Weather and Climate

19.2C max here yesterday, 19.5C today. It was >18C in the thunderstorm. Graham On Sunday, 17

Got a max intensity of 103.8mm/hr, and 32.6mm in all. Continuous thunder and much lightning, some

They did indeed. It seems things were a little livelier in Penge than they were in Warlingham. Tudor

53.4mm/hr peak (violent shower), temp dropped from 16 to 10C and plenty of thunder and lightning -

A couple of decades ago SouthWest Water had a programme called 'Clean Sweep' which was a

Graham Penzance - Dry here all day, but very windy.

A fairly short spell of heavy rain around 1230Z. Some very faint rumblings of thunder both before and

So came home. Time lapse of 2.30 hours into 60 seconds. https://youtu.be/HMZG2w8ffgA Jack

The storm that ended the 'warmth'. Time lapse x 150, ie 1/30 hours >>> 36 seconds 8

5.3 mm here. Thunder showers seem to pass either side of us. frequent 40 mph gusts though during the

On Thursday, 19 May 2022 at 14:35:20 UTC+1 Tudor Hughes wrote: Well, I go to bed pretty late and

We've had showery bursts of rain overnight, 9.5mm in the last 24 hours. Another very mild night,

From 1325-1350 GMT. Torrential rain, total 19.0 mm, maximum rainfall rate 188.8 mm/h according to VP2

Plenty of distant lightning here on Thurs into Friday night. The odd rumble of thunder and 4.6 mm

41.0 mm in one hour is a lot. For some reason the Times chose to report it as 11 million litres. On

Interesting line of thunderstorms associated with the south coast sea breeze front. At least,

Serious damage was caused to the village of Leersum in the centre of the Netherlands on Friday

In the last decade thunderstorms have shown a marked decline here in west Cornwall. Looking at '

15.8 mm here at 1800 and still raining through the evening. This is a quasi-stationary low, stuck,

Certainly plenty over Cornwall. However, in Penzance, the heavy rain was before I emerged from bed. A

Ah, a fellow geography graduate. Careless inaccuracies on maps are so annoying. I once pointed out to

Estimated 06-18 rainfall totals for today, luckily Strathpeffer has between the two streams of

They've got it right today! A thunderstorm has developed in almost the same place as a heavy

Thunder heard, no lightning seen, at 1657Z. A very slight splash of rain. I did a whirling-

Yes, that rainfall estimate picked up the streak that ran north across south Wales quite well, but

Definately, fortunately I now do my lawn care business part time, with generally only the spring and

That's entirely possible. The tall trees at a nearby large country house very close to the

Yesterdays 06-06 rainfall totals

Have been under the one in Sussex, Small but very potent, Amazing amount of rain enough to stop