Compulsive Viewing. I just had to watch this again. The storm that night was possibly the best electrical show I have ever seen , the colours in the sky were spellbinding. Yet some folk slept through the entire 'event ' . I watched from my bedroom window and was completely awestruck. Nothing beats nature for the greatest shows on Earth. Many thanks for the memories . Marvellous video.

Amazing footage thanks for sharing.My heart goes out to the homeless people and any animals who don’t have proper sheltering.When these things happen.Lovely speaking voice.Felt Sorry for all those people stranded at airports.

Remember watching this storm from my window. It went on for what seemed like ages. Never had I seen anything like it. Glad someone recorded it so we can show or review it.

solihull here, still raining and hailing after the thunderstorm last night. it went on for hours n the lightning bolts were massive!!! i love lying in bed watching/listening to it...

You should read audiobooks, your voice Is so lovely and soothing! X

Woke me up near birmingham at 2:20AM and I couldn't get back to sleep until 5:20AM when it calmed down, but another storm came again at 7AM and I woke up again. I watched it in awe for a couple hours out my window, I could sit all night watching it, and the sound makes it extra incredible, really makes you feel small.

I love how this guy is like so calm and not like “OH MY GOD OH MY GOD, LOOK AT THAT!” or “HOLY SH*T!! DUDE TAKE A FOOTAGE!!”

I seen a lot of storms in my life but I have never seen so much lightning. Great video.

I wouldn't have liked to have been on that plane! I did my PhD in Atmospheric Science and this is fascinating to me. Notice a lot of the lightning is cloud-cloud strikes rather than cloud-ground strikes. This is actually the most common thing. Lighting will often jump from one cloud to another in a bid to find the lowest potential state, ultimately trying to find 'ground'. Another interesting fact is that lightning actually goes up, not down. A 'ladder' is formed from the cloud to ground which is basically a path of ionised air that facilitates the passage of electrons to the cloud. Also, the reason hail is associated with thunderstorms is partly due to the fact that hot humid weather and unstable air can cause massive updrafts of air, which is the beginnings of storm formation, these fast updrafts cause the humid air to rapidly cool condense and then freeze into ice crystals. Because the uplift of humid air is so rapid the cooling causes huge ice crystals (graupel) to form in the cold anvil tops of storms. Once too heavy they start to fall, as hail. On the way down they bump into other smaller ice crystals that are still being uplifted in the storm updraft. This bumping and rubbing of ice particles causes, in effect, a massive frictional charge transfer from the falling hail and the rising ice crystals. A massive charge builds up between the upper and lower regions of the cloud. It is in effect as happens when you rub your socks on the carpet and get a static charge transfer.

Wow, spectacular- well done capturing it

Its not odd, what you seeing at the start is a distant thunderstorm. Lighting without thunder is visible upto 50miles away

Hello from Brisbane Australia. Severe thunderstorms are quite common here in our summer and in comparison, this one is quite tame. I would imagine though that for you Londoners, it was quite exciting! See what the rest of your summer brings.

I live in Eastbourne and we had the same amazing storm the same night, it moved into kent then london i believe. It was a supercell that created alot on frequent lightening and was very fast moving! Great video i also filmed mine! 😊

The reason thunder is very faint compared to the severity of the lightning is because these storms are formed in medium to to high altitudes, the cloud base being 5 miles above the ground. This area of low pressure has destabilized the medium altitude of the atmosphere, this type of storm has the potential to give a good show of lightning. They usually start to form from a cloud formation called altocumulus castellanus. These clouds can form in bands and eventually form a stratform layer that looks like asperatus and then build up to high altitude like cumulonimbus, the bang you get thunderstorms like this.

I saw similar in Devon, near Dartmoor last year. The frequency of lighting was phenomenal. I lived in Singapore as a child and never experienced lighting in the monsoon. Great vid.

Great video mate,well done. Yes,it was an amazing light show,i managed to pause the video on several occasions when there was a big flash,looks just like daytime. I noticed that too on Saturday night,while the lightening was spectacular,the thunder wasn't all that loud.

I remember the storm we had in Walsall on the 27th of May. Our back garden flooded and we nearly had water come into the house. I've never seen rain like it before in my life.

