Silent lightening

Wellsy1882 · Post by **Wellsy1882** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:47 pm

lots of flashes in the sky

Any1 seen it

Rowls · Post by **Rowls** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:48 pm

Don't do it, grammar kids.

It's a trap.

Funkydrummer · Post by **Funkydrummer** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:51 pm

I haven't heard it here in Padiham !!!

Wellsy1882 · Post by **Wellsy1882** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:52 pm

Look in the sky. Its flashing mental. No sound

spadesclaret · Post by **spadesclaret** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:53 pm

The sky is darkening as we draw closer to the shortest day.

Burnley Ace · Post by **Burnley Ace** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:54 pm

Just seen a video from Blackpool - never seen anything like it.

Wellsy1882 · Post by **Wellsy1882** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:54 pm

Never seen it like that b4. Right above lowerhouse cricket club

Funkydrummer · Post by **Funkydrummer** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:54 pm

It will either rain or go dark before morning !

thedoge · Post by **thedoge** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:55 pm

I've been outside looking at it it's the strangest thing .Over 30 minutes none stop.

Wellsy1882 · Post by **Wellsy1882** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:56 pm

Its like.somebodys watchin a TV in my garden with my blinds closed

thedoge · Post by **thedoge** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 12:01 am

Or a film about Aliens

martin_p · Post by **martin_p** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 12:05 am

Yep, happening above me on the Wirral.

Funkydrummer · Post by **Funkydrummer** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 12:12 am

Been outside to have a look. Incessant and quite spectacular at times.

clansman · Post by **clansman** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 12:20 am

Looking to west just counted 37 strikes in 60seconds. Never seen anything like it!! Hope it stays out there!!

Bullabill · Post by **Bullabill** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 12:29 am

Quiet diet ???

NewClaret · Post by **NewClaret** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 12:29 am

Bizarre. Eerily silent with continuous flashes of lightening. Would not like to be in a plane up there tonight!

HunterST_BFC · Post by **HunterST_BFC** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 12:35 am

Loads of flashes in Cheshire tonight - no sound.
Weird.

... it's usually flashers

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 12:43 am

It will be the Heat..... not sure about the big round silver thing landing on kelbrook roundabout though ffs!

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:08 am

Wellsy1882 wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:47 pm
lots of flashes in the sky

Any1 seen it

It’s not the lightening we want to be worrying about... walking down brunshaw earlier and looks like we have guests!

Claretmatt4 · Post by **Claretmatt4** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:18 am

They've probably come to return Glenn Miller

dermotdermot · Post by **dermotdermot** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 3:13 am

cricketfieldclarets wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:08 am
It’s not the lightening we want to be worrying about... walking down brunshaw earlier and looks like we have guests!

This is quite catagorically a visit from the inhabitants, or what’s left of them, of Metaluna. They have come here to try and seal the transfer of one of their mutants, a certain Troy Deeney, to Burnley. But don’t worry, Sean Dyche has built an interocitor and has the situation monitored.

lesxdp · Post by **lesxdp** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 6:13 am

Just said on BBC Breakfast that there was silent thunder

Explained as lightning without the bang.

BenWickes · Post by **BenWickes** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 6:51 am

6 hour light show here. Started around 7.30 pm, dry all the way through 'til 1.30 am then it absolutely threw it down. Interesting photo above. I was sat in the garden last weekend. Was just gazing at the clear blue sky and suddenly 5 or 6 objects in close proximity to each other at a great height just appeared. There was a plane flying overhead at the time so could gauge some sort of height perspective. They must have been a good few thousand feet up. My wife saw them too. We thought they were hot air balloons at first, until one changed direction and flew off at high speed in the opposite direction. The others remained completely still. Suddenly they all just disappeared.

claretonthecoast1882 · Post by **claretonthecoast1882** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 8:03 am

cricketfieldclarets wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:08 am
It’s not the lightening we want to be worrying about... walking down brunshaw earlier and looks like we have guests!

No need to worry about that, it is the hole Gifton's penalty created.

CharlieinNewMexico · Post by **CharlieinNewMexico** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 8:41 am

When I first moved to Virginia I came across the phenomenon ThunderSnow! I have no idea how it happens, but it was snowing and thundering and lightening at the same time. Never saw it in Florida , Kentucky , or since in New Mexico.

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 9:45 am

lesxdp wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 11, 2020 6:13 am
Just said on BBC Breakfast that there was silent thunder Explained as lightning without the bang.

