Storm alert Isle of Wight 21.17 pm

Blimey,

Been checking this site for years, never seen a storm like the one just off the Isle of Wight at the moment.

Live storm data from Newport, Isle of Wight from a Boltek StormTracker lightning detector

Any of our members down there need to cover up quickly.:runhills:

 

Loads of bangs down here in dorset too, I was seeing the strikes come up on the lightning site before hearing them, the storm was just touching the Isle of Wight when the site went down, I guess the power got taken out there

 

I can't access either Zig ... but I sold up there four years ago now and I know young Aesculus does not live there anymore either.

 

The site is still down, found another, not so good though.

EUCLID - Realtime European Lightning Map

 

Been promised some rain tomorrow or Sunday by all the Weather sites all week ... now they've all gone shy on me and are saying "No dice" :(

I've put Nitrogen on all the lawns in expectation, so they had better come good on their earlier promises ... we didn't get more than a couple of mm in April, and only about 10mm in March :( and the lawn is going to look like a yellow-thing if the N doesn't get watered-in :(

The yew hedging we planted in Feb looks dead. Its been watered; I reckon (only realised too late) that something went digging for the bonemeal they were planted with :(

and the 1,500 Hornbeam we put in will be starting to look sorry soon. I put leaky-hose under the weed-membrane, but haven't connected it up as yet. That's a job for this weekend.

Don't laugh, promise?!! I replaced one of the Copper Beech hedge plants which I planted 2 years ago. They were 1.5M plants, so already quite tall. This particular one came green both seasons ... we had a half dozen dead ones in the hedge too, which I also replaced. My wife said "Its the one on the end of THAT row" so I dug it up, potted it up so as to plant out as a tree somewhere next Autumn, and guess what? Now its potted up the plant has come into leaf Copper!!! I was telling my wife how remarkable this was when she told me it was "one-from-the-end-of-the-row" and sure enough the Green one is still there!

 

I hate it when that happens Kristen:DOH:

The storm we had here started as I left Somerset & was still going when I got to Dorset & was stretching out to sea, so must have been at least 40 miles across.

I hope one that size waters in your N for you.

 

If it comes I'll know it was you that send it Ziggy ... Cheers!

 

We were promised a storm tonight, we had a good down pour about an hour ago but no storm.
Not yet anyway but it's very warm here so we may get it in the night.

 

Oops, message from the first site saying they've been suspended due to overloading the server

guess we shouldn't have all looked at once.

 

Maybe it changed it's course as we had massive electrical/thunderstorms here throughout the night accompanied by torrential rain ... I'm sure this happened because I watered last evening ... :DOH:

 

It did Victoria I see the storm you had, its moved over to central Spain now, its huge.