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11th August 2020 - A thunderstorm to remember

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2024
  • Gawd, what a long night this was! Just incredible. This isn't a blog though, rather it's 34 minutes of something that lasted five hours.....but this is honestly what it was like for us in Fife all night.
    I've never experienced a storm as prolonged and intense as that, not even overseas. It was pretty much relentless between 8pm and 1am, with a crazy amount of rain causing local flooding and landslides.....and then it pepped up again later in the morning for a few hours.
    Personally, I couldn't pull myself away for the duration. I stood with the door open for hours just taking it all in. The sights, the sounds, the smells.....the power of nature laid bare. I don't know if I'll ever experience another storm like that in Scotland....so I do at least have this wee memento to relive it whenever I want :) I actually find it quite relaxing!
    Probably best viewed at night on a big screen with the lights off to get the full effect ;-) But mind it does therefore have a strobing effect too!

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  • @hikingbikingscotland1267
    @hikingbikingscotland1267 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Never heard thunder as loud in my life. It was like explosions.

    • @lynnewilkinson9408
      @lynnewilkinson9408 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      EmmJ Nor yeah I thought it was a bomb so I cried 🤣

  • @Amyfroud1991
    @Amyfroud1991 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Thunderstorms are the best weather to have , Its so relaxing to hear the thunder and watching the lightning

    • @tomzy5503
      @tomzy5503 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed.

    • @chelbydavis8202
      @chelbydavis8202 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I hate lightning but hearing thunder never affected me when I was asleep

    • @carriemoorehead3973
      @carriemoorehead3973 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes I agree

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I certainly agree....and yet loads of people are sent to the edge of terror instead. Weird eh?

  • @jontownsend8090
    @jontownsend8090 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is like the thunderstorms you get in the itcz, inter tropical convergence zone. Incredible.

  • @LizTheIronMaiden
    @LizTheIronMaiden 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    It was almost an all nighter starting at approx 7:45pm. It calmed down between 2am and 5am then came back with avengeance for another hour or so. Awesome to watch though it’s a shame the rain caused so much damage and loss of life. Thanks for posting this video.

  • @leithx7595
    @leithx7595 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If you like storms similar to this one...stronger, closer, and much, much longer you might want to visit Ottawa Canada in July. They are pretty much a daily occurrence. What you need to do when confronted by weather like this is to count the seconds between the flash if light and the sound of thunder. That tells you how far away the storm is, the movement of the clouds give the direction of the storm, and the speed in which it is moving. The heavy rainfall, think deluge, indicates that the storm is over in your area. All such storms bear fingers of warmth and cold during their life and if the world becomes suddenly quiet, rain slows down, heat increases...find shelter fast because...here comes the wind. A major push will definitely follow, and that can prove deadly. Stay safe.

  • @pipoo1
    @pipoo1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Weird how geography can play such a crucial role in thunderstorms. This kind of storm, a mesoscale convective system used to be quite common in Aberdeenshire, typically one night a year like this when I grew up there. Am I right in thinking though this was the thunderstorms that eventually did reach Aberdeenshire and led to the Stonehaven train crash?

  • @evilscotsman5514
    @evilscotsman5514 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Is it just me or was that ball lightning for a while at the top left of the sky? When this storm his south Lanarkshire (Hamilton) I just stood for hours watching it, was the biggest storm is seen since before 2010 when in a small village in South Ayrshire had one pass over that was so big the storm chasers were after it, knocked the entire village out if power for weeks

    • @leithx7595
      @leithx7595 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not ball lightning. Diffraction of light. Lightning is reflected by clouds, and rain which is why you MUST check the speed of the clouds above you, and please, please, please count the seconds between the lightning and the thunder.

  • @eng9040
    @eng9040 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very unusual thanks for recording and showing it , about two weeks ago Ayrshire had a thunderstorm like I have never experianced and I have been about. It only lasted 45 mins but am still amazed we still have windows on our house very frightening. Portmoak airfield which I flew from flooded again after this storm which is twice this year but not as severe as January flood. Strange and interesting times.

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      No worries. Really glad I documented it somehow.

  • @carolinenunez3455
    @carolinenunez3455 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A nice storm, and a very nice video! I really enjoyed just the storm; no talking, no music, no jerking the camera around. Thank you!

