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I think the day is done, looking North the clouds are brightly lit by the setting sun, Not much to come I guess!
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Another mass approaching from my West, very dark and appears convective, though I can't say much yet as it's probably 30 minutes away!
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Going very dark here in Rochford, Essex, just started to rain lightly as I type
My secondhand shower, not much to report, and the stuff behind is equally unimpressive!
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I thought I was in luck!
Massive black cloud front approaching from the London direction (West)
The temp dropped by perhaps 2c and then the mother of all short sharp showers arrived.
Maybe 5mm in 10 minutes, now passed to my East.
In the brighter area behind I can see massive towering cumulus, and a further grey area behind so i'm still hoping
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25.c presently, the earlier heavy cloud has thinned significantly and the wind can barely be felt. The wind is so low in fact that the clouds don't appear to be moving!
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Clear start here, 20.c at 9am
Temp now dropped to 18.c
Winds very light from the SW perhaps 4mph
Now extremely cloudy with huge dark based cumulous
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Where did my reply go? Hey mods???
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Something got hit just over the back of my house lightning went straight through two houses by me.
Where are you?
Ooops, I see now, Tamworth!
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M25 flooded.
From LBC
M25 Clockwise Between J11 A317 (Chertsey) and J12 M3 (Thorpe Interchange)
Two lanes blocked and queueing traffic due to flooding
Lanes three and four (Of four) are obstructed by flooding. Delays in the area are not helped by an earlier vehicle fire between J10 and J11. Gully suckers are expected on scene to remove the water shortly.
Updated: 12:14pm on 22nd July 2010
Severity: Urgent
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Estofex has updated to a level one :lol: http://www.estofex.org/
:lol:A level 1 was issued for the southern British Isles mainly for tornadoes. -
Just had a short sharp shower here, very large drops but no real content, no apparent change in wind or temp so it's probably coming but just a bit dis-organised at the moment!
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Is anything Happening south of Basildon? I can see the odd tower, but the airliners from Stanstead that normally pass overhead travelling South are now passing further East!!
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One of the big problems recently (last couple of years) has been the lack of good storms, to calibrate ranging on the system. Single detector units, will normally get the direction to the storm near enough correct, but they cannot really tell the difference between a strong storm distant to the detector, or a weaker storm close to the detector.
During some of the storms today, I noticed for the first time what looked like a reflection - another "false storm 180 degrees away from actual storm at the same distance", I cant remember seeing that on my detector before. I have recently updated the detector software, which is running on "default" ranging settings until a few good well defined storms are available for calibrating the system. Although there have been some storms today, many could not be used for calibration, as the strikes from them were fairly well spread out.
Any chance of a link to your site if you have one?
One of the sites I regularly visit has not been updated since 2008, I reckon a lot of people know what site I'm talking about, but if it's not calibrated regularly it's as much use as a chocolate teapot !!!
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Get up the radar - some very nice cells heading towards the Kesurex area!
Would you care to share a link? Sorry for being ignorant!!!
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Pristine skies here in south essex, I hope the Kent members can let me know of anything to come!
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Thanks Paul. I visited that site earlier today when the storms were brewing but the 5-15 minute update was offputting and the subscription service sent me packing!
I logged into about 5 different stormvue sites this afternoon, although they all showed the lightning activity and storm data, they were all over the place. Surely there must be at least one that's accurate!
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Hi all, before joining this forum I would log into various sites using Stormvue software and Boltec lightning detectors.
I won't mention any in particular but what I have noticed is that they all differ in direction, distance, and strikes recorded.
Is there any one in particular that is accurate? I appreciate they are funded by enthusiasts and amatuer radio enthusiasts of which I am, but it is confusing when the data is so different from one to another.
Apologies if this has been asked before, a link to the answer would be very appreciated.
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I can see the cell moving over Thurrock from here and it looks a bit juvenile so hopefully it's going to grow, however the cell to my south coming from Kent is falling apart and I don't expect much to come from it !
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Anvil came screaming over here (in a NW direction) a while ago - it is a pretty large cell, was going to chase it but its moving far too quickly!
Travelling NW ?
I can see a massive cell to the south but it appears to be moving NE, unfortunately gonna miss me
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just started raining here, already heard 2 rumbles
looks pretty rough whats coming though AHAHA lightning now
Cool thanks, rumbles are better than grumbles !!!!!
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Can anyone in Kent tell me what's going on? I'm looking over from Essex and it doesn't look friendly!
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Black cloud and rain here, no action yet just a lot of disorganised mess up there.
First post by the way, Hi all
just maybe there may be a strike triggered amongst this chaos.
looks pretty rough whats coming though 
Riat 2010
in Archived non-weather Photography
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And some planes should never fly again, or at least until they have an airworthyness certificate despite what the pilot thinks and his apparently over enthusiastic co-pilot!
Nice pics by the way Rich