Your video is amazing, your voice is very soothing too. I'm really scared of thunder so this video helps. Next time there is a storm I will try not to be scared, thank you.

I live in norwich. we had.......NOTHING I'm sooo jealous, i love thunder and lightning and this was amazing thankyou for sharing this.

It was right above my house but i wasnt in London. Also did anyone else see the pre-storm phase, where the sky would flash immensely, but there was no thunder or lightning visible. P.S My friend read the news and it appears around 15000 lightning strikes hit the UK in just four hours.

That is a good video this was the day my mum died and I said to her after she passed away to light up the sky for me to let me no she got to where she was going thank for putting this video up it means a lot to me

Awesome..same here in Devon. Its because it was quite high up and a good distance away. Thanks for posting

Excellent footage,thank you, stay safe.

Wow great footage. Its was constant lighting for a while over Croydon area. The sky was a constant flicker.

We got walloped by this in Hertfordshire, don't think it crossed over my house directly but it was very close. Wish I could've recorded the storm but our neighbours had been hitting the booze (again) and were outside making a drunken spectacle of themselves...shame, because there was one incredible CG lightning strike which looked an awful lot like a staccato lightning strike. How I wish I'd captured it... Still, great video here. Love this footage.

If my memory is correct, 60 years from the great London storm of 1958 (I think it was in July), which was so much more than just a light show. That time the storm got into the London basin and went round and round for several hours. A neighbour's house six doors up in Thornton Heath ended up with a hole in the roof. I can still vividly recall the thunder clouds rolling up like a time lapse. Eleven years old then...head under the blanket stuff.

We up in the Cambridge area missed most of the storms. I was diligently watching lightningmaps.org hoping they’d track far enough north for some photography opportunities. Sadly not. Thanks for sharing what we up here missed!

That was a great storm I was looking out the window and I filmed some to. Thank you Richard good video.

Same in Birmingham too. Been going on for over 12 hours. Right now it's gotten bad, lots of rain and it sounds like the city is being bombed. Crazy stuff.

I looked why there appeared to be no thunder as you can't have lightning without thunder, it the reason is the storm is to far away 20+ km or atmospheric conditions deflect the sound up and away from the ground.

Nice to see a different perspective. I was night fishing in a tent near Heathrow and it was intense. Pretty much constant thunder with no break. Got some cool slow-motion shots of the lightning that I'll try and share when I work out how to

Great video of a stunning light show! It was amazing! Thanks so much for sharing 😃

Excellent footage - with me being in North East England, we have had no storms. This storm was elevated hence a clear view of the lightning but the thunder not so loud due to the further distance from the lightning itself (due to the storm being higher up in the sky). Fantastic footage, thanks for sharing this.

We had no rain at all in Nottingham. But we had lots of lightning in the early hours of Sunday morning. Really quite eery. What a show indeed! Well caught!

theres nothing like a good storm when your layed in bed at night. we didnt get anything here in west yorkshire. not even a rain drop.hope your plants didnt get two much of a battering.

I love watching thunder storms ,but we don’t get enough of them shame ...awesome video of it ⚡️

i live in NW london and the thunder/lightning was amazing. Theres still rain and thunder going on as i am writing this comment

The closest it got to me last night was mostly just outside Reading so I only heard a few rumbles, but I saw a fair bit of lightning in the distance. The last storm a few days ago seemed to swerve around my town as I prepared for the worst. I've been paranoid about lightning since the storms in late August 2016 because of a direct hit on my house that knocked out nearly a grand's worth of electronics; they were unplugged at the wall but I forgot about the coaxial cable coming in from outside. Heard a crack in my ear, was thrown out of my chair while sat in the dark and 21 months later I've still got tinnitus lol. PTSD confirmed 🙄 Actually wow, just got a strike in my town. I can see nothing but blue and a few tiny white clouds lol. I can't even feel better when it's bright out 😂

I love thunderstorms, I have never wished for rain as much as I do right now, fingers x !

These storms passed to the North-East of us here in Bournemouth, i saw loads of flashes in the clouds but couldn't actually see the lightning as you could here, again there was very little thunder and only a brief burst of heavy rain, i have seen a few of these storms in the last few years where nearly all the lightning stays in the clouds.

