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After days of uninterrupted sun and cloudless sky, thunderstorms swept away parts of the UK on Friday.
Some 80,000 thunderbolts were recorded on Friday in Britain, veiling what was to be the longest lunar event of the 21st century.
Groups of people gathered around the United Kingdom, hoping to glimpse the red beauty
However, the Primrose Hill partygoers, north of London, were treated only in the light of the London skyline. The lunar eclipse, which lasted about 103 minutes, saw the "total" phase end around 10:13 pm, the moon crossing the darkest shadow of the Earth and taking on a reddish hue.
But a blanket of spoiled gray clouds a chance to get a glimpse of most people across the UK: from Hampshire and Wiltshire south to Hull in East Yorkshire , Liverpool to the northwest and Dublin to Ireland.
A user tweeted, "Great Britain had clear, cloudless skies every day for two months."
"Tonight will be the lunar eclipse of blood rarely seen
" It is cloudy and raining. "
Similarly disappointed, posting on the microblogging site:" Would not you know, weeks of clear skies, then tonight, cloud, cloud and more clouds. "
Some British have luckier than others
Grenadier guards stationed in Iraq shared images of soldiers watching a red-stitched moon hanging in clear skies.
For those lucky enough , and unlike a solar eclipse, the lunar event wear
The next total lunar eclipse in the UK is scheduled on January 19, 2019.
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