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Aww, thanks Caroline. I know what you mean. Sometimes cameras flit about the place and you can't see what's going on, so I just wanted to have it motionless and 'clean'. Glad you appreciated it :)

  • @THERavenBristow
    @THERavenBristow 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This was an amazing night - For us here near livingston it started approximately 11:30pm until sunrise. Seemingly there was two storms that night with the same intensity, the one in your video and the storm behind that which hit us. - Thank you for another equally amazing view.

  • @Rickoza
    @Rickoza 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We are about 40 miles west and the whole thing slid to the East of us - but it was constant strobe lightning for hours on end. Brilliant stuff.

  • @CharlotteWeb100
    @CharlotteWeb100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That lightning was so bizarre it just flashed incessantly for about an hour without a sound nor drop of rain. We live in the middle of nowhere (Whalley, Lancs) so each flash lit up everything the same way your cars suddenly appear clear as day.
    Regularly hear sheep and cattle during the night but knew when I heard birds flying overhead at 2am something was on its way and about five minutes later there was a massive flash and deafening crash of thunder right overhead. Absolutely lashed it down all night for rest of night the dogs wouldn't even go out for a pee.

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ah, you know it's bad when the dogs won't go out ;-)

  • @jayelagsding8907
    @jayelagsding8907 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Havent heard Thunder or seen lightning as bad as this ever...
    Brilliant Thunderstorm..
    I live in the far South East of England , and never ever had a storm like that..Thanks for uploading the video...Brilliant to watch..

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cheers. No, neither have I. I stayed in the West Midlands for years and we got *some* storms but I've never seen anything like this one.

  • @thatweatherguy08
    @thatweatherguy08 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome storm!! Reminds me of the storms we get here in the Northeast, USA!!
    Vivid lightning, loud thunder, it has it all!!! Nice vid!!!!

    • @LuvsTstormTapes
      @LuvsTstormTapes 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Northeast USA? I live in southern RI...I got some cool Tstorm videos on my channel too.....so you must live not far from me, ''Paul Spoth''....

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cheers. Yeah we really don't get ANY kind of storms here so anything we do get tends to stand out ;-)

    • @LuvsTstormTapes
      @LuvsTstormTapes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Good to hear...from southern Rhode Island..USA....indeed...I am an avid-Tstorm-freak...and last 11/23/20..I got a late-season Tstorm here...my video is on TH-cam...also..I got some huge ocean waves from 12/1/20...and those are also worth viewing....part 2 showed me getting too close to one huge wave..while I was still videoing..Take care..James, LuvsTstormTapes.

  • @blametherussians9560
    @blametherussians9560 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hey Ben it's good to see you! What a thunderstorm indeed.

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      HEY DYLAN!!!!! I only check all my messages every few months so had no idea you'd written. It was really insane, all the sheep were going mad ;-) Hope all's well over there in the big frozen north! ;-)

  • @ROCKY44
    @ROCKY44 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    It was way more than 5 hours - more like 10 in Glenrothes.

    • @thehighlandsmusic5266
      @thehighlandsmusic5266 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Roughly 8PM to 7:30AM was MENTAL in Pitteuchar (First Day back of Schools aswell ;(

  • @W7ENK
    @W7ENK 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fantastic storm! Living in an area of the world that probably gets fewer thunderstorms than you do (PNW Lowlands, were lucky if we get a "one hit wonder" once a year, though we do get good ones on rare occasion) this is the best way for me to enjoy storms, vicariously through other people's videos on TH-cam. This one was a nice little surprise for me this morning, thank you for sharing!

  • @split_pin
    @split_pin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great footage, I inly managed a few feeble minutes from Bonnybridge. Some night that was though! The last storm I remember like this was at the end of August 1996. Started at about 2am and was still rumbling away when I went to work in the Saturday morning at 7.30 am. Here's to the next 24 years then!

  • @MiaowMcDonald
    @MiaowMcDonald 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    fantastic film. saw the whole thing from Kirkcaldy. never experienced a storm like that in the UK. ever. incredible to witness, the wrath of mother nature. most humbling and beautiful.

    • @MiaowMcDonald
      @MiaowMcDonald 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      and yeah, in Kirkcaldy it stormed all night. not just 5 hours. 7pm til 4am, then back again for another quick burst. leaving devastation to many.

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's good to hear so many other people saying they've never seen anything like it in the UK. I mean, I kinda knew it was extreme but you do wonder sometimes whether you're just missing out on big events elsewhere in the country that you never get to hear about.

