Stormy Weather

[Serial_Apologist]

Following the most stifling morning I can remember in a long time, one huge thunderstorm is kicking off here in London right now. From the lightning map it appears to stretch all the way down to Crawley, and so, moving as it is at a snail's pace, it looks like upstairs' babywear, left out on the washing line, is truly in for a rinsing! Looking out the the south west, I just now had one of those OMG sky-out-of-hell moments. I've just advised the young woman who comes fortnightly to clean our external areas to leave the balconies for today, but I'm not sure she understands much English!

WOW, that one was close! Odd thing is how the rain seems to be holding off.

[BBMmk2]

Very muggy down here. Some colleagues have said they heard thunder but not me!

[Serial_Apologist]

Very muggy down here. Some colleagues have said they heard thunder but not me!

Turn down the wireless then, BBM!

Actually, the storm has now died out in your particular neck of the woods. It's now reached N London, giving me some nice C-G (cloud-to-ground) flashes to see. Rather than moving north per se, this storm appears to be developing along its leading edge, while at the same time as it dies at the back end, thus giving the illusion of movement.

[Serial_Apologist]

That was quite something! We appear to have missed the worst of the storm, which had de-energised by the time it reached London "proper". Just look at these shots from just 4 miles south of here!

http://www.itv.com/news/london/2016-06-07/flash-flooding-leaves-roads-underwater-and-cars-submerged/

[Nick Armstrong]

That was quite something! We appear to have missed the worst of the storm, which had de-energised by the time it reached London "proper". Just look at these shots from just 4 miles south of here!

http://www.itv.com/news/london/2016-06-07/flash-flooding-leaves-roads-underwater-and-cars-submerged/

Blimey! I cycled home in West London around that time in the lightest of warm summer rain - with that lovely 'summer rain' smell...

The storm seems to have skirted central London and to be northward bound now:



It's busy in the Low Countries !

[Serial_Apologist]

Blimey! I cycled home in West London around that time in the lightest of warm summer rain - with that lovely 'summer rain' smell...

The storm seems to have skirted central London and to be northward bound now:



It's busy in the Low Countries !

There's a lot of chat about these storms on a weather site; it appears that with this kind of situation on the edge of larger systems, such as that stretching between Belgium and the southern end of Denmark, storms can suddenly collapse, releasing all their stored up moisture over quite confined locations. This must be what happened over Croydon!

[mercia]

http://www.itv.com/news/london/2016-...ars-submerged/

did people actually drive into that believing they could get out the other side ??

[Serial_Apologist]

did people actually drive into that believing they could get out the other side ??

Wouldn't surprise me - Croydon has a reputation for being gung-ho!

[Dave2002]

Wasn't supposed to rain here today - not until tonight, anyway - but it did. Now the rain has set in with a vengeance yet again at 00:15. There's still a bit of a storm going on around.

[DracoM]

Steamy, steamy opp 'ere. Very curious that at about 10 p.m. last night, a low mist began to creep over the tops and down into the dales and by midnight, it was like a thick winter fog. Temp well up in mid-upper teens, and stayed there.

Still, I've got Tasmin Little and Martin Roscoe in a local church tonight so that'll cool things down nicely!
Not all sheep oop 'ere, tha knows.

[Nick Armstrong]

Still, I've got Tasmin Little and Martin Roscoe in a local church tonight

My immediate thought was of you planning some sort of hostage situation...

[DracoM]

Yes, but we are the hostages as the geniuses before us hold us in rapture!

[Serial_Apologist]

Wouldn't surprise me - Croydon has a reputation for being gung-ho!

Um, I now have to say, in defense of the peoples of Croydon, that one woman who was rescued from her car in that flooding episode did report the car in front of her safely making its was slowly through shallow water, but in the brief time she reached the same spot more water seemed all of a sudden to be surging up, presumably from overwhelmed drains under the road. Which would explain those caught, I guess.

[Serial_Apologist]

Very heavy thunderstorm in progress here as I write - I had to dash in from the garden, where I was sunbathing!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Very heavy thunderstorm in progress here as I write - I had to dash in from the garden, where I was sunbathing!

A sudden (and unforecast) downpour here, too - not in the thunderstorm league, and it's eased off and cleaned the thick air. Looking out now, I cannot see the rain, but know it's there because the petals on the Oxeye daisies are being lightly flicked; they look as if they're practising their scales!