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VIDEO/PICS: Heatwave turns to Salford lightning storm
Sweltering temperatures progressed to a serious storm over Salford on Tuesday evening as the skies went black, before crashing thunder, pelting rain and lightning. Mike...
Lightning storm brings down trees, floods house in Salford
Heavy storms over Salford brought blistering lightning strikes that touched down across the city on Tuesday night. Hot and humid summer weather turned to rain and hail...
Watch: Lightning strikes Salford with thunder ‘so loud it sounds like explosion’
A brief lightning storm over Salford and Manchester caught locals off guard tonight with epic thunderclaps that sounded like they shook houses to their foundations....
50 years ago in Eccles: Gale-force storms batter town
With the torrential rain and gales that have hit the area over the past week it only seems fitting to tell this story of storms that ripped across Eccles 50 years ago...
RECAP: Pics and video: Lightning breaks in Salford thunderstorms
Thunder and lightning predicted for Saturday evening actually arrived, in a coup for disparaged weather forecasters everywhere. By around 7pm on Saturday 22 August,...
100 years ago in Salford: August thunderstorms in Swinton see cow killed in lightning strike
A torrential thunderstorm in Swinton in August 1915 caused damage and distress to residents in Swinton and Clifton, and even caused the fatality of a farm animal. On the...
Top picks from Friday’s thunderstoms and lightning
Pictures by Nichola Mellor, Jody Butterworth Dobson Video by SalfordOnline.com Dramatic thunderstorms and lightning returned to Salford on Friday 1 July. But...
Salford weather: Thunder, hail and lightning storms to return
After two hours of thunder and lightning on Wednesday night forecasters are predicting violent storms will return to the city tonight. Hundreds of readers sent in...
PICS/VIDEO: Thunder and lightning split the sky in Salford storm
Today Salford sun turned to humid heat, and the skies bruised dark. Thunder clouded the air after a day of furnace-like temperatures. Read: Salford heatwave –...
Salford heatwave: Thunder and rainstorms on the way
The Met Office has issued a warning of potential thunderstorms tonight as bright sun turns to humid heat. Salford is enjoying its hottest day of the year so far with...
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