  • @stacygibson1322
    @stacygibson1322 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Never seen anything like that it was on for hours xx

  • @suleimanabbas1935
    @suleimanabbas1935 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Every storm that we had in 2020 were ones to remember cuz they were all strong

  • @pauljones401
    @pauljones401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It’s like watching a Turner painting. Incredible! I’ve just found footage I’d forgotten I’d had of that night tonight which is why I’ve found this. I’m in Stockport and it stopped for 3 hours. We didn’t have the thunder and if I remember it started about 11pm. It’s humbling this footage. I’ll try to put mine up now. Thank you for getting out there and shooting this. Amazing. Definitely subscribing! Paul

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cheers Paul. Memorable for sure! My leaky roof could've done without it though ;-)

  • @grahamjarvie3461
    @grahamjarvie3461 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Hi, I've seen tornadic thunderstorms in the usa, very similar lightning frequency

    • @leithx7595
      @leithx7595 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought about that too, but a squall can produce a similar light show, and I did not see/hear any hail.

  • @the_snowball3718
    @the_snowball3718 ปีที่แล้ว

    Would expect to see these scenes for such prolonged nature in the tropics.

  • @rgerber
    @rgerber 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    thank you for a real storm recording!

  • @alexbarton5771
    @alexbarton5771 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My compliments to Fife on this storm, she’s a beauty ⛈⛈⛈

  • @chrishines6048
    @chrishines6048 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I can remember a few years ago I cam back from a week's break with college and on the Friday we came back we had some pretty amazing lighting ( which lasted for several hours ) and the lighting lit up the night sky and it was amazing and I'll never forget it

  • @okguy1282
    @okguy1282 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Spectacular! Thank you brother! : D

  • @sundancekidd3575
    @sundancekidd3575 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am an ex-matelot 37yrs, and have been in all sorts of weather, I love it.

  • @laurenevelyn880
    @laurenevelyn880 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember laying in bed next to my partner in summer 2019 and it was so humid and hot we had the windows wide open all night to try and tempt in a breeze. At about 3am I will never forget the bang I heard, lightning had actually struck a tree behind our back garden. Never known fear like it in my life for that first second as I became conscious 😂 ever since then I’ve been obsessed with watching videos of thunderstorms! Can’t believe I was so late getting to this channel🙌🏼

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know what you mean. After I finished filming this one, about 5 mins later there was a crack directly overhead and I instinctively ducked even though there was nothing to physically duck to avoid. Awesome power!

  • @douglasbaldock6178
    @douglasbaldock6178 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Crazy storm,I'm in methven Perthshire, woke me up about half ten still going on at 5. I had to go out at 3 am to deliver milk. Took over two hours to get to Dundee from crieff cause of flooding, normally 50 mins. Lighting was amazing (scary at times) flashes every 3 or 4 seconds at times. Lucky to get thunder here once a year, but that storm was class😁. Enjoyed your video, nice one 👍.

  • @robs2474
    @robs2474 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    That's a pretty good storm by UK standards! Back in the day East Anglia used to have storms like this in the 80s and 90s, those days are long gone now *sigh*

  • @michaelhamiltonaeroplane43
    @michaelhamiltonaeroplane43 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I got some dashcam footage on the A92 Between Dunfermline and kirkcaldy........The rain was so heavy i was only doing between 30 and 38mph and its a 70mph speed limit

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I certainly wouldn't have wanted to drive through that!!!

  • @CRNSDav
    @CRNSDav 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for the video, it's so relaxing.👍

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm glad someone else thinks so! Some folk find them terrifying.

  • @scottyoung7579
    @scottyoung7579 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thought it would be a great place to view the storm from up in the Lomond Hills... Was quite a trip through the night.

    • @natalieminnis
      @natalieminnis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You must have got soaked!

  • @DavidTheScientist
    @DavidTheScientist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've lived in Tampa Bay (most lightning strikes per year in the USA) for 4 years; I've lived in Nashville, where the sky once turned so dark at noon that it literally looked like midnight outside; I've spent over 6 months in Thailand and other places in SE Asia, mostly during monsoon season; I've had the eye of a strong category 2 hurricane (typhoon) pass over the tin-roof house I was staying in in the Philippines. Yet, nothing has had me as scared as during this storm, where somehow I ended up picking that night to stay in an un-grounded shepherd's hut (with tall stove chimney!) in a field near the top of a tall hill just southwest of Perth, where some of the heaviest lightning was. It lasted about 7 hours. In all my time living in Florida, I don't think I'd experienced a day or night with so much lightning, flashing so often. Definitely more frequent than captured in this video even. I barely slept, and was so relieved when the sun finally emerged in the morning. Definitely evidence for me of climate change... this type of weather event is not natural in the UK! The next morning, a landslide had blocked the road in one direction, and the rainwater had washed the asphalt clean off the road in many places in the other (it was in good condition the night before). Definitely not a night I'll forget anytime soon!

