portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
- 17,198
Blimey, send it further up the Home Counties please! Love a lightening show!
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Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Reading elsewhere, it was a squall that started at Selsey Bill, rolled along the coast to Beachy Head in 30 odd minutes.
banjo
GOSBTS
Looks like it’s brewing out to sea.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
If you're in East East Sussex you might get something from this lot, otherwise it's a miss.
Looks impressive but yes one for Hastings at best
banjo
GOSBTS
Looks ok further west atm.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Yes. I just heard thunder here in Worthing. Excellent news
Really? Are we likely to have thunder in Worthing tonight?
Henry is with my Mum and he hates thunder.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
I don't see any lightning from those little showers running onto the coast near here, with the main interest further East, but that rumble I heard was reasonably close
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Loads of thunder and lightning here in Eastbourne. But no storm showers yet. I think it'll be different in a few minutes though as the wind has gotten up whereas it was completely still for hours prior.
Gabbafella
Well-known member
- Aug 22, 2012
- 4,723
Plenty of lightning south of Eastbourne, other than that it doesn't look like much happening.
banjo
GOSBTS
Kicking off now in Bn14
Just walked home from a pal’s house in RH15, absolutely loads of very distant lightning flashes going on to the South.
banjo
GOSBTS
Over in a flash. Gone north now.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
And wow! Here it is!
The probability of being struck a second time is exactly the same as the probability of being struck a first time.
Except you may well plan to be a bit more f***ing careful next time there's thunder and lightening about, so the risk should fall.
But either way, the chances are rather small.
One person in 19 million will die of a strike in the US each year (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001AtmRe..56..325E/abstract)
If the population of the US is 331 million (which it is) then 17 people will die each year. In America. Put it another way, on average it will take each American 19 million years to be confident of being struck once. And to be struck twice will take 38 million years.
Now, if you are what is known as a prize plum, someone who likes to walk about when there is heavy lightening, your chances of being hit will increase. And if you are what is known as a cockjuggling thundercunt and, after having been hit by a streak, the first think you do is wander lonely in a storm, the risk of a second hit may go up a bit.
For the rest of us, it is all chance.
How about North
East Sussex
1066familyman
Radio User
- Jan 15, 2008
- 15,185
This is lovely here in Hastings! Proper storm now with some spectacular lightening and serious rumble to the thunder. But best of all... It's absolutely tipping it down, and has been for the past 15 minutes or more. Hopefully this rain will continue on for a while yet.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Some lovely flashes and rumbles in BN41, but its still drier than a fan park in Qatar.