There be a storm brewing

• Guest 743

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  19 June 2013     06:04233843
  #1      
  Its late sounds like our sunny days in for a storm insted
• Keith Sansum1

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  19 June 2013     07:24233851
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  today is to be hottest day and thunder with it
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• Guest 698

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  19 June 2013     09:52233882
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  Surprising, yesterday it was 23.5c in Eythorne late morning, but only 17.5 in Deal and 18 in Dover at lunchtime. That easterly wind off the sea sure makes a big difference.
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• Keith Sansum1

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  19 June 2013     09:59233884
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  Not long before that sun is here
  
  peter
  maybe it's also because we are all chilled here in Dover lol
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• Karlos

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  18 July 2014     21:30269525
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  Never known the wind to get up that quick before.
  
  Just held on long enough for Kent to win their T20 game on TV.
• Guest 653

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  19 July 2014     06:52269527
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  Some great lightening last night - some good rumblings too, at least before I went to bed, didn't wake up till normal time this morning.
  
  
  
  Roger
• Guest 664

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  19 July 2014     11:58269530
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  The portentous wall of cloud and the storm that followed have been dubbed "The Channel Beast" on social media.
  
  It is called a shelf cloud:
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcus_cloud
• Guest 640

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  19 July 2014     17:14269535
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  The link in Andrews post above is well worth reading as I believe Dover experienced something different last night...a shelf cloud. This cloud for just a short period of maybe 50 - 60 seconds brought very violent winds in its wake. It blew Shakespeare beach into mid air...I initially thought there was a fire with billowing smoke. A strange phenomenon. Because of the brief severity, pictures of the shelf cloud were hard to get once it got going..it was also quite dark and with strange colour so this was the best I could muster of the shelf cloud.
  
  

  

  
  
  There is also another picture on the Sea News page after some of it had passed over. The lightning still hadn't begun .
  ps: if you click on the picture above it will show it a tad larger.
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• Guest 649

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  19 July 2014     17:47269537
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  The British open are doing ok for weather to a it is great to watch .
• Guest 664

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  19 July 2014     18:04269540
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  Great picture Paul. I wonder if there could have been a roll cloud as well...either way a rare phenomenon in Dover.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  19 July 2014     20:13269545
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  This evening's storm came out of nowhere, no dramatic cloud movements just a massive clap of thunder directly over the top of me then the rain.
• Brian Dixon

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  20 July 2014     06:29269549
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  then it hung around like a bad smell for about an hour or so.a good one though.
• Guest 664

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  20 July 2014     13:10269562
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  Wat's with this thick fog? Surely the sun will burn it off this afternoon.
• Guest 653

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  20 July 2014     15:46269567
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  We were going to have a BBQ this afternoon, but although it's not cold, not quite Barbeque weather.
  
  
  
  Roger