Tim B
-
Posts
1,590 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Forums
Blogs
Gallery
Events
Learn About Weather and Meteorology
Community guides
Posts posted by Tim B
-
-
I'll bet it was a streamer in the footage but because there was no delay between the flash and thunder (like at the Wimbledon storm) it looked like a hit when the footage was played back.
Why they said it was Wimbledon I don't know but my guess is that it was either a mistake by someone on the production team who was at said Wimbledon storm and didn't read the archive tape properly or they simply changed the names around because everyone has heard of it even if they aren't tennis fans.
-
Probably because of how long ago it was, there was no internet in 1985.
-
Early days yet, the rest of the week should see more widespread activity kicking off.
-
Apart from it not being at Wimbledon, as (Mr_Data pointed out earlier) that Jimmy Connors lightning strike has to be fake, surely?
It may have been a streamer that fired off his racquet but didn't connect and the bolt hit elsewhere nearby, causing it to look like he was hit from that angle when he was not.
-
I used to use a strike alert (which was forever falling to pieces and giving constant false positives) until I bought in to the smartphone market 3 years back, since then I have used services I can access from them like our beloved net weather extra and sms alerts. Alert comes in and I fire up extra / gps radar overlays and such and instantly I have the starship Enterprises' sensor display in my hand.
Going even further back I would use my stereo with a decent antenna in the long wave socket, I even used to tape the sounds big storms made on those frequencies as they passed by.
-
Tomorrow, no. Midweek onwards looks like our best bet.
-
Looking like there could be quite an active week on the way for storm fans.
-
Nice, been close to a few like that in the past!
Videos don't do it justice at that range as it frightens the life out of you even if you are under cover simply because of how loud it is.
-
Some nice towering cumulus around here now, I don't think it will form any storms but the low chance is still there!
-
I remember taping these too, I still have the weather watch book somewhere.
-
IMO to be classed as a thunderstorm, a cell needs to last at least 20-30 mins in situ, with visible lightning and audible thunder throughout the duration, anything less is a thundery shower
This.
For me to classify something as a lightning storm it needs to have had numerous lightning strikes no more than 3 to 5 minutes apart and last a reasonable amount of time, anything else is just a weakly electrified cloud. Ideally it should have thunder too but since you can observe storms at night from a long way away (at least from the higher points around here) this isn't a requirement for me.
What happened to the overnight storms EA used to get. When I still lived in York they always seemed to be getting at least one per year. (in the 90s ) soon as I move down here that's it.
I've wondered the same, we never seem to get as many these days. I got one last year though it wasn't as powerful as the ones I remember in the 90s, they never seem to be these days.
-
Heard a rumble of thunder a few minutes ago, quite a lot of big clouds around here now.
-
Light hail shower here again as a CB just grazed the area, these showers here are definitely being caused by the terrain assisting convection.
Some bolts being detected across Lincolnshire and NE Yorkshire too now. I wonder if I should go out and chase now. Problem is I have no faith in evening storms at this time of year and in this set up.
Don't bother, pulse storm activity is always a letdown when I've been looking.
-
Surprised I haven't heard any thunder here yet, some of these cells are very mean looking.
^ This is that blob on the radar to the south of me here:
-
Just starting to fire up now it seems in the west looking at the extra radar, the next few hours could be quite interesting.
-
I can see that big blob on the radar to the south of me now as a nice anvil in the twilight, shame there's no electrical activity in it as it would look really nice this time of the evening.
-
I wonder if most of these radar blobs are actually producing precipitation which is reaching the ground?
As that area which just passed over me produced nothing but fall streaks.
-
Indeed, it is behaving rather strangely that area.
-
Which way are they moving. According to your sig you are near Blackburn right, how can a storm near to Doncaster be heading towards you? Or are you looking at something else?
Because I am west of it and that is where it was going. Looks like it is fading and rebuilding to the north now however with more local activity forming here.
-
Don't think its coming your way. Its closing towards myself, but will probably miss, and hit John Holmes, who is 6 miles south of me.
It is, I've gt the 5 min radar on though its looking like it will probably go north of my area or at least the most active part of it. Assuming it doesn't dissipate beforehand that is.
-
There is, I'm looking at it on the radar now.
Drifting my way slowly and can see it from the back window, hoping it makes it.
-
Hmm I wonder if that area passing through Yorkshire will reach me before the sun sets and it dies since it has lightning in it.
-
There's small cells all around Lancashire now but at the moment they are just rain showers, had a few already.
-
They are moving west, albeit slowly.
BBC Weather Watch: Lightning
in Storms & Severe Weather
Posted
Hehe!
I might have a look at that when it comes out if I remember though this thread will have probably been auto pruned by then, not sure if this area gets archived.