Huge hail stones at 0100 here, well I say huge, about marble sized. I’m sure someone will come along from the prairies with tales of football sized ones.
It passed just west of mine last night, it looked like those films you see of air raids with the constant flashes of light and sounds of explosions. Incredible sight.
Apparently Manchester airport was shut for a while. And a mate was driving over the M62 and as he came over the summit and down towards Manchester he said the heavens opened, said it was like driving along a river!
Got woken up at 0100 as it passed over Peebles so got up to watch it over the hills. Awesome ! Lighting and thunder at the same time as it passed overhead. Even the cat was scared, and she doesn’t scare easily (as the neighbours dog has discovered to his pain and humiliation).
Waited all day for it in Edinburgh, looked like it was going to pass us by completely, but finally made an appearance just after 1 (after scaring hel’s cat 😉
[url=https://flic.kr/p/uwedY8]Edinburgh Lightning[/url] by Kit Carruthers, on Flickr
Came right over head in Bolton last night. Incredible. Almost constant lightning, then biblical rain and 2″ hail stones. The sound of them hitting the car was epic.
I’ve only seen a storm like this in France before and my housemate witnessed one in Vietnam
I managed to film a bit (sorry about filming in portrait, it was very gusty and i didn’t want to drop my phone out the first floor window)
[video]https://youtu.be/9_z42h76uIU[/video]
Fire the video up on the youtube site, stick it in HD and slow the speed down to 0.5