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1 hour ago, UKSupercell said:
Just seen this funnel cloud heading south on the A591 near a place called Sizergh just south-east of the Lake District National Park! We virtually drove under the funnel but there was no wind. Never seen anything like it!
Incredible! Well spotted.
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Been overcast with light drizzle and the occasional few spots here and there all day. Doesn't feel that humid. Can't see us getting in on the action. Hopefully others will have better luck today.
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I've thought about it I must admit. Australia keeps cropping up and they do drive on the correct side of the road too which is a bonus! They also get some spectacular storms to rival the USA. The things putting me off though are the heat (I can't stand hot weather) and also the spiders (I don't mind normal house/garden spiders at all, infact I quite like them, but I draw the line at taurrantula sized ones!) and snakes that invite themselves into your home on a regular basis! I've also thought about New Zealand, Canada and Scotland, which I think is the most likely as I love storms, wind, rain and cool weather and they get a lot of it. I also think it would be lovely to live somewhere where you get to see the Northern Lights on a regular basis. Also thought about Shetland for the same reasons. Maybe in the future...
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2 hours ago, poseidon said:
Quite spectacular cells embedded in the line South Essex. I also had a very interesting cell with pronounced gust front pass near my location.
Gust front of large cell with intense rainfall.
Back of the line of storms, south Essex, There were really low cloud bases on these.
Lovely pics. Thanks for sharing.
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Some more dark looking cells to my northwest slowly tracking east. Sky looks incredibly unstable, it's a great day for sky watching! Thought I saw a brief funnel coming from the nearest cell but difficult to be sure at this range. I'm gonna put it down to cheeky scud!
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Hope so!
Edit - Just had a look outside. That huge cell is now directly to my north so it's gonna track parallel to me but won't come over. Looks like it's heading directly east so on it's way to you Lauren, but I think you will miss out on it coming directly over too and like me you will see it track parallel to the north of your position from west to east.
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On 09/08/2018 at 15:41, SNOW_JOKE said:
This funnel-cloud appeared down the road from here, didn't see anything though other than noticing the heavy-rain shower.
I knew before even clicking on that link that I'd see the dreaded "Mini tornado" as the uk media continues to deny TORNADOS exist in this country. "Mini" tornado my backside.
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32 minutes ago, Lauren said:
Awesome looking clouds over London way.
Oddly according to radar should have very heavy rain right now, but hasn't rained for about 45minutes now.
Can confirm, MASSIVE cell to my northwest (complete with HUGE cauliflowers and rapidly developing anvil) slowly drifting eastwards. Not showing on radar so no precip coming from it yet but I'd expect it to go bang imminently.
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So last night I was in Cowden (south of Sevenoaks). As the sun was setting the western sky turned absolutely black and started lighting up with orange IC lightning and thunder. This continued for well over an hour (I have some pics of the storm approaching which I'll try and upload when I get a minute). Later that night, after 1pm I was doing a bit of stargazing as the annual persid meteor shower gets going this weekend and not only saw two shooting stars (one was pure white, the other bright orange complete with tail), but there was constant distant lightning flashes to my south coming from two cells, one in brighton and another in eastbourne according to radar. Half an hour later the brighton one had died but the eastbourne one took over. I could see the anvil even from that far away (about 60 miles) and could see the whole thing lighting up. The anvil was absolutely huge and was more of a mushroom cloud shape than a traditional/typical anvil. Too far away to hear any thunder, but the light show was spectacular - I could even still see it when I got home (another 30 miles further away ) at 2.30am. Must've been one hell of a storm.
We also got a storm this afternoon at 2.30pm. It didn't come right over but brushed past to my west heading north. Had a few flashes and some nice rumbles, torrential rain too which lasted about 25 mins. It's been a good 24 hours!
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2 hours ago, Scott Page said:
I love how everyday people come on here and ask 'will my area get a thunderstorm today'? Nobody knows, just wait and see. If you do you do, if you dont you dont. My town hasnt had a single thunderclap or flash since september 2016 so dont worry bout it. Some places get more than others.
enjoy the great summer we are having
Rant over
Great summer??!!!?
Boiling, sweating, stinking, disgusting, energy sapping, sleep destroying, sticky, exhaustion inducing, burning, opressive, god awful heat is not my idea of a "great summer". Autumn cannot get here soon enough...
