Dale Hay
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34 minutes ago, SenlacJack said:
That's a cracking good rumble of thunder !
That one was fairly mild compared to some of the others. Am very pleased with how it all turned out today, finally getting a decent proper storm.
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Well, here in Weston-super-Mare, we got battered. Was amazing! Loads of loud bangs and rumbles, not much in the way of visible 'fork' lightning, oh and slight biblical rain.
The drain in our back garden turned into a weird garden feature too. That was one amazing storm.
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Snowing in Weston-super-Mare from ~3:45am.
First snowflake I've seen in three years. Am well pleased.
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4 hours ago, viking_smb said:
that is huge, any intercloud lightning?
Not that I could see, still bright outside et al, however I followed it on the rain radar and also on satellite imagery. At 1800 and 1805 (BST) it looked more like it had a 'hook', then sometime after that (about 30-60 mins), it was dumping its guts - a well defined circle of Purple (on NW radar) ... it was totally mad how ferocious it seemed on radar.
I've never seen one so big in my life. -
Just looking out my window (South) and there's a big ass 'anvil' (think that's the term?)
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GFS 00Z shows Matthew going up, but then curling for a 'round two' ... I'm hoping, for the folks there, the 00Z is having a slight '06Z moment'. :/
(Attachment: Tropical Tidbits)
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Activity starting back up again in Clevedon, although no rain at the moment. Just lightning and thunder. Excellent!
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Would normally be in Weston-super-Mare, but am currently in Clevedon this week.
Plenty of loud rumbles and the rain is currently just starting now -- ooo a good flash and a cracking rumble.
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21 minutes ago, Speedway Slider said:
What set of conditions is feeding the storm that is still lightning it's way in the north sea at the moment.....?
My guess would be the tears of everyone else itching for a storm.
As for here, it was nice to see a bit of rain earlier, felt a lot cooler too, but now it's feeling more muggy. NW's 7 day stuff for here no longer shows any sort of precip or storms at all for here today - even though all week it's had them listed with a 70-80% chance.
It's pretty much 100% cloud here too, so that's not really gonna help any surface heating.
Oh well, hopefully something changes as the day progresses.
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We had our Air show in Weston-super-Mare on 18th and 19th June. I went popped down the seafront on the Saturday (18th). I didn't really get many pictures because just like when you're try to take a picture of the moon, an iPhone is naff at doing so - oh and because the breeze was cold coming it, my phone shut off at around 45% battery. *grumbles*
All I got (image wise) is the initial fly over and a bit of the Red Arrows playing around. I really need to invest in a proper 'real' camera. :/
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Did tweet a picture taken from a hotel webcam earlier. Quality is amazing.
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5 minutes ago, *Stormforce~beka* said:
WOW! What's the link for this cam?
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Caught the strike from the Brighton web cam.
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Was watching KTNV an hour and 20 minutes ago. Those temperatures are horrendous.
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21:15 Outside turned out like a monsoon. The cat's pretty much crapped themselves at the downpour. Haha.
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1 minute ago, Paul said:
6z update has calmed that down a tad - our new physics were overdoing rain totals in storms, so we've updated again this morning and they're now more realistic.
After posting, I did just check and noticed the totals were way less, however I'm not going to tell her that.
Fingers crossed for something stormy tonight here anyway. Phone and backup charger are full of juice, so hopefully I catch something.-
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The Mother's finished mowing the lawn (again) and she always seems to think that once she's cut it, there usually is a little bit of rain that follows. So she asks me to find out...
The Mother: "Is there any rain due, Dale?"
Me: "Let me check"
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Me: "Only a little, Mother."
*shows her the pic*
(^_^)
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As mentioned in my above post, here's some pics of the dash cam lightning as we approached the Severn Bridge.
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Just got back from The Midlands (went via Wales and over the Severn Bridge) ... we hit that cell you see on the radar at 17:30/17:35. Witnessed two MASSIVE bolts of fork lightning and rain on a biblical scale.
Just going through the dash cam footage to find the two huge bolts (17:37 and 17:39).
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14 minutes ago, Speedway Slider said:
Where/what is the best site to view clouds and their types, causes etc?? Maybe I'm not using correct terminology to find a good/best site?
There's a little gallery of some here (https://scied.ucar.edu/cloud-image-gallery), if you click on one it has a little brief description below.
Or there's always WikiPedia. Main article: 'Cloud' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud (or if you go to the very bottom of this article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulus_cloud) and expand the 'Cloud genera and selected species, supplementary features, and other airborne hydrometeors - WMO Latin terminology except where indicated' box, more types will be listed. Just click on any and you'll get plenty of information)
However, I usually just refer to 'Simple WikiPedia' (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud) for a lot of things, more easier to understand once I've woke up.
Ooo, I'm a doughnut, forgot to mention something a closer to home, there's also a thread on here too.
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1 minute ago, Ben Sainsbury said:
Never want to boast, but for a beginner (noob) experimental forecaster like myself this was a well made forecast!
Nicely done, Ben.
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1 minute ago, Ben Sainsbury said:
I have a quality little cell building right over me! No precipitation yet, but got it all on a timelapse, south coast looking insane right now!
I hope it continues to build... going by the usual direction of everything so far, I might end up getting it.
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Just now, Ben Sainsbury said:
Thunder would be perfect right now, dark torrential rain beautiful!
That would be ace... just had constant light greyness around today. :/
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23rd July 2013 was an ace one, the ATD on here struggled to load on my laptop due to the thousands of strikes - did get some screen caps from it too, not sure where I've put them though. Think there was like 85,000+ strikes that day?
Back to today, well, this evening, still the odd shower here and there, but nothing besides that.
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South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 01/12/2018 Onwards
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Posted · Edited by Dale Hay
NW Radar has had me on [green] sleet (with [red] snow) for 45 minutes, sadly no show, just rain, rain and more rain. (Slight tone to this in hope that it does change)
Location: Highworth, Swindon
EDIT (16:42)
I think I can see a slight flake amongst the rain, that or my eyes are playing up today.
EDIT (16:49)
It's been transitioning over the past few minutes from rain to sleet and then now to snow. And yeah, we have snow falling.