It's another area where Europe does it so much better!!Mick F wrote: ↑8 Sep 2021, 9:10am Today started cloudy but still warm.
Ideal day to cut the grass. Not blistering sun like we've had for nearly a week!
Trouble is, there's thunderstorms on their way, and it's raining now.
Lightning down in the South Hams and over in France.
We can hear the thunder, but not seen any lightning.
I'm keeping an eye on the progress on here:
http://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en#m ... ;dl=2;dc=0;
If we see any lightning at all, I'll be disconnecting the router, so we'll be off the air.
One day, during a storm, the landline telephone lit up! It was dead after that.
We've lost about three routers in the last dozen years due to lighting. Our landlines come across open fields, so they are vulnerable to inductive pulses ............ and they wreck the router and the landline phone.
Buildings and installations nearly always have lightening conductors and as a result life goes on much as normal in big thunderstorms.
Hot here again. NW Wales.
We will be grateful for some rain.