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?
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
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 :)
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.
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
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.
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..
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 RUclips...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.
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.
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.
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! ;-)
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.
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 RUclips. This one was a nice little surprise for me this morning, thank you for sharing!
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.
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.
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..
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🤣
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.
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!
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
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*
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
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.
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
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 🤞🏻⚡
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.
@@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.
@@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
@@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 👌🏻
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
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 ;-)
@@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 😁
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🙌🏼
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!
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!
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 👍.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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!
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 🚿
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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)
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.
Never heard thunder as loud in my life. It was like explosions.
EmmJ Nor yeah I thought it was a bomb so I cried 🤣
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?
Thunderstorms are the best weather to have , Its so relaxing to hear the thunder and watching the lightning
Agreed.
I hate lightning but hearing thunder never affected me when I was asleep
Yes I agree
I certainly agree....and yet loads of people are sent to the edge of terror instead. Weird eh?
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
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!
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 :)
This is like the thunderstorms you get in the itcz, inter tropical convergence zone. Incredible.
All too rare here, sadly.
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.
Thanks for watching :)
Would expect to see these scenes for such prolonged nature in the tropics.
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
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.
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..
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.
Awesome storm!! Reminds me of the storms we get here in the Northeast, USA!!
Vivid lightning, loud thunder, it has it all!!! Nice vid!!!!
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''....
Cheers. Yeah we really don't get ANY kind of storms here so anything we do get tends to stand out ;-)
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 RUclips...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.
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.
No worries. Really glad I documented it somehow.
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.
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.
No worries, thanks for the comment :)
Hey Ben it's good to see you! What a thunderstorm indeed.
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! ;-)
Hi, I've seen tornadic thunderstorms in the usa, very similar lightning frequency
I thought about that too, but a squall can produce a similar light show, and I did not see/hear any hail.
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.
It was way more than 5 hours - more like 10 in Glenrothes.
Roughly 8PM to 7:30AM was MENTAL in Pitteuchar (First Day back of Schools aswell ;(
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 RUclips. This one was a nice little surprise for me this morning, thank you for sharing!
.....and thank YOU for watching :)
Every storm that we had in 2020 were ones to remember cuz they were all strong
Spectacular! Thank you brother! : D
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.
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.
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.
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..
Thanks for that. It was something to do with a convergence zone but that's the limit of my understanding ;-)
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🤣
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.
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!
Never seen anything like that it was on for hours xx
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
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*
thank you for a real storm recording!
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
Cheers Paul. Memorable for sure! My leaky roof could've done without it though ;-)
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.
Ah, you know it's bad when the dogs won't go out ;-)
I remember a massive storm that was so bad, a house near mine caught fire, but it was an abandoned house so yeh
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
Thanks :) I think the star is some weird digital blemish, cos the stars most definitely weren't out that night ;-)
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 🤞🏻⚡
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.
@@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.
@@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
@@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 👌🏻
Remember this storm. Was amazing.
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
I certainly wouldn't have wanted to drive through that!!!
Too few and too short....the story of my life.
Same weather here in Edmonton. Well done
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 ;-)
@@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 😁
@@rgkrazor8788 Lol!!! I can attest to that.
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🙌🏼
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!
I can never sleep through a thunderstorm that intense
Me neither. I love lying in bed and a storm raging outside :)
Thank you for the video, it's so relaxing.👍
I'm glad someone else thinks so! Some folk find them terrifying.
It was none stop flashing over Shropshire on that day I could see it from Wolverhampton
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!
Was working the night shift at RPH me and the patients watched it all night was fantastic.
I am an ex-matelot 37yrs, and have been in all sorts of weather, I love it.
Thought it would be a great place to view the storm from up in the Lomond Hills... Was quite a trip through the night.
You must have got soaked!
Yorkshire had one that lasted from 11pm to 3am and it was an amazing light show
My compliments to Fife on this storm, she’s a beauty ⛈⛈⛈
My roof didn't think so ;-)
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 👍.
One we'll all remember, I think.
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
3 years on and I remember this storm in the midlands, we had a roof leak in my house
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.
34:03 unusual to get loud claps at night usually its during the day when the heat and humidity is considerably higher.
It sounds so weird lol
Also check out the one at the 4.50 mark
Thunderstorms tend to be generated when the temperatures change.
