Chris101

With clearer skys coming up from the South, looking like this area is the best chance of surface based storms and maybe a supercell from solar heating up till around 18z,

Have to say, this sferic site that someone put on here last night is brilliant, i can literally hear a crackle on the radio and a few seconds and it appears on there. http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en

The line of storms now going through here has died now, radio has stopped crackling, every couple of mins there is a faint crackle from the Kings Lynn storm. Saying that just had a loud crackle and a rumble to my West, if you have a radio its a storm chasers best friend. ......And another at Stowmarket but not very active at all now

Thats the nature of the weather and storms i'm afraid, should of come to Ipswich, its been awesome.

Hopefully round 4 is just coming into Essex, will it make it this far up, everything is starting to fade as we reach the diurnal min.

With night time convection its all about Diurnal heating, when the heating starts to drop so the storms will start to fade, the diurnal minimum is at midday so there is your answer. I can't find a good link at the mo on convection and diurnal heating (to much going on here) but i'll try and find one later unless someone else knows of one offhand.

Storm number 3 passing just to my East.

Suns out here now, but i can see more towers going up to the South.

I think it does to be honest, we had loads here and it showed nothing.

I was dragging my other half out of bed saying you have to see this, its like something from the States.

Some of the most amazing structure i've ever seen over Ipswich.

Storm number 1 some great lightning every minute or so and a huge rainbow passed very quickly, 10 minutes after it passes storm number 2 rolls in, lots of lightning every 15-30 seconds, an excellent morning storm.

Thunder heard to my South

Anvil to my South is huge now. One to the West is getting a lot bigger now too. Some loud crackles on radio

Morning all, so the fun has begun, hope your all enjoying it, some awesome looking towers going up to my SSW here, looks great with the morning sun on it.

Pretty sure they are elevated, so a channel crossing shouldn't be a problem.

Never realised you could switch the clicks on, have zoomed it in over the UK on another tab, so if i hear any clicks i'll flick over to it. Nice one CF

Cracking radar images,classic Spanish plume destabilisation is underway.

Same here, if it looks like i'm too far East i'll head down the 14 towards Cambridge.

Yes, after the initial destabilisation through the night, there does look to be a further destabilisation early saturday morning.

Do you have a lightning trigger app? A friend of mine showed it to me the other day and it seemed to work quite well.

I always like to have my little radio with me aswell so i can hear the strikes, its always nice to hear a strike and see a flicker in the distance, otherwise my eyes start to play tricks on me seeing flashes that aren't there. Best of luck

Its going to be a case of where and when upper forcing initiates the breakdown of the plume, i'm moving slightly Eastwards now and going with Mapantz around the Weymouth to IOW area, timewise (very tough) but still a couple of hours before midnight.

Thats no surprise to be honest, days of model watching and then hours and hours of refreshing the radar can leave us all pretty exhausted and when it all fails to bring a storm to your area it can be very disheartening. Myself, i think i'm probably just too far East, so when things kick off i shall be looking at heading towards Cambridge if it still looks like i'm going to draw a blank here.

In a way people should be looking at things as 2 separate events overlapping somewhere in the middle, my thoughts are pretty much the same as my earlier post. Firstly during Friday night the plume will start to destabilise and elevated storms will move into the SW, S Wales moving NE into CS England and SW Midlands in the early hours of saturday, people in these areas shouldn't worry about cape values as these are elevated storms. During the day on Saturday this first round of storms will start to die out as they move into N England, NW but some very heavy rain will still affect these areas. The second event should get going in the afternoon when surface heating and some high cape values will develop surface based thunderstorms over E England, some of these will be severe moving into Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire and parts of East Anglia (mainly West EA) maybe as far as S Yorks.