lots off light in around Alicante Airport today and lot out on the sea record in last hour in area 144 lighting flashes , and and 670 strickes in the last hour in around Espana and it Med sea area (cover hole of the EU but all around Spain France and Italy area

Rained for about 5 mins in gibraltar then sun came back out! Makes a real change for here! Its windy as always though!

Seen photos in Diario sur of floods in Rome too.

Yesterday, here in Axarquia we had about 5 cms of rain, hailstones, thunder and lightening. The power pylon next to our neighbours house was struck by lightening and it took out the LNB on their satelite dish and their radio telephone equipment.

Other neighbours had problems with electric gates, and pool pumps.

We also had our first power cut of the winter - 3 1/2 hours!

But apart from that .... everything OK?

We are missing out on all of this..still no rain and now they are saying we will not get any until Thursday...a day later than originally predicted.

Ten minutes of "chucking it down" around 17.00 just as mrs took off for England, then back to sunshine

Not a drop here, but think it rained malaga way.

erm..........

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news...le_23063.shtml

Our friends who live in South London Say the weather in the UK is fine.

indeed, and around the corner in Alcana, it has p****ed it down every evening for the past 3 days, in fact the house nearly flooded twice, but on a lighter note, both of our water depositos are full to the brim meaning we dont have to go out and buy a tanker of water!

My little dog puts his tail down when he hears thunder, and his tail has been down a lot over the past three days, and it's down again right now.

The thundery rain also seems to frighten some of the unwelcome visitors in m garden, and they're even less welcome when they seek refuge indoors I've just sprayed everywhere, mostly in the garage, and now have a sore throat and stinging eyes. My eyes are too sore to read the label of the spray can, I should have done it before the spraying, but I panicked when I found an unwelcome guest indoors. Yuk.

Ok, the guest left today and we thought we would go for a ride and relax, but the clouds were black and threatening...bugger it looks like rain...and rain it did, all for 15 mins and very light at that.
We know it is going to rain soon as the Vendimia is any day now. Is so the wine will not be so good, so please let it stay dry for a while longer.

we apparently had 77 litres per cubic metre yesterday

since it only takes 100 litres to fill a cubic metre I'm glad our street drains & all the other measures put in place after the floods 2 years ago seem to be working!

Sorry to be pedantic ( liar ) But you had 77 litres per square metre which is 3 inches of rain in old money.
Also there are one thousand litres in a cubic metre

Now wait until it really rains