Re: Every thunderstorm has a silver lining

Look at Sandy,s post here 6:51pm www.rspb.org.uk/.../544850.aspx

Galatas

Here's another good one for seeing who's currently copping it. Missed us here , dry all day , but bad twenty miles further north.

http://www.meteox.co.uk/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-3&soort=loop3uur

Yep ..... we got it, well and truly. Thunder and tropical torrential rain, then sun, then rain, then sun, then rain. And when I say rain, I mean rain. Poor birds didn't know what to do!

House-bound here in the noth-east. Never seen so much rain in so short a time. At the peak of the storm over 1000 lightning strikes were recorded in a minute!

Pictures on TyneTeesTV website, mainly showing Newcastle, but some also from surrounding regions.

www.itv.com/.../storms-over-tyneside

Once again our part of N.Yorks seems to have missed the worst again.The first photo is a bit like it was on our local patch after a shower this afternoon,must have had 50 Swifts in the air along a similar number of Swallows and Sand Martins.House Martins seemed to be missing for some reason though.

Unbelievable, but no rain here today in East Lancs. Just 5 minutes of drizzle.

Red Grouse - that looks horrendous up there in the north east.

It certainly was not the weather to be going outside, especially with a camera that is not designed for underwater photography!