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Yeah, hopefully get something overhead today. Wasn’t home yesterday, was lucky enough to hear quite a lot of thunder getting closer for an hour but it died off before it came overhead with minimal rain. Promising to see a moderate warning that close however Good luck for all today!

Post in the Storms thread: “Arome this morning absolutely hammers parts of Devon and Cornwall around lunchtime, before the focus switches to the midlands and northwest once again for their daily hammering. Looks like we miss out again today. Haven't even got any sun this morning to compensate!” ——————— Matches an updated Moderate from Convective Weather; Convective Weather CONVECTIVEWEATHER.CO.UK Forecasting thunderstorms and severe convective weather across the British Isles and Ireland for up to the next 5 days.

I’m a few miles to the west of Street at the moment and I’m convinced I can hear that thunder from the Salisbury/the partner cell by Wincanton... seems I should be too far away to hear it though?!

Hmmm... 15mm of rain so far today with rivers responding as expected. Expecting more later on overnight tonight however current radar shows a lot more rain that the Met’s forecast radar was showing for now which doesn’t bode well!

Likewise, just been woken up here by the squall which even set a car alarm nearby off! It was finished off with (as far as I’m aware) just a solitary flash of lightning and very loud roll of thunder; exciting! Oddly enough nothing showing on Blitzortung.

Merry Christmas all!! To be honest, considering how much rain we’ve had so far today and the rain band looks like pretty much stalling on us (albeit weakening) I’m very surprised there’s no weather warning out for flooding?!

Not sure if anyone else noticed but we’ve had an earthquake around an hour ago here, magnitude 3.4!

Car temperature gauge reading 1C but windscreen splatter test shows negative for any signs of sleet... so just plain old rain started here now ️

It does... can see the tops of the clouds easily from Brownsea Island in Poole!

Reviewing the stations across Taunton, looks like we ended with 25mm as the daily rain accumulation. A chunk of that coming in the thunderstorm about 3.45am which dropped 10-15mm (having looked at weather stations). Good for the gardens I guess ?

I do see where you’re coming from but I feel they’re a bit damned if they do, damned if they don’t. If they had thunderstorm graphics for your location for the duration of the warning it would 100% be wrong. In my opinion I feel they’ve got the best of both worlds with the warning, a general warning to highlight the risk, then you’ve got location specific graphics to show what to expect in that exact location hour by hour. Best of luck for today anyway, I have no chance of anything really so hopefully some others get something decent... Do feel for Whaley Bridge though...

The warning is there to highlight the risk of thunderstorms, which are outlined to be ‘scattered’ in the warning text. The most recent computer generated forecast doesn’t see any thunderstorms for your location, doesn’t mean you won’t get any. At the same time you may not get any, but if the risk is there and there will be some in the general area, the warning is there to highlight that. Otherwise they’d be updating the warning area every time a computer forecast comes out... not very practical as a warning system.

A small level 1 issued by Estofex for the SW: “A level 1 was issued across SW UK mainly for tornadoes and severe convective wind gusts,”

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GUNSHOT THUNDER,

Yep near constant flashes, it’s brilliant! As you say not overhead, so thunder is just a quiet near constant grumble in the distance, looks like the bottom of the cell may well come overhead

Lots of flashes can be seen here from the cell to our SW/W!

Indeed. Also got an Estofex level 2 covering a large chunk of the region http://www.estofex.org/ edit: @matt111beat me to it!

I’ve so far had sleet and more recently a few flakes blowing about in the wind... and I’m in the amber zone, I don’t hold out hope for anything unfortunately ??

Never seen this before, is this from an app?

Yes, such a sad sad loss........

Just watched that (not that I take too much notice of Beeb nowadays as they use meteogroup) but they were quoting 5-10cm across some parts of SW England!

You’re a bit of a negative nelly aren’t you, everywhere you post it’s all negative, that’s rubbish, not gonna happen etc etc, you’re in the wrong thread ma friend because we’re the crazy southwesterners who will stay positive even when we don’t get snow and the rest of the country does

Didn’t see this image make its way here, interesting IMBY from Euro 4 earlier

Not holding out much hope as it stands at the moment. Pretty much no model shows any snow falling let alone lying for me now As ever I’ll be hopeful for a surprise but doesn’t look promising at the mo...