If anyone is in the UK at the moment, go out and look north

[Chock 17,769]

Massive lightning storm a long way off lighting up above the clouds. Look s amazing, no sound at all.

[F737MAX 5,750]

Can't see them from where I am. Bit too far away.
I like this site though:
https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;
https://www.lightningmaps.org/blitzortung/europe/index.php?bo_page=map&bo_showmap=uk

Plenty of activity right now.

[tutmeister 718]

35 minutes ago, Chock said:

Massive lightning storm a long way off lighting up above the clouds. Look s amazing, no sound at all.

Depends where you are! :D

I'm north of you, it's just to the south of me and it definitely has sound!

[Chock 17,769]

Shame, you couldn't see it, it's quite a show.

Big yellow and orange flashes above the clouds in rapid succession, perhaps one every three or four seconds, lighting up the entire span of low clouds over a good 120 degree arc, occasionally with a really bright centre point where there's a break in the clouds. Must be a long way off though, there's no sound at all here just south of Manchester, about three miles from EGCC.

Edited August 10, 2020 by Chock

[Matthew Kane 1,343]

Summer thunderstorms are the best 

[tutmeister 718]

The bulk of it is north of here over Preston and Blackpool. What I was hearing was one of the closer bits. Still going on. Tried posting a radar screen shot from my phone but it's not straight forward!

 

[Mace 1,964]

Just now, Chock said:

Shame, you couldn't see it, it's quite a show.

Big yellow and orange flashes above the clouds in rapid succession, perhaps one every three or four seconds, lighting up the entire span of low clouds over a good 120 degree arc, occasionally with a really bright centre point where there's a break in the clouds. Must be a long way off though, there's no sound at all.

The flashes with no sound...we call that "heat lightning" in my neck o' the woods in the southern USA.  That name really means nothing, as it has nothing to do with heat.   It is of course a CB that is 70-100 statute miles away typically.

On that live lightning site, look at what is headed towards STL and Indianapolis right now.  A big o line of storms probably 500 miles long from Canada to TEXAS.   I'm a little bit southeast of that, I'm sitting here wondering if it will make it down here. 

 

[Chock 17,769]

7 minutes ago, Matthew Kane said:

Summer thunderstorms are the best 

Slightly spoiled by the waft of the smell of the old 'jamaican woodbines' from one of my neighbours in the garden lol. Still whatever floats yer boat I guess. 🤣

Edited August 10, 2020 by Chock

[BerndB 349]

 

35 minutes ago, Chock said:

Shame, you couldn't see it, it's quite a show.

Big yellow and orange flashes above the clouds in rapid succession, perhaps one every three or four seconds, lighting up the entire span of low clouds over a good 120 degree arc, occasionally with a really bright centre point where there's a break in the clouds. Must be a long way off though, there's no sound at all here just south of Manchester, about three miles from EGCC.

Watch out, if there comes a huge metallic disc object out of,...that would mean they have arrived.

[JRBarrett 3,150]

Just looked at the UK radar display in Foreflight. Quite an intense area of storms to be sure! It appears to extend from northern Wales all the way up to Cumbria, with an extremely intense cell near Morecambe right now at 23:53 UTC. 

The whole are is moving north towards western Scotland

[Chock 17,769]

Video still, not great quality, but shows you how bright it is, this view is normally pretty much pitch black and it's 1:14am here. That's more or less where Liverpool Airport is:

 

Edited August 11, 2020 by Chock

[Christopher Low 5,404]

We had thunderstorms for most of the night up here in Ulverston, Cumbria (south of the Lake District National Park). Lots of lightning flashes in quick succession, but I was too tired to get up and have a look!

[nonflyingdutchman 40]

hubnut got caught in tuk in the storm driving to his new storage

[norman s 15]

Chris in East Lancs we did not get anything until 02:30 which lasted just short of an hour.

[jon b 2,076]

Bah , I was hoping to get some of that rain last night as I put a load of grass seed down last week , but not a drop here in the Peak District.

I’m hoping for some tonight as there’s more storms forecast.

At least I was able to counter my wife’s usual complaints that it rains here more than other parts of the U.K. 

As a footnote ,such evenings always puts me in mind of , and therefore in the mood for “ summer lightning” one of my favourite real ales, from the hopback breweries