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22/3/2025 at 4:07pm
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I'm in the midst of one of the most violent lightning storms I think I've seen in a VERY long time! Been going on for about 40 mins now, tremendous bright flashes of lightning and almost instantaneous near deafening claps of thunder! Not extreme rain, but rather heavy, rain very slow coming, long after the crashing and flashing started!
It rudely awoke me from a post lunch doze, and it's got the poor dog shaking like a leaf!
Really not a storm ferocity we normally get in London, they are usually brief and distant, this one is violent, overhead and VERY slow passing!
It doesn't bother me greatly as I'm not out in it, but want it gone ASAP for the poor dog's sake! I'll be keeping an eye on the news, be surprised if there haven't been some damaging lightning strikes fairly local!
Nature at it's most dramatic in a way, but think I'd prefer it at slightly more distance! 
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22/3/2025 at 8:53pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Mrs. Bonce on 22/3/2025
It's gone black and rained a bit. We rarely get thunder here.
Maybe not, but you do get SNOW at the merest hint it's likely!!!! Had friends who lived in your area, and any suggestion of snow in the offing it was grasped with enthusiasm and delivered with gusto! Times I've slipped and slid my way home from Luton!
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Quote: Originally posted by Fiona W on 23/3/2025
Sorry for not being sympathetic Monty15 but it wasn’t deliberate: your dramatic storm didn’t reach our news, or I would have responded.
I guess that’s fair: storm Éowyn was devastating for us and for me personally - young woods that my design & planting contracts created 40 years ago have been flattened like matchsticks, I’m still finding new areas felled to what they were when I spent time researching & pulling together the planting plans. Thousands of trees felled in many of our nationally important botanic gardens. But it didn’t make your news. That’s what climate change looks like.
I love woods, the older the better, but they all start somewhere, so it saddens me deeply when I see that sort of destruction, so if you've been instrumental in it's creation, it must be deeply upsetting. I've walked many a wood where there has been significant damage and felling by storms.
As far as 'news goes, it'll be some pointless unheard of (by me anyway!) 'celebrity' grabbing headlines with something truly trivial! REAL news doesn't get reported anymore - sad!
If no one else says it, a thank you from me for doing what's right for nature and the planet! xxx
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