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Storms and Convective discussion - November 2023 onwards

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Metwatch

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  • Location: Coventry, 96m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow in winter, thunderstorms, warmth, sun any time!
  • Location: Coventry, 96m asl
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Certainly an unstable environment today with low heights and very cold mid levels (-30°C at 5300m).

Had a shower pass through here bringing some quite squally winds. Thought I could capture some mammatus like a weather watcher did in Birmingham shortly before, but couldn't spot any.

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Some amazing lightning and hail from that Yorkshire storm!

 

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Wade Contributor

Wade

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  • Location: Peterborough
  • Location: Peterborough
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Quite a beefy little feature moving slightly south of Cambridge, no lightning detected as of yet though

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Robert1981

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  • Location: Norwich,Norfolk.
  • Weather Preferences: thunderstorms /winter storms and blizzards.
  • Location: Norwich,Norfolk.
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56 minutes ago, Wade said:

Quite a beefy little feature moving slightly south of Cambridge, no lightning detected as of yet though

I was looking on radar there was some lightning towards Ipswich area. 

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WYorksWeather Experienced

WYorksWeather

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  • Location: West Yorkshire
  • Location: West Yorkshire
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Just had some very squally weather conditions here in the last 45 minutes or so. Sounded like it had some hail in it, and very heavy rain. All quiet now though.

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StingJet

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  • Location: Ynys Mon - Cymru (Isle of Anglesey - Wales)
  • Weather Preferences: Whatever Mother Nature cares to throw my way
  • Location: Ynys Mon - Cymru (Isle of Anglesey - Wales)
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5 minutes ago, WYorksWeather said:

Just had some very squally weather conditions here in the last 45 minutes or so. Sounded like it had some hail in it, and very heavy rain. All quiet now though.

near here bud?

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& you found the correct thread 👍

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Wade

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  • Location: Peterborough
  • Location: Peterborough
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13 minutes ago, Robert1981 said:

I was looking on radar there was some lightning towards Ipswich area. 

I noticed that after I posted my comment

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Metwatch

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  • Location: Coventry, 96m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow in winter, thunderstorms, warmth, sun any time!
  • Location: Coventry, 96m asl
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ESSL released their large hail reports earlier today for 2023. Northern Italy and Adriatic region have gotten a lot.

For the UK, 7 larger hail reports, 3 of which reported 3-5cm diameter, which I think were mostly from the mid June thunderstorms.

And of course we can't forgot Jersey seeing a large hail / supercell event from storm Ciaran early November.

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LightningLover Accomplished

LightningLover

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  • Location: Bexhill-on-sea, East Sussex (11.8M ASL)
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, snow, and wind storms
  • Location: Bexhill-on-sea, East Sussex (11.8M ASL)
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Not too long until the convective season begins by my definition (1st April)! After a rather meager winter as far as cold and snow is concerned, I'm already finding myself looking ahead to the first warm and humid nights sat on the beach, looking out for distant flashes in the channel!

I've been reminiscing on the best events in my lifetime by going back to archived threads on this forum... And the adrenaline-soaked first hand accounts that I often mash on the keyboard at 03:00 after being out for hours!

I digress, but here's to another season! Let's make it one to remember!

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Metwatch

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  • Location: Coventry, 96m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow in winter, thunderstorms, warmth, sun any time!
  • Location: Coventry, 96m asl
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12 hours ago, LightningLover said:

Not too long until the convective season begins by my definition (1st April)!

Last year here it started in the second half of March with a surprise overhead storm on the 22nd! Although that was as a result of March being a very unsettled month. Convective season can definitely start earlier if early to mid spring is mostly low pressure dominated!

But yes not too long to go regardless!

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  • Location: Bexhill-on-sea, East Sussex (11.8M ASL)
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, snow, and wind storms
  • Location: Bexhill-on-sea, East Sussex (11.8M ASL)
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 Metwatch Yeah I know what you mean! I was thinking more in terms of elevated, frequent lightning type storms really, as it's very rare to get one of that definition before then (although not impossible!) My end date for the season is 1st October, although that can be extended on rare occasions like 2023 with the big channel crosser on the 23rd that caught many people (myself included) out!

