Storms and Convective discussion - November 2023 onwards

[The Tall Weatherman]

The next few days could be the first thunderstorm days for some of us. Cape seems minimal in the next few days and seems to peak on Thursday and Friday where we can expect scattered downpours and perhaps a rumble.

@WeatherArc Wow what a storm that was ! Don’t remember seeing a clear bolt 100+ miles away before that and hopefully we see something like it this year

 

Edited March 26 by The Tall Weatherman

[Eagle Eye]

Convective Outlook️ 

Showers forming along a shortwave trough behind an occluded front in the early afternoon are likely to cluster mainly in the southern Irish sea, the far SW of England, western Wales and southwestern Ireland. Some fairly strong buoyant air should help force up with lots of energy for these showers to come with sporadic lightning likely given the time of year and limited potential for the energy. The occluded front itself in the eastern parts through a lot of the day may bring a sporadic lightning strike or two. 

 

Strong surface energy and low-level winds in areas may aid some strong surface winds along with these showers as well. Small potential for a tornado in all of that. The deep-layer shear is strongest in the England and Wales parts of the slight risk, perhaps a small chance of a Supercell from that then. Hail is unlikely to be strong but the lift and cell mergers could force some kind of hail.

 

That should clear NE wards with a few straggling showers before a lifting occluded front clears it in the evening. Especially showers may linger in Ireland.

[A Face like Thunder]

Yellow weather warning for wind for tomorrow just issued for London, the SE and SW of England. A rain warning for Northern Ireland already in place for today. The Easter get-aways could be tricky!

[Marcus_surfer]

Looking at the radar, Plenty of showers heading in from the atlantic, will be a case of dodge the showers for the rest of today probably a few cracks of thunder and hail/strong winds in some of the heaviest showers.

[jmp223]

I flew up from Heathrow yesterday and the cloud ceiling extended up to around fl25 (25,000ft) across some parts of the Midlands.  Was unusual to see so early in the year.

[Daniel_c150311]

convection kicking in here also heard a quiet rumble of thunder but all the sky is grey so I cant get a good picture of the clouds

these ones are from earlier 

 

[CoventryWeather]

Decent lightning activity from Bristol to Hereford. Starting nicely. See how far inland it heads. 

[Andrew Hurcomb]

Just gone through here in Hereford. Half a dozen claps of thunder with lightening and torrential hail though hail was small in size. First of the year.

[Robert1981]

This is a band of rain passing west of Norwich at 3pm. 

[Sparkiee storm]

Another hail storm and gusty winds, this time left a small accumulation up walls.  

[ANYWEATHER]

Rain , hail , sleet and snow here , but didn’t settle! And a lovely rainbow to boot

[Rufus Butterfield]

Radar isn’t currently working but there appears to be some squally looking showers heading north of Derby

[ChezWeather]

 Rufus Butterfield Radar still down, just gone very dark here, skies looking mean to the SW

[CoventryWeather]

Been some proper convection today - had a lovely matured cell to the east pass by a few moments ago. And a lovely rainbow too! 

Edited March 27 by CoventryWeather

[Sparkiee storm]

Nice skies again today, more to come this week.

[Thunderspotter]

Hey, hope everyone is doing well!

Haven't been on this page for a while, and I'm glad to see that the 2024 thunderstorm season is kicking off already
Good luck to everyone over the next few days, lets hope we get some bangers

 

Also, is anyone else currently tracking the Wareham storm that lit up just now?

Impressive how quickly it sprung up on the radar. Lots of lightning present on lightningmaps.org

 

[ChannelThunder]

So begins another year of near misses

[matty40s]

Just passed to the North...

 

[Mapantz]

Lots of rumbling going on here.

[Metwatch]

No hail here but some lovely cloudscapes once again this afternoon, with a brief vibrant rainbow as the showers zoomed past. 

Distant shower:

New showers approaching from west / south west, I think the second photo is facing more north though, part of that shower line still:

Then the back end of those newer showers:

 

Edited March 27 by Metwatch

[LIGHTNING ACTION]

Im gonna record a timelapse of this beauty

[Mapantz]

Lightning visible now.

[Mapantz]

Big bang!

[LIGHTNING ACTION]

[Mapantz]

Wareham fire station has gone out. Probably a lightning strike somewhere between here and Wool.