Paul Sherman

Big crack of Thunder here in Central London about 20 mins back, rather large storm heading through North East London and heading towards Essex. Paul Sherman

When the sun comes out the temp is nearer 20c in Central London. Veryu cloudy with a few pieces of rain, the big showers have been all around us today and missed me :cry: :cry: :cry: Paul Sherman

KT, Thats 2 this week!!!!!!!!!!!Don't be greedy now That storm is North of me in Central London so it's somewhere in between us Paul

No probs Birthday girl. Paul

You will probably end up looking like the Cat Speaking of Cats mine nearly fell out of the kitchen window just then, the whole sky lit up with lightning and a massive crash of thunder again. This summer lark is great. Paul Sherman

WB, Not supposed to reply in the storm threads as Tim will wrap my knuckles but as today is coming to a close hear goes, I had 6 hours of low moving clouds from the North East today and thought we were never going to get any thundery stuff, but this evening the real French deal has struck, stick with it it will move up tonight and intensify. Good luck Paul Sherman

Here we go again, torrential rain with thunder and sheet lightning. 2nd storm of the night Paul Sherman

The light looks as if it's nearly 10pm here and had a flash of lightning and thunder about 5 mins ago Paul Sherman

Conditions at 0020 from Essex. Clear skies with no wind at all, defo the calm b4 the storm Temp 14.7c Paul Sherman

Weekly and Overall Storms updated to 2nd July 2004. A very busy week, with 44 reports, again the East faired best and some pretty spectacular weather was reported, also have to verify 1 report of a funnel cloud this week for Andy Bown. All the best Paul Sherman

Just got back to Rayleigh in Essex and currently having a very heavy shower with hail and thunder and lightning Nothing in London today.. Paul Sherman

Great start to the day, it's only 12 noon and thunder has been heard from London!! A very big cell currently passing through North London around the Hampstead and Highgate area, visible lightning and booming thunder heard. Paul Sherman

Sure is Pete. The weather just cannot get going at the moment, this week looks like another write off for any heat building!! Low pressure to the North West and tightly packed isobars, that just means showers or longer spells of rain and very cool or average temps. Any idea what next week holds. Paul

Good points raised guys, I'm in the area that is supposed to be in the prime Spanish Plume area and have had only 1 this year and that was 28th April, so when that came along between 11 and 3am I thought this year was going to be a cracker.....how wrong I was :cry: :cry: Still July and August to go so dont despair just yet, all it needs is a few southerly flows and low pressure to form over France and we may be in business, but on the down side my optimism is only 30-70%, it just dos'nt feel right this year yet again!!! Paul Sherman

Mark, We are certainly in the top half of the table so to speak with regards to storms It's gonna take something to knock Glasgow off top spot though Paul

Storm Leagues updated from 19-25th June 2004 A very busy week last week with the Eastern half of the country winning hands down. Essex had a fair few storms as did some parts of the Midlands and North East England did very well also. Getting very Interesting as summer pushes on!! Paul Sherman

Rob, Isn't that for this weeks storms??? Eg between 19th-25th June If so then a funnel cloud will be accredited to you. :lol: Paul Sherman

Sorry it's a bit late but Peter there were a few strikes around Essex last night, I was down the pub at half time about 830pm and stepped outside to a very big intense hailstorm with 2-3 crashes of thunder :lol: :lol: Second one this week. Paul Sherman

Central London currently being hit by horizontal heavy tropical like rain, amazing winds in this heavy shower, no thunder as yet though :cry: Paul Sherman

League Tables Updated to Fri 18th June 2004 :lol: Paul Sherman

Having a few technical difficulties with Internet Explorer at present so the storms league update to 18th June is somewhat delayed, good thing this happened b4 all the action of this week. Anyway hopefully things will get sorted for tomorrow, just for the record only 3 members reported storms between the 12 and 18th June 2004 and they were Rb_506 with 3 storms and 1 each for TWS and a new member Pheonix from Morecombe Bay. Paul Sherman

Storms league will be updated Wednesday luchtime for last week up to 18th June 2004. Sorry it's late have been on a Mini Fishing trip to the Norfolk Broads and will be at my work computer tomorrow :lol: Looks like all the action is this week anyway :lol: :lol: Paul Sherman

There certainly could be embedded thunder storms in the main area of rain as it tracks across England, the latest radar shows the rain intensifying some what. Paul Sherman

Mark, I'll take you up on that if you fancy coming to North Essex / Suffolk or Norfolk one weekend when storms are forecast Anyway as the footie was on tonight I headed home from London early and what a surprise at 420pm this afternoon, my first storm for over a month and a half Paul Sherman

Huge Cnb to my North and North West at present, looks great with the sun in the south shining on those clouds, heading this way Will update if anything happens. Paul Sherman