Mesmerising! I remember as a kid in the 60s my mum called this kind of lightning 'Wildfire'.

Whoa! That plane was lucky not to get struck. So close. You got pink lightning we got blue. Nice shot!

Your voice is so soothing during this video you should do more like this

Still watching this on may 22nd 2023 still find it amazing. ✌✌👌🏻👌🏻🙏🙏🤗🤗

Perfectly captured! Thx

I was trying to watch tv last night and now my Skybox doesn't work

Always excites me when mother earth does her thing 😍 Amazing!! 😀

Over St Leonards, Bohemia road area, the lightning was constant and bright, not much thunder. The last big electrical storm I remember was in 1987, after one hot sticky day in Hastings. There is one awesome dry lightning sequence in Tombstone.

I fell asleep watching this Working in the garden yesterday did me in but it was beautiful thank you

Used to live in West London myself and the storm of 2014 was unforgettable, my dog was petrified!

I also filmed it but on my smartphone and it all came out terrible and is unwatchable so im greatfull for this great Quality Vidio Thanks!!

Richard Hammond Thanks so much for uploading this! On Sunday in the Midlands we had continuous Thunder none stop for over 2 hours thats no breaks in the actual sound of the thunder! I kid you not and definitely not exaggerating I have never known anything like it ever before! It was almost as if some one had a gigantic speaker. House shook a few times aswell The door and windows rattled floor vibrated. Not sure if you or any one else got Sundays storm? It was totally awesome!

I used to see this all the time when I was north dakota, especially in the summer months...heat lightning, it still fascinates me

I did i video of this storm too, wasnt it awesome, in all my years in London ive never seen anything like it...

Thanks for the share fella . Mandymoo. Manchester.

With this storm last night there was such a loud shockwave from a lightning bolt the entire house shook And woke everyone up. I could say that was the worst storm I’ve ever seen in the uk

I don't even know how y'all guys are so chill about this! I mean yeah, it's amazing, breath taking and all but this scared me to death and I watched this online. I don't want to know how it would be in real life.

This type of storm seems to be a thing of the last ten years in our part of the world. We've had a few here in the Low Countries.

Plasma discharge, or electromagnetic discharge? Maybe not enough energy that high up to cause a visual Aurora like the northern lights but sound Aurora's? Like what was heard.

I was at work when this happened and our building got hit directly above me, huge flash and the loudest bang ever, it fried the fire alarm system. Still it was awesome.

Yeah I was there, it was fukkin madddddddd, no sound, no rain, just lightning from where I was... crazy!

Hi Richard, great footage and commentary. I’m in Poplar, East London and we had lots of thunder just after 11pm but we must have been on the edge of it. Nothing else since lol 🙂

I have anxiety over thunderstorms but lucky me there is non in Manchester yet!

That's why I enjoy ur videos please keep it up

This is a beautiful electric storm and I realise that without thunder it’s half as exhilarating!....x I got some lovely pics of lightening from this storm, not many though and had to delete a couple of thousand as I held my finger down too long on the shutter! 😂 thanks for the grt vid x

In Birmingham, lots of thunder happened before.

We had the same storm in Birmingham today.... Beautiful lighting, thunder and heavy rain 😍😘

It was manic driving home in it! Hope everyone is safe! In Northamptonshire pretty much everyone was effected, loads of houses and housing estates (like mine) where flooded. New subscriber❤️

We had one in Dublin Ireland that same night it was absolutely amazing for 6 hours straight , my eyes hurt after a while though haha

This came right over my head here in Sevenoaks, Kent. It was epic to watch. Then yesterday I could see the storm in Buckinghamshire from here too

Why is it always cloudy over England on a clear night sky that lightning would look even more amazing 😉

Nice and the sound of the rain too

Yeah we witnessed it too last night around midnight. We live in Chessington. Our bedroom lit up everytime it lightened. It was proper. But strangely we didn’t hear any thunder nor did it rain! Nice footage by the way.

I heard the thunderstorm this morning on Sunday and I saw a huge flash across the landing of my house and it was so loud

I was staying in Blackfriars as I was taking part in a couple of running events that weekend. I remember the weather was insane!!

