Silent Lightning?

[bensonby]

Did anyone see lighning in the sky last night at about half 10? I saw several flashes that lit up the sky but there was no rain or thunder.... very strange.

[lambchops]

aliens.

or, it could have been the trains. used to happen when i lived in bermondsey.

[mysti77]

Yes there was rain (very light rain) and I did hear thunder once. Was out for a walk from 9pm to 9:40 pm.

Was beautiful but a bit scary!

[parklife]

There are some great pictures of the lightning in south london on the daily mail website

[MissDee]

Saw it too! I thought somebody was taking pictures of me, so was smiling all the time....

[natbeuk]

Did anyone see lighning in the sky last night at about half 10? I saw several flashes that lit up the sky but there was no rain or thunder.... very strange.

Not so strange at all! We get a lot of it in Australia, we always called it an electrical storm. It's when the storm is off in the distance, ie too far away to hear the thunder. You can see lightning from a much greater distance than you can hear thunder.

I swear that the summers over here are getting more and more like a Sydney summer every year...

[bensonby]

I swear that the summers over here are getting more and more like a Sydney summer every year...

well that's the thing. I've never, ever, seen it before! I thought electrical storms only happened in tropical climates!

Is it all down to global warming?

[natbeuk]

Global warming, El Nino, whatever... something's definitely changing!

I don't actually know what conditions are needed to produce an electrical storm so if anyone out there knows I'd be interested??

[Ronski]

I saw some of that from our garden, really strange not to hear the thunder on half of them

[marymck]

We saw the lightning from our house at the top of Kirkdale. Very spectacular.

My Mum lives on the Hampshire coast and she said it was there too last night and right across to Brighton.

Loads of people were phoning in to her local radio station from about 8.30 last night through to the early hours - including someone who had gone to his window to watch and been thrown across the room by an electrical charge when lightning struck nearby.

Don't think it's anything new though. A friend had ball lightning in his house in the New Forest about 20 years ago & there was no rain then.

According to reports in the Sunday Times climate scientists have finally cottoned on to the fact that the Royal Navy has been keeping detailed weather information in ships' logs for centuries. These records show there's nothing new in our extreme weather, these things appear to just go in cycles.

[boon]

According to reports in the Sunday Times climate scientists have finally cottoned on to the fact that the Royal Navy has been keeping detailed weather information in ships' logs for centuries. These records show there's nothing new in our extreme weather, these things appear to just go in cycles.

I saw that article, was very interesting. Those who'd like to read it as well can find it at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/e ... 449527.ece

It is important to note though that it says:

[Study author]Wheeler makes clear he has no doubts about modern human-induced climate change. He said: “Global warming is a reality, but what our data shows is that climate science is complex and that it is wrong to take particular events and link them to CO2 emissions. These records will give us a much clearer picture of what is really happening.”

It's a bit confusing to work out just what his position is, but as near as I can tell he's saying that cycles play a role, but don't explain climate change. It's worth reading in any event.

[Ronski]

Amazing piece of Lightning footage, you can see the tracers trying to find something to conduct the main charge stored up....

http://gizmodo.com/5034458/slow-motion- ... mo-cameras