Andy Bown

Turquoise why don’t you look closer at the % chances of a storm!? If you had looked at the convective forecasts in this very thread this morning the risk was 30/40% meaning 60/70% of it staying fine! An example from my back yard being I have heard thunder from 3 separate cells today, however overhead there’s been one brief shower and plenty of warm sunshine! It’s pointless moaning when it’s you who took a decision! Plus only a few weeks ago you kind of moaned when a storm happened near you at an inopportune time!

On Thursday afternoon it rained overhead from an anvil as a storm moved just to the South. Now today there’s been rain from the anvil of a storm a few miles to the North !

There are some great CBs that have gone up quickly around Warminster but the sky is too hazy to get a decent picture.

Lol

Two sunny/hazy sunshine and warm cricket Fridays out of two! Unheard of! Hattrick next week?

It’s one of those days where the apps (Met Office, Apple for me) show cloudy due to a lot of Cirrus etc but in reality there will be plenty of warm hazy sunshine.

jtay it was thick fog here until half an hour ago but now glorious. Lots of hazy sunshine to come today.

Several rumbles nearby in the last 10 minutes. Convergence zone just to my SE/S/SW. Several rapidly developed cells according to the radar.

@offermanyou gave up way too soon. Many times in set ups like today downpours and storms rapidly form around the middle of the day. Strong solar energy, low pressure, fronts nearby. Look at the difference from 11.35 to 11.50!

jtay look how much more it’s developed since your image! Interesting shape @*Stormforce~beka*

In Absence of True Seasons I often think of that 2020 Spring and wonder how it happened at the most ridiculous time of our lives!

Lol I have just had a request from a local family for my thoughts on tomorrow afternoon’s conditions! Probably the hardest day to try to garner info! Everything I look at varies from a bright, warm day to a washout afternoon or maybe an in between situation with the risk of storms!

Dorsetbred interesting that throughout daytime the South coast until about 25 miles inland was dry, yet this evening heavy showers are forming from the coastline.

A very irksome day with continual blustery showers forming only a few miles to the South then moving quickly over.

Alderc 2.0 yes it’s become very noticeable over Wiltshire in the last half hour.

Plenty of AltCas developing/moving in , the most thundery sky so far this year.

Terrible in Swanage!

Dorsetbred the way my boy’s behaving recently that’s not a bad idea !!

Well unlike other years the first Friday of cricket is absolutely stunning! Placing bets on this being the best of the next 10 weeks! Probably heading to Swanage tomorrow for our annual May beach day !

Dangerous55019 I think like Monday their warning area is too broad. The Southern extent of that yellow warning might get a few developing sharp showers running SSW-NNE, which will turn thundery from roughly the M4 Northwards. That often happens in the set up progged for Sunday with the Southern areas quickly returning to a sunny late afternoon into the evening.

Today’s temperature was the highest since 10th September! 8 months without 22.5c!

LetItSnow! fantastic account! I mentioned this period briefly in another thread yesterday. In West Wiltshire … The Thursday evening had elevated spectacular storms including awesome anvil crawlers. The Saturday afternoon had an MCS which is the only time I have ever witnessed a green storm cloud. The following Tuesday night featured very vivid lightning and very loud thunder .

LetItSnow! now that (1999) had an epic thundery 5/6 days! Elevated, surface based, MCS’s the lot!

*Stormforce~beka* no but considering the garbage so far this year I am delighted with 19c and partly cloudy/sunny spells!

Crystal clear start to the day = happy Andy!