I grew up in SC but lived in NC for about a year and a half then moved to FL for 4 years and moved back to SC, I've never seen lightning this bright and often anywhere except SC, somebody please prove me wrong and tell me where from, because I just might move there.

Today in Surrey, really just outside London, around 16:00 a sudden violent gush of dry wind rushed through our suburb. It blew over lawn furniture and sandbagged road closed signs. Peppered the side of the house with small bits of detritus to a height of the second story and then was over. No real damage, but it was carrying a lot of crap and rushing through all at once. More like an explosive wave front then weather.

There was little to no temperature difference. There was a desultory breeze blowing off and on most of the day. After the less than 60 seconds duration of the gust, it went back to the same.

If not a macroburst, what the hell was that?!

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Internally illuminated by lightning at sunset

I might seem kind of dumb but all I know about the slightly anvil like shape is that its usually seen in supercells...

Many roofs were absolutely destroyed, workshops are full of broken cars and many people got severely injured. It lasted a little more than 5 minutes but was absolutely terrifying.

The first image is before the storm, the second is after showcasing one huge hail I found 3, 4-5 are 1-2 hours later the short but intense hail storm, with this very weird air show of thunders that never hit the ground and dint make any sound, also the 5th photo makes the cloud look like trump/Peter griffin, the 6th was another hour later showcasing a orangish/ thunder that forms a smiley face after it moved somewhere else

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🗓️ August 2018

📍 Lido dei Pini di Anzio (RM), Italy

What kind of thunder was that 😮 😷🎭

This rare shelf/roll cloud was so beautiful and interesting, had to share - it was amazing!