Lightning storm at Folkestone

[ThePapabear1017]

Them seagulls had a lotta balls flying around.Lo.

[londongamer]

Next time you edit a lightning video - try,. TRY not to cut a lightning sound mid-way through, it ruins what would otherwise have been a cool video. Would have been 7/10,. but you lose 2 points for p*ss-poor editing.

5/10

[monkeys8myhw]

wat was that at 2:16 bottom right corner?

[plecmen]

@monkeys8myhw twas a car i think

[monkeys8myhw]

@plecmen ok now i see the car lol thnx man

[jirainogumo]

2:27 sucks for that bird

[numbnutzable]

The storm which you recorded came over from northern france, in the channel it developed into a supercell briefly and dropped a small f0-1 tornado as it hit the coast near brighton. As it moved 5 or 10 miles inland it lost power and turned into a strong multicell storm. This is why there was so much lightning and continous thunder rolling.

[TheFoski]

Great video well good!

[DPL1146]

Bad storm. I enjoy it in real life.

[charliegaze]

Superb lightning on 2:04! How long did the storm last?

[charliegaze]

Well luckily I'm from the north-west of Kent in Orpington and we don't often get big thunderstorms like this.

[UncleSlim64]

@charliegaze We don't often get storms on that magnitude up here in NW Hants either. I think it's because we're situated in a valley, and they tend to go around the edge. Get one trapped in the valley, and boy do you know about it!

[BAXJP]

The building infront of the camera..look to the right of it and look at the tree, at 2:06 a bolt hits infront of it

[jjjme84]

That afternoon I'd been in Folkestone. I stood on the seafront and saw that coming and knew it was gonna be a bad one. I got back to Thanet in time and it was bad - interesting to see just how bad it was in the part of Kent that is always hit by the strongest storms from France!

[tabitha501]

Great vid. That continual growl of thunder was quite scary!

I made a very short video of a storm from my bedroom a couple of years back and was always surprised to freeze the frame and see pink lightning.

[gadzukes2003]

2:06 : awesome

[louisasmiles]

ahhhhhhh this was sooooo nice to watch... i love our uk weather.....it makes me cold to watch yet im all snuggly warmed up inside....i love the rain....

[megans943]

omg storms in folkestone r actualy amazin an i dont even like em lol

[Rain1290]

Very nice capture here, my friend, of the different stages of the storm's approach. Just one thing I wanted to point out, but the cloud that was closing in at about 0:35 was not a wall cloud, but rather the shelf cloud of the storm - wall clouds are essentially an "accessory" cloud that extends below the base of the shelf cloud and is indicative of a persistently active mesocyclone, which may be a precursor to a tornado.

Again, nice video!

~Trav.~

[charliegaze]

But if he says it's a wall cloud, it's a wall cloud. It's the same thing.

[stephieere]

god i live in folkestone lol i was out nd i got socked

[daleroflrofl]

2:28 - the seagull is like ahh shit.

[depolle13]

I love the sound at 2:08

Just amazing.

Hope you make more videos of thunder.

[PeggySueMyAss]

didnt thi flood all of the roads, good times go out and have a bb gun fih i grama feild

[onnamejoe]

wen that storm struk i just went in my dads back garden an lade on a sun bed

[Crackpot7272]

I was out working that night and lightening struck the scaffolding just a few metres away from me. Thought I was bacon!!

[Uxhenik]

I would have too if that happened to me!

XÞ

[bringthewayne]

thought i was gay

[beccaakakratnoff]

still remember this storm lol my mums just told me that once it was like this every night for five months in Malaysia I imagine it was probably the height of the storm season

[muttlyball2]

dude thats very bad somebody would get soaking

wet

[jimbob150555]

That lightening landed in a close named Brambledown - I was staying there that night! A freind of mine lives on Eastfields and saw it too.

[Sentinal3131]

hey this is recored just down the road form me...im on St michaels street

[S76N79]

Never seen anything like that in the UK before, bet it was awesome as well as p[retty scary - my son lives in Folkestone and he NEVER mention this at all!

[beccaakakratnoff]

i cant lol im not in malaysia anymore we came back when i was 4 we do have some on video tapes but i dnt think you can get from videos onto the computer lol yeah i heard the storm last night it was really cool! =) i got a great view out of my room i always watch em no matter what time they start

[beccaakakratnoff]

wow!!! you dont often get storms like that here! but if you do want them go to kelantan in malaysia i lived there for two years we flew out when i was 2 you used to get exactly that every night for five hours! i was scared at first, but once i got used to it i watched it all the time! its amazing!

[idj20]

Thanks for taking the time to comment on this video! Funny you should say that, becca, as we had another one last night (at time of typing this) where a thunderstorm had dumped 60 mm of rain in the space of an hour! It's been a very eventful summer for storms. I can imagine Malaysia do get some really beefy ones regular, do you video any of them as I would like to see it!

[bohrokthunder]

@idj20 woah cool

[kiajas9]

folkestone is a ledgend town !!

[ELiTCAT]

i love the sound..

[dasypus14]

Impressive storm and well caught on your vid. Well done.

[oxion2007]

wow .. i was down on the harbour we saw it go by us i had no idea it was that nasty .. nice vid btw :)

[milton2007]

that storm was good

[TheFlumps789]

thats pretty intense for a UK thunderstorm, nice work

[spikeysteved]

tell you what i havent seen a storm like that round here ever...

[brainiacaholic]

cool, thanks!