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Lightning kicking off again to my west.
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31 minutes ago, Paul Sherman said:
As expected shield killed what was a decent looking updraught but keep em peeled in Chelmsford as could go mental over you guys not even a measly drop from it.
Pretty certain gunna, get to 386 days now and edging closer to the magical 400.
Well done to you guys that have left just the 2 standing although the TOD could fall early hours if the modelled Storms come in early hours.
I think the COS has ripped the guts out of it. It looks in a sorry state now. Was hoping it would head this way.
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I would drive out as I've got the day off, but there's very little cloud structure to see in these storms and the rainfall is torrential, so not really worth it.
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Finally, 2 hours of storms this morning, ok they're elevated but can't complain after being baked alive in 34 degs every day during this heat wave with no respite. Plenty of thunder and monsoon rain. Sun trying to come out again now.
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Met office weather map:
Be happy if that comes off but I don't have a particularly positive feeling about this given the recent record of impenetrable capping in the SE.
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Some rapid upwards cloud growth round here in the past half hour.
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Some pics of last Wednesday's storms, taken locally..
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Definite upward cloud growth west of here. Looking interesting.
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1 minute ago, Zak M said:
When you said 'this evening' did you mean around 40 minutes ago? Because I thought I saw a suspicious lowering in the distance to my SE!
19:31 to be exact.
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Have to say, I thought today was a bit of a right-off for this location, caught just North of the squall line, copping persistent drizzle and zero lightning. But this evening it briefly went very dark, I looked out and saw low swirling scud coming over. As this cloud moved over it quickly formed into a rotating funnel - here's a pic as it moved away...
And here's a couple of earlier pics of Mammatus on the back edge of the South Essex squall line:
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It departed with a CG lightning and ground shaking thunder. Nice way to go out. Would have been ideal to chase [if we didn't have a lockdown] - very slow moving.
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Quite a noisy storm in the end, but only occasional faint lighting flash. Still grumbling as it moves away..
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Plenty of thunder here in Essex, haven't seen any lightning though.
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Certainly more lively than I thought it'd be today. Unfortunately, they all seemed to just miss this area. Although, I can see the lightning from the cell just South of here. I considered driving up to Cambridge again but in the end couldn't be bothered. Did get a few pics though:
Big gust front as line of heavy showers passed over:
View of impressive thunderstorm tower SW of Cambridge:
[Click the pic to view a large image]
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Estofex forecast out...
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Had a drive through Melbourn and on to Cambridge chasing the right moving supercell this afternoon. Quite a spectacular beast it was too with a threatening looking cloud structure that certainly looked like it could drop a funnel or tornado.
Looking from the M11 roundabout towards Cambridge....
View towards Melbourn....
While driving through Meldreth I got a view of cloud descending from under the base while crossing the railway bridge and decided to follow it - it swept across the road at speed with torrential rain and gusty winds following. It was difficult to make out rotation so I'm presuming a downburst. but certainly quite interesting....
Radar grab ~5 minutes earlier.
[Click on the pics to view the larger images]
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4 hours ago, Oliver Wyndham-lewis said:
Well the air is certainly clear today isn’t it? High teens low 20s. Might not even reach 20 in London in some places
Not sure I'd call it clear - temperature might be down but it's still as humid as hell.
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Really big gusts here now
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Wind really picking up here. Flashes and thunder now.
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Still seeing odd distant CG forks from out east. Nice night for lightning watching.
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Wonder what will happen to that area of storms.....
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Cell passing over, from earlier this evening...
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Another gust front over my back fields with bright flashes beyond, and wind really picking up at times. Bit gutted it's moved so far east though.
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Can see a large distant gust front out east and constant flashing but too far to make out any lightning.
Met Office still forecasting storms here at 2.00 am. Interesting
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Storms and Convective discussion- 7th August onwards
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Nice lightning display to end the day.