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Interesting. Thanks for that. Having not really seen big continental storms I've got nothing to judge this against.

    • @DavidTheScientist
      @DavidTheScientist 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BenvironmentBlog Yeah, it was definitely a big one! Glad you managed to capture it though. I had my SLR with me but was too worried even to stand against the window to capture it. I probably would have, had I not been worried about lightning hitting the stove chimney and frying me. I had some strange pain in my legs for a few minutes when the lightning was really active nearby (

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DavidTheScientist We had a strike almost overhead where you find yourself ducking....as if that's gonna save you!! ;-)

    • @DavidTheScientist
      @DavidTheScientist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@BenvironmentBlog haha, indeed... If you can see/hear it, it's probably already too late!
      I remember once in Florida, we were sitting under the sheltered portion of our screened lanai during a thunderstorm. Lightning suddenly hit our neighbour's back yard, just across the pond, maybe 50m away. Sounds like a very loud gunshot at that distance. Never have I instinctively yelled out of fright so loudly in my life!

  • @rgkrazor8788
    @rgkrazor8788 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Too few and too short....the story of my life.
    Same weather here in Edmonton. Well done

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cheers. I think over here we have a view that Alberta is one big thunderstorm generator, but apparently not? Mind you, Alberta's bloody enormous innit ;-)

    • @rgkrazor8788
      @rgkrazor8788 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BenvironmentBlog well its just that Edmonton is like the middle of a donut, everything goes around us. But it is big, you can watch your dog run away from home for 3 days 😁

    • @leithx7595
      @leithx7595 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rgkrazor8788 Lol!!! I can attest to that.

  • @MrMatt_2023
    @MrMatt_2023 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    First off, WOW. Thank you for creating and sharing this video.
    But I finally have to ask - I've watched it ~10 times....and....well...discounting the rectangular light that turns on from a window on the bottom left at 26:14, can you comment on the star that seems to live below the cloud cover, which blinks in and out during the storm (after ~15min mark)? Or the lights on the ground (left side) at the beginning, which disappear and return at the the end, along with more lights on the ground to the right? Again, I've watched this video many times;- I keep trying to make sense of it and I'm flat out of ideas. Take the 'star' out of the equation, for example. Are the rest of the lights on the ground the lights of a nearby town, pipeline, or other infrastructure? Or, are all just reflections on the window you're filming through? Thanks for your help on this one.
    Best,
    Matt

  • @alanpetruj1436
    @alanpetruj1436 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The only good long lived storm l remember here in Warwickshire was when l was 13 in August 1971 it started around 10pm and finished around 8am the next morning. I was terrified of storms then spent the night cowering under the blanket so missed a great spectical

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They do linger in the memory don't they.

  • @lynettebuckland3625
    @lynettebuckland3625 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Incredible storm. We had it here in Lytham stannes for 6 hours exactly Same as you. We had a lightning bolt aswell it was scary x

  • @pandabarth3104
    @pandabarth3104 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think this was a Mesoscale Convective System.. they can last through the night. This is because the system benefits from the nightly wind that rises. This means that if such a system is formed, it can indeed continue all night and continue to cause severe thunderstorms. And the system does not disintegrate until just after sunrise, after sunrise they die out because the cloud tops warm up..
    These sort of storms are rare.. last one we had in Holland was May 25th 2009 if i’m correct and to be fair it scared me a bit..

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks for that. It was something to do with a convergence zone but that's the limit of my understanding ;-)

    • @pandabarth3104
      @pandabarth3104 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      After it happend i searched it out.. was really interesting. Searched for sattelite images of that night.. the storm was almost as big as the whole country🤣

    • @netabolt6546
      @netabolt6546 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i remembered that storm in May 25/26 of 2009 i live in Belgium and it was a huge storm and lightning just everysecond nonstop for like a whole night but the best part happened around midnight till four and then it died a bit down but those three or four hours in that night was just nonstop lightingbolts after lightingbolts with moderate thunder. it was weird but very beautifull. i believe there was also a Mesoscale Convective System in 2014, the 10th of June, was also the whole night but that storm had less lightingfrequency but the lightningbolts were so much bigger and fatter and it looked very bright. this video reminds me of that one of June 1014 because less frequent lightning. the storm you mentioned and that one of June 2014 are on my channel as well with so much other storms. the one from may is a very old videorecording so the quality is less good than that from 2014 10th June. i love thunderstorms.

