Robbie Garrett

Imagine that falling in an hour...

If I am correct, this is ex Hurricane Irene? Good thing I live 90-100ft up then, nothing tree like shall hit me unless they are taller than this building, and in that case I can't see them higher than this building. Maybe the Metoffice know something we don't? However there are the following which I don't quite understand as it's not in Knots... http://www.metoffice..._printable.html

Already 23mph Gusting 43mph here. I have to ask as I am not very familiar with those charts posted above, surely there's no thunderstorm activity forecasted?

Lettuce me, with a forecast like that it will close just about every school, airport, road, motorway and public transport system going. Let's just hope it's so bad the media can't get into work, so we don't have to put up with there nonsense reporting. I guess I wont be doing many flying once I've got my license till the new year then, unless I stick to the circuit.

Can see something, but all this stuff passing through is as you say very weak. (Boring IMHO)

Getting darker to the West of me...

Flash of lightning, but no thunder! Clouds definitely spinning over London.

Just heard THUNDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice occasional rumble, sound like someone playing the drums - am I the only one but the clouds are sort of spinning a little bit??

Isit a Supercell? I am being sarcastic

Yeah, just got it now - but no TS yet - just Cb Clouds and light rain! It's a big cell, look at will it rain today, so I presume we'll get something shortly....

Just as I thought, but very strange how that I am near London Bridge and can't hear anything just yet, lol! Very dark where I am now, definitely something.

Well I can see Crystal Palace, that's scattered clouds, to the west however is a very beg dark cell. Let's see what it does. - what part of London are you?

In London?

Thanks for confirming, am I correct in saying - that even though the solar output on the summer/autumn side of the sun is picking up, we are 12 weeks away from the Winter side of the sun, which could be totally different? Well I've had -15 at 5am in the Rural parts of London (Biggin Hill Airport) and that felt cold. But yes compared to many places, Winter in London is very warm compared to most parts, but that's mostly due to the urban affect. What was interesting is I've read that London could dip past the -20s this winter, bit far fetched but you never know anything is really possible, it is after all Great British Weather.

Is there any records to suggest a 'Cold Summer' can lead to a very very harsh winter? Last year (August) was freezing, I don't think the next few months where any better, temperature wise. But this Summer has been so cold compared to many, that it could be a sign of things to come. September was quite good, as it usually is - but October/November/December was poor, January/February was just hazy, foggy/misty. This Summer I've shut the window a lot, because it's been so chilly. The fact that temperatures have been kept at bay so much this year, with not many blue sky sunshine days really does keep those temperatures down, I am wondering what September has to say for itself, if it's a cool one I think we can expect Winter to start late Autumn lasting till early January. We've got a cold air mass moving through, which will make the August CET pretty lowly, but these are the latest CET figures. June 13.8 -0.4 July 15.2 -0.8 August 16.4 0.5 provisional, to the 23rd What's the Chances? Current provisional anomaly is 0.99 of *C and we are heading to Autumn/Winter - what's there to say that we may have the coldest year on record?

I found a video of what we used to have in the late 90s, albeit this is 1994 but I was only 1 then lol! I can't believe that's daytime, but I remember stuff as intense as this but all night!!

Harry, yes I remember very well. I am guessing because of these slack pressure systems the air masses are not strong enough to cause fantastic thunderstorms, that we are used to having. I am overly anticipating what this winter will do, but I am sure Autumn can bring more storms than Summer, from what I remember most of these night storms where late September/early October as very strong lows from the Atlantic moved in over the warm air situated over the UK/Europe and can give some nasty home grown storms. So what's the likely chances of some more Plumes? Last year, I can only remember 1 or 2 single-cell thunderstorms. This year I can count 6-7 single cell thunderstorms, and one MCS. So comparatively, it's not been as bad as last year, but still not where it should be. Regards, R..

Lool, some fantastic replies. But we cannot all blame the MetO as everyone mearly almost said last night we was going to get a severe thunderstorm. Looking at Frenchie yesterday, we almost did - but it decayed over the channel and stayed there for quite a few hours. Something is very wrong with the climate, either if that's normal 'Climate Change' or this rubbish theory behind 'Global Warming' - we should investigate?

Interesting read, so far - clearly shows that you cannot forecast 'accurately' all you can do is take a educated guess at what these things do. All well and said, but I agree the MetOffice was slow to update last night and should created a better website of showing us why things didn't go to plan.

So what happened?

Well that was interesting last night, got up at regular intervals and noticed heavy rain, so kept going back to bed. What a dissapointment. Looooooool!

Ah I see, didn't show up on MetO Invent for me, or RainToday. Let's call it 'Epic Fail' - and see how far it goes, good name though really?

Screenshot what we are looking at please, as I really can't think at the moment, need sleep lol! Circle what's brewing, I think I know what but can't be sure.

Frenchieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! You seeing the tail end of it is still intense, over the English Channel?? Whilst the bit that was huge earlier has gone to a mear nothing over the UK, and now south of London as moderate rain. Let's see what happens over the next few hours, but really does look hit and miss out there.

Wait guys, look at the behind of Frenchie, it's intensifying. And it's moving north, does anybody have the Netweather Radar that's more up to date, from 15z-30z it was intensifying, what it doing now?? Look here, http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/pws/invent/weathermap/