My god is it raining outside

[Karlos]

Subject says it all. Luckily I just got indoors.

Another summer day in Manchester. As predictable as ever :lol:

[KennyR]

Is it true that they only built a city there originally because the cotton mills needed a humid place to work efficiently?

[Cyberus]

I could see the nasty clouds on the cricket coverage :-)

[Vincent]

You should've seen this place this afternoon :-o

At least 10 incidents of thunder varying from 15 seconds away to just 3 - not getting closer then further away, it seemed a bit more random.

And the rain!  My god the rain was bouncing off the pavements.  If you were outdoors you'd be soaked right through a raincoat in a matter of nanoseconds :-o

Luckily me and Siouxsie were inside all day :-D

[The_Editor]

@ KennR


Thats probably Bradford !!

[Karlos]

KennyR wrote:
Is it true that they only built a city there originally because the cotton mills needed a humid place to work efficiently?

AFAIK, manchester has been around since roman times. As for the weather, you could have a point. When it isn't raining, its scorching hot!

There was lightning directly overhead, so I had to disconnect for a bit until it ran its' course.

@Vincent

Some of these were literally directly overhead - not even a fraction of a second from the flash to the thunderclap. Loud enough to make your bones rattle!

[Bobsonsirjonny]

Ed-209 (Mike_Amiga) and myself headed out for a 4 mile run.. It started to dribble.. we carried on.. We got as far as the 1st lock, and then it began to hammer it down so we pegged it to the motorway bridge and hid under it. It was raining harder and harder so we knocked it on the head and ran to Mikes car. Not a dry spot on either of us...

I'm sure the weather is timed for when we go running. One time we were caught 3 miles in - so we had no choice but to get wet. Saturday we caught lightning creeping over the hill - it was beautiful all day, but as soon as we step foot on the canal...

[Cyberus]

Karlos wrote:

KennyR wrote:
Is it true that they only built a city there originally because the cotton mills needed a humid place to work efficiently?

AFAIK, manchester has been around since roman times.

Yep. All the -chesters and -cesters are Roman towns

[Vincent]

Karlos wrote:
Some of these were literally directly overhead - not even a fraction of a second from the flash to the thunderclap. Loud enough to make your bones rattle!

:lol: I love that :-D

Oh, one thing I forgot about... when the closest thunderclap happened this afternoon the lights here flickered and I heard a click noise.

I turned back to the pc to see it had shut itself off.  Switched it back on and what do I get?  "Windows did not shut down properly blah blah bleurgh".  The surge protected extension must've kicked in. Luckily I wasn't doing anything important like playing HL or D3 :-D

[that_punk_guy]

The Bradford textile industry was almost exclusively woolen.

(What, I can't have the facts sometimes? :-D)

[T_Bone]

that_punk_guy wrote:
The Bradford textile industry was almost exclusively woolen.

(What, I can't have the facts sometimes? :-D)

With all that humidity, heat, and rain, I wonder if they ever get Mossy Fleece?

... :inquisitive:

[Karlos]

Well, its at it again!

We just had an INSANE downpour that turned into 2cm hailstones half way through!

Now we seem to be having a nice forked lighting thunderstorm :-) looks a bit further north now but its certainly frequent!

[Vincent]

We've had thunder and lots of bouncey rain since about 8am until just an hour ago.  It's still pretty dark outside though, probably more thunder on the way.

I just hope we don't get the hailstones up here tonight - I'm going out later :-)

[mikey2001]

Yep, its absolutely p***ing it down here, with thunder and lightning to boot. :-(

[Vincent]

5 minutes ago I thought "must be going soon".

Looked out the window - all was dry.

Turned back to switch off the tv.

*RUMBLE*

Looked out the window again.

All I could see was rain bouncing off the pavements.

:-x