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This year ive only had 1 tiny bit of lightning followed by thunder that was very whimpy with no bass at all, my dog didnt even go mad and he always does with storms. i wouldnt even call it a thunder shower as it was hardly raining at all. I think the lightning/thunderstorm activity has been decreasing, 2007/8 where two years when i hardly heard or saw lightning at all, 2009 we had one intense storm in june and then in august i went to florida we had a few giant thunderstorms and nearlly every day i either heard thunder or i saw lightning (e.g. distant) thats why i want to move there thanks, ill have that plane ticket now please! The south east isn't playing ball this year, sucks even more for people up north though i gotta feel sorry for you guys!

haha yeah i know what you mean, as soon as I looked at the site i jumped off my chair and rushed out side only to see a few clouds lol! Someday soon i hope though... some day soon!

Deffinitly not accurate as i would of heard thunder by now! just some broken cloud floating about with it being a little darker to the south/southwest.

Watching sferics in NFrance at the moment closest one was about 150Mi from the south coast!! I wish i had my car right now i had to get it scraped, im getting a new one in 2 weeks why couldnt it of waited! Just got to keep on wishing! Edit: the closest strike was within 60 miles of the south coast! :D!

I got sooo excited when i saw this on the bbc weather website but then i looked closer and noticed it had aprill in there and the date was 29/04/2005, I was like yeah a spanish plume event finally and on the bank holiday aswell but no the weather continues to tease me Sorry if this confused you guys aswell haha I didnt mean to!

Best not im going on holiday soon and if she goes up then we could be seeing problems for a while.

Im hopeing something gets sparked off here tonight, i wouldnt mind this hot snap going out with a bang today has been the hottest of all of them. As for france tommorow it looks good if not a little bit scary with the CAPE going to be so high. Lets hope for that plume event early june!

Temp just reached 30.3C in the sun with no breeze im cooking!! still no clouds but id rather it be sunny without clouds if there isn't a good chance of a storm. I was looking through the ESTOFEX archives and the last time we had a high risk was on the 26th october 2002! Hopefully this year is our year!

Scouting the sky but theres not one cloud in sight and its a tiny bit hazey. I was hopeing for some storms today but i guess ill just have to keep on waiting patience is key! Good luck to you guys up north i hope you get some decent storms today!

Sunday also looks good for south eastern england with the cape value being upgraded with -3 li! Lets hope theres a spark in the air on sunday for everyone to get these storms going!!!

Late monday evening looks good for the south/south east as cape at late evening will be just under 1500 j/kg whether or not it can get tapped into is another question its a long way off and most likely going to be decreased as time goes on.

Had some very heavy rainfull earlier i could hear it over my tumble dryer going, my tumble dryer is very noisey and it woke my next door neighbours baby up also had some decent flooding in the back garden! all at about 4:45 - 5pm best rainfull ive seen this year so far heres hopeing for friday! Anyone know where there predicting the best chances of seeing a thunderstorm i know its early but id like to get an idea!

how crazy by now we have usually had a small thunderstorm but so far this year just one crack of thunder which was full of treble and had no bass, it was soo wimpy I want a window shaker!!!! >.> heres hopeing for some good convection this summer!! Most of the chances of thunderstorms this year has been way to the north or west! and they say the south east gets the most lightning!!!!!!! pfft!

Had a bit of tiny hail earlier with some really nice rain curtains as i was exiting asda! big dark clouds have been rolling through all day but its been uneventful and very cold!!!!!!

I really want to go on one of the netweather storm chases i have the money its just college is getting in the way as i dont finish untill late june this year and probably in july next year. I may get too excited whilst im out there though! Those are some really decent pictures i love number 6 with the stars i hope you really enjoyed it, i live in the south east and recently we haven't been getting all that much lightning even though we are supposed to have the uks highest lightning strike rate per sq mile, last year we had one decent storm but before that the last decent storm was in 2006 that i can remember. We had some pretty decent sized hail on june 27th or the 29th 2009 i cant remember which day it was. Anyone know where i can get cape, li and satelite imagery from those days? Id have to say the majority of lightning here happens after dark, between 2 and 5am. not sure if those are spanish plume events though.

Its not the one with chris terrill even though thats a good one and that one was in 2008. Is there a list of storm chasing programs somewhere?

Im not sure what channel it was on but I remember it was a guy with glasses the night he got there, there was a huge storm that woke everybody up and they were watching it out the lobby and he met paul. anyone know what one this was? Thanks in advance!

Nothing hear to day just some odd looking cumulus clouds floating about and its quite warm now. not even a shower!

