Well this morning saw some huge monsterous thunderstorms, across the South East and North. I woke up to some rumbling rolling thunder myself. These storms have been violent with numerous lightning strikes and torrential downpours causing flash flooding.
London had a spectacular storm in the early hours.
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| (BBC) ap |
Manchester also saw violent thunderstorms with a huge bolt hitting close to Piccadilly Station causing signal outages causing trains to be cancelled and delayed for up to 90 minutes for most of the morning.
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| Manchester Lightning Strike via MSN |
The storms are forming with the high temperatures and high humidity in the atmosphere. They follow weeks of hot weather and the heatwave. They are set to continue over the next few days also. Warnings for heavy rain and potential flash flooding due to the amount of rainfall in a short space of time and the dry and solid ground
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| Jamie McDonagh, Northampton (BBC) |
Track the storms
Early this morning there were oover 1586 strikes in one hour and you can track the thunderstorms and their lightning strikes via netweather at
it shows the location of the lightning strikes and the time since showing the movement of storms.
Earlier today I accidentally called a Thunderstorm a Voldemort.
But when I came to think about it, they both are very similar and Voldemort would be a good alternative name form a thunder storm.
If you think about it the word Volt is in his name, like lightning electricity....
Also the word Storm is almost in his name which is probably the reason why I got confused in the first place.
But additionally, they are both destructive, terrifying (for some) and produce lightning scars.
Maybe that's where the name comes from?
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