  • @MalaysiaPhilip
    @MalaysiaPhilip 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It was the same in Preston the night before. The climatic setup must have been the same in Fife as it was here which spawned a rare continuous thunderstorm from around 11pm right through until 5am. It was quite a night!

    • @marcgardner868
      @marcgardner868 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Was working the night shift at RPH me and the patients watched it all night was fantastic.

  • @thebookreviewlibrary7911
    @thebookreviewlibrary7911 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yorkshire had one that lasted from 11pm to 3am and it was an amazing light show

  • @kismith123
    @kismith123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I can never sleep through a thunderstorm that intense

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Me neither. I love lying in bed and a storm raging outside :)

  • @infinitygirl92
    @infinitygirl92 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    My cat died that day. Not related to the storm but the heat probably didn't help her either. I'm kinda glad she didn't have to experience this. She would have been terrified. This started in Shropshire as a light show around sunset. It was sad time but an awesome display.

  • @jameshardie9914
    @jameshardie9914 ปีที่แล้ว

    3 years on and I remember this storm in the midlands, we had a roof leak in my house

  • @cazevansstormmad2352
    @cazevansstormmad2352 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Quite amazing footage we had loads of storms that day so seeing the footage as it got furthest north it still didn’t loose it’s punch it’s spectacular and the stars are out in the sky amazing thank you so much

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks :) I think the star is some weird digital blemish, cos the stars most definitely weren't out that night ;-)

  • @JamesH-pp6ho
    @JamesH-pp6ho 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It was none stop flashing over Shropshire on that day I could see it from Wolverhampton

  • @nicolefraser8895
    @nicolefraser8895 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I experienced it in West Fife and even though it was a spectacle, it’s not something I’d like to live through again. I grew up in Germany, where we’re used to severe thunderstorms, but I’ve never experienced any like this one over there. Very unusual. Funny how people in Scotland get so excited about thunderstorms, over on the continent we pretty much just sit tight and hope they pass quickly and without too much damage. And most importantly, clear the air.

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I guess it's because they're such a novelty.

  • @LilybethII
    @LilybethII 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    As a kid I was petrified by thunderstorms. As soon as I heard thunder or saw lightning I would hide in my room and just wait for it to be over. Things changed as I witnessed my first ever tornado that destroyed huge part of the forest that grows behind our house. It was very interesting to see all the damage. As an adult I love to watch them sitting in my bedroom window with a cup of hot tea.

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for the comment. I wish we had more of them here....although it did make my roof leak!

    • @LilybethII
      @LilybethII 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BenvironmentBlog not the roof leaking!

  • @hihi15yearsago56
    @hihi15yearsago56 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    California just had a large thunder storm. Thunder was extremely loud, started at about 11:30 - 12:00 and ended at about 4:00. Lightning was seen in the sky. Couldn't sleep.

  • @charlieroberts993
    @charlieroberts993 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember a massive storm that was so bad, a house near mine caught fire, but it was an abandoned house so yeh

  • @NM-ex3ws
    @NM-ex3ws 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome footage! but like Scotland Ireland also gets very little thunderstorm activity and powerful ones like this are very rare. Hoping to witness a night like this myself in southern Ireland soon fingers crossed we will get something epic this summer 🤞🏻⚡

    • @9pwsscamel369
      @9pwsscamel369 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Probably the electrical storm of July 1985 that hit the eastern half of Ireland, and lasted throughout the night, is the most recent comparable Irish storm to this. There was also a prolonged electrical storm in parts of the NW in the early 1990s but more localised than the ‘85 one -they’re few and far between in the Emerald Isle.

    • @NM-ex3ws
      @NM-ex3ws 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@9pwsscamel369 They really are. We might get a skimming if a storm that moves up from france or spain in the south east where I am but its nothing major. Less than an hour of a storm probably once a year.

