Huge thunderstorms in UK

billy the squid

http://www.net-weather.co.uk/index.cgi?action=charts;type=uklightning

spherics chart os going bonkers in the UK take a look

looks like a breakdown from the recent hot tempritures they have been having over there.

mike65

Just saw the tv footage, small but nasty event. It seem to be a seasonal certainty across the water. Here you'd be lucky to get any real action like that. That said there was a ding-dong downpour in Co Kilkenny last summer
I had to stop the van for.

Media talk of "is it climate change"? well quite possibly but its been said 'an English summer is three hot days and a thunderstorm' for many years...

Mike.

Gonzo

the english always moan about how bad their summers are but in reality their summers are pretty bloody good especially in the southeastern half of the UK, our summers are usually way cooler and cloudier/wetter compared to them and were only a few hundred miles to the west. (were lucky to see 25c maybe one or two days in the whole summer, anything above 25c here is a rarity indeed, they get anywhere from 21c to 32c almost weekly during late june, july and august)

kindredspirit

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/africa_dorset_storms0_23_june_2005/html/1.stm