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Just had a little local chase out! Some very heavy rain and awesome cloud scapes. Hunstanton and Heacham areas

Some impressive storms about today. Very surprised about the lacklustre risks today. The ingredients are and were certainly there for some severe wind gusts, hail and frequent lightning.

I’m getting increasingly interested in what tomorrow May hold. Quite a fair bit of speed shear especially in the E/SE tomorrow. Going to be interesting seeing what the forecasts are by the morning. Looks to me like an environment for a supercell and even a tornado. The CAPE looks to be there, overlapped by quite a screaming jet for the time of year.

Explosive development

Some reasonably good convection today! A highly sheared environment too, which is giving these cells some organisation. Meanwhile, those storms in France have gone absolutely nuts in terms of lightning activity. If only I had been flying back from Spain today.

Had I have flown back from Spain today, I would have been able to watch this materialise from The window. I managed to get a view of a few isolated cells over Switzerland yesterday from way back over in western France! Amazing how far you can see from a plane on a good clear day.

Hola from Espana! Looks exciting back at home. Currently 38c on the Costa Blanca! Valencia apparently had ice blocks in the form of hail flooding down the street the other day! Noticed all AcCas floating by, and CB’s in the distance, but nothing materialised here in Alicante. Saw some cumulus fields over the mountains earlier, but that looks to have all but gone. good luck back at home with chasing! I’m missing out!

Yep! As usual, I’ll be abroad when it all kicks off! The best I can hope for is sea breeze convergence over the Montgo massif or the Jalon valley just up from Alicante. Some high res models are showing some precip! I should no doubt see some impressive convection over the Pyrenees en route and on the way back probably too. Think that’s the best I can hope for. Good luck to those chasing this weekend back home!

Looks like a terrific storm. Northern Italy is storm capital of Europe without question. Every single spring and summer this area sees numerous beasts, both day and night!

8 years ago right now, many of us were absolutely loving life! Anticipating those deep distant rumbles and endless distant flashes to be then getting hammered by hail and epic CG’s, some turning night time to daylight for a split second.

Cracking little storm here with hail and a few strikes! Fair to say it was nothing compared to what was about to unfold on this night 8 years ago however. The best night storms of the last decade, the night of the 3rd/4th July 2015.

Nope the mainland! Alicante area. Hoping we may get something down there, although the models seem to be backing off the idea now and turning the oven on.

It’ll definitely happen, as I’m not in the country! Every blinking time!

Given that this was quite a low risk, we haven’t done too badly out of it. I’m sure this is the first time I’ve seen night lightning this year.

Wow that was a big blue one! Just heard the thunder from it.

Zak-o-vision. The new remix of chucklevision!

Flash seen to the South!

Depends on where you’re going in Spain. Valencian community up towards Barcelona and the Pyrenees always do very well with discrete convection. The South is mostly wall to wall blue skies however due to less humidity, until late August/September when the Mediterranean Sea convection starts to kick in as the upper atmosphere begins to cool and see more troughs.

Looks just leaden grey!! I think it is probably elevated. Wondering if that front peps up and we see the odd spark tonight. I wouldn’t be surprised.

Thunder heard to my SW. Knew I wasn’t imagining it!

Sferics now in South Lincs.

A very interesting read. Usually on average, the biggest hail tends to occur in late spring due to the upper air having yet to warm up properly, so slightly less CAPE and updrafts can still generate some impressive stones, relatively. Not sure if it has been bettered since, but I remember straight after our first round of night storms on 23rd July 2013 for many since before 2007, the same system associated with our storms worked it’s way across Spain, France and into Germany, and produced a 14cm stone near Reutlingen. Which stood as a European record. Pretty impressive for quite late on well into summer. I believe that was from a supercell.

As I said! A too fast moving setup for this country. Saw many cells explode up and mature off by the time they left the country. A shame, but not expected.

Can’t help but have a bad feeling that this may well see the real fireworks mature and explode off after the main ingredients have left the country. Like August 2020 in the North sea and August 2012 (forgot the date). For fast moving setups, there’s too little room for us to be guaranteed something. Unlike the USA, France, Germany etc. Theres too much flattening happening, rather than the trough digging deeper just before our shores to maintain a humid Southerly for a much longer period of time to mix with the overlapping cooler air aloft. I hope I’m wrong however.

One heck of a day across a large swathe of Germany today. Big area under a level 3 from estofex. My word! Literally like multiple detonations of atomic bombs!!