    • @9pwsscamel369
      @9pwsscamel369 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@NM-ex3ws Here’s a MetEireann report on ‘85. Where I live in North Dublin, the peak of the storm was around 3am, the electricity was gone and the hail & lightning was ferocious- everyone was awakened for sure. www.met.ie/cms/assets/uploads/2017/08/July1985_Thunderstorm.pdf

    • @NM-ex3ws
      @NM-ex3ws 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@9pwsscamel369 Wow thanks for that. Im in Wexford and this occured before I was born but iv heard my parents talk about that night and the forecast earlier evening missed the mark as the storm was far more eventfull than anyone predicted. Very scary stuff actually especially because its so rare here. Thanks again 👌🏻

  • @davidgillies5342
    @davidgillies5342 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You can hear the sheep mehing. I have only heard that once before at night. In the 1970s. At the end of a drought. The lightning set some houses on fire at Nairn. In the Scottish Highlands. Nairn is about 45 minutes by car from Inverness. A spectacular night it was!! No lives were lost though.Which is the main thing.

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh man, we have sheep mehing at all hours in the summer ;-)

  • @jonathanfernley8988
    @jonathanfernley8988 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    At 32.52 that lightning flash than big thunderclap.Huge bang afterwards that was insane say the least

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think I might have ducked on a couple of occasions. Much good THAT would do ;-)

  • @theotherdave8013
    @theotherdave8013 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nature can be really spooky sometimes. Cool video :) .

  • @kiiroMADE
    @kiiroMADE 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Gotta love thunder.. can't wait for summer.. too bad where I live we usually get pretty boring storms..

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah same here....which is what made this one so unusual.

  • @michaelatkinson8291
    @michaelatkinson8291 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wouldn't want to be camped in the hills in those conditions. I read how bad it had been in Fife. Haven't had anything in Co Durham this time around.

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was insane. Just couldn't tear myself away from the doorway for hours and hours.

  • @benbishop4197
    @benbishop4197 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I slept right through barring one clap of thunder around 4 am, gutted!

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good. God!

    • @RusselledJimmy
      @RusselledJimmy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh lord. In Texas I remember I was going to work and there was a thunderclap so loud it scared my roommate awake. And this was a day thunderstorm!

  • @MrGriser
    @MrGriser 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    34:03 unusual to get loud claps at night usually its during the day when the heat and humidity is considerably higher.

    • @keanogames7785
      @keanogames7785 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It sounds so weird lol

    • @keanogames7785
      @keanogames7785 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Also check out the one at the 4.50 mark

    • @leithx7595
      @leithx7595 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thunderstorms tend to be generated when the temperatures change.

  • @steveflitton8903
    @steveflitton8903 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    A great recording. At the moment I'm watching on my mobile but I'm going to put it on my big screen TV later with the lights off as you say. Scotland seems to be experiencing more storms these days. Probably due to increasing temperature.

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cheers Steve. Seems Fife saved up for a few decades and then made up for lost time ;-)

    • @KJames2345
      @KJames2345 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I remember these types of storms across Leicestershire in the East Midlands, now we're getting more supercell storms here, we've had three of those in the last 10 years or so, June 28th 2012 was the biggest, the first ever recorded supercell storm in the UK was 1954 I think, haven't seen a tornado as of yet but seen some golfball size hail and a funnel cloud.
      Weather is getting crazy here in the UK, something to look forward to for those who like a to see a good thunderstorm.

  • @the_snowball3718
    @the_snowball3718 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It was a good 9-10hrs here in SE Perthshire. But i had never seen so much lightning for so long.

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah that's what was instantly so incredible. Even before the storms arrived the sky was flickering like a broken light, suggesting that something big was about to happen.

  • @hopefulnadjer4567
    @hopefulnadjer4567 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Down in the south west England we hardly ever get good thunderstorms, I get so excited and then it never happens. Its been a few years since we had one. Seems I need to move

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      They're the only thing I ever really missed about the English Midlands. Well....that and country pubs.

  • @lovepuppy5495
    @lovepuppy5495 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Here today in the Bay Area it lasted for 5 hours a thunder storm it made some places lights go off it was crazy loud and super crazy it was such a scary awesome experience tho I was so scared yet ha ring fun

  • @patriciadifreitas2662
    @patriciadifreitas2662 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My boyfriend lives next door to Falkirk, he told me about this storm.😮😮😮

  • @mickdunne981
    @mickdunne981 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have subbed and liked the video

  • @deano1864
    @deano1864 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Remember this storm. Was amazing.

