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Thomas ([personal profile] torkell) wrote2022-05-19 10:58 pm
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Thunder and lightnings and rainbows (and bees?)

I take a bajillion photos so I really ought to start posting them again. So, Tuesday was mostly gloriously sunny apart from a half hour in the afternoon where the weather chose to bucket down and treated me to a rainbow over the creek...



And as I was enjoying the rainbow and taking photos, this chap flew in to shelter from the rain!



Yesterday evening however had much more exciting weather - a pair of thunderstorms brewed up in the channel, trundled north-east-ish towards England... and then passed neatly either side of Fareham. It was weird - there was so much distant lightning in the sky, but barely any thunder. Judging by where the strikes were appearing on Blitzortung they must have been a good 30 miles or more out in in the channel towards France, or along the coast past Chichester.

My phone's camera not really up to lightning photos but I got a few reasonable ones: