Windblade

Fantastic, thank you! There certainly seems a link there between solar cycles and storm activity.

Well, we are in the storms and convective discussion thread, for people who enjoy storms . I'm sorry you seem to have had even worse luck when it comes to storms. I wonder why some places are almost devoid of activity?

Well, this is boring isn't it? So far this year I've had one faint cloud fart 2 weekends ago from a storm that (as usual) bred here, drifted over to essex and then fired up like a xmas tree. Same old same old. Happens every. single. time. Everything else has missed us completely. The last few years have been, to put it mildly, pants for storms round here. We seem to be in a no mans land that started about 5 years ago where the rest of the uk (in particular wales, scotland, ireland, essex and east anglia) get storms regularly show up on radar and 20 miles from the south east coast across the water in france, but here in south east london/north east kent...(crickets). Don't know why this is. Could it possibly be due to solar minimum? And why would it affect only this corner of the country which is usually the hottest place on the island and therefore has one of the key ingredients for storms? I'm just guessing here, trying to find a pattern so I can understand whats going on. Ah, sorry people. Don't mean to depress/annoy anyone. I'm just thinking out loud here and am just extremely frustrated with the lack of storms. I take every storm forecast now with a huge pinch of salt now (even the ones that have looked promising yielded nothing whatsosver while the other usual suspects got the goodies). We're halfway through spring storm season now and so far nothing. I just get the feeling this is going to be yet another dismal year for storms around these parts.

I heard that in Welling. Quite a prolonged rolling rumble accompanied by torrential rain.

I think thats it for storms in my neck of the woods for now. Hope it stays cool.

I feel for you. That's been the exact story of my year up until today. I wish you a good storm.

We had some lovely rain here a while ago but radar image shows the conveyor belt has shifted east slightly so it's just missing us by a few miles at the moment. Still absolutely black to my southeast and a lovely cool breeze blowing so can't complain.

Makes up for every single main event so far missing me. I'm loving this.

Ooooh, I do hope this continues all day/evening. That would be fantastic. Really loving the cooler wind/temps now too.

Oh dear! Hope you got it closed in time! It's been a great morning so far for lobdon, lovely and cool now after suffering that disgusting heat, and we currently have storm number 3 on approach from the south. Awesome you saw some action in the night too. I love a good nightime light show.

Yep, storm number 2 is here.

Blimey. Sevenoaks is going bananas on lightningmaps!

Yeah, Sevenoaks just lit up and its heading this way.

Skies darkening to my southeast again.

Yep, looks like a conveyor belt from northern france straight to london. Hope it continues. Will make up for all the storms that have missed me this year.

Over now, but got some lovely mammatus forming overhead.

Yeah, I see the planes all taking evasive action! Massive cg bolt just now with an instant crack!

Yes, just saw a huge ic flash! It's just started pelting down too. Loving this mate!

Just saw a massive incloud flash. Incredible.

This is the view over london right now. Constant loud rumbles.

Awesome! I'm watching it now. It's getting closer...

Thats the one I just got in london. Its come from the south coast I think.

Woke up at 3.50am to lots of distant rumbles and many, frequent flashes. Seemed to be coming from the east. The air was also noticeably cooler which was lovely. Just had a thundery shower at work in london. No visible lightning but lots of LOUD rumbles. So much nicer now with the air being lovely and cool. Hope it stays like this.

Well, I'm going to get some food and keep an eye on the skies to the south east. Harry, nice talking to you again. Good luck everyone.

Thanks. Yes, let hope things kick off. I want some lovely refreshing storms! ?⛈??