Adi F

Thats work finished for today. Anyone got an opinion on the potential for Hampshire and Sussex tonight?

That can go into a thread dated today!

LOL I have just asked him if he fancies going storm chasing!

Slow Motion Lightning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBlJMCgDtXA

Or gullible to marketing opportunities!

I thought the speculation about crop circles had gone away after the Professor of maths at Bristol university admitted in public that it was his students that started the craze in the early 80s around Somerset and Wiltshire and were making more complex ones year on year. I cant believe people believe that there are some force making these things. And before people get up in arms at me, I am not a skeptical person there are some things i believe are possible but some of the ideas around crop circles are as ridiculous as some of the claims made by the church!

I was up on the Trundle about a km the other side of the hill from Goodwood horse racing stadium. If you enter this Grid ref SU872110 using this link you will see a viewing area on OS mapping. I hope that helps. Edit: It would help if I added the link The Link

Cheers mate. I think it is about time I upgrade my camera. I am thinking of going down the lines of a GoPro HD camera mounted on the outside of the car but car tax and insurance have to come before I can go down that route. Something that is not clear in the film is the lightning strike that struck Chichester cathedral. That strike at 45 seconds went into Goodwood airfield where they are setting up for the Goodwood festival of speed. I bet it left some skid marks lol

The Convective / Storm discussion threads are a complete mess which makes it almost impossible to search for any one day. Can we sort them out? I suggest a new approach , well it is an old one that seems to have been forgotten. What I propose is a new Convective / Storm discussion thread started each morning with a structured title of '6 Fig date format Convective / Storm discussion thread' so and example for today would be 29/06/11 Convective / Storm discussion thread. I know on very busy days threads can go on and on so once they have reached around 30 pages a new thread can be created using the same title format + Thread 2 or something as it is done now. If a storm passes midnight it stays on the same thread but the next days potential, models and discussions are posted In a new Convective / Storm discussion thread for that day. This would make life a lot easier to search for storm days and would allow people to find the model snapshots and peoples thoughts on that days potential at the start of the thread and then see how the day actually panned out. In my mind this would make a lot of sense. I know a new thread is often added each day but not always, they often run into the next day and sometimes for a couple of days. That makes it a nightmare to reference later. I think this is mainly aimed at Coast as it seems he is the one that starts most Convective / Storm discussion threads although I am not in any way dissing his effort or dedication to the forum, I hope he continues his contribution and hard work for a long time to come. And i will Take this opportunity to thank him for that.

Ok i have a crap camera and the mic is blocked up with mud from the jungle but here is a montage of the best bits, the video does not do the storm justice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFyywnP2bnc

Come on Guys pull your bloody socks up for Christ sake. Things didn't happen for many of us yesterday, That's the way it goes sometimes but most of us were waiting for the CF to show up to see any real action and low and behold the CF has turned up and we have some activity. The forecasts were right it just the timing is off by around 24 hours. We have got what we were waiting for. Its all about patients, this is exactly what i was talking about earlier with the PlayStation gratification.

I have just got in and that was an interesting couple of hours. I was going to chase once it had moved over the top of me but popped back home instead of trying to get through Worthing on the A27 during school kicking out time. My strike alert is still going mad. I might have to pop out again.

I told you you would be back lol

Time for me to make a dash up the hill. Goodwood here I come

I hear what you are saying but for me I take everyone's thoughts as their opinion whether it be the met office, forecasts from the many weather forums or just forum members. I listen to them but I don't let them influence my own forecasts. I personally go with the information available to me from the data I have access too and looking at the sky. I used to draw little maps and post them up on the forum and get involved with all the discussions but over time I realized that I was letting other peoples opinions influence mine and was more often than not turning a correct assumption into an incorrect one. So i took a step back make my own forecasts and compare them to other forecasts from people I respect and finally test my thoughts against what actually happens. I have a huge respect for Nick F, Paul S, John Holmes and a couple of others on this site; their knowledge and forecasts are far better than mine. John Holmes took me under his wing and taught me a lot in the early days and ave me the confidence to go with my thoughts. One of the most important things he taught me was to get a base knowledge of how the weather effects the UK before trying to get your head around the models. I thought I had a relatively good knowledge after doing a weather course in the army to better understand how projectiles would fly to there targets But, although It was good basic knowledge there was a lot more to learn and that was before learning the models. Since coming back to this forum I seem to detect more of the Playstation mentality for instant gratification. Look at some of the models but only the once people are interested in and to expect them to be right and then get all negative when they are not. There are a couple of people on here that i want to take by the neck and vigorously shake. Often they post their opinion after looking at one chart and read other peoples posts that have a lot more knowledge than themselves and then laminate floorize it into their own post which is clear for anyone to see that dont actually know what they are saying. I dont have a problem with this, I commend their enthusiasm but I wish they would take a moment to read up on how the weather works. I know we all have to start somewhere and I know we have some young people on here but some of the culprits have been posting on this forum for 3 or 4 years but dont seem to have taken the time to learn much. Anyway back on subject, I can confirm there is Thunder to the west of Chichester which has just started in the last 2 minutes>

The biggest surprise for me was the CF. It marched into Cornwall in a Easterly direction until it hit Exeter at around 7 or 8 pm then just stalled. It has not moved much further on now and the meto are suggesting that it will have only just past the IofW at noon as a weakening cold front. Yesterday was a bust but it was not a disappointment, I found it all quite interesting and some interesting data to learn from.

It seems to be building slowly so it will be interesting to see how it develops over the coming hours. I am a little surprised how slow that frontal system is moving to the east, The meto had it over the IofW at midnight but it is still way off the IofW.

This Cell on the frontal system is the one of interest for me.

time for pancakes me thinks, I just wish I had some maple syrup!

You will never get your life back now. You will be like the rest of us sad gits that sit in front of our PC's all day waiting for the slightest chance. Good night and sweet dream.

Ah its ok I have radar back. And in the last hour Of not having it, it is now showing a rash of precip over Hampshire although I think most of it is evaporating before it reaches the ground

Has NW radar frozen on 2200? I was starting to think the front had stalled Then noticed I only have up until 2200.

Well one needs to be positive when mixing it up with you bunch of morbid %$&£* lol

A couple of sferics showing in S Wales On the frontal system.

The clouds are showing more signs of instability now than they have all day. I think we are slowly moving into the sweet spot. I think its still game on for sure.