  • @LuvsTstormTapes
    @LuvsTstormTapes 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Commenting from southern RI, USA...515am EDT MON 10/26/20....For a lovely place up in Scotland what averages only from 10 to 15 Tstorm days annually..this is a real winner..lotsa lotsa bolts...vivid frequent flashers..and wonderful thunder..a few loud claps from the bright flashers at 04:44, 08:35, and then later on..nice CG at 31:23... closeby strike at 32:47 and also at 33:55.... Looks like these train-effect-type-Tstorms would keep you and anybody else up all night..as I had the same phenomena here in southern RI back on 6/26/88 and on 10/15/89....all on audiotape too...tons of CG-lightning and claps..My 7/28/89-monster Tstorm is readily available for view here....and on 7/13/17..I got on my channel...and extremely closeby lightning strike..at 11:28-into the 12-minute video.

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      RI? Is that Rhode Island? Greetings!! :)

  • @NikoStorm
    @NikoStorm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful! Nice video!!

  • @cyberfloof
    @cyberfloof 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is one of the biggest thunderstorms I've ever witnessed in my life . It was terrifying. Like a war going on outside

    • @leithx7595
      @leithx7595 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      LOL!!! Sorry but this is the type of storm I go for walks in. Absolutely love them.

    • @miosink
      @miosink 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@leithx7595 Same haha!! Budapest has the sickest spots man

    • @KJames2345
      @KJames2345 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah of course you guys do 😂🤣
      I smell 🐂💩 every time the UK gets a storm and people video it on youtube everybody who isn't from the UK has to comment some obnoxious shit, like our storms are better, tell me that when you have witnessed a storm that produces over 60,000+ lightning bolts in one day, from a weather front that comes in from the Atlantic Ocean that mixes with the heat that comes up from Africa or Spain and create what we call a Spanish Plume, a electrical storm on a large scale that effects the whole of the United Kingdom, and moves East that can last for hours as it moves across the North Sea into Norway and Denmark, even goimg as far as the Baltic Sea, that shows how much power these storms have.

  • @progenitor_amborella
    @progenitor_amborella 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The day before we had an extreme storm, the likes of which I haven’t heard. A derecho with estimated winds to 140 mph. Behind houses on the trees that hadn’t fallen, split, or been uprooted I saw debarking.
    Lasted about half an hour, took most people ~a week to get power, many more. Some still don’t have an Internet connection in their home.
    Unless you were watching the radar and SVRWX that morning as it went into western Iowa yourself you didn’t know about it coming. The forecast was a line of strong to severe storms.
    Quite literally: imagine a category 3-4 hurricane with 15 minutes warning (but lasts less than an hour) and that’s exactly what it felt like. Until the sirens went off nobody knew. The wind was so fast inside that you couldn’t hear any thunder from it approaching like a normal storm, even when it was about to hit.

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah your storms are on a whole other level.

  • @LizTheIronMaiden
    @LizTheIronMaiden 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just to add thunderstorms were more common here in the 60’s and 70’s when I was growing up.

    • @dannichols2929
      @dannichols2929 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Seems to me, the best thunderstorms occurred during childhood. I got hooked at age 10!

    • @KJames2345
      @KJames2345 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dannichols2929 That is weird I remember seeing some amazing storms growing up as a kid in the late 80s and 90s, nowadays it rare in the UK, but why?

    • @dannichols2929
      @dannichols2929 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@KJames2345 Has there recently been major constructions: roads, development: buildings, housing, etc? Sometimes (maybe often) storms will trend back to the way they were -- more intense. Let's hope so.

  • @SynKronos
    @SynKronos 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Started around 5:45pm West Lomond And was still raging when I crashed at 3 am.

  • @mahkyrose9093
    @mahkyrose9093 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    you could literally see the cloud in the cloud.

  • @daffyduck6582
    @daffyduck6582 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hate to hear the animals calling out, I know how mine react but poor cattle,sheep and horses must have been terrifying.

  • @natalieminnis
    @natalieminnis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've just returned from a wild camping trip which I postponed due to the risk of thunder. Would NOT want to be in a tent on a bare hillside in those conditions! I remember a storm like that from around 2000, when I was renting a cottage on a farm near Loch Lomond. It was incredible and went on for hours. The next day the plug for my router, which had been plugged in, was broken and the computer shop told me loads of people had been coming in with the same problem.

