Flash bang flash bang etc

Or a moo fart

We flew over a storm on the way out of a Kuala Lumpur back in 2004 (I think!) after a few weeks travelling through Malaysia. I don’t think we had a single storm while there - but as the plane banked on the way home I was literally looking down into the centre of a huge CB … it was unbelievable edit - this does raise the question … are thunderclouds hollow? If you look down into one from above can you see into the downdraught? Is the anvil flat on the top?

Absolutely amazing thanks for sharing this

Not with cows like that

Can’t stop the weather doing it’s thing!

Yes, I’m up for the exciting prospect of a notable event - just conditioned to be extremely cautious about the chances of everything coming together to make it happen on the day

I guess if the stats about a rapidly warming planet are on point then we shouldn’t be surprised to see models predicting more violent storms, like they are doing for next week and beyond. But we’ve been here before, and usually it’s downgraded to a moderate risk of something less remarkable, then on the day something usually scuppers it

Ay caramba! 20° at midnight

did it though? I’m fascinated by the whole thing and have watched lots of documentaries about Trinity, Bikini Atoll / Castle tests, the U.K’s race to build their own bomb (starting with the ‘tube alloys’ project), through to Tzar Bomba (the largest explosion ever carried out on earth by humans I think!) and then that one someone mentioned about British Guide To The End Of The World which was mildly terrifying, but fantastic (I need to pluck up the courage to watch Threads at some point though ) Personally I’ve not thought the threat has ever gone away, but agree that the current crisis in Europe has put it back into public consciousness. to bring this back on topic here’s something interesting I’ve found: A rough estimate of the total energy in a thunderstorm can be made from the total quantity of water that is precipitated by the cloud. In a typical case, this energy is about 107 kilowatt-hours, roughly equivalent of a 20-kiloton nuclear explosion (though it is released over a broader area and in a longer span of time). A large, multicell storm can easily be 10 to 100 times more energetic.

Lol I haven’t seen it yet. “When the wind blows” was tough enough for me but I do want to see it one day

Isn’t this the same as what happened in that film ‘Threads’ ?

Just trying to find this on their my5 thing Edit / update: it’s literally just been put up there now

Putting that in the diary

Isn’t this the whole point of the MOD thread, though?

Not looking too active this week now. Another 7 days of summer storm potential lost

Have you still got it? We could do with one in the south east

You might be on the money there

I figure that’s the main event over?

Can’t figure it out. Quite a few rumbles but the cells are so dynamic it’s hard to tell where the rumbles are really coming from

Watching the deer… and then… IMG_6963.MOV

So we are definitely due a few Friday plume events now you’ve said that

Man I just spent nearly a minute tapping the ‘close’ button in that screenshot

looking forwards to Friday’s instalment tho and here is what’s left from today. Dormant but striking to look at

In a “I can’t be arzed to make any lightning and I turned up to the party too late” kind of way

London cell looking beautiful