Thunderstorms
in 2003
(Photographs
copyright Eye On The Sky)
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| Date:
May, 2003 Location:
City Of Portsmouth, Hampshire. This angry looking cloud produced a very defined, intense downpour over the northern side of the city, as well as a couple of spectacular cloud to ground (CG) lightning strikes. . |
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| Date:13th
May, 2003 Location:
City Of Portsmouth, Hampshire. After a sunny morning, a trough line was building and moving in from the west. The front edge of the trough was menacing as it approached the western side of Portsmouth. A solid gust front lined a wall of rain and hail. . |
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| Date:13th
May, 2003 Location:
City Of Portsmouth, Hampshire. Once the trough had cleared through, it left some very unstable, humid air behind. It wasn't long before the next storm was brewing over Southampton, and the next series of photos shows the storm's arrival. . |
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| Date:13th
May, 2003 Location:
City Of Portsmouth, Hampshire. Another image of the base of a boiling updraft. The lighting beneath the cloud turned a strange yellow-green, perhaps indicative that hail was falling from the downdraft behind. . |
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Date:13th
May, 2003 Location:
City Of Portsmouth, Hampshire. |
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| Date:13th
May, 2003 Location:
City Of Portsmouth, Hampshire. Just seconds before the downdraft arrived and caused local flooding, outside it had almost turned to night, lit up by sporadic flashes of intra-cloud (IC, or CC) lightning. . |