Stormyking

Im on the east coast of the Isle of wight mate , Raining heavy again :lol:

Omg this rain crazily heavy carpark is under water, rain is over torrential and I just got dared to run around the carpark topless which I just did and was msot very fun lol. Anyway jsut eased a little now Oh and it thundered a minute ago and this morning which made me happy when I was in worthin in my All England National Under 25's 2- Fours semi Final and Finals :lol:.

Morning everyone. An okay morning but alot of showery looking clouds about, would be nice to get a heavy downpour. Edit ..... Sun has just come out

I will go for a 13.6c please and also I think 2nd half will become unsettled.

This would be nice even though it is so far off but it would be nice to see the last bit of summer to go off with a BANG !!

Mine is Summer due to the fact I love hot and thundery weather as my favoruite weather has to be THUNDERSTORMS . Just can't beat a day where its hot and sticky and then during the evening and early darkness start to hear those distant deep low rumbles coming closer and closer, then it's neally over you knowing that your about to see a great lightning distant with explosive thunder, LOVE IT !!! Winter is my second favourite due to the fact I love snow and its my 2nd favourite weather, but I also like when it goes extremely cold of a night time when temperatures get into the minuses and then you wake up to a beautiful crisp and frosty morning and it feels fresh . Autumn and spring are about equal but Autumn is better by a little bit due to the fact I love Autumn gales and deep Atlantic depressions, also in Autumn we can get quite a lot of thunderstorms too off the sea as it pretty warmer than inland during Mid to late autumn I think but I have experienced loads of storms from September till December . I like spring for the fact we can get heavy Thundery downpours come from the North sometimes during the April and May period and it can sometimes produce snow in early April like April 6th 2008 for example . So in order it goes like this Summer, Winter, Autumn and Spring.

Just saw a CG to our east out to sea from a potent cell passing

well from what looked like it was going to be a disaster last nigth from that shower and cloud we was under, just dissolved by midnight, so we went to Bembridge windmill and was the clearest I have ever seen it and it was an unbelievable night, originally we was just going to go out for 45mins from 00:15 till 1am, we stayed till 3am and saw the most amazing meteors. Some of the streaks were enormous which some lit up green and orange. At one point we saw 10 within 30 seconds but it came in spells as there would be no meteors for about a minute or 2 then they would all come at once. All in all we must of saw close to 90-100 which caught us by suprise big time.

Got our first heavy shower of the day, don't think its thundery though

This is sods law, was clear about 30 mins ago and now its raining and cloudy, but looks like it could clear soon for the perseids, I hope so.

January 6th was amazing, best snowfall I ever seen, North east of the IOW got upto 34cms of snow, where I am we got up 5inches which is still a lot for here. Most of the snow was North and NE of the Isle of Wight but also central Isle of Wight got a lot too . Would be so awsome if it happened again this winter with more of them threw the winter .

Was a rather interesting day, around 2pm very heavy showers started coming over and then the 2nd one gave a huge bolt of lightning and big crack of thunder. At the same time it was rather frustrating that huge thunderstorms had missed by about 20 miles. Absolute amazing convection and structures along with some Mammatus which looked very cool :lol:.

Very humid here, we actually have a load of Ac Cas about and with quite convective Mid level CU, Would be nice if we had a storm but don't think it will lol

I gave a 6 even though its been a very good summer and much improved with heat, dry and pleasant weather it would of made it alot more better if there was a lot more thunderstorms

Thank you for the comments well all in all we done 320miles or something like that yesterday but 500 miles is alot and defianatly is worth it for 2 Thunderstorms indeed , I would do anything to see storms