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I woke up at 5.45am to a terrific storm. Lightning was infrequent but the thunder was LOUD. The rain was absolutely pounding. The lightning was all IC but had a pint tint. Wonderful. It was so relaxing I went back to sleep. Unfortunately that's probably the last storm for me for a while as we're now going to see the return of the disgusting, sweaty, stinking, opressive, energy-sapping unbearable heat as we near the weekend.
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YAY! Got storms here AT LAST! Started about 5.30pm. Lovely cool wind blowing and the odd burst of heavy rain accompanying the storms (on my second one now). I'll gladly take it.
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8 hours ago, Another Kent clipper said:
Day 1 Convective Outlook
VALID 06:00 UTC Wed 11 Jul 2018 - 05:59 UTC Thu 12 Jul 2018
ISSUED 04:08 UTC Wed 11 Jul 2018
ISSUED BY: Dan
The remnants of a shortwave trough will slide slowly southeastwards across the Irish Sea during Wednesday, towards Wales by Thursday morning. Subtle forcing with this feature will encourage showery outbreaks of rain to develop in the vicinity of this shortwave throughout this forecast period. Some convective interest may exist across England and Wales this afternoon and evening with diurnal heating, breeze convergence and orographic forcing aiding the development of convective cloud - and while a shower or two is possible, forecast soundings exhibit a notable warm nose at 700mb, which will inhibit any sufficient depth for lightning activity - as such, no threat levels have been issued.
Moistening of vertical profiles through the night will likely see further showery bursts of rain developing over parts of Wales / Midlands - but with fairly saturated profiles and meagre instability, lightning potential is considered very low.
Dammit. Here in the SE we are practically begging for rain, let alone a storm (forgotton what one looks like).
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On 05/07/2018 at 13:48, Mapantz said:
Dark bases to my Northeast;
Nice.
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Actually saw some clouds this evening - had forgotton what they look like. Just cumulus, but even so they blocked out the oppresive heat from the sun for a few seconds. This stifling heat is too much.
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On 01/07/2018 at 16:44, lassie23 said:
Had all my action in April, looks like a long summer ahead with no
Same here. Summer's passing by and I haven't even seen a single cloud for a week and a half now - I'm not even joking.
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23 hours ago, Marko1690 said:
Im amazed that some people dont understand the weather, dry heat will get u no thunderstorms, uts only when moisture is introduced that covective weather happens
Was that aimed at me? If so you misunderstand - it's got nothing to do with not understanding the weather and everything to do with being frustrated that all this heat is going to waste because the other elements necessary for storms are absent. So, in effect we have to suffer being roasted but with no payoff for it.
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Yes, lets keep an eye on the models. Keeping everything crossed.
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More recent runs showing very little. It's so frustrating there's so much unbelivable heat but absolutely nothing to do anything with it. I feel this (storm) season is flying by but with nothing on the horizon (excuse the pun) for the foreseeable future the season is being wasted thanks to these very dry highs that seemed to have locked themselves over us. I like a nice plesant day of course (I am a biker after all so appreciate dry days, but this boiling heat is too much to even ride in - above 27c all you're doing is turbocharging warm air onto yourself). No evening storms to look forward to and the temps are too high to enjoy the otherwise nice days.
Hope this weather ends soon and we can get some storms brewing.
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Crazy day and it's STILL going on.
Some radar images of earlier...
Wow. Lightning strikes were very slow to register on netweather but there was thunder and lightning every 20 seconds or so in brixton for hours.
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This is incredible. The storm has been backbuilding from southeast kent for the past 4 hours and still going strong! Never seen anything like it.
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12 minutes ago, Swansonson69 said:
It was ages ago though.
Same, but I feel it all the same!
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2 minutes ago, Swansonson69 said:
You'll do that and they'll die and they'll be massive storms in the area you left lol.
It happened to me. I went down stayed with my grandma and grandad in Dorset and the next day there was a massive storm in Retford.
My sympathies. The same thing happened to me last year on the final day of my holiday in dorset - there was a corker of a storm right over my house at home.
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Another bright flash and boom!
Storm & Convective Discussion - 7th August Onwards
in Storms & Severe Weather
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Hmm, radar showing a big blob of heavyish convection moving up from the channel in my direction. Everything meaningful today has dissipated before it's reached here but this lot seems heavier than the other stuff today so you never know.