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  • Quite a storm around Swindon
  • CountZero
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    Heard some thunder earlier, so opened Live Lightning – it’s all going off between Swindon and Oxford!

    slowoldman
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    Looks good on Windy too.

    Screenshot 2024-09-20 at 14.52.42

    nuke
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    Hit us around 11:30 here in Dorking. Proper biblical rain with thunder, lightening & hail. Flooding pics all over social media. It’s a lovely blue sky now though

    fossy
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    Blimey !

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    Caher
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    Swindon will survive but more urgently, hope the trail behind the Nat West is not flooded.

    weeksy
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    We’re south of Oxford, north of Newbury, massive storms, epic clouds, monsoony rain.

    Well, it was an hour or so ago…. now it’s lovely.

    CountZero
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    Swindon will survive but more urgently, hope the trail behind the Nat West is not flooded.

    Old Town will, ‘cos it’s at the top of the hill, but I doubt anyone would shed tears if Swindon got washed away in a biblical storm! The Nat West trail is probably a route to Marlborough refugee camps for Swindon’s lost souls.
    The storm is now over Gloucester and Cheltenham, with a few strikes up around Morton-in-Marsh…

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    FB-ATB
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    trail behind the Nat West

    I thought they were behind the Nationwide. Are these new trails?

    Caher
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    Yeah you’re right. I meant Nationwide. Not been there for years.

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    CountZero
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    I thought they were behind the Nationwide. Are these new trails?

    Ha! Yeah, my mistake too; it’s been a very long time since I was there!
    2007, according to a photo I took at the spiral bridge over the M4, when I rode from Swindon down to Marlborough!

    JonBoy
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    I always miss out on the good storms. Last one that hit my area i was in France. Wife video called me to show how bad it was.

    ajantom
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    Blimey, my dad’s slap bang in the middle of that (Stanford in the Vale)

    theotherjonv
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    An actual tornado hit Aldershot, causing almost £8 worth of damage

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy89x9v0n7eo

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    grahamt1980
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    An actual tornado hit Aldershot, causing almost £8 worth of damage

    Bloody hell.  You mean the tornado managed to flatten a whole house?

    Caher
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    An actual tornado hit Aldershot, causing almost £8 worth of damage

    There’s a house in Aldershot worth more than £8?

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    FB-ATB
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    An actual tornado hit Aldershot, causing almost £8 worth of damage improvements

    FTFY

    MoreCashThanDash
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    More storms forecast down there today. If you see some soggy and disappointed looking Ilkeston Cycle Club riders on their away day to Chipping Norton, give them a cheer!

    CountZero
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    An actual tornado hit Aldershot, causing almost £8 worth of damage improvements
    FTFY

    mrb123
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    Yep, Swindon 0, Carlisle 2.

    Dickyboy
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    More storms forecast down there today. If you see some soggy and disappointed looking Ilkeston Cycle Club riders on their away day to Chipping Norton, give them a cheer!

    Will do, but it will almost certainly be from a bedraggled motorcyclist plotting my least wet route from Gower to Aylesbury.

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    MoreCashThanDash
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    Will do, but it will almost certainly be from a bedraggled motorcyclist plotting my least wet route from Gower to Aylesbury.

    Good luck and stay safe.

    Our guys (and gals) managed to stay dry. In for a shock when they got back last night, roads flooded, manholes up, trees down.

    Best lightening storm we’ve had round here for years.

    argee
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    It’s monsoon season down here i think, today is rain, rain and more rain just over the border in South Gloucestershire.

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