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Thunder in Brum....
Look's like that is heading in my direction! Warm and sunny here at the moment, but maybe not for much longer......
Bish
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Thunder in Brum.......happy birthday Aj
lol of course!!!!! A fitting birthday gift for our resident forum god!
Lovely night-time T&L here in Solihull, first I can remember for quite a while. Where on earth did this come from?
Bish
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Amazingly heavy rain here in Solihull, seemingly from nowhere. Also accompanied by some T&L!
Bish
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Thanks for sharing the pics, great stuff!
Bish
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Well, this is certainly turning out to be an excellent summer for thunderstorms so far!
First we had the apocalyptic El-Brumo event in late June, followed this weekend by two direct-hits, with the one today in particular being a real throwback to the 1980's/1990's style summer storms.
More please!
Bish
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Well that was simply magnificent - a good, old-fashioned summer thunderstorm here in Solihull which lasted at least 45 minutes. Constant loud thunder & lightning, and of course torrential rain.
As a great philosopher once said - lovely jubbly!
Bish
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Much louder & longer rumbling now, but no lightning (yet!). Absolutely bucketing down too, and the whole southern horizon is dark.
Bish
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Distant rumbling to our SE here in Solihull, but getting closer. Looks like the thundery rain from the SW is slowly making it's way towards us.
Bish
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Loads of T&L here in Solihull, for the past twenty minutes & counting!
Bish
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Sunny in Solihull, but huuuuge black clouds approaching from the south!
Bish
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Distant thunder here in Solihull, and light rain.
Bish
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Much brighter here again now - time to switch the lights off lol.
Bish
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This is working.
Very useful, thanks. Plus of course we have the Netweather radar as well.
Does anybody know of the likely track of the main action? The local forecast I saw earlier today had the storms/rain edging slightly northwards during the evening, before moving southwards overnight - not sure if that is still expected.
Bish
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Raintoday has gone down. I can't see where all this heavy rain is tracking.
Yes, stupid RainToday! What a time to breakdown!!!!
Bish
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Slightly eerie conditions here. Raining modestly now, however it's gone so dark outside I've had to switch the lights on so I can see the keyboard to type! In the mid-distance I can see much clearer skies, but this huge looming black cloud directly above us doesn't seem to be shifting.
Bish
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An absolutely torrential downpour here in Solihull at the moment. I'm sure I can hear some very distant thunder as well.........
Bish
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It seems rather quiet on here today?
We've got off pretty lightly here in Solihull so far, nothing overnight and only an hour or so of light rain late morning. Strange to think we were in an Amber warning area.
Bish
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Nice line of heavy showers building here in the west Midlands developing along a line of LLC so some forcing there with a modicum of energy & bouyancy...Lapse rates are average though so unlikey to go 'bang' IMHO, but still noteworthy for the chance of some torrential downpours
Those showers must be pretty much right on top of you, AJ?
Bish
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Next chance for storms is on Saturday, my Birthday! GFS has upgraded CAPE etc on recent runs. Of course, still nothing like today and it will be back to the annoying pulse type storms im sure but as ever if your under one, they can be sharp.
Happy Birthday, Blizzards!
Bish
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What do we think about the CAPE values being shown for next Wednesday/Thursday. -4 being shown in some places. Obviously its going to be nothing like yesterday (in all fairness there's probably going to be years and years before their is) but there's a chance for a small-ish storm or 2 with some heavy rain from it.
Promising, although it's still quite a few days away yet. If it's still showing on the charts 48hrs beforehand, then I'll start getting interested
Incidentally, do we know what our CAPE values ended up being yesterday, when it was all kicking off?
Bish
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Well, 'El Brumo' was certainly a memorable event here in Solihull!
We had two big storms; the first between 10:00 and 10:45 which was gargantuan, a complete & absolute beast which was the biggest I can remember here bar August 1994; and the second a couple of hours later which was smaller but still potent in it's own right. Both dropped extraordinary amounts of water, with the first turning the sky so dark the street lights came on for a time.
The only downside is that, despite lots of warm sunshine this afternoon, we seemingly won't see anything more, but to be honest I'm just being greedy lol.
Bish
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Ian Fergusson â€@fergieweather
W COUNTRY: New UKMO model run indicative of slightly stronger signal for heavy, poss thundery downpours into W areas by middle of night on..
A promising step in the right direction. Presumably this would shift gradually north and east.
Bish
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finally got some Ac Cas building in the southern sky...I had been thinking this evening that the skies here in the midlands were showing very little in the way of signs of mid-level instability...It's been mainly patch cirrus drifting NEwards, but as I said definitely some Ac Cas now.....a good sign.....and good luck to everybody tonight/tomorrow, and yes, that even goes to you lot down in the SE
Can't see them here yet AJ, and I'm further south than yourself. What are your expectation for us tonight and especially tomorrow?
Bish
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Slightly surprisingly, the clouds have mostly broken here in the West Midlands, to be replaced by some lovely hazy sunshine. Temp is currently 23.1 and rising.
I caught the BBC News 24 forecast a short while ago, they still seem distinctly unconvinced about the storm prospects for much of England tonight & tomorrow - fingers crossed they're hopelessly wrong!
Bish
Uk General Convective Discussion & Forecasts, 24th August '12>
in Storms & Severe Weather
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The loveliest sound in the world..........distant thunder, incoming from the west. Still very sunny here at the moment however, although dark clouds are gathering on the horizon.
Bish