It's P!SS!NG DOWN !!!

Roadkill · July 04, 2006, 11:24:19 AM

Yup, Rain.

Well . . . That's Summer over for another year . . . Roll on 2007.

ianjpage · July 04, 2006, 11:36:54 AM

lol only for today / tomorrow apparently then it back to sunny weather!!

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Incursus · July 04, 2006, 11:39:55 AM

Just in time for me to drive the Duster home

Still made it back safely, bad lights, no front indicatiors

and not the most effective wipers in the world

Don't think i'll risk the trip to Brackley tonight though...

On the bright side I love a good thunder storm

Just what we needed tbh

Incursus · July 04, 2006, 11:40:21 AM

Noisy one aint it

ianjpage · July 04, 2006, 11:43:18 AM

Quoting: Incursus

Just what we needed tbh

Yeah hope ti copmes this way as horribly muggy and sticky here

FUBAR · July 04, 2006, 11:53:56 AM

Quoting: Incursus

Noisy one aint it

Sure is

I love thunder storms, I normally sit in my window & watch them if I'm at home

Sammy Lou · July 04, 2006, 03:00:04 PM

i get scared

55starchief · July 04, 2006, 03:04:08 PM

didnt get anything here, just a little rain

Sammy Lou · July 04, 2006, 03:05:39 PM

we had big thunder

Jo · July 04, 2006, 03:08:09 PM

We had big thunder & lightning here too & lodsa rain

Sammy Lou · July 04, 2006, 04:34:23 PM

I got a bit wet running to the car and when i gggot to the car the rain stopped....

Jo · July 04, 2006, 04:50:54 PM

All gone & cleared up by the time I left work at 5.30pm

would have like to have seen the lightning on the way home even if it spooks me

philoldsmobile · July 04, 2006, 04:52:26 PM

looks like nothing ever happend here... saw some awesome lightning though

Jo · July 04, 2006, 05:01:39 PM

Yeah so did we

55starchief · July 04, 2006, 05:07:49 PM

nope absolutly nowt here

Jo · July 04, 2006, 05:15:01 PM

we had lots

philoldsmobile · July 04, 2006, 05:38:58 PM

looks like it went almost directly over beds / cambs

Incursus · July 05, 2006, 04:10:08 AM

Warehouse just flooded

FUBAR · July 05, 2006, 04:14:05 AM

Quoting: Incursus

Warehouse just flooded

Oops!

55starchief · July 05, 2006, 04:20:03 AM

we have it this morning although its a little on the weak side

EDGE · July 05, 2006, 04:34:44 AM

you should have seen it in edinburgh on sunday !!!! it was like the fooking end of the world.... proper scary stuff... the rain was so heavy vivibility was down to less than 10m and the mist that came the next morning was like driving blind

wierd stuff

EDGE

Giblets · July 05, 2006, 05:53:52 AM

I got caught head on in that storm that hit Luton yesterday.

I was driving down the M1 coming back from the Midlands and could see the sky darkening as I passed junction 13.

As I neared Luton I could see forked lightning firing off all around, and then the traffic just stopped and all hell let loose.

I kid you not when I say the winds from the downdraght must have reached 80mph, as I had to put my handbrake on to stop the car moving.

I almost though I was driving through a mild tornado, but there was no significant pressure drop, so it couldn't have been.

Temperature did drop from 32C to 16C in 2 minutes though which was amazing!

So much rain fell that the M1 was like a river, and Lower Luton Rd was flooded all the way back to Wheathampstead where my office is. Glad I wasn't in the IROC.

Best thunderstorm ever!

Giblets · July 05, 2006, 06:00:06 AM

This is a pic I took as the wind went nuts.

This is the state of Lower Luton Rd afterwards.

Jamieg285 · July 05, 2006, 06:02:53 AM

Damn, looks like I missed a good'un.

Didn't see any sign of storms on my way home, just a few damp patches when I got the Luton. No indication of that sort of rain though.

Giblets · July 05, 2006, 06:05:55 AM

I think the word is 'localized'!

It's P!SS!NG DOWN !!!

Roadkill