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1 minute ago, East_England_Stormchaser91 said:
Got my old radio on, and I'm hearing the odd bit of distortion! Must be from them cells over Surrey, or that lot all the way in Holland? Anyone know he furthest range of detecting strikes on AM radios?
20 miles if you tune to a blank frequency with no broadcast carrier signal. If you tune to a weak station you can hear strikes from where it's transmitting from, so best tune to a blank spot for local accuracy.
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Gonna stick my neck out now and predict the hotspot for tonight will be within a triangle from Maidstone to Chelmsford and West to Oxford, don't ask me why, just intuition!!
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My fish pond could do with a few inches of rainfall, tap water just isn't the best idea!
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3 minutes ago, Buckster said:
Essex etc in warning area
did Essex have any substantial rain earlier ?
Until now Essex has been dry as a bone!!
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Don't forget your MW radios peeps, there's a lot of strikes not shown on lightning detectors online, your average MW radio will detect local strikes up to 20 miles away.
Just tune to a weak station and listen!! After a while you can also tell the difference between CG and IC strikes, CG's sound like a sudden crack and IC's crackle!!!
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37 minutes ago, Ja'Crispy said:
We might see the return of Grimsley soon, judging by his posts on UKWW
It appears he may have left the building
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5 minutes ago, WeatherWatchmanG said:
I have no clue what kind of cloud that was / is but I dont remember seeing anything like this before with such a defined curve, whats going on with the sky? I used to hate and be scared of storms till i fllowed sites like this and others that show which direction the storms are going, anything thats the unknown worries me lol.
Cumulonimbus, classic storm cloud and your shot captures the Anvil (so called because of its shape) as it spreads outwards at the top, superb!
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Just now, WeatherWatchmanG said:
Wow that's a beauty!!
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6 minutes ago, Buckster said:
benign ? quite a lot of C-G going on here just up the road from you
Seen 1 CG at a distance, mostly IC
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Where's Gordon? These storms are quite benign and for a storm hater could well be a tonic!!
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6 minutes ago, East_England_Stormchaser91 said:
In some cases, updrafts cause hail and ice in the cloud to basically smash against each other causing a constant roar that could be perceived as thunder!
Heres an example
How cool is that? It could well be partly what I can hear, but another observation just now and it looks like funnels are trying to form but nothing worthy of the name just yet!
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8 minutes ago, East_England_Stormchaser91 said:
Could well be hail roar mate
Hail roar?
Never heard of that but this is constant and definitely thunder! Also since my last post it's hardly got any nearer.
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Just now, Spikecollie said:
Lightning Maps only shows CGs, I think, but check with the experts on here...
Ok thanks. In the meantime it sounds like a freight train in the distance, it's really going mental with continuous thunder
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Constant thunder to my West and it's not moving too fast so expecting a deluge shortly.
Strangely lightning maps isn't showing every strike!
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6 minutes ago, Ed Stone said:
It couldn't look more thundery if it tried: orange cirrus to the south and pink cumulus congestus away to the east...And , not to forget the ACcas under layer! It's going to go BANG!
You mean like this, I just snapped this, very odd!
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1 minute ago, Lauren said:
The colour of the sky is unbelievable, my camera won't catch the shade properly.
It's like a greeny/yellow/red. Like someones spilled jar of water over a paintpot.
I tried also, Mustard skies but the camera just can't reproduce it!
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4 minutes ago, Team Jo said:
I can't see anything but a very distant couple of tops, can you get a pic?
I'll try but there's a lot of clag surrounding what I can see. Look South east of your location, you may have a better viewpoint than me.
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Just now, Mapantz said:
That's truly a lovely cloudscape!
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I don't want to mention armageddon but if you could see what I can see and live NNE of my location I would be afraid, very afraid!!!
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13 minutes ago, Odd Spot said:
Not sure if this is live but looks a decent cam at Shoreham near Brighton airport facing North
Runway 02 is looking just East of North (02 degrees east of magnetic north) Might see some action here later but for now any storms are further east of this viewpoint. Nice cam and quality though!
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Just now, LimoPreacherman said:
good luck!
And the same to you
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1 minute ago, LimoPreacherman said:
do you think im too far north to get any of the good action?
I was wondering the same, but watching that cell to the SW of Southampton it may well have us in its sights!
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This is looking to be a Kent clipper, when it makes landfall it's going to go mental!!!
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7 minutes ago, Neilsouth said:
Thunder heard towards south east! Towers going up
If that's towards Sittingbourne I can see it from here!
Convective Storm/Discussion thread - 02/09/16 onwards
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P.S. I did an experiment 25 years ago with my Amateur radio equipment. Back then I only had local press and TV news to confirm my findings, plus other radio operators. 20 Miles was about the max distance for a portable radio!