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Two or three great little storms today as we had a day off and visited Regensberg - the pictures were late afternoon heavy showers, but we had lightning like yesterday later on as we were heading back to Nuremberg on the train and when we were in the restaurant this evening.
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Stunning cloudscapes on our flight to Nuremberg from Amsterdam this afternoon - approach and landing around a nice little t-storm which prevented us from leaving the parked aircraft for a while as ground staff were kept inside! Apocalyptic rain and some good hail battering the windows! Bedtime now...too much German wine me thinks...
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Some fabulous TCU about here and plenty of warm sunshine, and it's only 1030!
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Signs of nicely building clouds already here. There were some sculptural skies yesterday. I'm off to Nuremberg tomorrow via Amsterdam, looking forward to some quality cloudspotting
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We got a stunning storm yesterday evening with beautiful overhead lightning - here are the clouds as the storm approached:
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Thunder over the hills here in Limousin - nice!
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I notice Météo France are progging a breakdown with thundery showers and thunderstorms from Wednesday next week over there - looks like it could be an action packed start to our Easter break if it comes off, but I'm not sure it's exactly what we want...
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Does not mention the surge that the storm created, Scott apart from this I think its excellent. I think due to effected whole east coast and its recognition it was worse than 1953 surely event deserve a mention.
I suppose you could say that the Autumn/Winter storm series actually started with the St. Jude's day storm in October (I don't think my other half will ever forget our delightful trip back from France in that one), followed by the intense squalls and thunderstorms of November 5th - crikey, when you look back it's been an amazing weather period.
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I've made a blog entry about weather moments during the last winter it mainly highlights how stormy it really was http://forum.netweather.tv/blog/227/entry-4743-top-10-moments-of-the-winter-20132014/
A nice compilation there to remind us (as if we need reminding!) of what a battering we got. February's alphabet soup of storm names says it all...
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What a nice day it turned out to be here, at least this morning. We had a gorgeous walk above Oxenhope and it was warm enough in the sun to take off our coats and roll up our sleeves - a real feeling of Spring warmth in the air.
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I'm working in Nuremberg for a week in the middle of May, with hopefully a little sight-seeing time as well. I know it's way too far out to get a forecast (I'll ask more specifically nearer the time), but it's not a part of Germany I have visited before. Any ideas what the typical weather for mid-May is over there from anyone who has spent time there?
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Those northern French storms look soooo nice...
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Torrential rain here in Leeds now, office lights on, people running across the campus trying to outrun the blowing sheets of rain!
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Something's happening in the general W/SW direction - the different detector networks seem to place the strikes a bit differently geographically.
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Just caught the edge of a very heavy shower to the east here in Leeds. Nothing significant yet but some nice convection going on.
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Here are some photos above northern France on Saturday evening. A hailstorm had just passed through and ou could see the curtain of white and some nice mammatus on the periphery of the cloud. There was a line of single cell CuNbs stretching to the coast (only the odd flash of lightning here and there - they are called "les giboulées de mars" in France and are spectacular but pretty benign electrically) and then some more into central onto NW UK but by then there was not enough light to take photos. The half light descent into MAN between the white stacks of towering cumulus was amazing. It was one of the most spectacular sunset evenings I have ever seen from up there - truly awe inspiring.
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Nice one. Several of the stations over here in France have closed due to lack of snow. This will be a welcome boost.
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Manchester Airport has just issued a level one Snow alert from 0300 Saturday morning until 2300 Sunday
Temporary coverings of snow are possible during this period
Make of that what you will
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I'm heading there this evening from Paris - I'll let you know what's out there! The rain is certainly pretty intense here in Dijon right now, enough to wake me up early. Never mind, I've got my caggy and I don't have to go outside much.
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Yep, some nice clouds out there. Just started raining quite heavily here in Dijon but there's a layer of what I think is Nimbostratus (too high for stratus) obscuring my view of the more interesting clouds. It's a nice purpley, black out there, so something interesting should happen even if it's just very heavy rain.
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METAR here in Dijon still confident that we're going to get at least minor fireworks:
Probability 40% : Temporary
from 21 at 13 UTC to 21 at 18 UTC Wind 15 kt from variable directions with gusts up to 25 kt Visibility 5000 m Scattered clouds at a height of5000 ft
Scattered clouds at a height of6000 ft , Cumulonimbus. rain showers Probability 30% : Temporary
from 22 at 00 UTC to 22 at 06 UTC Visibility 3000 m Broken clouds at a height of 500 ft
Broken clouds at a height of 3000 ft , Cumulonimbus. light thunderstorm rainCertainly a different day today with the wind beginning to whistle and some high level clouds moving in.
I've got my camera at the ready for tomorrow.
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Some of the most decent CAPE and LI values for Saturday that we've seen in a while. By no means spectacular, but it might make for some happy cloud watching on my way back from France.
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I'm over here in Dijon where it's already 14c and another lovely afternoon in prospect. Spring is hanging in here for another few days but it's all horribly downhill after Thursday, with some French forecasters progging some thundery activity for the weekend. In between working I think I'll enjoy the sunshine while I can.
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I'm off skiing in France a week on Saturday, looks like some warmth hitting the Alps for a while at least...I wonder if this Euro high will get bowled over by the strong vortex by then.
Lucky you...Météo France are progging 16-18c quite widely after things settle down. Not sure what this will do to the avalanche risk, it very much depends which resort area you're headed too.
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Bank indeed, we're off to Paris 16-21st March, may come home with a tan!
Me too! Anything has got to be better over there than February
Les giboulées de mars can strike at any time though, but lets hope they'll stay nicely away
Les giboulées de mars can strike at any time though, but lets hope they'll stay nicely away 
Convective / Storm Discussion - 14th May 2014 onwards
in Storms & Severe Weather
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Now that I'm back from my travels for the moment I have the home grown storms to enjoy - we actually had a reasonable Friday and Saturday in Nuremberg until it went all showery again yesterday, but nothing like last Tuesday evening - that rain was mindblowing!
Bubbling up nicely here in the foothills of the Pennines: