[guide.chat] britain hit by 110,000 lightening bolts
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- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:45:27 +0100
Weather: record 110,000 lightning bolts strike during 'superstorms'
Britain was hit by a record amount of lightning strikes during the freak
thunderstorms that battered the country on Thursday, experts have said.
The spectacular bolt of lightning hit Tyne Bridge during the "superstorms".
By Andrew Hough6:15PM BST 29 Jun 2012
The Met Office said more than 110,000 lightning bolts were recorded across the
UK, with more than 200 strikes recorded every minute at the peak of activity.
Experts said this was 40 times higher than an average lightning storm and was
the equivalent of four months? worth of strikes in one day.
Government forecasters said most of Thursday?s strikes, which came as rare
?super cell? thunderstorms battered the Midlands and northern regions, were
fork lightning and hit the ground.
In one dramatic video, footage showed a spectacular bolt striking the lighting
storm over a field in Suffolk, UK Bridge, linking Newcastle and Gateshead,
which captured the intensity of the fierce storms that swept across the North.
While the Met Office does not maintain lightning records, the UK Tornado and
Storm Research Organisation (TORRO) suggested Thursday?s levels were a record
amount to hit Britain in one day.
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A spokesman said Britain?s previous highest published daily lightning ground
strike total was 85,000, recorded on July 24, 1994.
Forecasters said the huge levels of lightning was caused by warm air,
originally from Spain and Portugal, travelling North where it was met by cold
air caused by several weather fronts that had come in from the Atlantic in the
West.
The Met Office described it as an "exceptionally severe weather".
Emma Sharples, a Met Office forecaster, said this combination then produced
significant levels of ?convection?, which in turn caused the lightning strikes.
?It has been a good few years since we have seen something of that magnitude
across the UK,? she added. ?From the reports we have received it was quite a
spectacle.?
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