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cloaked_wolf
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Think there's one developing right now in Brum.
I've recall having thunderstorms at the end of summer, though each summer's always been a warm sunny one. As you all know, it's been a wet summer this year so I wasn't really expecting a thunderstorm.
So far, it the last five minutes, it's gone from bright and sunny to dark and overcast with raining and two episodes of thunder. No flash as of yet.
Anyone else experienced thunderstorms in the past week or so?
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Linux_User
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No actual thunderstorms, but we've had a couple of occasions in the last fortnight where it looked like the right conditions for one. We had one a few months back, I believe I posted about it on the forum as the 'leccy went.
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cloaked_wolf
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Reminds me about the time I went out the house, about a week ago I guess, maybe two. Stepped outside and everything looked wierd. The only thing I could compare it to was HDRI. At that time, I wish I had a camera on me to take a pic. The road was dead quiet too. Very eerie.
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timark_uk
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Should you really be on the 'net during a thunderstorm?
I always make sure my routers unplugged in case of a lightning strike.
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Linux_User
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I had a spare router and the laptop was running on battery, everything else was duly unplugged.
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l3v1ck
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Yeah, we've had half an hour of thunder, lightning and rain here this afternoon. It's gone now though.
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PaulKey
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Had 2 fairly bad storms here today. One this afternoon and the other at tea time.
Typically the sky looked wonderful as I left home, in t-shirt and shorts, to go to the supernarket mid afternoon. Little did I realise I would spend 20 minutes sitting in the car in the supermarket car park listening to the rain and hail thud on the roof while the lightning crackled and thunder rumbled above.
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davrosG5
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We had some fairly spectacular thunderstorms over here on Tuesday. Proper fork to the ground stuff too, none of this flash in the clouds rubbish.
It knocked out power at the research bunker until the generators kicked in but it did so after I had left work.
Suffice to say, having lost one router to lightning I was keen to get home and get everything unplugged.
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adidan
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We've not had one round here for a while. The worst one I was in was in Finland a few years back. Thankfully we'd spent that weekend in Helsinki because when we returned to the summer house there was a huge old tree slap bang where we park the car. Chainsaw time. 
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Fogmeister I ventured into Solitude but didn't really do much.
jonbwfc I was behind her in a queue today - but I wouldn't describe it as 'bushy'.
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eddie543
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Location: Manchester
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Oh i miss a good storm
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