Ive Heard That Storms In The UK Are Preety Rare. Especially A Eletrical One! Here In Sydney This Month In September We Have Coped The Most Insane Eletrical/Close Lightning Strikes Ever In Pre Historic Years-15 Years, I Have Them On My Channel. A Few lightnings Hit About 10cm Away From Were I Was Standing And Recorded It. I Uploaded It On Social Media And Made It Through To The Australia BOM Radar For Recordings. It Was The Loudest/Scariest Moment Of My Life! Nice Video!

That was so bad Richard thanks for this video

Watching from Australia... enjoying your coverage of the storm last night, & may I say what a lovely voice you have :)

We had a crazy night too, amazing to watch ... and today the air seemed to be filled with electricity. Plenty of rumbling thunder... loved this video Richard. Thumbs up. Cheers Adam

It was amazing in Warwickshire, i have never seen lightning like it before

Never seen lightning like this before in my 49 yrs, 2 nights in a row. 1 st night was continous rolling thunder and lightning every few seconds. Wow. P.S. how are you enjoying your new Grand tour?

I wonder if we will get a repeat performance this year. Cheers Chaps.!

The thunder was constantly rumbling yesterday from 4-8pm there was no break until we had the lightning but for my years on mother earth I have never heard constant thunder for that long the sound was like a plane going round and round.

I'm amazed we had no tornadoes. Was this a supercell?

In live just south of London in Kent, There is a huge 10 in 1 hill between us and London which is to the NW of us. I was amazed at this storm.. lots of lightning but few little thunder which I don't remember seeing in years and I been around for lots of years now? The other odd thing is that normally we have to have many weeks of very dry hot summer weather before we get a big electrical storm? So this one after so little amount of hot days not weeks is odd. I tried to film the 1st storm which was about 10 PM here.. Because of that huge Hill and the fact the storm was moving from London to Kent in a SE movement the Hill being so high caused the storm to go around our town.. half of all storms do that if they come from either the West or North West? We had a short heavy rain happen for about 20 minutes then nothing. the storm went after a hour. I went to bed soon after.. I was told that at about 1 AM another storm went passed here from London! And Dartford had a heavy amount of marble sized hail and lots of lightning in the 2nd storm?

Fabulously beautiful footage Mr Hammond :))) Love your voice!!! ... Meditation tape on here perhaps?!?

The storms where I was last two days (Saturday and Sunday night) had rumbles beyond normality nor did they look remotely like Thunderstorm clouds. The storm we had over my area (Just outside of London) is a warning the Thunder rumbled for 30 minutes no breaks, no rain just this weird rumble and people were going indoors I even unplugged the lot. End times and I don't mean biblically or spiritually. I mean scientifically. Seen many severe and even tropical storms in my life, and even hurricanes but after hurricane season last year and the lightning and t-storms we had this week in the damn UK and you consider this normal weather? People wake up.

Bro, your voice is so calming

I'm in Medway, Kent We had it really intense, absolutely tons of thunder with the lightning storm. Some claps of thunder shook our house. It was incredible, got annoyed though when it ended :)

I was woken up by thunder this morning in Telford. apparently there were 30000 strikes overnight according to Liam Dutton (he's a weatherman) so it was a big storm

Before hurricane Charley in 87, the lightning was very intense, heavy rain. after the storm, the local paper had an awesome front page photo of an almighty bolt o lightning over Hastings pier

Richard, has your weather been extremely hot and humid? This is truly Amazing lightning.

Are you seeing the electrical storm now. A cloud storm

Sounds like a possible Audi R8 just listen to the way it was flipping through them gears sweet ...... grate commentary by the very professional indeed 😏

This is a good video well done Helen

I watched this go right over my head late at night yesterday there was some thunder which sounded like artillery guns going off

I stayed up at night to watch it all from Birmingham I saw 11 lightning bolts and many flashes with heavy rain and thunder

it's happening in tring again tonight right now 21:16. i hate thunder storms so much.

Funnily enough I hate thunder/lightning but that was awesome

Where we are (north Kent ) it was also very intense lightning but no thunder. .not seen anything like that it years