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Guess what?? Another bust here today....one distant rumble around 2.30 and a VERY distant rumble around 6....apart from that just some brief moderately heavy rain at 2.30; otherwise a dry day!
Not even a distant rumble in this void know as wigan, thats why i dedided to head out somewhere else and got a few crumbs, i knew sod all would happen here
I declare wigan and crewe the joint stormless capitals of the uk
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Was at shell island,llanbedr this morning packing the tent away got soaked by a heavy shower which had a few rumbles of thunder,back home now don't know if around here had anything.
nothing in the st helens and wigan area, of course.
Saw an interesting looking Cb to the west of me , and decided that I have had enough of this thunder vacuum known as wigan so i took a drive towards it and ended up parked up near manchester , where i was rewarded with two flashes of lightning and two cracks of thunder, one was close , but that was it, then drove home , oh well at least i saw a fork of lightning,
edit sorry should have said to the east of me, manc is to my east, i am having a red wine celebrating the fact i saw a cg today
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Nothing here, just as I thought, some of the usual places getting thunder. but a bit for the areas that have seen nothing for a year or two
seen CB's north, west and east of here but non will come , game over
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there have been storms to my west in liverpool, storms to my north in the lakes , whats betting the storms to the south miss here as well, I just know it. I am tempted to go for a drive south down the m6 to meet the staffordshire storms , but my person shield will shred them within 15 miles of me getting near
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Saw 2 CG and heard 3 rumbles of thunder. Maybe not a storm but you know what....?
I WILL GLADLY TAKE IT!!
I am pleased for you, nothing at all here but a fairly heavy shower, might get something later but I am not optimistc, I can almost feel the storm shield force field in the air, it wont relax its grip easy in these parts
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Looks like some good activity over Ireland atm! Watch the Irish Sea kill it off!
That will happen, or at least it will kill off the thundery activity
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looking dark towards the north west of here, with that greyish purple colour at the base of the clouds, Manchester/ Bolton area, probably just a light shower
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Thats insane, and a bit annoying too, annoying because a little wimp of a CB( if it can be classed as a CB) can produce sferics, and here in blighty, especially the north west,a massive torrential shower cant even turn thundery thesedays, whats going on ?
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I love how much everybody loves winter on this forum.
I like winter if its the stormy rainy and gales type winter, oh and mild too
Thats what British winter is meant to be like being an Atlantic island
I hate bitterly cold stagnant weather in winter which is as boring as the grey drizzle we have seen so much of here this summer
My favourite weather is warm and thundery setups in summer were you can sit in the garden in warm sun but a thunderstorm is lurking on the horizon
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Lovely and sunny here, anything around the northwest at all or is it business as usuall?
looks like the usual areas getting their storms again, dont expect much in the north west , robbie garret brought one up for the north west yesterday
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Was in Manchester today, Manchester Airport to be specific. Had two fantastic Thunderstorms to add to my yearly total, as I got caught out walking in them and got saturated... felt well nice.... How about that!!
DAMMIT ! I was so close to this, I saw the CB in the distance sliding from west to east across the sky, but assumed it was just a heavy shower, if only I has taken a 15 mile drive south, You are SO lucky with storms , they seem to follow you and avoid me,
Here you are coming to my storm starved region were I have has nothing, then come and get a storm here, after the many you have had in London, its not fair
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the light showery stuff over me just produced something more torrential for a few minutes, eased off now, not thundery though
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Feeling very thundery this evening and an ominous black cloud to the SW, seems to be a developing shower.
I am under that dark cloudy stuff, dont get excited its just light patchy rain, did you really expect anything else? sorry about the moan, I will be off to the nsc if any more moaning is to be done about this dire lack of thunder these days
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very warm and humid this afternoon, but cooled to 17c now the drizzle has arrived, yes drizzle! did someone say there was a chance of storms in the north west? ...gotta laugh
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Great day at the the international ironman triathlon event in Bolton and Horwich, warm sun azur blue sky, does feel like a proper international event. RElishing it while it here, back out to the garden now for tea and cream cakes....ahhhh summer
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A bit better today than what we have been used to this summer but hardly a blazing July day, a bit disappointing really and I suppose the same for the coming week, sun out again now but still that weak watery hazy sun, is too much to ask for prolonged strong sun in these modern summers
Infact the sun felt much stronger in the sunny march spell we had , tomorrow looks ok -ish up till about afternoon,before coolness and cloudy drizzley stuff spoils in later *YAWN*
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Yellow Warning of Hype for North East Wales and North West England valid from 1400 Wed 18 Jul to 0000 End of Time
issued at: 1151 on Wed 18 Jul 2012
Valid from: 1400 on Wed 18 Jul 2012
Valid to: The End of Time
Bands of nothing and excessive bursts of hype are likely this afternoon into the early evening. These could be accompanied by fairytales and myths.
The public should be aware of the risk of falling into the trap of believing this hype which will lead to inevitable disappointment and frustration. There is also a low risk of more significant disruption to mental health as a result of these repeated let downs and busted flushes.
http://www.notthemet...A9D1F135A7_1_SW
Couldn't resist it.
spot on,
heavy thundery showers mentiond in the beeb forcast for NW england by her on the telly,
I just laughed
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I think I might have jinxed the warm weather,
for here anyway
just posted on facebook about the predicted 31c by the bbc
it will probably be cloudy and 21c instead now
oh dear, I will get a lynching
yup, gone and jinxed it, knew I should have kept quiet 31c is impossible here thesedays anyway
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I think I might have jinxed the warm weather,
for here anyway
just posted on facebook about the predicted 31c by the bbc
it will probably be cloudy and 21c instead now
oh dear, I will get a lynching
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I shouldn't have used the word storms I know, may be electricly active showers would have been better. I might well come and join you in the NSC Cloud watcher, I know how you feel.
I shouldn't have used the word storms I know, may be electricly active showers would have been better. I might well come and join you in the NSC Cloud watcher, I know how you feel.
I am not a full member yet as I have had storms last year and beforebut I still pop in to get a feeling as I know I will end up in there if things carry on as I dont class a couple of distant rumbles and one flash in the corner of my eye 'a storm' so if nothing else happens before summer 2012 is out I will be well and truly in
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This year the north have got more FACT.
the north east
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Showers making progress in Irish sea now, have not lost intensity yet but have lost their electrical activity.
Showers making progress in Irish sea now, have not lost intensity yet but have lost their electrical activity.
Yet when thundery showers in the East hit the North Sea they dont lose electrical activity in the same way, what is it about the Irish sea, any explanations, this has always baffled me
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Yep, What rubbish.
I think we will never see a storm again.
A few years ago , we were led to believe thundery activity would increase, you know, with GW and all that,
Not going to plan is it
Its decreasing, significantly
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That'll be what's heading my way then, let's all keep hoping!
Yes to the south of me, grew out of nowhere and its going westerly, looked thundery, but nothing in it, yet
but didnt get it here 
Uk Convective General Discussion & Forecasts, 4th August 2012>
in Storms & Severe Weather
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HaHa typical, look at all the intense activity running up the west, but a void around my area, then the activity starts again just further north with vigour i told you there was an anti storm force field here , that confirms it.