Weather-history

31.3°C at Rostherne, yesterday

My regular timelapse looking NW. The way rain shafts suddenly drop reminds me of mini microbursts Took a couple of videos of the storm

Magnificent, a tremendous thunderstorm. One of the best I can recall for years. Continuous thunder, CG lightning. The development of it was something else and thankfully I placed one of my timelapse cameras in the right place

That was an amazing thunderstorm and captured the development of it

Still the odd lightning flash and distant thunder here to my west

A truely magnificent thunderstorm, one of the best for years

Really dark to my east and the wind has really got up

Huge cells going up to my east, they will be on my timelapse

Still hearing thunder from it

Radar confirms it, a couple of rumbles of thunder from it.

Very large convective drops falling. looks like it really tipping down just to my west

Heavy drops of rain falling, a few rumbles of thunder

Heard the thunder here. Still dry here

I think it is this time. I can't see the date record surviving.

Lol that means nothing here. Infuriating brief shower on Saturday evening broke the dry days run here. I rather continue the consecutive dry day run if there wasn't going to be a thunderstorm. That brief shower did nothing more than dampen the ground. Any plant growth coming out of pavements, tarmac etc has been parched into straw and you can see who waters lawn and who doesn't around here by the different shades.

The title of the thread is "worryingly dry". Why is it worryingly dry? September 2022-April 2023 was wetter than the same period in 1975-76 for England and Wales: 793.5mm, that is just very slightly more than was recorded during the whole of 1976. That is more that was recorded during 2011. So there has been somewhat of an offset against the dry conditions of the summer of 2022 that didn't happen during September 1975-April 1976: 430.2mm. Hence why we were really struggling during the summer of 1976. And the stats I posted above, we are not a decade into a protracted period of drier than normal conditions.

Developments to my east today

A cell has developed near Hazel Grove.

It is too far south if anything to get up here. Needs development over the Peaks and that's is not happening

The stuff over the Peaks is dying out. Unless a meteorological miracle happens, I thinks that's it for today.

Can see the anvils from here

Looking more and more like another bust here and its the last chance saloon tomorrow. Some areas have received next nothing rainfall wise from this and if nothing significant happens tomorrow again, the landscape is going to look even more parched come next weekend.

Timelapse of thunderstorm that exploded to east of my location towards east Manchester, a bank of altocumulus castellanus came over and then it all went up

I was too far east yesterday , now I'm too far west.