IanR

I agree Eugeen its only reached 9c here which I would class as on the chilly side for mid March, not seen the sun for 3 days, Anticyclonic gloom is yuk. Warm weather , what warm weather

Reached 10c here today, this was meant to be one of the chillier days of this mild period, air is very clear, feels very mild ,been out cycling without too many layers on. Loving it You can keep your frost and freezing fog :lol: , another eight or so weeks and the sun will be gaining power again

Reports of a tornado in Manchester area on local radio, demolishing chimney stacks and ripping slates off

do you reckon nocturnal cooling might help

bbc have put a lightning symbol for sunday on their local 5 day forecast for this area, with the word 'thunderstorm' as opposed to thundery shower, thats jinxed it then. then again they always remove these nearer the time to be replaced 'by 'light shower' or' white cloud'

Had one crack of thunder here so far this morning

We were told storms would be more regular and more severe in 2000's by the MMGW lot, they said this in the eighties and ninties on numerous ocasions , even the warming trends are reversing, they still wont have it though will they? And I remember them saying that by 2010 theron it will be possible for vinyards in Lancashire, Laughed at it then and I am laughing it now, The global warming brigade are about to get egg on their faces imo

Storms without a doubt ,snow just looks monotonous after a day or two,and it becomes a nusiance,

not expecting anything here today, saw about 6 flashes of lightning over the merseyside area within a large cell around midnight ,close enough to hear the distant rumbles , it was fairly infrequent so I went to bed !

saw the liverpool storm from here at about 9 oclock, noticed the cb against the dusk sky with fairly frequent flashes from within it, a nice sight , just seen a couple more distant flashes but seemed to have died off now

I blame the BBC for less thunderstorms, its since they removed those black cloud symbols with a yellow zig zag and put on those patches of blue and green'puddles'

Thats true, but those set ups that allow widespread storms over the uk on a plume where a lot more regular in years gone by and not rare at all something has changed the last 3 or 4 years, now they are rare, and if you are a storm lover its not good news for the future (IMO)

just the usual drizzle today, no thunder in july here and , and the clock is ticking now for the so called storm season(what a joke) where did it all go wrong, right, thats it, I am inventing a time machine to go back to the eighties and nineties or I could just move to the east

I can understand your anger, in a similar situation here, its a no mans land for weather events, just the usual stuff, but I shouldnt complain too much as we did get a few 'thundery' showers here in late spring, one was at dusk with purple fork lightning, I once read abut the relationship between sunspot activity and thunderstorms and was wondering if this is a reason for so few for the last few years , but then again some parts of the east have been having a thunder fest It seems now that when storms are forecast for the west, the east get them, when storms are forecast for the whole of the uk the east get them, and when storms are forecast for the east, yes the east get them

I remember sometime in the early eighties in late july there was a series of violent thunderstorms over north wales in the late evening, it was on the news about golf ball sized hail damaging crops etc I could even see the lightning from here at night on the horizon and in the upper cloud tops as well, the lightning was every 4 or 5 seconds and watched it for hours like a crazy strobe light show . the storm eventually died before reaching here, but we got some averege type storms the next day, Can you imagine that happening over now north wales , north west england , nah, neither can I

Exactly, I have given up now, no thunder and lightning here since late spring but at least we got some then. Most of June and all july produced nothing, its been the same the last few years , somethings changed. years ago it would have been unheard of to have no thunder in the main summer months here, but now its the norm unfortunately Oh but we get the boring moderate rain and drizzle for sure, this has to be the most boring place in the world for weather events

not expecting anything thundery here apart from drizzly showers, we are the no- mans land of exciting weather

seen the same one from wigan , it looks so near yet so far ,was tempted to jump in the car and chase but feared it may weaken by the time I get to it

anyone in the lancaster, south lakes area, looks like those showers on the irish sea coast have really intensified on the radar, electrical?

looks like there is a cluster of showery activity just a few miles west of here but i doubt its thundery, probably just heavy drizzle , please send me back to the mid nineties when storms where more eager to get going in humid situations like this,

thunder in the northeast again, well I never

bloody typical, the activity the north east has had over the last week, now decides it will move across to our area, but of course its not thundery now

Not expecting much if any thunder this week.We never get thunder here in this type of setup, we generally need a southerly airflow, the Irish sea is the mother of all storm shields, In the right setup storms can get going over Wales then move up into the Irish sea where they tend to weaken a little, The only time thunderstorms develop in the Irish sea is in late Autumn early winter when, after a hot summer a cold polar low pressure area moves over the still warmish waters and vigorous convection occurs , that setup has not happened for a few years though,

some heavy rain this morning, now sunny and part cloudy with some cumulus around, odd light shower, more general rain overnight is forecast , doubt any thunder here

I think it was more euxton/coppull where i got the drenching it was extremely heavy and nowhere to shelter