RichardW2

Lincoln (UK) July 2009 Latitude 53° 13'49.80N July Valid 1st- 31st July, 2009 Highest Temperature: 27.8°C/82°F (1st) Lowest Temperature: 9.9°C/49.8°F (10th) Mean Maximum: 21.1c/70f Mean Minimum: 12.5c/54.5f Mean Temperature: 16.8c/62.2f --------------------- Lowest Maximum: 17.2c/63f (29th) Highest Minimum: 15.3c/59.5f (1st) --------------------- Precipitation: 93.6mm/3.69" Days with rain >1mm: 12 Days with rain: 22 Most in one day: 29mm/1.14" (29th) --------------------- Sunshine hours: 184.1 (Below average, again) Most in one day: 14.7 (2nd) Sunless days: 0 --------------------- Average Pressure: 1011mb Highest: 1024mb (1st) Lowest: 999mb (22nd) --------------------- Days with Sleet/Snow: 0 Days with Hail/Ice Pellets: 1 (24th) Days with Thunder heard/reported: 7 (6th, 9th, 14th, 23rd, 24th, 27th, 30th); 9 at nearby Waddington RAF base Days with Fog: 0 It gets to July, then it doesn't stop raining. Wettest month of the year by far. Funny how in recent years from May - September sunshine hours go below the average each month and then back to normal by October.

Heavy rain and thunder here 11:00-12:00

Yes there was thunder here within the last half an hour.

El Nino started only recently. As for its effects on the USA severe storm season there are no really conclusive correlations of El Nino to severe weather frequency apparently, apart from leading to dryer and warmer winter weather in the northern states and wetter cool weather in the south western states. Well I am personally moving back to Buxton Derbyshire tomorrow, the place where there have been about 2 storms in 4 years of me living there. Boooo.

We have had a number of heavy thundery showers this year here but no organised outbreaks of storms like in 2006/2007 and years before. Yesterdays was quite fun though with the vicious rainstorm and hail. I once did a study on El Nino and thunderstorms and there is a loose correlation between the frequency and intensity of thunderstorm outbreaks in the UK and El Nino, so hopefully the developing El Nino at the moment will stimulate more thunderstorm activity over the next year or so as data indicates that there is a trend. We might finally get some good storms for most everyone instead of just "hit or miss" thundery showers.

My guess: 13.5c

Small thunderstorm with about 7-10 discharges with close audible thunder and nearby precip core about 14:00. Thundery shower with extremely heavy torrential rain and strong wind followed with up to 5-6mm hail stones approx. 17:00. 4 observed near-overhead discharges with thunder.

Wow what can I say this has been the best day of the year for convective weather so far. We had a second storm pass over with INCREDIBLE torrential rain and then hail near the back edge for a couple of minutes and overhead IC lightning/thunder. The rain was horizontal and so heavy some car alarms went off. WICKED. Also I was outside going to Morrisons and watched this storm go from just a small TCU on the horizon to a storm.

The smallish thunderstorm has just finished here in Lincoln with some fairly loud CG lightning and thunder. I think this just reaches the threshold for "thunderstorm" so I have added it to my sig

Getting darker here. I think theres about to be a thunderstorm. OK so in fact actually no.

Well it's a fine ol' October day here, lashing rain and nasty near-gale winds. Brrr!

It just isn't our summer for Lincoln this year. One small "storm" the other day and we have missed all the opportunities of today. I still feel like a member of this club. I wish I lived in Kent so badly.

No storms here just rain. All the storms are moving away from my area now anyway. I'm disappointed once more.

Been on the webcam to my Dad in Margate, a tremendous storm there apparently, all I could hear on the webcam was near continuous thunder and some very loud rumbles. I WISH IS WAS THERE!!!!

Because they mistakenly believe it is all going "linear" in a straight line to the north east of the UK, which it isn't. It is spinning around the low pressure area, hence the rain band will be stalling over eastern England

Got to laugh at how we have a nice warm and sunny spring then come to July and it changes to very cold, overcast and suddenly forecasts of torrential and prolonged rainfall. Apart from the first week it will end up being a repeat of July 2007. Forecasts of 13/14c maximum temperatures on 18th and 19th. Joke? Unfortunately not. Most places below the 50th parallel don't even have night time lows that cold in summer. Stupid England, crap and I can't wait to leave it for good some time in the next few years.

No tornadoes or funnel clouds but thunderstorm in my area tonight that was overhead more or less so I could be outta here.

Finally.... we had a brief t-storm in Lincoln. Nice one!

It would be, but no I don't believe that at all. I am well researched/educated in storms and have witnessed storms when it is snowing too. It just appears there is a lot less humidity here than other areas and this would weaken existing storms moving into dryer air. I suppose I am frustrated at not having experienced a single storm all year.

The NSC Club Rules. Members take note ,here are the rules for the NSC as requested: A Thunderstorm in the NSC is classed as follows: 1. You must have a thunderstorm directly overhead or very very close by. 2. A Thunderstorm has to last at least 15 minutes plus. (distant ones do not count) 3. Funnel clouds,Tornadoes,Cgs,any of these is a bonus lol Here is a copy of the membership I hereby solemnly swear that I (*RichardW2*) have not witnessed a single storm so far this year in 2009. And that if a storm decides to show up and surprise me I will be more then happy to resign my membership and notify the NSC immediately. Your siggy here........ *RichardW2*

Dewpoint has dropped to just 7c here. What is going on? I thought moisture, instability and forcing were necessary for thunderstorms, with this total lack of humidity I can't imagine a lot happening.

There seems to be not enough humidity for a summer thunderstorm. Dewpoints about 8c here. I will hope for my first storm of the year today if not I will be a bit disappointed as July is normally the most thundery month.

Lincoln weather Time: 13:00 Temp: 14.0c Cond: Overcast This summer is going to be another stinking load of dross I can just tell, tho the metoffice will try excuse their forecast by the 3 day warm wave we had at the change of the month.

A heavy shower, with no thunder, as usual. What a wasted opportunity. Big storm in Buxton, Derbyshire says my family back there. Lucky them.

No storms here still. Shwoers to the west have lost much of their echo brightness in just 5 minutes as if they have been "extinguished". Yet again no storms for Lincoln, last we had was 2nd September 2008.