Thunder Storm Watch Web Site UK

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Nice site for thunderstorm watching in real (ish) time

Thunder Storm Watch UK
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Nice idea, but I was watching from underneath, not above.

Having sat for nigh on two hours in Ely station for a points failure, I picked up my car and attempted to drive home in a truly biblical downpour. Got to Wills and Kate's place at Anmer having driven through one flood that was high enough to set my parking sensors off (remember I have the AMG lowered suspension :devil::devil::devil: ) to go round the next bend and see an Alpha stuck with water up to its bumper.

Discretion being the better part of valour, I executed 180 degree turn and managed to arrive home by a rather circuitous route :nerd::nerd::nerd: (leading another car driven by the young lady who cleans the holiday cottage next door and lives in our village - knight in shining armour me, when the damsels are that pretty :mask::mask::mask: )
 
PhilP said:
Nothing, here in the middle.. :(
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NW Norfolk coast has some free illuminations ternight :nod::nod::nod:

Power will probably go soon.........................

Didn't bother to water the garden tonight :oops::oops::oops::oops:

But the kitchen rooflight has been rather nicely cleaned >:)>:)>:)
 
If any are on your way do not forget to unplug your DCC System from your rails. Did mine yesterday and will not be plugged back in for a while as I am mostly running Battery now. Though not in Lightning Storms!
 
Both the 'www.lightningmaps.org' and the 'Lightning & Thunderstorms - United Kingdom, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland' are great sites and although I have used them for some time, for some reason I did not for our open day last year...
Set everything out, locos up and ready and tested, seating out, food and beverages on the decking etc etc, then, with out much warning, we were hit with an almighty torrential thunderstorm.... just managed to get covers on the locos, get the food and drink back into the kitchen before the layout was completely flooded.
I had checked the weather in the morning and it had said that the thunder was going to miss us...... if only I had checked the lightning website as I usually do!

Our open day was to start at 2pm and the thunder went by 1.30 giving us precious little time to set up again...and of course the flood had upset a few things on the layout ..... and of course everyone piled in at 2 pm...... it was a long long afternoon..........
One learns by ones mistakes!
 
When I flew back from Cape Town a couple of years ago I was watching the lightning flashing way below us. Only time I've actually watched it from above.
 
G-force1 said:
When I flew back from Cape Town a couple of years ago I was watching the lightning flashing way below us. Only time I've actually watched it from above.
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Went on a holiday by charter 'Laker Airways' many moons ago.
Their plane was not working and they subcontracted a Canadian Pacific Airways plane to fill the gap (those were the days).
The subcontracted plane was equipped for a scheduled flight and the quality of service was far more than we were, of course, expecting from Laker.
As we approached the destination the captain informed us of a gigantic thunderstorm that was happening over the island. He look us around the storm and we watched the sky light up like a giant pinball.
He gently guided us around the storm, with hardly any turbulence and landed as smooth as silk.
Anyhow, also at the end of the holiday, there was another huge storm....but unfortunately Laker's plane was working this time ... it was an old Boeing 707 and the pilot flew us directly through the storm.....we all thought that we were going to perish as the plane bucked around and literally dropped many times causing a bit of weighlessness, let alone stuff flying all around the cabin area.
Laker was the first cheap airline but you usually did get what you paid for...sometimes
 
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beavercreek said:
Laker was the first cheap airline but you usually did get what you paid for...sometimes
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The old Laker hangar is on the south side of the Gatwick runway, just in line with the landing threshold for planes approaching from the east (the most common approach with prevailing westerlies) however, the wind swirls around the hangar and affects an aircraft just as it is about to touch down - referred to by the pilots as 'Laker's revenge' :devil::devil::devil:
 
Rhinochugger said:
NW Norfolk coast has some free illuminations ternight :nod::nod::nod:

Power will probably go soon.........................

Didn't bother to water the garden tonight :oops::oops::oops::oops:

But the kitchen rooflight has been rather nicely cleaned >:)>:)>:)
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Drove up to Heacham on Friday. Flooding at Lamsey Lane junction, as well as the Norfolk Lavender Cross Roads, where the traffic lights had failed. Run off from the field of lavender flowing into Heacham itself.

Flooding also by the Fox pub, where we came across a BMW, stuck in the middle of the road. We managed to drive around it before getting home.

Some water had got into the porch, but otherwise all was dry.

Spent the night there before heading off to Glendale Junction the following morning....
 
Gizzy said:
Flooding also by the Fox pub, where we came across a BMW, stuck in the middle of the road. We managed to drive around it before getting home.
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A BMW stuck, and you didn't stop to help the poor driver ;)
 
JimmyB said:
A BMW stuck, and you didn't stop to help the poor driver ;)
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Some years ago, driving to work in torrential rain, and approaching a traffic light control T-junction with red lights, as I slowed, I suddenly saw a cloud of water and steam to my left, out of which appeared a BMW going at some speed.

There are two ways of driving through flooded roads:

  1. The Range Rover approach, which is to creep around the edge of the puddle, trying not to get the alloys wet
  2. The BMW approach - BWOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhh !!!!
 
Gizzy said:
Well, I did suggest he switch his hazard lights on.... :eek:
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Yebbut..
If it was 'failed' in water.. The 'puter would not be workin' and the driver has probably never got as far as screen 37, sub-menu 113, to find out how to operate them!
Use of lights to show a 'hazard' to other road-users, also infers a modicum of decency, and thoughts of others... Neither of which are much in evidence from BMW drivers.. :nod::nod:
 
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