James1979

I'd imagine/hope most of the population must be finally aware of the bbc's inability to tell the truth by now...

Same here, completely empathise and agree on all levels.

15:30, still cloudy, 12c, epic. If I could only move to somewhere like Italy, or indeed anywhere that has more interesting weather than this poxy island.

I know, it's a bit dramatic but I feel its becoming exactly like your user name tbh!

Said it many times over the recent years on here, the climate has changed, we have less snow, less thunderstorms, less wind storms and a feel of 9 months of autumn and a few summer months inbetween which seems to be a sudden blow torch of disgusting heat. Why can't we just have a few weeks in and around the 20-25c mark. Today is an appalling forecast, 11c and another grey lid! Heating trying to come on. Months and months of relentless chill, at least gas and electric are at historic lows... oh.

Lovely cloudscapes today, loads and loads of decent convection but sadly all has decayed too so far, not sure now there'll be anything in this neck of the woods today.

This has materialised in front of me from a small cloud in about 30 mins or so. A real treat to watch it grow given it hasn't moved! I expect Sandy down the road from here to start raining before long. Edit.. perhaps not as it is now decaying before my eyes from the bottom up! Others are around though.

Tropical looking towers already, looks like being beefy for somewhere....

I've finally seen a whole, single bolt of lightning, just the 1 but I'll savour it nonetheless . 2023 is off the mark...

You think that's bad - I'm the ultimate walking storm shield sometimes - working in London yesterday instead of wfh (so would have had storms), wife tells me yet another storm in St Neots and you're not here - not a sausage in London, I hop on a train home and yep once again see the storms rolling away to the East and too far away and then London then storms developing behind me as I leave. 3 times this year already, I've not had a single clap of thunder and managed to avoid every storm in the SE whilst travelling through the areas they had been yesterday, the odds must be fantastic. I wouldn't mind but it happens every year. All my family who don't give a monkey's about storms tell me oh yeah yet another one here (Essex, NW London, St Neots) yet I get zip most of the time. The ultimate personal hell!!

Less wind storms,less electrical storms, less snow and more cloud. Love global warming.

I remember the 2nd Sep 2017 well as I won the day with most likes for my lightning pics (back in Essex)! Was a cracking night and a little unusual given the month and intensity of the strikes.

Very nice, here's hoping for an epic season!!

Interesting journey into London from the often weather fringe town of St Neots I live in, going from the lightest of all dustings to progressively whiter and whiter fields, Looking decent at Stevenage now. I'm expecting 2 foot in Central London then...

I've completely flipped this year, all my life wishing for bitterly cold winters and snow have been replaced by pleading for mild, brought on by moving to a new but older house that is seems to be about 500 a month to heat and the onset of raynauds disease. Never thought I'd be that person but at 43 there you go, age creeping in. Roll on warm weather please,winter can do one. Barely ever delivers anything other than cold, cloudy and dry anyway zzzzz

24th February.

Best storm in years! Shame my new house has a house blocking the view and a lamppost blinding things but some decentish screen grabs. Been soooo long! Missed quite a few cgs, was a decent storm that.

I can see the lightning from here in the cloud tops and the storms are still 40 miles away! Impressive. Hoping it makes it here, been a useless year for storms here.

Thanks Harry, appreciate the reply! The strange thing about these clouds is that they're so small you cant imagine there being any precipitation, so whilst I've seen virga under big rain clouds, seeing it under tiny ones is odd (but beautiful!). No thunder once again here sadly though. Not sure what I need to do to get the fix!

Seen plenty of jellies/virga tonight from small clouds, in all my years I've never seen that often and missed out on that being a portent of storms, can anyone explain the mechanism behind this and why it leads to storms (not here in the desert/storm starved st neots of course!)? Thanks

Sounds incredible,for mine it's a gradual cool down, layers of cloud and a squirt of drizzle if I'm especially lucky. Despicable climate we now have. The snow, summer storms and variable weather I grew up with have been replaced with hot and dry or mild and dry, even rain now is a rare treat. Sick to death of heat, the gentle summers with a nice 24c seem impossible to achieve. Boring.

Thanks, appreciate the explanation and understand the set up, it just seems whatever the set up it's a similar result these days from a plume, it's been a long time since a genuine intense storm for me so to keep enduring epic heat with no fireworks gets frustrating. Always next time eh?!

I maintain it changed significantly around a dozen years ago but they've been in general decline for decades. So frustrating.

They get worse and worse. 40c and still a fizzle out to cloud and dry (as expected), its changed so much from yesteryear. I cant even get some rain

Since moving here 5 years back, it does seem that little bit hotter and drier than Essex overall - it's also very low lying here so I think that adds a bit on - back in 2019 I had a reading on par with the record and yesterday was it was one of the hotspots again - we need an official weather station in this area!