Hi all I went on my first ever stormchase yesterday on the mainland and enjoyed it alot Anyway we set off early in the morning at 7am to catch the 7:55am boat to lynmington and then headed west to try an intercept a cell in east devon but then it started to weaken as soon as we got close to it. We stopped off to check radar and decided to head North towards towards Somerset or NW Hampshire area as we noticed a line of cells was starting to fire up. It was about 1pm/ 1:30pm we stopped of in Salisbury I think to stretch and check the radar and was unsure of what to do, little did we now that a storm was developing right above us. We stayed for about 30 minutes and just before we was gunna leave we notice something developing right over us and so so we drove up this little hill to see what it was. The sky looked amazing and tornadic with very very heavy rain curtan coming toward us, I said to my friend I think it could thunder you know and he was unsure but when he said that, 2 seconds later the first rumble of thunder He got his lightning trigger out and set it up for a little bit and within 20/30 seconds his lightning trigger went of and more thunder went off but the lightning must of been very high in the CB. We noticed another cell to our North I think but it looked liked an even bigger and better one, we tried to go after it and get a head of it but we couldn'y catch up with it though we did drive threw some super heavy rain for about 5 minutes. At about 2:30pm we was drving along behind the back edge of the storm but was thinking whether to call it a day or not, after a while we stopped because he needed to go to the toilet and as soon as he got out an enourmous CG came down out of nowhere really close with very loud thunder and he was like OMG!!!!. After he got back in the car drove along to a better view place and found a good spot and he got his camera and set it up in the car looking out at witht he boot open sitting with his camera and his lightning trigger. Once he set it up within 30 seconds his lightning trigger went off too quick and there was even bigger CG and gave an explosive type of thunder I have never heard before which sounded like Gun Cannons or and Atomic explosion going off. This strike was a positive CG which was unbelivable to see, rain was very heavy but we stayed for another 15 or so mins to see if another would pop up but it didnt, we checked the radar and saw everything was starting to die and so we started the drive back. As we was drivng back home and we drove about 10 miles until we noticed something to our NE exploading, an enourmous storm cloud was developing and looked spercelluler, we was too tempted to chase do we gave it ago. We drove about another 20 miles, got a round about and was weakening quickly and then both said you know what we are too tired and couldn't be bothered any more so we went home lol. Got to the 8:20pm ferry and to our west there was a double anvil which looked amazing and I have a few pictures of it but will show them later on. All in all for my first storm chase ever properly, I thought I done alright could of been better with alot more storms and bigger but I am so happy to see those 2 or 3 small storms which very good little storms and also we saw 3 funnel clouds too. Amazing amounts of convection and I think the first storm looked better with the sky but the 2nd gave the best Thunder and Lightning. I really enjoyed and hope to go again on the next storm outbreak. One more thing a a small thunderstorm developed on the IOW about 12pm today and was over msot of ventnor area, gave 4/5 very good CG's nice thudner and super heavy rainfall over Ventnor, Apse Heath , Shanklin etc felt very happy after that. Hope everyone enjoyed reading this

I remember this date too and that Tornadic supercell also hit us and I saw a decent funnel cloud as did others here on the IOW, I remember being at bowls snd it suddenly starting hailing like crazy and then huge booming sound outside, so I went out and to find its thundering very loud then like 10 or so seconds later extremely close CG and instant explosion along with another 6-7 strikes with all being CGS. When the storm had just cleared I went to have a look at the back of the storm and saw big funnel and as did my friends. Along with storm winds hit over 80mph, trees had been uprooted and there was also a bit of coastal flooding when my grandad drove us on the way back on sea front with waves crashing over.

I stop looking after the 6th April becuase of the April 6th 2008 snowfall which amazed me and gave even the IOW a good couple of inches I would love another repeat . Anyways Im expecting a few more snowier spells this winter even though the January event was excellant here, that was the only real snow event that stood out here and okay had a day or 2 in february where there was some snow showers but didnt do much at all. A Thames streamer would most definatly be welcome .

I am actually starting to look forward to winter already, i never normally start to get excitied until end of september but condsidering January last winter gave the most snow ive ever seen has got me alot more interested in next winter and am wondering what suprises it will bring

Wow thats an unbelievable picture, my mouth dropped when i saw this picture well done

Same here mate, nothing like a good lightning show well good luck to you

That looks quite promising for here, my fingers are crossed as should others be on the South coast

I need to get Net weather extra back, I will still keep positive i think it could be a heavy downpour with 1 or 2 cracks of thunder, thats ifit hits of coarse lol

The Shower by Gurnsey and Jersey looks like it has lost its lightning according to the IOW Lightning radar .

Yay im glad someone else saw it, did you hear the crackly type thunder?