The end of june to mid july please dont let there be a hurricane!! im going to cancun and i noticed the yucatan peninsula was a red area for hurricanes this year aslong as im out there and hurricane decides to come rolling in im good with that but not when im about to go. Hopefully the el nino turns up as an el nino set up tend to have less atlantic hurricanes due to moisture pushing east. (Correct me if im wrong with the moisture commment)

not much here in SE England today a couple of light showers and mainly sunny!! o well hopefully i get a storm soon though so i can get out of this NSClub lol

its not letting m,e view the stream!!! :lol:

yeah i agree its good but i have to go like now to watch crank 2 but ill be on after!!! ! i just wish my iphone could work the stream but no luck!!! lol

The cumulus clouds are starting to bubble up! Looking good i just wish i was there toooo!!! damn college work! lol

Yeah it was awsome, i want to spend a whole summer over there. if you want to see a decent storm either go to the congo lol or florida! It lasted for a long time but i think it was more of a cluster of storms it probably lasted till about 11 with audible thunder but lightning could be scene all night it probably started about 3pm before i had come out of the mall, It even set some trees alight in osceola, no doubt it probably kept going the next day out to sea as florida is not that wide everything gets blown off quickly. one of the days i could see a thunderstorm way off in the distance at about 8am so that must of gone on all night aswell, the only problem is the heat it really gets uncomfortable. Buts its good fun maybe netweather should do tornado chasing during spring and then lightning chasing during the summer. that would be mega and i would pay for that!

I have a couple of stories 1: This was june of last year best storm id ever seen in the UK sorry about the bad quality, my gay voice, my lack of storm knoledge and the dog all i know is i love thunderstorms!! Part 1: http://s428.photobuc...726thunder2.flv Part 2: http://s428.photobuc...nt=thunder2.flv you cant hear all of the thunder as my phone is really bad lol but there was alot! some good lightning in it though also looks like a tornado is forming. the storm started at 4:30pm and didnt finish untill 9:45pm it was carazy! 2: I was in florida in august 2009, the hottest day id ever had we got up about 9 and went to Seaworlds Aquatica at 11am we got into the wave pool and theres a jumbatron(large screen they have a football etc) displaying messages, the current weather conditions and the temperature which read 35C at 11am in the morning the wave pool had heated up aswell as the day went on and i felt like i was sweating inside the water it was horrible. so about 12ish we decided to leave as it was just getting 2 hot, why do they make floors at water parks dark?? my feet felt like they had been toasted from the floor. we had lunch and decided to go to the florida mall at about 2pm ish clouds had started to build as they do everyday in florida after 12 it seems to get very convective. The temperature by now had risen to 39C and walking across the malls parking lot was like walking the sahara desert, the humidity was a killer aswell over 80%. I love hollister and Aeropostle so i decided to drag my parents around the mall for a couple of hours!!! i brought over $200 worth of hollister stuff about $50 worth of aeropostle! at about 4/4:30 we exit the mall and to my delightment storms had built to are north and west and since storms always nearlly travel east to west in florida we were in for a treat, we drove to the wal-mart to pick up some stuff for the evening like beer etc and the whole drive there i couldnt keep my eyes of the storm that was approaching you could see the sheer edge of the storm and you could see it flattning at the top. we got out of wal-mart and it had got much closer as florida is flat as a plank of wood you can see for miles and you could almost see where the lightning was striking there where alot of cg lightning to are west and out in an open car park felt abit dangerous so i was on a mission to get bk to the car as quickly as possible lol the thunder was still quite long after the thunder at this point no more then 6 seconds. it was time for dinner we went to the ponderosa as we driving down international drive the thunderstorm came over us and one bit of lightning hit quite close that i felt the heat of it after that i closed my window as the rain had started to bucket down, we parked the car and decided to make a run for the entrance the rain had calmed a bit as we where standing under the front of the restuarant the lightning kept getting closer and closer at one point all you could hear was thunder rumbling on for about a minute there where alot of close strikes to where we were standing as international drive has alot of tall buildings but most of it was behind us and i didnt feel like running around the outside of the building to look at it because there wasnt any cover behind the building which is a shame and i didnt feel like gettting struck by lightning neither eventually my mum got bored and she dragged us inside for dinner but i didnt wanna go in lol we came out about 9 and there was still alot of lightning around but not much thunder as the humidity in florida stops the sound of the thunder from traveling too far. my balcony in my hotel room faced south so i couldnt see most of the lightning but i got up at 5am that night to go to the toilet and could still see the lightning reflecting off the ajacent building. out of the 15 days i was there 12 of them i could either hear thunder or see the lightning in the distance! although most of the storms we had werent that strong. i bet floridians get fed up of it all the time lol!!!!