I want thunder and lightning!

Posted on July 20, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, heatwave, Life, Lightning, Rain, Relief, Summer, Thunder, Water, Weather, worldwide temperatureLeave a comment

I want the skies to darken, the winds to rise, I want a swirling storm, dancing leaves. Gusts and gales and the patter of heavy raindrops! I thought we were having that earlier but realised it was water pattering down on the kitchen roof from the hose! Instead of watering the plants he was watering the roof! He thought it would cool the air. Its 15°C cooler today than yesterday! We need relief for humans and the countryside. But not just here, worldwide. The trouble is its not just one country suffering.

Thunderstorms were forecast but haven’t happened yet. I’m watching www.http://blitzortung.org to see where the storms are. They seemed to be concentrated around France and Switzerland earlier on…..

Rain clouds

Posted on June 25, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, cumulus, Jet stream, Lake district, Lightning, Rain, Sunshine, Thunder, Weather2 Comments

Big puffy cloud seen in Newcastle under Lyme this afternoon. We did get a heavy rain shower afterwards and apparently there was a big thunderstorm a few miles away. The UK sits just in the right place to get weather from the North, South, East and West. With that and the jet stream moving about above us means that we can get ‘a year’s weather in a day’ as the old saying goes. In some places, such as the lake district, where they get a LOT of rain, they even make a joke of it and sell postcards with cartoons about rain and wet sheep on them!

Energy

Posted on June 23, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Energy, Lightning, lightning bolt, Sketching, ThunderLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was energy. I decided to draw lightning as we are expecting thunder storms later in the week. Lightning is much more complicated when you see a photo of it. Not the single lightning bolt that you get in cartoons or emojis. This is from memory.

Massive thunderstorm and huge(ish) hailstones!

Posted on July 28, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Gardening, Hail, hailstones, Life, Lightning, massive storm, Photo, Rain, Thunder, ThunderstormsLeave a comment

Wow! I’ve ever seen hailstones this big. I know there are bigger ones but these re the biggest I’ve ever seen…

It’s already melted, but it was so heavy my plants were bashed. Now? Bright sunshine. Mad weather, global warming? Could be, the thunderstorms these days are bad ass!

Thunder and lightning

Posted on July 24, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bolt of lightning, Bright, Electric, Lightning, Rain, Storm, Thunder, Thunder and lightning, Weather, Well watered plants2 Comments

After such a hit humid day Britain is now being hit by big thunderstorms. I watch an app called blitzortnung and you can see lightening strikes from around the world. He thunderstorms that we’re here an hour ago have moved up towards the North East of the country, but it looks like another line of storms is on its way up from the Midlands. I tried to take some photos but the first few didn’t work very well because my phone camera was on automatic. By the time it had decided on an exposure the flash was gone (orange coloured sky photos caused by street lamps) then I realised if I set lit on the basic manual mode I would get quicker ictures despite the view on the camera being darker. The purplish photos were from doing that. I managed to actually catch a bolt of lightning! The bright one, like daylight was just an extremely bright flash.

Now its raining again. No doubt we will have more but its 3.39am….

Goodnight

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Lightning