It wasn't Silent at 3am over here

woke me up banging and crashing and flashing for about 3/4 of an hour and torrential rain.

JTClaret · Post by **JTClaret** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 12:17 pm

It was going for hours last night (in Fleetwood).

Initially I went to check the house alarm as I though it was that flashing blue outside

It looked great though

Bfcboyo · Post by **Bfcboyo** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 12:45 pm

Tyrone Mears

Zlatan · Post by **Zlatan** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:19 pm

Armageddon

dsr · Post by **dsr** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:33 pm

Just out of interest, have all the people who saw the magical lightning been struck blind, and some of them killed by giant, walking plants?

Wellsy1882 · Post by **Wellsy1882** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 2:17 pm

Bosscat wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 11, 2020 9:45 am
It wasn't Silent at 3am over here woke me up banging and crashing and flashing for about 3/4 of an hour and torrential rain.

Where abouts up shadsworth do.you live?

spadesclaret · Post by **spadesclaret** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 2:24 pm

dsr wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:33 pm
Just out of interest, have all the people who saw the magical lightning been struck blind, and some of them killed by giant, walking plants?

No, only those who saw the silent lightening.

Zlatan · Post by **Zlatan** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 3:22 pm

spadesclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 11, 2020 2:24 pm
No, only those who saw the silent lightening.

what if they heard it, are they OK...?

rob63 · Post by **rob63** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 3:28 pm

Burnley Ace wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:54 pm
Just seen a video from Blackpool - never seen anything like it.

What, Blackpool

ChrisG · Post by **ChrisG** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 3:36 pm

Definitely wasn't silent here in Timperley either. Woke me up a couple of times, the first of which was like 3 explosions

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 3:51 pm

Wellsy1882 wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 11, 2020 2:17 pm
Where abouts up shadsworth do.you live?

Next door to you

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 3:51 pm

Wellsy1882 wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 11, 2020 2:17 pm
Where abouts up shadsworth do.you live?

Burnley Ace · Post by **Burnley Ace** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 5:06 pm

rob63 wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 11, 2020 3:28 pm
What, Blackpool

Yes, I don’t have a subscription for the History channel (or National Geographic!)

JohnMac · Post by **JohnMac** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 7:44 pm

I noticed it lightening when the Cat woke me up about 4.30 this morning...

spadesclaret · Post by **spadesclaret** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 8:03 pm

JohnMac wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 11, 2020 7:44 pm
I noticed it lightening when the Cat woke me up about 4.30 this morning...

At last someone else has noticed Wellsy's deliberate mistake

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 8:06 pm

There was invisible thunder all night where I live.

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 8:08 pm

JohnMac wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 11, 2020 7:44 pm
I noticed it lightening when the Cat woke me up about 4.30 this morning...

You and Phil Tufnell flat sharing are you

dougcollins · Post by **dougcollins** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 10:20 pm

Lightning is always silent.

The noisy bit is thunder.

2 Bee Holed · Post by **2 Bee Holed** » Wed Aug 12, 2020 1:11 pm

dougcollins wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 11, 2020 10:20 pm
Lightning is always silent.

The noisy bit is thunder.

But, thunder IS the sound of lightening.

All very mysterious!

CrispyClaret · Post by **CrispyClaret** » Wed Aug 12, 2020 9:37 pm

dermotdermot wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 11, 2020 3:13 am
This is quite catagorically a visit from the inhabitants, or what’s left of them, of Metaluna. They have come here to try and seal the transfer of one of their mutants, a certain Troy Deeney, to Burnley. But don’t worry, Sean Dyche has built an interocitor and has the situation monitored.

Sort of makes us look small and insignificant, almost as through Earth is just an Island

Bfcboyo · Post by **Bfcboyo** » Wed Aug 12, 2020 11:36 pm

https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en

Noisy lightning tonight. The maps quite good if you can get it to work.

Dyched · Post by **Dyched** » Wed Aug 12, 2020 11:39 pm

https://youtu.be/fLsBJPlGIDU

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Wed Aug 12, 2020 11:39 pm

We have almost silent lightening here tonight towards the west .... very distant rumblings occasionally .....

BenWickes · Post by **BenWickes** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 7:00 am

Sky was a dirty green colour yesterday evening. Just distant rumblings and the odd flash. Must have poured down overnight though. We have one particular Chrysanthemum that is a thirsty bugger. Expected to find that wilting this morning but it was fully watered. That plant has an identity crisis btw. We have three. Two are in bushy and in full bloom. This one has no buds or blooms and is actually creeping across the fence like a climbing plant.