Incredible scenes here, sirens can be heard everywhere. I have footage 
of the funnel cloud. Rain has now stopped, but at one point the High 
Street turned into a river. The storm is heading off NE towards 
Highgate.

More to follow

Joe

On Aug 31, 4:59 pm, Joseph Hunt  wrote:
> Incredible scenes here, sirens can be heard everywhere. I have footage
> of the funnel cloud. Rain has now stopped, but at one point the High
> Street turned into a river. The storm is heading off NE towards
> Highgate.
>
> More to follow
>
> Joe

Damn ! and heres me bbq'in a couple of burgers amidst the grey not 21
pigeon miles away..!

"Joseph Hunt"  wrote :

> Incredible scenes here, sirens can be heard everywhere. I have footage of 
> the funnel cloud. Rain has now stopped, but at one point the High Street 
> turned into a river. The storm is heading off NE towards Highgate.
>
The AWS at Hampstead observatory indicates 32.3mm of rain
fell in less than 20 minutes, of which 14.1mm fell in one 5-min
period. (Data is logged every 5 mins).

Philip

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:07:02 +0100, Philip Eden wrote:

> "Joseph Hunt"  wrote :
> 
>> Incredible scenes here, sirens can be heard everywhere. I have footage of 
>> the funnel cloud. Rain has now stopped, but at one point the High Street 
>> turned into a river. The storm is heading off NE towards Highgate.
>>
> The AWS at Hampstead observatory indicates 32.3mm of rain
> fell in less than 20 minutes, of which 14.1mm fell in one 5-min
> period. (Data is logged every 5 mins).
> 
> Philip

A modest amount of rain in St Albans in comparison from the same group of
storms with around 8mm of rain in total.  Quite enough to cause a flood at
the bottom of Holywell Hill.



Alan Gardiner
Chiswell Green, St Albans
101m ASL
31/08/2008 18:36:05

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 at 18:07:02, Philip Eden 
<philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom@?.?.invalid> wrote in uk.sci.weather :

>"Joseph Hunt"  wrote :
>
>> Incredible scenes here, sirens can be heard everywhere. I have footage of
>> the funnel cloud. Rain has now stopped, but at one point the High Street
>> turned into a river. The storm is heading off NE towards Highgate.
>>
>The AWS at Hampstead observatory indicates 32.3mm of rain
>fell in less than 20 minutes, of which 14.1mm fell in one 5-min
>period. (Data is logged every 5 mins).
>
Didn't they once record a 6" fall there?
-- 
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

On Aug 31, 4:59 pm, Joseph Hunt  wrote:
> Incredible scenes here, sirens can be heard everywhere. I have footage
> of the funnel cloud. Rain has now stopped, but at one point the High
> Street turned into a river. The storm is heading off NE towards
> Highgate.
>
> More to follow
>
> Joe

I was in the southbound bus shelter at Whitestone Pond and near the
end of the downpour, the wind abruptly turned breezy and from SE
direction with wispy structures in the rain over the Pond, appx 15
secs, then fiercely from SW direction blasting everyone inside the bus
shelter with rain, appx 10 secs, around 16.45.  Were these winds part
of the same funnel cloud (whose centre I presume was passing by W and
then N from me)?   When the storm originally approached I saw two
large dark areas or broad protuberances under the cloud.

On Aug 31, 7:47 pm, Paul Hyett  wrote:

>
> Didn't they once record a 6" fall there?
> --
> Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me     About 6.7" in 3 hours, 14 Aug 1975.  Stationary thunderstorm at
the southern end of a long convergence line.  There was no rain south
of the Thames but it was very eerie and gloomy in Croydon in the
evening.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

I've often noticed how eerie and gloomy it can be in Croydon.....


RoB
"Tudor Hughes"  wrote in message 
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On Aug 31, 7:47 pm, Paul Hyett  wrote:

>
> Didn't they once record a 6" fall there?
> --
> Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

     About 6.7" in 3 hours, 14 Aug 1975.  Stationary thunderstorm at
the southern end of a long convergence line.  There was no rain south
of the Thames but it was very eerie and gloomy in Croydon in the
evening.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

Tudor Hughes  wrote in
news:479571d0-6e02-4901-b51e-e78b1e725fc4@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com: 

>      About 6.7" in 3 hours, 14 Aug 1975.  Stationary thunderstorm at
> the southern end of a long convergence line.  There was no rain south
> of the Thames but it was very eerie and gloomy in Croydon in the
> evening.

Is there any photographic evidence of the storm at its worst (or indeed the 
surrounding gloom?)

Richard

On Sep 1, 10:31 pm, Richard Dixon  wrote:
> Tudor Hughes  wrote innews:479571d0-6e02-4901-b51e-e78b1e725fc4@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:
>
> >      About 6.7" in 3 hours, 14 Aug 1975.  Stationary thunderstorm at
> > the southern end of a long convergence line.  There was no rain south
> > of the Thames but it was very eerie and gloomy in Croydon in the
> > evening.
>
> Is there any photographic evidence of the storm at its worst (or indeed the
> surrounding gloom?)
>
> Richard

      I don't think it was the kind of light (or absence of) that
would show up well in a photograph. It was simply noticeably darker
than it should have been for the time of evening and the light had a
somewhat unusual quality.  I've no idea what it would mean in numbers
of photons or wavelength thereof - probably more in the mind or eye of
the beholder.  As to the storm itself I don't think it was a "daytime
darkness" event but I could be wrong on that.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

On Sep 1, 4:52 pm, "ronaldbutton"  wrote:

> I've often noticed how eerie and gloomy it can be in Croydon.....

    I knew it! :-)  I don't live there - I live in snooty Surrey
(just) though the CR6 postcode is a perpetual embarrassment.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.