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Anyone know why the radar stopped showing precip type?
59 minutes ago, Mapantz said:The usual case of showers having more chance of electrical activity the further inland you are.
Another month and it will be the reverse as the sea generates convection, weakening as it moves inland.
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1 hour ago, RebsAbbo said:
Thank you so much, learned something new! Had a play last night but didn’t pick anything up. As no one else seems to have posted (here or twitter…can’t be arsed to call it ‘X’
)… I assume the aurora wasn’t very active last night. But major thanks for helping on the camera tech 
Last night it was picked up in Scotland, but it was not very active.
This tripod and phone mount seems ok for the price. I'm not sure what phone you have. Or how much you can spend on a tripod.
YouTube tips Aurora with phone.
Works the same for UK....
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2 hours ago, RebsAbbo said:
Once again hopes were dashed - lots of tweets coming in from North York Moors last night & I’m in Glaisdale….just couldn’t see it & phone didn’t pick it up
. Am I just missing out on timing or are cameras people are using enhancing it and actually in real life it’s not that clear to see?????
Cameras can collect a lot more light than we can see. If your phone has a night setting it should help, and some thing to hold your phone still. I didn't see anything last night, with 15 second exposure the camera collects more light.
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A few photos from the 18-9-23
The clouds stayed away long enough to get some shots 21.20-22.00. As it clouded up around 22.15 the Aurora levels dropped right back.
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Aurora being picked up in southern England now.
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Clouded out, but as the wind shifted to SW sky cleared a bit. Can see distant lightning towards March/Peterborough.
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2 minutes ago, ChannelThunder said:
Amazing views right now of three distinct CBs flashing away to the north, the entire towers are lighting up
Fractus city here
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6 minutes ago, Harry said:
There’s so much more lightning on blitzortung than I’m seeing at present - and it’s getting closer.
Usually it’s the other way around. There’s so much cloudy muck here it’s obscuring what otherwise I’m sure is an insane show!
Really **** annoying!!
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Just now, ChannelThunder said:
This is painful watching those CI storms edge ever slightly closer with each radar frame!
Any visibility there?
Fully clouded over all day in the SE
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3 minutes ago, Southern Storm said:
What a pleasant surprise for many of you guys in the southwest, I woke up around 4am and had a sneaky peek out of the window and was greeted with the view of cells to my west flashing away like crazy!
I couldn't miss an opportunity to get some shots so I headed down to Mudeford quay and managed to get a couple of decent photos before daylight become too bright.
All in all, if this morning activity is anything to go by, we could be in for a great 24 hours
Nice shots , it's all fizzled out now!
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Looking on blitzortung, the trough due to head into southern UK, is marked out as an arc of strikes from the channel isles to France.
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Couple of flashes on the Dawlish beach cam
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Looking downwind it's rather quiet. The closer to the south coast tomorrow the better it would seem. Plenty of rain around though.
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3 minutes ago, minus10 said:
Well now...
3 hours ago, Sprites said:He will no doubt update the outlook later today/tomorrow. I think Cambridge getting up to 32C helped fire those storms quite rapidly. The arome did have that convection in a similar place on last Saturday's run. Slight chance of a shower/storm north of London this evening I'd say.
Seems to be some convergence there. Most likely just showers. A few strikes are possible though.
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1 hour ago, ChannelThunder said:
I find old Tony G's outlooks a bit hit and miss. For example, he didn't even have Peterborough & The Wash in his risk area last weekend...and look what happened there.
Not a dig or anything, as his efforts are appreciated of course and spot on sometimes! Let's hope he's right with his orange box for tomorrow
He will no doubt update the outlook later today/tomorrow. I think Cambridge getting up to 32C helped fire those storms quite rapidly. The arome did have that convection in a similar place on last Saturday's run. Slight chance of a shower/storm north of London this evening I'd say.
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This site is usually quite reliable for convective outlooks. Perhaps this may change to more a favourable forecast in the next few days.
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Seems like the Welsh storm turned right.
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On 08/09/2023 at 07:05, Sprites said:
London and the South East
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5 minutes ago, alexisj9 said:
Reads like the first Monday should say Sunday, anyway good luck.
Yeah thunderstorms and with lightning too.
Actually there's a lot of old anvils heading for the UK . Any storms tmrw should be in similar areas to today.
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This is quite well ....
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1 minute ago, convector said:
Humber storm becoming a supercell
Certainly has had that look a couple of times. As did the previous cell.
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Storms and Convective discussion - September 2023
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Was this about 20.00 ?