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This animated lightning map is updated every few minutes and reports strikes as they happen in the UK on a 3-hour cycle....

More about lightning

  • At any point of time there are about 1800 thunderstorms!
  • Every year, the Earth experiences an average of 25 million lightning strikes during some 100,000 thunderstorms. That’s more than a hundred lightning bolts per second.
  • An average instance of lightning lasts about a quarter of a second and consists of 3-4 strikes.
  • You can hear thunder from about 12 miles from the starting point.
  • Lightning bolts travel at speeds of up to 60,000 miles per second.
  • The average length of a single lightning bolt is 2-3 miles.
  • A single lightning bolt travels through twisted paths in the air that can be as wide as one of your fingers or between six and ten miles.
  • The temperature of a typical lightning bolt can reach 50,000 F degrees – that is 5 times greater than the temperature of the surface of the Sun.
  • The energy contained in a single lightning strike can power a 100 Watt light bulb for 90 days.
  • “Lightning never strikes twice” unfortunately is a myth. Lightning can strike the same location many times.
  • Trees sometimes can take direct hits from lightning and not get burnt – the electricity passes over their wet surface and goes straight into the ground.
  • Glass forms when lightning strikes into sandy soil. After a storm you can find strips of glass in the sand.
  • If you have wet clothes on, lightning will do you less harm.
  • The irrational fear of lightning is known as keraunophobia. The fear of thunder is termed brontophobia.
  • There are from 100 to 1000 instances of ball lightning at the same time on Earth, but the chance you’ll see at least one in your lifetime is just 0.01%.
South West Warnings
    Yellow warning of rain affecting South West England: Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, North Somerset, Plymouth, Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Torbay valid from 1000 Wed 17 Dec to 2359 Wed 17 Dec Yellow warning of fog affecting South West England: Gloucestershire valid from 0000 Wed 17 Dec to 1000 Wed 17 Dec Yellow warning of rain affecting South West England: Bath and North East Somerset, Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole, Bristol, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, North Somerset, Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, Wiltshire valid from 0000 Thu 18 Dec to 2100 Thu 18 Dec
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Record Temperatures On This Date
Record High
12.9°C- 2015		 Record Low
-8.0°C- 2022

Sun & Moon Today

Day length 07 hrs 49 mins
Rise 8:09 am
Set 3:58 pm
MOON PHASE Waning Crescent
Rise 4:54 am
Set 1:17 pm
There will be 0 min 37sec less daylight tomorrow

Climate Extremes

Tuesday 16 December
High Temp9.21:12 AM
Low Temp5.87:28 AM
Rain Today 7.1 mm12:16 AM
High UV0.0 12:00 AM
Max Gust20.7 mph9:02 AM
Min Windchill11.1°C12:00 AM
So far this month
High Temp13.27/12/2025
Low Temp-1.55/12/2025
Wettest Day29.3mm1/12/2025
High UV2.02/12/2025
Max Gust32.0mph7/12/2025
Min Windchill-2.15/12/2025
So far this year
High Temp35.911/7/2025
Low Temp-5.611/1/2025
Wettest Day52.0mm14/11/2025
High UV14.021/4/2025
Max Gust38.0mph21/2/2025
Min Windchill-8.311/1/2025
All time records
High Temp35.911/7/2025
Low Temp-10.820/12/2010
Wettest Day80.2mm20/7/2007
High UV18.013/6/2022
Max Gust62.1mph23/2/2017
Min Windchill-21.1°C15/02/1963
Air Quality Index
Medium
Medium

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