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great idea ! its going to be a hard one this , i look fwd to reading members thoughts on this , ive seen a few...

in september 1968 parts of surrey were devastated by floods with violent thunderstorms and days of torrential rain, my mum told me some amazing stories as she lived in hersham near weybridge at the time of the floods. what im looking for is some data on this event , pressure charts, temp/ dew points , what the cause was , maybe some one on here might know , can anyone help ? ive been to some archive weather sites but cant find this period. thanks

can anyone remember when surrey last had a thunderstorm because i cant .. ah..just come to me , was last july it was actually a very active night storm but nothing since im sure when we do get them again( thunderstorms) then there be spectacular im sure.

bbc newsThursday, 20 July 2006 bbc news HEATWAVE HOT SPOTS Some of England's hottest temperatures on Wednesday Wisley, Surrey 36.5C (97.3F) Charlwood, Surrey 36.3C (97.3F) Heathrow Airport, London 35C (95F) Birmingham 35C (95F) Bedford 35C (95F) Clerkenwell, London 34C (93C) Crosby, Merseyside 33C (91F) Average July maximum 21-23C (70-73F) hot so hot that day..wonder if these would be broken this summer...we shall see..

a risk for thunder n-ireland and parts of scotland on sunday? with negative li/ some cape

summer 2006 in the south , for my patch there was not any storms until mid july and then many followed through the weeks at least one thundery outbreak or storm a week ,even september there were storms and thundery downpours and at night to , before that it was hot and dry with brown grass and low rivers , so i wont give up hope of thunderstorms just yet summer 2010 so far reminds me of 2006 (se england)

its still looking like hot and humid middle of next week for SE england with a chance of some thunderstorms at some point

could someone explain verlocity as i can see GFS shows it strong were this storm is thanks

its all exciting...so close..wont know till late really..

:cray:i hope something changes for the SE as its such a close one for storms il be reading the forums and hope i read what i want to here -storms for se england-

could the cold front slow down as it edges east before entering the se so we can pull up the french storms friday night..is this what needs to happen for inports then?

NAE show ppn heading towards the SE at thursday night into friday morning , ukmo show a trough develop ahead of the cold front could this turn thundery ? GFS dont seem to show ppn this far east at the time the NAE chart is showing ppn further east

intellicast sat great site here can add layers/zoom..

enjoyed the exiting posts last night as north storms lashed . just wish wish down here was the same :blink: nice isolated downpour running across the SE at the moment wonder if any more will develop.. couple of downpours just heading off east anglia coast

looks like the SE misses out again of anything..our turn will come ..i still give it 1% chance of a storm tonight somewere in se england as things change!

my mobile handles net weather much better now and looks better on the phone it must be to do with the upgrade

really enjoying the hot and sunny weather here in the se , this is really becoming a good summer in terms of sunny clear and hot just how i like it, and it looks like its lasting for quite a while yet, would like some thunderstorms or a least downpours late evening to cool the night of a bit and because i love storms of course. my flat gets very hot and have to open the 2 big windows full, and it still dont cool down only abit late, the last couple of nights the breeze has been nice late evening and as im facing south good for storms! my area the grass is going brown , i think the drought situation up north is worrying but down in south we are at risk soon i think, rain looks likely further north over the days a head but not in the south whilst keeping the hot sunny weather. i remember summer 2006( se) hot dry until mid july then massive storms then storms every week until september

ive not heard thunder since last july, only some flashes in distance ..every chance of a storm just vaporizes the day or hrs before i used to see some really good storms from my a patch , we got the heat but that dont allways mean storms of course but i need a thunderstorm , il just have to go chasing if it comes to it....in europe but i want the storms here at home..

bit of fun-this is my map for sunday)tommorow) for highest storm risk( based on data - GFS 06Z ) isolated severe thunderstorm risk what does anyone think ?

could be thunderstorms across SE england on monday night :yahoo:from upper front

from the weather online ..an extract from the sunday forecast . looks like a storm floating around somewere in england and wales ... (England and Wales it's looking mainly dry and sunny though the odd rogue thunderstorm could pop up somewhere.)weather online no but seriously this is how hard its going to be to pin any storm, the models are changing so frequently:unsure:

if the GFS cant make up its mind then why is this ? updated 4times a day, but if it was twice a day we would not know about a couple of runs...and would they be the two runs we want or not..

EXPLANATION OF SPC SEVERE WEATHER PARAMETERS for those that dont know and for those that do..its interesting reading.

gfs is my fav but its getting a little confusing...up and down like a yo..yo really cant wait until saturday see what the models let out... im sure some of us will be suprised at the weekend

looking like se england storms sunday late into monday at this stage central southern 1st tho i think.. alto as said things change...timing, cape and stuff.. cant get excited ? why not.. could break out storms a head of the front anyway so 2 chances..