Needless to say we didn't get our usual early morning walk. Penny was in her safe space as she hates thunder. It will be at least a couple of hours after the last thunder heard, even if it is miles away, before she will show her nose outdoors. The passage in my home has no windows, no natural light except some light spilling from the kitchen at one end so she goes to the far end in the darkest part.
Looking at the Blitzortung live lightning site it showed in excess of 20,000 strikes mainly over the UK in two hours. Things should be clearing out to the North Sea soon so we will get a break from storms until the next batch which seem to be forecast for 6 p.m. onwards today.
To end on a brighter note, Yucca flowers seen in a local front garden:
I have to open the windows for my two. They love gazing at the lightning...Daft dogs.
ReplyDeleteAdrian: They are so different in their response. I've had dogs which wanted to go out and bark at the thunder, would sit on the window seat with me and watch, sleep through a storm and now one which trembles in a corner.
DeleteThanks for the mention of the Lightening site. Its very interesting, our storms in Cardiff are due later today.
ReplyDeleteDave: I find it useful to see what is heading my way. Their use of colour for timing helps a lot. Pity it can't be zoomed in. There are sites which do allow zooming but they tend to have a delay on their reporting.
DeleteI too use the German site but this is good and if you can navigate the site gives rain, wind and allsorts.
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I get a ten second delay on it but it will run a couple of hours of streaming.
Adrian: Thanks for that. I used to use that one then lost the link.
DeleteAlso useful is meteoradar.co.uk which gives a three hour animated rainfall radar forecast, also zoomable. Usually fairly accurate and gives in indication how much rainfall to expect.
Ah. Missed the dynamic map choice on blitzortung. Got it now.
Not as thankful as me, I write all that HTML to get bold then write more outside it for the link. I have to back space and jump through hoops. Then I have to wait till you have accepted it to see if I've done it right. It worked this time.
DeleteAdrian: It sometimes takes longer to accept comments these days. Google seem to have altered things. Comments used to be automatically forwarded to my Google email account and I would see them straight away. They no longer do that so I have to keep checking my Blogger account. If I turn moderation off I have to spend time deleting the junk comments, usually advertising 'adult' sites probably loaded with malicious software.
DeleteWe've had the most rain in several months tonight. Still rather humid though.
ReplyDeleteSimon: We have now reached about half an inch of rain. Lost power twice so far this evening. Thank goodness I installed automatic lights which charge when the power is on and light up as soon as power fails.
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