thunder storms

i live near colchester and at the mo , were having the best thunder storm , iv not seen one like this since i was in florida and that was 18 years ago, its been going for 50 mins now and is so amazing , i could watch one for hours,. do u love them or hate them

Love 'em (as long as I don't have to ride very far at the time)

[Messie]

I agree. It's been going on since about 7 - absolutley amazing. Some of the lightening stikes have been huge!
And the air feels washed clean now. Love it

We had the it over here in brum / solihull around 4-5pm, my missus got soaked, hailstones and everything.
i have been to florida a few times but never again would i go in the summer months, in 2003 i went in main two weeks and we had a 2-3 hour storm every day for 2 weeks, even closed some parks while we were in them.
phil

Stuck between Dunmow and Braintree and they're all around me, fantastic!

Was very impressed that the police heli was still flying over manchester this evening. But I guess it has to watch the approaches from Liverpool....

Thats probably what i could hear in Kent then! it was fookin loud and the sound was about 15 - 20 seconds long, but it was all sunny
here.

EDIT: Should of seen the post time xD

in Ipswich... been going on an hour now...

tis Good!

[ethariel]

Absolutley love them except for the one time about 10 years ago at a site near J6 of the M25, running about the big clearing (about a mile in diamater) when the sky went black, this was followed by a fantastic (looking back on it) bolt of forked lightning hitting a tree at the clearing's edge.

Then it dawned upon me (and the other 12 or so folks there) that being dressed in chainmail, in the middle of a clearing, in a thuinderstorm, was really, really, not nice.

I dont think i have run so far, so fast before or since in my life!

Yep. Got thunderered, lightninginged and deluged at whilst replacing my rear brake pads. But thoroughly enjoyed it.

Especially when I got changed into dry clothes.

Last year, I headed out to meet the GM one evening. It just started as we were finishing and leaving. Then had the most spectacular ride back on the A246. Multiple flashes across the otherwise pitch black horizon. Was amaaaaazing! Bit scary in the dark in that "aim left of the headlights" kind of way, but the storm was one of the most stunning I've experienced. The first time I've seen a bolt come out of the sky nearby (couple of hundred metres).