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alexisj9

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  • Location: St rads Dover
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, T Storms.
  • Location: St rads Dover
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 LightningLover had one in march, well it was elevated and came south up from France anyway, but it was in a cold south easterly flow, had some dangerous cloud to ground lightening, a bit of snow in the heavy centre, and caused lots of damage in this corner from the lightning, including shutting down the railways, due to hitting or effecting quite a few rail substations. It also had the loudest thunder I'd ever heard in my life, it was literally like an explosion, might have been one perhaps, if that was what blew the Dover rail substation. Car alarms went off, electric all over Dover went off for about a minute, well felt that long anyway, and the rumble seemed to go on forever.

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Rush2019

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  • Location: Macclesfield
  • Location: Macclesfield
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Although it wasn't a prolonged storm driven by warmer air, my first rumble last year was March 10th.  A few rumbles in fact with hailstones.  I hope to cop a decent storm this year and not be tormented by listening to a cracking distant storm 😁🙂

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LeeKay/

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  • Location: Cheslyn Hay, South Staffs.
  • Weather Preferences: Snow during Winter, Thunder during Summer.
  • Location: Cheslyn Hay, South Staffs.
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Be it a calmer day of late, if only the temprature was a litte higher. Some convection around here within the cloudbreaks. Also north London seems to have some heavy showers emerging from nowhere.

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Metwatch

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  • Location: Coventry, 96m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow in winter, thunderstorms, warmth, sun any time!
  • Location: Coventry, 96m asl
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Something i'm noticing as I check the satellite daily even during benign days is there are now less shadows from even higher clouds during the middle of the day as the altitude of the sun becomes higher during solar noon.

Early January here it was about 14°, but now it's over 23°. By the end of this month the sun will be at 30°, which is a sure sign we're heading into spring and soon there is enough strength from the sun to allow daytime convection to develop more easily when the environment is unstable enough!

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Thunders

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  • Location: Bexhill home, school Eastbourne
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, hurricanes, and my favourite tornadoes
  • Location: Bexhill home, school Eastbourne
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just saw Scotland getting a few bits of lightning image.thumb.png.dc613576bcabee82e6886fc7becf3e58.png

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Eagle Eye

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  • Location: Woodchurch, Kent.
  • Weather Preferences: Storm, drizzle
  • Location: Woodchurch, Kent.
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Another helpful part of the website for working out where best will be to get clear view of storms and what to expect from them from Cameron Nixon.  Would be helpful to bookmark it for storm days. 

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Parameters – Cameron J. Nixon

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This is a comprehensive "cheat sheet" of severe convective weather parameters. Definitions of parameters can be found here. Composite parameters and...

 

 

 

 

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Daniel_c150311

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  • Location: Miskin / 69m (229 ft)
  • Weather Preferences: Mainly thunderstorms and snow
  • Location: Miskin / 69m (229 ft)
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Feeling quite stormy today although there is most definitely no convection or very little

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CoventryWeather

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  • Location: Coventry, West Mids
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, thunderstorms, heat, sunshine, hail. Basically Seasonal.
  • Location: Coventry, West Mids
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Nice to see the UKV showing some showers tomorrow and Sunday, likely convective, supported by the Arome too. A sign that convective season is nearby now - not too long until we see the start of home-grown storms! 

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ChannelThunder

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  • Location: Thorley, west Isle of Wight
  • Weather Preferences: Spanish plumes & stormy winters. Facebook @ Lance's Lightning Shots
  • Location: Thorley, west Isle of Wight
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 Dxnielwashere loads of Accas coming through today too! These synoptics would likely go bang late April onward!

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Harry's House

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  • Location: Hamstreet Kent, recently of Pagham nr Bognor Regis
  • Location: Hamstreet Kent, recently of Pagham nr Bognor Regis
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 ChannelThunder Unstable sky today. At the moment, light shower with fairly large drops.

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Kai99

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  • Location: Walthamstow, London
  • Location: Walthamstow, London
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Saw many cumulus surrounding today around 11/12, was wondering if they would clump up but not much convection now I suppose?

 

My first post 🙂

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Ryan H

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  • Location: Ockley, Surrey
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, Tornados and Windstsorms.
  • Location: Ockley, Surrey
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Starts out a sunny day till it got darken due to the formation of the clouds on the way back from respite.

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Eagle Eye

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  • Location: Woodchurch, Kent.
  • Weather Preferences: Storm, drizzle
  • Location: Woodchurch, Kent.
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Another of the research into storms. This time some lightning data. 

 

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