Flash bang flash bang etc

The direction is fantastic, given more favourable conditions would be a great chance for one of our best opportunities for a proper homegrown storm. Storms moving SEly from Gloucester have given this area some wonderful events in the past. Unfortunately I don’t think time is on our side today, so looking like a bust for the CS

Some activity to the west. Not sure how the forecast pans out from here

I just saw a direct bolt of lightning hit a tree in our local park, and a second one immediately after hit the bandstand, then a funnel clo- no actually I’m making this up. There has been some rain though

Quite pleased tbh, got too much to do today

May need to go via Google if that doesn’t work - but UKWW usually takes you to the right place. You may need to sign in/ sign up to get to the juicy bits where he posts convective forecasts So I’m hopefully done for the day soon … have work to do at home but if need be I can get out locally to see any passing activity

Sorry, you do not have permission for that! WWW.UKWEATHERWORLD.CO.UK apologies I figured most ppl already had a link to it. Along with this site it’s a pretty essential one for U.K. chasers Sorry, you do not have permission for that! WWW.UKWEATHERWORLD.CO.UK WWW.UKWEATHERWORLD.CO.UK something going on with the links

Tony Gilbert / UKWW not too bullish but an upgraded zone for the afternoon hours through the central south

A change is a’comin

IMG_6751.MOV He’s right you know

That makes sense

Interesting that there seems to be a regular blob of heavy showers on the far SE tip over the last few days - accompanied with some fairly interesting weather phenomenon. Wonder if this is just a small sign of a shift beginning to occur which may mean more significant weather events may be on their way (some decent clippers in august?) This isn’t based on anything other than casual obsvs. Would be interesting to know more from anyone with a better grasp of what the models are suggesting

Nope… I shan’t allow it . I am on weather strike until we get thunder

Looks like it was the wishbone, snapping or failing and causing the driveshaft (or some part of the wishbone) down into the road, then she only had control over one wheel, somehow managing to steer the car out the path of another vehicle (with a father and son in it - no less!) and ending up hitting a tree at about 35/40mph… Incredibly fortunate that it happened like that, but obviously traumatic for her as the driver. like I say would have been ultimately better if the situation hadn’t happened at all, so now we have to get the report from the police and use that to try and stop other dangerous cars making it onto the road from the place we bought it Whats surprised me is how much money you have to pay to the police after an accident, regardless of how the accident happened. The report alone is £106!! (sorry to go off topic… not like there’s any weather here to talk about at the moment )

Not sure on this take - the NE has always been a storm alley from what I’ve seen. Maybe from a direct-hit POV it’s been patchy, but from a chaser’s perspective lincs looks like it’s always been a bit of a dream. As Supercell very aptly put it chasing can be very expensive if you’re always travelling a long way to meet a storm, but this is particularly true of chasing from the south, as you are regularly heading toward a storm from the back and trying to somehow get ahead of it. This is even worse if you’re chasing from the south west, as the track of the majority of storms is NEward… so it’s double pootown if you’re a chaser in that situation I’ve given up on any chase further than the M4 (and even that’s a push) as it’s just too much effort there and back, even if you get a decent result it does sometimes seem like the juice has barely been worth the squeeze. Really putting my hopes into a shift to sourthern areas getting their fill as we move into August and beyond. We are deserved several big events now by rights - but just one proper storm that doesn’t bust would be enough.

Very lucky for the people who escaped injury. The finger of fate again!

Edit : just to add could have done with a storm after what’s been a rollercoaster week. Bought car, then three days later car failed at 40 mph causing huge accident - fortunately O/H was completely unharmed (other than bruising) but basically we’ve now lost the car. We’ve also potentially lost all the money we spent on the car. Plus recovery costs. Not good at all. But so lucky it wasn’t worse. But I dunno how to make sense of it. Shouldn’t have happened. But there you go… So I’m in a total weird place: very thankful she’s okay, but also we absolutely loved the car and we were planning to use it for camping and it was just all coming together so nicely but the finger of fate pokes itself at you when you least expect it. Now we have to take a guy to court potentially - but have to wait 12 weeks for a police report into the accident as evidence… not great. Oh yeah, and before all this happened she got a promotion at work! So in summary: GREAT HORRIBLE AMAZINGLY LUCKY SHOCKING FRUSTRATING THANKFUL APPAULED FRUSTRANKFUL ATHPRUATHNKFAUPSKHXB (new word) like I said - storm would have been nice. back to square one… we’ll work through it and hopefully get back there again. storm would be nice though.

Kin ridiculous really. Wake me up when something interest is actually going to happen where the real heat is - BELOW the M4 corridor. [ insert MASSIVE frustrated and bored yawn X 6000 ] Forgot to add the obligatory “well I saw some great clouds…” that we southerners always end up suffixing our sorry little ‘storm’ reports with. I’m not accepting anything less than actual lightning and/or funnel clouds now. Period. much love and respect to everyone else down south who are completey fed up with this protracted storm drought. Come on summer - do something!

Can see quite impressive tall outflow clouds downwind. Radar has a cluster of showers including a white core, so this could be the one to deliver a rumble today

Thunder heard near Salisbury… so these cells in the south are electrifying! (source is my o/h who’s down that way with work)

A very thunderless deluge here, with rain varying in intensity every minute or two. Quite nice

Might get a spark out of this stuff over surrey

Don’t get your hopes up … looks like a pretty benign day south of the M4 / estuary

First heavy showers around west London. Some strikes possible anywhere but the main risk is… well it isn’t the south, and it isn’t the far west.

Quite unstable skies this evening

You are worried about not getting a thunderstorm today? After the week you guys have had?