Parts of north Cumbria are currently being affected by an unusual Hallloween thunderstorm as a intense shower moves across from the Irish Sea.

The storm can be seen clearly on the radar making landfall north of Workington and moving rapidly east.

Here in north of Penrith the sky has been lit up many times during the past 20 minutes with several rolls of thunder yet the sky above appears clear with stars visible.

Thunderstorms during mid-late autumn are not that rare but I have never known one before during the evening of Halloween.......spooky!

Andy

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Edinburgh had a thunderstorm this afternoon. It bacame very dark with squally rain and hail in the southern suburbs

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Wow I bet that looked creeeeeeepppy. 🙂 . Nice..

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Did it demand baksheesh with menaces as it rolled by?

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Havent seen anything here but do have the rain - better change my glasses

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Looking at the Radar sequence for the past few hours the thunderstorm reached its greatest intensity over Wigton at about 20:30 before fading quickly as it moved over Carlisle (hence rain only in Brampton).

The thunder and lightning I could see and hear from Plumpton will have been that over Wigton as its only 8 miles away.

Several reports today of thunderstorms in the Lake District as well, these Irish Sea showers have really been packing a punch.

As I said before thunderstorms in late Autumn are not unheard of in Cumbria, although still unusa,l but having one coincide with a dark Halloween evening is a first for me

The kids will have loved it.

Andy

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Andy

 

I was away last night and reyling on reports from family. They now tell me there was a flash of lightning, they thought it was a firework at first 

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