Lights in sky?

[sarahm100]

Hello,

Did anyone else see the wierd lights in the sky in the direction of Crystal Palace last night? Not sure how to describe it but there was something really bright lighting up the sky in flashes for quite a while at around 11pm. We really couldn't work out what it was so wondering if anyone knew?

[Asset]

Lightning, went along with the thunder.

[Sue]

:))

How disappointing, when I saw the thread title I was hoping for aliens over East Dulwich :))

[Keef]

Yeah man, it's pretty freakiy when the skies light up like that, and you hear these really loud bangs, which could be ships entering the atmosphere or something!

They always seem to come on rainy nights, probaby so they get cloud cover.

[Sue]

:)):)):))

[Sue]

To be fair to the OP, there weren't many bangs last night (well not associated with the lightning anyway :))), and those there were were quite faint :)

[Keef]

No, I think it was quite far away, and there was a lot of lightning, but I couldn't help myself.

[Ant]

I heard plenty of thunder.

Either that or it was the kids running around upstairs when they should have been in bed.

[Vik]

There was a lightening storm for about 2 hours last night, the only thunder was very distant rumbles that I could only hear as I was leaning out of my attic window watching it all.

Was an amazing show, lots of forked ligtening too going from Crystal Palace over to Canary Wharf.

There was no rain either so unless you were watcing the sky it may not have been obvious that it was a storm.

[Sue]

Had been very oppressive (spelling?) atmosphere all day, building up to storm :)

Is it just me who finds the weather this summer very scary? I don't mean the lightning :-S

[KalamityKel]

Anyone else get soaked? I cant see many ppl out and about...

[sarahm100]

Where I was there was no rain at all and absolutely no sound. The flashes were so bright and so frequent I didn't think it was lightning - I've never seen anything like it.

I wasn't suggesting aliens but it did feel like the beginning of the War of the Worlds!

[Michael Palaeologus]

Colleagues from East London reported a big thunder and lightning storm last night. It was lightning.

[SeanMacGabhann]

All theses lights and this still to come

[Keef]

In Sydenham it rained reasonably heavily, but not storm heavy. The bangs sounded very distant, and the lightning flashes seemed to be coming from all over the plave very frquently.

I wasn't suggesting aliens but it did feel like the beginning of the War of the Worlds!

I know, I was just messin :))

[sarahm100]

Thanks for that link Sean - I'll be out looking for the meteor shower for sure!

[bon3yard]

Ah, so those fruitcakes The Railians were right...and there I was thinking it was merely an electrical storm. Where are you from Sarah that you've never before experienced this phenomenon? :) I was sucking back a frappercinolattelechemagnifico in Cafe Nero about an hour ago and my did the heavens open. Like a monsoon it was, and there was I in shorts and t-shirt admiring the mental weather from the saftey of my glass coffee house.

[Siduhe]

The Telegraph has some good photos from as far away as Brighton.

My other half was just outside London and said the lightning looked amazing across the rolling hills of Surrey...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/earth/2515652/Summer-lightning-over-southern-England.html

[Louisa]

I was in Woking last night we I drove through a pretty remarkable thunder and lightning display near Weybridge.

Louisa.

[mockney piers]

This chap caught some crackers (which I learnt of the wire commentary, means rednecks in the US) last night

 

[Ant]

Blimey, impressive stuff. Can't believe I missed it all! :(

[lozzyloz]

Superb!

[karter]

great photo, the rain this lunch time in ed was amazing.

[HonaloochieB]

Not a drop in Brixton.

[karter]

too bad honaloochie, the rain was great.