constiute a Gaussian Cage?

Discuss.

[Curryandchips]

If you exploring the possibility that a greenhouse would be a zone with zero electromagnetic gradient during a strike, then I doubt it very much, as I do not think the frame could withstand the energy levels, and the bar spacing would allow extensive 'eddy currents' arising from the striking pulse.

Well you did ask to discuss ...  :)

Or have I confused a Gaussian Cage as similar to a Faraday Cage?

Addendum ... if your phone works, it ain't acting as a cage ...

[Robert_Brenchley]

That's what I was wondering about, but I doubt whether it would work reliably, as the power would probably overwhelm anything so flimsy.

I was seriously worried about the possibility of floods last night, but we got away with it. The soil is now slightly damp at last, after a good two inches of rain in the last week. I'm surprised it wasn't more. Inevitably, it's brought the slugs out in force, and they've been feasting on my toms. I've picked everything that looked ripe, and I'm boiling them all down for ketchup.