Nature can be really spooky sometimes. Cool video :) .
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.
Cheers Steve. Seems Fife saved up for a few decades and then made up for lost time ;-)
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.
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!
Interesting. Thanks for that. Having not really seen big continental storms I've got nothing to judge this against.
@@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 (
@@DavidTheScientist We had a strike almost overhead where you find yourself ducking....as if that's gonna save you!! ;-)
@@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!
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
They're the only thing I ever really missed about the English Midlands. Well....that and country pubs.
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.
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
They do linger in the memory don't they.
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.
It was insane. Just couldn't tear myself away from the doorway for hours and hours.
It was a good 9-10hrs here in SE Perthshire. But i had never seen so much lightning for so long.
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.
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.
Thanks for the comment. I wish we had more of them here....although it did make my roof leak!
@@BenvironmentBlog not the roof leaking!
Gotta love thunder.. can't wait for summer.. too bad where I live we usually get pretty boring storms..
Yeah same here....which is what made this one so unusual.
Beautiful! Nice video!!
Thanks :)
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
At 32.52 that lightning flash than big thunderclap.Huge bang afterwards that was insane say the least
I think I might have ducked on a couple of occasions. Much good THAT would do ;-)
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.
I guess it's because they're such a novelty.
I slept right through barring one clap of thunder around 4 am, gutted!
Good. God!
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!
I have subbed and liked the video
Started around 5:45pm West Lomond And was still raging when I crashed at 3 am.
Where is Fife located? Great video!
Central Scotland :)
My boyfriend lives next door to Falkirk, he told me about this storm.😮😮😮
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.
RI? Is that Rhode Island? Greetings!! :)
The rain from this caused the landslide that derailed the train didn't it? Easy to see how from this 😮😮
Yep it moved into Aberdeenshire the next morning.
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 🚿
Just to add thunderstorms were more common here in the 60’s and 70’s when I was growing up.
Seems to me, the best thunderstorms occurred during childhood. I got hooked at age 10!
@@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?
@@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.
At around midnight in Bristol the thunderstorm was crazy. There were flashes probably every two or three seconds
That really does sound like tornado weather. Glad everyone is okay.
@@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.
Hate to hear the animals calling out, I know how mine react but poor cattle,sheep and horses must have been terrifying.
What country was this? Thanks,
Scotland.
you could literally see the cloud in the cloud.
It was bonkers! :)
Normal.
Thanks for this it helps me sleep 💤 xx
Thanks! Erm....I think ;-)
This is one of the biggest thunderstorms I've ever witnessed in my life . It was terrifying. Like a war going on outside
LOL!!! Sorry but this is the type of storm I go for walks in. Absolutely love them.
@@leithx7595 Same haha!! Budapest has the sickest spots man
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.
Paused 4:53 looks like daylight
It's mad isn't it?
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.
Yeah your storms are on a whole other level.
It was like the lightning had replaced the sun in kircaldy it was so bright
I've never seen anything like it. Would love to experience it again...provided my roof didn't leak ;-)
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.
What time was this vid taken?
I think it was between 8pm and 10pm
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.
where was this storm
The Lomond Hills in Fife, but it extended over much of east Central Scotland that night.
I had this storm for 1 hour I think
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.
Oh man, we have sheep mehing at all hours in the summer ;-)
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
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)
If anything I think Glenrothes had it worse than we did up on the hill. Not like in Kirkcaldy though! :-o
Muze thunderstorm se bohot Dr lagta hai
I'm terrified
It seems like it was a once in a generation storm. Really sorry I didn't get to witness it first hand.
Which means a daily storm in america😂
@@pinkbanana1276 we just don't get huge thunderstorms in Scotland as Ben said in the video.
Yep. Context is everything.
@@BenvironmentBlog any footage fron the Thunder Snow?
*AND THEN ALONG CAME ZEUS*
It's Andrea's boy by the way (we stayed at your house)
0:33 - 0:43 same
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.
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 ;-)
How I live in Oklahoma
Yeah you've a lot to contend with over there.
you called this a thunderstorm ? 😂
Let me check....
Yep. Yep I did.
@@BenvironmentBlog don’t get me wrong 🙂 What I meant is its a normal thunderstorm on our scale
Aye, I know. Context ;-)
I almost died