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    Uk Convective General Discussion & Forecasts, 17th July 2012>

    in Storms & Severe Weather

    Posted

    I like how as soon as I ppposted, I started all the other northwesterners posting too, as if they were weighting for someone to start a rant. LOL. BTW, Am I the only poster fromMerseyside on here? I feel like I'm all alone with no regular posters with in a radius of 10 miles and no storms either. Do people in merseyside not like storms then? or have they all just foregotten what a storm is, probably the latter! Come on, out of the woodwork you lot!

    I'm here quietly in the background!.. Keeping a eye on todays potential, it's been nearly a year since our last good storm here, so well over due for some action today...

    Currenty scattered / broken skies and feels quiet nice in the sun.

    WV

    UK Convective General Discussion & Forecasts - May Into June 2012

    in Storms & Severe Weather

    Posted

    That cell just exiting Liverpool looks to be heading my way and intensifying. Can it turn electrical? (Then again, the question should be can it survive the Pennines without collapsing completely)?

    I had a direct hit from that cell about 30 minutes ago as it was developing, gave some very heavy rain and seems to still be growing in intensity too, nothing electrical seen or rumbles heard from it.. Best of luck if it makes it too you..

    Uk Convective General Discussion & Forecasts - April 2012 Part 4

    in Storms & Severe Weather

    Posted

    About an hour ago I was traveling back from Manchester to Liverpool along the M62 approaching the junction with the M6 in the Warrington area and could see at the base of the clouds rapid condensing of vapor and that being sucked up into the main body of the clouds. I didn't see any rotation but the rain was incredibly heavy and had waterlogged the motorways.

    I am surprised it wasn't producing lightning given the intensity of the rain.

    Has Anyone Ever Witnessed St Elmos Fire

    in Storms & Severe Weather

    Posted

    It's very much debatable whether that is 'Ball lightning' around the 0:30 mark. Having replayed that section over and over, I've come to the same conclusion I did when I first watched the video the day it was uploaded: it's a bird. I'm pretty sure you can even hear the bird the moment it enters the frame.

    Doesn't help that the video quality is poor. But I do wonder, though, what makes people so sure, or certain even, this was a form of lightning. As I said, it is still open to debate what exactly flew across the sky at aformentioned point in the video, but I think many people, whether weather enthusiasts or not, would like to believe it's something out of the ordinary. A rare natural occurance. Gives them something to talk about, I guess.

    I agree and I am open minded on what it could be, maybe it is a bird or other easily explained object.

    This same phenomenon was also caught on May 25th 1997 near Loco, Oklahoma.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIO37eVlLJc

    Skip forward to 4:00 minutes to see it.

    Weather in the general media (Newspaper features etc)

    in Spring Weather Discussion

    Posted

    UK, south Europe to see colder than usual spring - report

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and southern Europe will experience lower than average temperatures between March and May while northern Europe is to see warmer than usual weather, Weather Services International (WSI) forecast on Monday.

    Although the UK is expected to see a warmer-than-usual March, temperatures are forecast to be colder than normal in April and May, while for the rest of Europe the outlook is mixed, according to WSI.

    For the energy sector, WSI said "wetter and windier conditions should return to the northern hydrological/wind generation regions, with drier and less windy conditions at more southern latitudes."

    WSI also said that the recent cold that has dominated continental European weather in February would be coming to an end by the end of the month.

    "The exception will be in parts of eastern and southeastern Europe, where recent excessive snowfall will likely delay the transition towards warmer temperatures until later in the spring," said WSI Chief Meteorologist Todd Crawford.

    Below is a breakdown of temperature forecasts for Europe's four main weather regions.

    MARCH:

    Nordic Region - Warmer than normal

    UK - Warmer than normal

    Northern Mainland - Warmer than normal

    Southern Mainland - Colder than normal

    APRIL:

    Nordic Region - Warmer, except southern Norway/Sweden

    UK - Cooler than normal

    Northern Mainland - Cooler than normal

    Southern Mainland - Cooler than normal

    MAY:

    Nordic Region - Warmer, except southern Norway

    UK - Cooler than normal

    Northern Mainland - Warmer than normal

    Southern Mainland - Warmer, except southeastern Europe

    (Reporting by Henning Gloystein; Editing by Anthony Barker)

    http://uk.news.yahoo.com/uk-south-europe-see-colder-usual-spring-report-113804626.html

    North West Of England Regional Discussion - Part 8

    in Regional

    Posted · Edited by Weather-Voyager

    When was the last time members had a proper thunderstorm? And I mean a proper thunderstorm overhead as opposed to a shower with the odd thunderclap now and then or one that just missed.

    I reckon it was over 2 years ago here, I can't even recall when I last heard thunder, the last time I definitely saw ligthtning was at distance from late August last year from those cells in the Liverpool area.

    We talk about the lack of snow but the lack of thunder let alone thunderstorms is even more stark

    The last memorable thunderstorm I had here was around 24th or 25th of May last year. It was a very brief storm that started around 2am and started off as heavy hail. The first lightning strike sounded like a shot gun being fired. It was a bright flash and instant bang but no echo. This set car alarms off and terrified my kids. A few minutes later another very close discharge just as loud as the first one happened and rather strangely at the same time I heard a click inside the house like somebody turning on a light switch or mains socket switch. The next morning I woke to find we had no Virgin service - Phone, Broadband or TV in our road until lunchtime. It also blown our HDMI connections on our TV (We have not got an Ariel on our roof). A few weeks later I noticed the top of the tree at the bottom of our garden was dead, I don't know if this was stuck or not. Also the hail stones damaged all the foliage on the plants too.

    I also remember the late August Thunderstorm in Liverpool last year. I was right on the edge of that storm where I live and had an amazing light display for most of the evening. I also was told the Liver Buildings got struck from the same storm?

    Has Anyone Ever Witnessed St Elmos Fire

    in Storms & Severe Weather

    Posted

    I remember back in October 2008 on a flight from Singapore to Melbourne witnessing St. Elmo's fire from the tips of the winglets on a Qantas 747 as we passed through dense high cloud near to Jakarta. You could see the discharge extending about 1ft rearward of the wing tips. It lasted just a few minutes but was quite spectacular.

    Also another phenomenon is Lightning rods which are caught on film but rarely seen with the naked eye. These are witnessed as fast balls of moving light near to CB's / supercells.

    I think this video was made by one of our members here.

    Look above the houses at around 0:30 seconds into the video and you can see one passing left to right leaving a vapor trail behind it.

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