• No more heatwave - level 2 flood warnings issued as storms batter Britain
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The Environment Agency warned that up to 30mm (1.2in) of rain could fall in an hour in some areas. The agency says that almost every county in England and Wales is at 'medium' risk of flooding today, and has issued 59 flood alerts, warning people to be prepared. [IMG]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/19/article-2698197-1FCA548700000578-475_964x495.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/19/article-2698197-1FCB278F00000578-832_964x619.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/19/article-2698197-1FC8C10500000578-334_964x560.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/19/article-2698197-1FCAFBFF00000578-2_964x618.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/19/article-2698197-1FCA15D100000578-87_964x472.jpg[/IMG] [URL]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2698197/Yesterday-just-warm-Flights-cancelled-flash-flood-warnings-issued-country-Britain-braces-MORE-severe-thunderstorms-torrential-downpours.html[/URL]
[img_thumb]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/19/article-2698197-1FCA548700000578-475_964x495.jpg[/img_thumb] What an incredible photo, it looks like something out of a movie.
I'm here in the Netherlands and I just checked a website called buienradar. It showed a big storm moving towards Great Britain.
The thunderstorms the last two nights were immense!
These photos are incredible, I tried to get some pictures/videos of the storm but failed - It never came close enough + when I came back in the morning I found my camera (on a heavy/sturdy tripod) blown over :( There was literately 10's of lightning strikes a minute when it passed - biggest storm I've ever seen.
[QUOTE=ZyreHD;45440061]I'm here in the Netherlands and I just checked a website called buienradar. It showed a big storm moving towards Great Britain.[/QUOTE] I'm using a website called [URL="http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en"]Lightning Maps[/URL] which aims to be as real-time as possible. Useful because it shows the lightning getting closer to where I live. But anyway, what I got last night was unlike anything I've ever experienced with regards to thunderstorms. Flashes every five seconds or so.
What's going on, send help. I'm hoping the heat wave and the storms don't collude to fuck us up in an even more spectacular way than they could alone.
[QUOTE=matt.ant;45440029][IMG]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/19/article-2698197-1FCA548700000578-475_964x495.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Is that beach made of rocks?
Thunder went on from about 8 until early morning here. Was awesome in the evening because the clouds looked crazy and every time there was lightning they turned purple
[QUOTE=OvB;45440213]Is that beach made of rocks?[/QUOTE] Just wet because the tide is out
There was plenty of thunderbolt and lightning going on through the last couple of nights. Barely any rain though, just gross heat and cloud cover to say "fuck you and your preconceptions of staying cool" even at night. What I wouldn't give for cooling rains in the area, though hopefully not enough to cause the big flood problems forecast for the country.
There has been a pretty big storm for the past two nights in the SE, there was even hail last night despite it being a warm night.
As much as I like Thunderstorms, I'm grateful that all I'm getting is rain here :v:
Make up your damn mind
[QUOTE=OvB;45440213]Is that beach made of rocks?[/QUOTE] Yeah, looks like Brighton which is a pebble beach
Stay safe everyone. If something terribly bad happens like it happened in Serbia you should brace yourselfes, there might be water/food shortages etc. I've seen first hand how flooding looks and it's ugly...
we got a lot of pebble beaches up here in ol' blighty. 's why everyone goes to margate for a beach holiday, at least in london and the south east. i flew home last night and the thunderstorms were amazing, the lightning was so frequent that i actually saw a bolt streak across the sky.
the heatwave isn't 'over' really, we had two big thunderstorms over in Herts but it's still 25ºC - 29ºC in the daytime warm rain is cool anyway. the humidity, heat and rain is making it feel like the amazon in this bitch
I love the rain
I was evacuated from work today, literally out of nowhere. :v: Everything was fine all day at work until the last 20 minutes of my shift. I was actually just about to walk out the door when the alarms started sounding for an evacuation (I work in a huge shopping centre thing, so an evacuation was already pretty weird) and it turns out every shop has been completely fucking flooded because of a 10 minute storm. The cafe I work in will probably be fine relatively quickly, but God do I feel sorry for the clothes shops in the centre hahahahaha
had a crazy thunderstorm throught the night last night. was pretty intense Today looked like a thunderstorm, but its been pretty humid all day without any rain.
Send some over to Germany, I#m dying here and I have to learn for exams. Thanks in advance.
I fucking love thunder and lightning and stormy weather, it's so relaxing.
[QUOTE=OvB;45440213]Is that beach made of rocks?[/QUOTE] They're quite common around the UK.
We had an amazing thunderstorm here earlier, I hope there's more on the way.
Thor's taking the piss.
[QUOTE=OvB;45440213]Is that beach made of rocks?[/QUOTE] Yeah, actually. A lot of Brighton and the south coast's beaches in general are made out of quadrillions of tiny pebbles and shit rather than actual sand like you might expect. I fucking hate the beaches round here because of that.
[quote]No more heatwave[/quote] Yay! [quote]level 2 flood warnings issued[/quote] Oh crap.
Seems like my area tomorrow is due another thunderstorm, complete with decent rainfall. Well, that's a relief.
[QUOTE=Coffee;45440582]I fucking love thunder and lightning and stormy weather, it's so relaxing.[/QUOTE] When you're inside. Sometimes, between the flash and thunder there was less than a second's delay, so bolts must've been hitting within a few hundred meters of me, and by Christ was it loud. Kept blowing out the power to the house as well.
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