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Message 1936965 - Posted: 24 May 2018, 17:48:29 UTC - in response to Message 1930887.  

That's very pretty. What type of tree is that?
Gordon I know next to nothing about trees, my best offering is "A white one" :-)
A month later, and significantly further north, spring has got its second wind, and I've never seen so many white trees so thickly covered in blossom.

From the canal bank ...


... to the golf course.


The valley bottom ...


... to the hill tops.


They're all over the place!

I think most of these are probably common hawthorn or May Blossom - more a hedgerow bush than a tree. The one in front certainly is, but the big domed one on the other side of the valley might be different. In England, it's a common decoration for pagan rites of spring, like morris dancing.


And a pollinator claims his reward. :-)

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Message 1937137 - Posted: 25 May 2018, 22:10:46 UTC

Lovely photos, Richard.
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Message 1937193 - Posted: 26 May 2018, 1:21:09 UTC - in response to Message 1937174.  

That is an awesome picture Gnu.
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Message 1937235 - Posted: 26 May 2018, 8:12:50 UTC - in response to Message 1937193.  

That is an awesome picture Gnu.


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Message 1937295 - Posted: 26 May 2018, 19:38:34 UTC - in response to Message 1937193.  

That is an awesome picture Gnu.

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Message 1937359 - Posted: 27 May 2018, 7:58:44 UTC
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Last night here in south London we had one of the worst storms I can remember, constant thunder and lighting every few seconds and torrential rain.

It was around midnight and I decided to try and capture it on video, trouble is it goes from dark to brilliant light so quickly the camera has trouble keeping up.

I did get this.



turning the camera a bit a few seconds later I got this.



Also the rain caused minor flooding on the road outside.



Again a still from video, so not wonderfull quality.
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Message 1937368 - Posted: 27 May 2018, 8:41:06 UTC - in response to Message 1937359.  

Those lightning photos are actually very eerie with the contrast. I like them.
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Message 1937383 - Posted: 27 May 2018, 13:53:25 UTC

Last nights storm even made it onto the BBC News page

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44269304
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Message 1937387 - Posted: 27 May 2018, 14:31:59 UTC - in response to Message 1937383.  

The one by Reuters, near the top of that series, is weird, with the polygon looped around it.
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Message 1937402 - Posted: 27 May 2018, 15:58:19 UTC - in response to Message 1937383.  

Last nights storm even made it onto the BBC News page

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44269304


It was the thunder we heard more than anything.

Poor Toby could not make up his mind whether to bark - hide under the chair I was sitting on or try to sit on my lap.

With the size/strength of him it was no fun at all, Lady just lay there ignoring it all with just an occasional lift of an ear with the bigger rumbles.
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Message 1937410 - Posted: 27 May 2018, 17:47:20 UTC

Well it's been a really nice hot day here today and as I was preparing my evening meal, I happened to glance out my north facing kitchen window.



That was a close up. when I zoomed out



Pretty spectacular!

More thunder and rain is forecast, might just be here soon!!
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Message 1937421 - Posted: 27 May 2018, 19:35:43 UTC - in response to Message 1937410.  

Is that what's called a lenticular cloud?
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Message 1937423 - Posted: 27 May 2018, 19:47:56 UTC - in response to Message 1937421.  
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Is that what's called a lenticular cloud?

no, that's a hammerhead or anvil.
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Message 1937451 - Posted: 28 May 2018, 4:08:46 UTC

@Bernie
I know what you mean by fast lighting flashes. I filmed this storm a while back with my iPhone 4S. I just uploaded it to YouTube.
Fast cloud to cloud lighting.

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Message 1937467 - Posted: 28 May 2018, 10:18:03 UTC - in response to Message 1937451.  
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That's pretty cool, Admiral; well, actually probably pretty hot! I just read something in the paper yesterday about the difference between negative and positive lightning. It said 95 % of the ground strikes are negative charges, but the small amount that are positive charges are a lot stronger and can be as much as 300 thousand Amps and a billion Volts! ~My source on that was Marilyn vos Savant's column in the Parade supplement of my Sunday local paper.
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Message 1938568 - Posted: 7 Jun 2018, 11:25:56 UTC

seen one Lightening once in New Mexico[ snow storm type and I MEAN Katy bar the door when both storms came togther.
we had so much snow in short order. Oh I have been in some real bad ones before.
but Katy wasn't home either.
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Message 1940192 - Posted: 19 Jun 2018, 0:20:32 UTC

My elephant ears are really growing quickly! This is the first time I've grown them. There are three plants here. The one with the biggest leaf is the one that started growing last.



And this is Ziva. She's a few years old.


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Message 1940198 - Posted: 19 Jun 2018, 0:36:12 UTC

Nice plant and nice cat, your life is good.
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Message 1940308 - Posted: 19 Jun 2018, 22:47:05 UTC - in response to Message 1940198.  

Nice plant and nice cat, your life is good.

Well, it doesn't suck.
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Message 1941758 - Posted: 29 Jun 2018, 7:26:16 UTC

Taken from my kitchen window yesterday at 7pm.



On my phone.
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