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This animated lightning map is updated every few minutes and reports strikes as they happen in the UK on a 3-hour cycle....

More about lightning

  • At any point of time there are about 1800 thunderstorms.
  • Every year, the Earth experiences an average of 25 million lightning strikes during some 100,000 thunderstorms. That’s more than a hundred lightning bolts per second.
  • An average instance of lightning lasts about a quarter of a second and consists of 3-4 strikes.
  • You can hear thunder from about 12 miles from the starting point.
  • Lightning bolts travel at speeds of up to 60,000 miles per second.
  • The average length of a single lightning bolt is 2-3 miles.
  • A single lightning bolt travels through twisted paths in the air that can be as wide as one of your fingers or between six and ten miles.
  • The temperature of a typical lightning bolt can reach 50,000 F degrees – that is 5 times greater than the temperature of the surface of the Sun.
  • The energy contained in a single lightning strike can power a 100 Watt light bulb for 90 days.
  • “Lightning never strikes twice” unfortunately is a myth. Lightning can strike the same location many times.
  • Trees sometimes can take direct hits from lightning and not get burnt – the electricity passes over their wet surface and goes straight into the ground.
  • Glass forms when lightning strikes into sandy soil. After a storm you can find strips of glass in the sand.
  • If you have wet clothes on, lightning will do you less harm.
  • The irrational fear of lightning is known as keraunophobia. The fear of thunder is termed brontophobia.
  • There are from 100 to 1000 instances of ball lightning at the same time on Earth, but the chance you’ll see at least one in your lifetime is just 0.01%.
South West Warnings
    Yellow warning of thunderstorm affecting South West England: Bath and North East Somerset, Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole, Bristol, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, North Somerset, Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Torbay, Wiltshire valid from 1900 Wed 01 May to 0700 Thu 02 May Yellow warning of thunderstorm affecting South West England: Gloucestershire, Swindon, Wiltshire valid from 2200 Wed 01 May to 0500 Thu 02 May
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Record Temperatures On This Date
Record High
21.0°C- 2011		 Record Low
-0.3°C - 2022

Moon & Sun Forecast

Sunrise
5:38 am
Sunset
8:32 pm
Day Length
14:54 hrs
 Last Quarter, Moon at 22 days in cycle
Moonrise
3:32 am
Moonset
11:20 am
Visibility
50%
There will be 3 mins 33sec more daylight tomorrow
Moon Phase:Last Quarter

Climate Extremes

Wednesday 01 May
High Temp17.1°C1:37 PM
Low Temp7.2°C5:36 AM
Rain Today 0.0 mm00:00 AM
High UV12.0 12:55 PM
Max Gust8.1 mph1:39 AM
Min Windchill11.1°C12:00 AM
So far this month
High Temp17.1°C1/5/2024
Low Temp7.2°C1/5/2024
Wettest Day0.0mm1/5/2024
High UV12.01/5/2024
Max Gust8.1mph1/5/2024
Min Windchill7.0°C1/5/2024
So far this year
High Temp20.3°C12/4/2024
Low Temp-8.0°C18/1/2024
Wettest Day21.4mm28/4/2024
High UV12.03/4/2024
Max Gust52.9mph2/1/2024
Min Windchill-10.8°C18/1/2024
All time records
High Temp35.5°C18/7/2022
Low Temp-10.8°C20/12/2010
Wettest Day80.2mm20/7/2007
High UV18.013/6/2022
Max Gust62.1mph23/2/2017
Min Windchill-21.1°C15/02/1963