  • @parkernoble
    @parkernoble 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for this it helps me sleep 💤 xx

  • @gamer-sf6qp
    @gamer-sf6qp 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The world is changing the weather lately has been very strange. For example in one day we had rain sun wind then nothing the it was raining but it was very warm normally in UK when it rains it's cold 🚿

  • @MrMilky-ek1wb
    @MrMilky-ek1wb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    *AND THEN ALONG CAME ZEUS*

  • @jmgg6040
    @jmgg6040 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Beautiful! I really miss thundestorms! Here in Buenos Aires (Argentina) is winter now, and storms are not frequent, since winter started there were only 3 thunderstorms, but only heavy rain with a few thunder rumbles, well actually the last storm was last thursday and it was more active in terms of lightning and thunder (i have it on video, if you wish go and check it on my channel, it has only that video haha, i will upload more thunderstorm videos in the future), but nothing compared with summer storms hahaha. Great video! Greetings from Argentina! :D

  • @maxgordon9763
    @maxgordon9763 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    It was like the lightning had replaced the sun in kircaldy it was so bright

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've never seen anything like it. Would love to experience it again...provided my roof didn't leak ;-)

  • @madisondarling2897
    @madisondarling2897 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Crazy night, caused a massive leak in our kitchen, electrics tripped and in the morning, looked out the front and the pathway had become a lake (glenrothes)

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      If anything I think Glenrothes had it worse than we did up on the hill. Not like in Kirkcaldy though! :-o

  • @markponce8763
    @markponce8763 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    At around midnight in Bristol the thunderstorm was crazy. There were flashes probably every two or three seconds

    • @leithx7595
      @leithx7595 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That really does sound like tornado weather. Glad everyone is okay.

    • @KJames2345
      @KJames2345 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@leithx7595 It's a weather phenomenon known as a Spanish Plume, it can generate alot of lightning bolts in a 24 hr period, you get them mainly across Central and Eastern England I'm use to seeing them living in Leicestershire, they don't happen too frequently, but I've been around since the 80s lol.

  • @greendayforever2k9
    @greendayforever2k9 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The rain from this caused the landslide that derailed the train didn't it? Easy to see how from this 😮😮

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yep it moved into Aberdeenshire the next morning.

  • @onion_wind
    @onion_wind 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    It seems like it was a once in a generation storm. Really sorry I didn't get to witness it first hand.

    • @pinkbanana1276
      @pinkbanana1276 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Which means a daily storm in america😂

    • @onion_wind
      @onion_wind 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pinkbanana1276 we just don't get huge thunderstorms in Scotland as Ben said in the video.

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yep. Context is everything.

    • @onion_wind
      @onion_wind 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BenvironmentBlog any footage fron the Thunder Snow?

  • @Bunnies_6560
    @Bunnies_6560 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had this storm for 1 hour I think

  • @BigScaryOnVR
    @BigScaryOnVR 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm terrified

  • @blametherussians9560
    @blametherussians9560 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It's Andrea's boy by the way (we stayed at your house)

  • @heatherstub
    @heatherstub 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wish you could have streamed it, so you wouldn't have had to edit and upload it. It would have been so much nicer to have the whole thing here. I hear animals in the background.

  • @karanpatil4698
    @karanpatil4698 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Muze thunderstorm se bohot Dr lagta hai

  • @maddiew4209
    @maddiew4209 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Paused 4:53 looks like daylight

  • @dannichols2929
    @dannichols2929 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where is Fife located? Great video!

  • @colbroon1975
    @colbroon1975 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I could see this storm from the west side of Glasgow it was that intense . Knew I was missing something biblical with the amount of flashes I could see to the east.

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's an odd dilemma. Part of would be glad to be out of it, so that my roof didn't leak...but the other half desperately wants to experience it ;-)

  • @MP-xf6gq
    @MP-xf6gq 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    What country was this? Thanks,

  • @CuteLesbo69
    @CuteLesbo69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Now wait a minute, how come I did not hear a banshee screaming? I thought they were supposed to follow storms. I call B.S. on this video.

    • @mickdunne981
      @mickdunne981 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's always one that will bitch and moan why did you watch the video if you said it was BS you clown

  • @MrCaptainDietrich
    @MrCaptainDietrich 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    where was this storm

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Lomond Hills in Fife, but it extended over much of east Central Scotland that night.

  • @GaudyDragon8963
    @GaudyDragon8963 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:33 - 0:43 same

  • @thehighlandsmusic5266
    @thehighlandsmusic5266 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Shook Houses!

  • @the_snowball3718
    @the_snowball3718 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What time was this vid taken?

  • @crazycross9547
    @crazycross9547 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I almost died