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Bunch of kids just lit a fire on the beach at Bournemouth, that won't last 5 minutes
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1 minute ago, Rapodo said:
Huge wind surge just now came from nowhere and just died back again wtf was that!
That was downdraft, sign of incoming deluge.
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Watching the Bournemouth webcam. The rubbish blowing up the beach should have indicated to these people that rain is incoming.
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10 minutes ago, thunderhead 2005 said:
Cells appearing behind the mass, therefore we should be hitting into the unstable atmosphere soon
You just beat me to it
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12 minutes ago, Zak M said:
The state of that beach, do people never learn to pick up after themselves?
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2 minutes ago, A.J said:
Dierdre & Sandra at Table One, just looked behind them, picked up their hand-bags and left, I wonder if they're NWx Radar Subscribers?...hmm
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10 minutes ago, Pat Butcher said:
Bullish from Met Office there. Love the talk of frequent lightning and large hailstones!
I wish they'd stop using the term "thundery showers". It's so dismissive and belittling. We could have a countrywide MCS and they'd still call it "thundery showers"!
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Way past caring about the models at this stage, just going to watch the sat imagery and hope for the best.
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1 hour ago, tomp456 said:
I am calling a bust at 20:43.
#ReversePsycology
Mostly went East, went down to Hastings and was under the Western flank of a storm there, got to watch some nice lightning, (also noteworthy was the massive temp difference over just a few miles, much hotter in Hastings) but back home in Hailsham, nothing but a few rumbles and a drop of rain.
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Channel-watching here in Hailsham with an eye to some elevated stuff later.
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This is from Met Monkey, always found him o be more reliable than anywhere else.
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Can see flashes to the South from here in Hailsham, E Sussex.
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More cells developing further back along that line, and they are more to the East:
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2 minutes ago, viking_smb said:
it will probably start going east due to the steering winds, what direction are the steering winds gusting in?
3000m to 10Km winds look to be NE, surface winds are WNW.
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2 minutes ago, tomp456 said:
What way is the channel stuff heading?
Looks to be travelling NNE - NE on Sat24
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1 minute ago, Thundershine said:
The MetOffice have removed the lightning symbols from the weather forecast for my area just in the last hour. Why is that?
They may have fallen off, they never could get those little symbols to stay on the board
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These two burgeoning cells appear to be bee-lining straight for the SE, against all the odds.
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That storm in N France is exploding:
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7 minutes ago, StormLoser said:
Sferics have risen quite significantly south of Caen in France. I'm hopeful in The Hatch.
Meanwhile, Stormhog, what happened to you? I know KFC food can be a bit tough but....
Tooth must have been rotten and I didn't know it, snapped off at the gumline with barely a crack. Now I look like a proper redneck. Hurts all to hell. Done up on Solpadeine and will have to see how the night progresses. Difficult to focus on storms with the pain. What an absolute bummer.
Good luck for everyone chasing tonight, I hope to at least get out the front door and snap some lightning from the street.-
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I'm sat here nursing a busted front tooth, face swollen up like a balloon. Bloody KFC! Looks like my plans for a chase are off tonight, will have to window watch
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2 minutes ago, Supacell said:
Tonight's storms across eastern England could be bad in terms of flooding rains, frequent lightning and possibly hail. Most lightning on the eastern side of the system. I won't say "will" be bad as nothing is certain
My mate has the car fueled up, I have the camera gear, it's dark out, and we're wearing sunglasses.
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17 minutes ago, Weather-history said:
The dreaded "thundery rain" term , If there is a guarantee that you won't hear thunder it is when forecasters use that term.
Could be a rotating mothership supercell, and the TV weather would (and have) refer to it as "thundery rain"!
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ESTOFEX have issued Levels 1 & 2 warnings.
A level 1 and 2 were issued across western France and southern UK mainly for severe wind gust, large hail and tornado chances, and in Ireland for spout-type tornadoes.
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3 hours ago, ChezWeather said:
Never seen a unicorn on the radar before!
Love it! Galloping West with it's tail flying out.
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Storms and convective discussion - 18th June 2020 onwards
in Storms & Severe Weather
Posted · Edited by Stormhog
What a chase!
Went to Pevensey Bay to watch a couple of distant cells, didn't expect much.
Then noticed the Western cell was headed straight for the coast so intercepted it on the South Downs near Eastbourne just as it made landfall.
Very close cg's, booming thunder and torrential rain. Some spectacular lightning!
Great first chase of the year.