Thunderstorm raging right now in Perth

[Bretrick]

About time and all. Nary a drop of rain has fallen over the last month. With only 4 mm, 1/64", having fallen since January 1st.
What with Perth's temperature yesterday reaching 39C - 102F, today's top will only reach 29C - 84F.
Enough rain will fall today so as I will not need to water the garden.

 

[hollydolly]

About time someone else got it. We in the south of England have had more rain in the past 2 months ... than we have for the same period in 30 years....

 

[Bretrick]

About time someone else got it. We in the south of England have had more rain in the past 2 months ... than we have for the same period in 30 years....

Never ending over there. Imagine, 4mm, 1/64 of an inch over 57 days.

 

[hollydolly]

Never ending over there. Imagine, 4mm, 1/64 of an inch over 57 days.

oh we've had that in the past, we've gone 6 months without any rain here in the South/east and East of England... .. but this rain is something we just never get here in the volume we've had it the last 2 months. This is the driest area of the UK.. so it's been a bit of a horror show with this great amount of rain...

Thankfully we had a beautiful dry day yesterday and today... back to Spring like temperatures, hopefully it will mean a nice dry summer now...

 

[smiley]

I hear they have "seasons weather" competitions in UK these days??

 

[Bretrick]

The thunderstorm lightning struck three people, a 70-year-old man was struck and is in a serious but stable condition in hospital.
Two teenage girls were injured when a nearby lightning strike threw them to the ground at school.
A house was struck by lightning and caught fire.
Mandurah, Yanchep and Thornlie-Cockburn train lines were closed when signal boxes were damaged by lightning strikes.
A maximum of 4mm accompanied the storm.