Best way to describe the 'storm' in Thanet....you know that moment when you're in a hotel room, alone, and all you can here is the banging from the room next door....and you wish it'd either stop, or at least let you watch?....that one!
So for anyone who thinks Kent got pasted last night....some parts didn't!!
Originally Posted by: Jive Buddy
Oh Iain! I can't believe you have missed out on that. Looks like this storm took the Folkestone Weather Shield with it and it ended up at your end.
The storm, at it's peak at 2.30 am, was that lively that the power winked out for a second while at the same time kept causing the garden solar lights to keep coming back on, so I've had to reset all the digital clocks around the house (alarm clocks, the heater, video, etc). It also had me checking my roof and the inside of it for water damage - and thankfully, it's all bone dry. Lord, my house is built like a castle.
It is going to be a long time before I moan about the South East Kent climate. My only regret was having missed this storm's approach as I was still asleep. it wasn't until rain water and hail blowing through an open window and splashing onto my legs did I wake up and that's when I was seeing next door's plastic garden furniture being blown about in what I'm sure was a gustnado type wind.
By the time it was in full chat, I just couldn't get out with the camera to get to a more interesting photogenic location due to the rain. Besides my poor elderly mother was having a million heart attacks per second as the house literally shock with the explosions of thunder along with the strobe lightning.
My rain gauge is reading 18.6 mm having fallen but I'm sure MUCH more has fallen as it has caused localised flooding around the town.
I think for the first time in years, I can easily class this to have been a proper "violent" storm. Now I can rest easy knowing my thirst for storms has been quenched. Any more we do get from here on is considered to be a bonus, even though I was ready to write it off last night (hence how it took me by surprise) and expecting this evening to offer a better chance.
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23 July 2013 06:51:19
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