From around 15:00 through to 21:00 yesterday, we had a bit of a storm. I recorded 60mm of rain came down during the course of it and several properties were flooded at the lower extremes of the village.
What was really weird, was the noise from the thunder. Aside from the usual crashes, there was a continuous noise, which sounded rather like a jet engine roar, which lasted for tens of minutes at a time. I have never heard the likes of it before and just wondered what mechanism would allow the noise from the thunder to continue for such a long time and such a steady noise?
It sounded so unlike thunder, I went out several times, to see if it might be wind noise or some other locally generated noise. It wasn't because several others reported the same noise, in the path of the same storm.