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[Storms and Convective discussion - 1st June 2020onwards]

At 16:59 I was looking out (North-ish) of the field I was in.

I noticed a cloud in the distance that had a 'curtain' of rain going directly vertical, but I then did notice something a bit thicker that wasn't vertical, it was at an angle. So, as much as I'd love it to've been some sort of vortex (FC or TOR) I'm the type that'd happily stick with it's a strong rain shaft (*giggety*) that is being blown by the wind, hence the angle.

I tried to take a picture, I had to zoom in on my phone because of how far away it was. The camera doesn't seem to see anything.

 

So, I decided to pop it in to Photoshop when I got back home to faff around with the 'levels' to change the way the image looks, and I *think* it's a bit more visible.

 

Here's the region I'm looking at:

 

Any thoughts?

As I say, I think it may just be a wind-blown shaft. (*inserts 'Oh Matron' GIF*)

 

Oh and just to throw in to the mix, totally off-topic, whilst on the benches atop the hill, I did get a very pretty fellow visitor too.

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Nine massive deep long rumbles of thunder so far, I feel so happy with just that.

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At my spot now, my forward view.

Just waiting for those blobs to arrive from behind that view... hopefully they don't vanish.

 

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I'm venturing out now for those two blobs that're on there way to me.  

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Bugger all here today (Saturday), which is a bit of a pooper, but the amount of awesome pictures and videos from all of you in this thread, it's made up for that.  Thank you all for sharing.

Thank you all for a wonderful day, NWC ('NetWeather Community').

Round 2 tomorrow (Sunday), hopefully.

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Sunday: 

Convective Weather

WWW.CONVECTIVEWEATHER.CO.UK

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[Storms and Convective discussion - 1st June 2020onwards]

Met Office have just the one weather warning for today.

[Storm Dennis Atlantic Storm 4]

Regarding the above, I found this from October 2019 - same place, similar forecast, so I guess it's just a crazy prediction?
 

 

[Storm Dennis Atlantic Storm 4]

20 minutes ago, Liam Ellis said:

I’m gutted! It touched down apparently - I’ll keep an eye on social media to see if anyone else spotted it! 

 

 

[Storm Ciara - Atlantic storm 3]

12 minutes ago, Ryukai said:

Whelp that doesn't look good.  Watching the Porthcawl stream, police turned up and cleared everyone off of the wall and away from it. Then a couple mins later a helicopter (police/coastguard?) started buzzing back and forth with it's spotlights on searching in the water :s

High tide is at 18:44, so fingers crossed the clearing of people is because of that, and the helicopter was just a precaution to definitely make sure no one is in or around the water.

[Storm Ciara - Atlantic storm 3]

Found a nice frame from when I filmed the squall line coming over at 14:30, as I noticed a cell/white blob on the Rain Radar. Must say, I really enjoyed that line. Now the blue skies are showing.

[Storms and Convective Discussion - 25th June 2019 onwards]

 

[Storms and Convective Discussion - 20th April 2019 onwards]

4 minutes ago, Scott Page said:

strike north of winchester? is it a false strike?

Yeah, twas a false one, it's gone now.

[Storms and Convective Discussion - 20th April 2019 onwards]

Per Schafernaker's tweet, that darn English Channel. Am gonna stay up for another couple of hours, if nowt happens, then I'm going to bed.

[Storms and Convective Discussion - 20th April 2019 onwards]

14 minutes ago, SNOW_JOKE said:

Latest MetOffice forecast moving the potential MCS west more across towards the Midlands, although the SE still seeing the worst of the conditions.

 

Think I might grab a wee power-nap in the late-afternoon, looks to be a long night.

[Storms and Convective Discussion - 20th April 2019 onwards]

First three strikes (per Lightning Maps), just West of Snowdonia, appeared, then disappeared. Followed by two more showing then going, then another two about a minute ago - wonder how long they stay.

 

[EDIT] They've stayed on screen.

[EDIT 2] They've gone.

[Model output discussion - first hot, thundery plume of the summer]

12 minutes ago, Quicksilver1989 said:

Is anybody else having issues with getting onto wetterzentrale? I can't access it

ECM is steady and isn't backing down, hopefully we can keep it on Friday / Saturday and not get anymore subtle pushbacks. If we are still seeing the same charts for Friday and Saturday by Tuesday morning I reckon we are in the clear.

It seems Wetterzentrale's [website] certificate is invalid - all websites should be accessible through HTTPS (secure) only, not HTTP (not secure), as their website doesn't seem to have this correctly set up, it seems they'll be unavailable until they've sorted that issue.

[South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 01/06/2019 Onwards]

Around 2pm, as I was venturing around Swindon playing Pokémon GO, I noticed that the humidity (well, that 'ugh, sticky') feeling dropped, wind/breeze picked up a tad and temperatures felt like they dropped quite a fair bit.

The 'ugh, sticky' feeling is back now though. Was a nice relief for about 45 minutes.

[Storm Freya - Atlantic storm 6]

The wind has been going up and down since around 4pm, getting a few more stronger gusts happening now, downside to this wind is that the cat refuses to go outside for the toilet and instead is marching around the house meowing - I really need to toilet train her.

Anyway, back onto the topic of the weather, I did a timelapse from todays satellite imagery:

 

 

[South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 01/12/2018 Onwards]

[13:35] Just had a grey-ish cloud go over then within a few seconds the wind really ramped up (like a downburst/updraft - don't know what the term is, if someone could educate me), then came loads of hail - tiny sized balls. The wind continued, then five minutes after, it all fell quiet again. Short and sharp.

[South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 01/12/2018 Onwards]

Snow still lightly falling. It's been so lovely to watch all through the night.

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1 minute ago, Leon1 said:

Heavy still but flakes not as big but road still covered the fritters probably can't get up it anymore!

Oh now I like that street light, proper bright.

[South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 01/12/2018 Onwards]

Had a 'grandad nap' at around 8:30pm and woke back up just before 11pm and -finally- it snowed here in Highworth. The Mother said there wasn't anything when she popped her head out for a fag about an hour before that, so it's all fairly recent. Hopefully it all continues now through the night. Will look so beautiful at first light. (That's a big reason I like snow, everything around looks so picturesque)