LightningLover

Suits Sussex Dwellers fine lol!

Looks more like torrential frontal rain to me? Perhaps some lightning embedded initially...

Pretty nice for East sussex/Kent dwellers!

Loving Dan Holley's placement of the MDT risk zone, and his mention of models being too far west quite often rings true. 27-28th May 2017 was like that, looked to be a dorset destroyer but became a Sussex smashing MCS in the end!

Also on the 15z UKV run...

Just saw a very distant CG To my WSW

Hearing distant rumbles from that Cell near Brighton

That MCS is really throwing out some lightning...

Hopefully we can fill in that little gap in the SE corner!

Probably indicative of low end potential, but it's nice to be talking about this sort of thing in Early April! Lets see how we do

Fine by me, haha! But honestly it would be nice for Western/Central Southern areas to score big this year, you guys deserve it!

Very odd cell, popped out of nowhere and is surprisingly prolific lightning wise

A pleasant surprise in the form of distant flashes and a single rumble here in Bexhill- wasn't expecting a low end set up to deliver quite as much as this!

Some unexpected lightning in the channel... shame I wasn't looking at the time!

Frustrating that I wasn't looking!

Well in my eyes the red warning for Bexhill was wholly justified. A very potent storm indeed for these parts, There were a couple of gusts just before 12:00 that felt as if they were approaching 80mph! It was interesting to note the 'stop and start' nature of the storm, particularly early on. High tide was at 12:30, so just after what I considered to be the peak. The waves were very large and the swell was quite something to behold! As you can see from the attached photos, there were numerous instances of noteworthy storm damage, the most attention worthy of which being the De La Warr Pavilion bandstand structure, which has been standing in place since 2004. Eunice made short work of it. This was certainly an event for the old weather journal, and an unexpected surprise from an otherwise turgid winter.

Well in my eyes the red warning for Bexhill was wholly justified. A very potent storm indeed for these parts, There were a couple of gusts just before 12:00 that felt as if they were approaching 80mph! It was interesting to note the 'stop and start' nature of the storm, particularly early on. High tide was at 12:30, so just after what I considered to be the peak. The waves were very large and the swell was quite something to behold! As you can see from the attached photos, there were numerous instances of noteworthy storm damage, the most attention worthy of which being the De La Warr Pavilion bandstand structure, which has been standing in place since 2004. Eunice made short work of it. This was certainly an event for the old weather journal, and an unexpected surprise from an otherwise turgid winter.

Already seeing gusts of around 50mph in exposure in Bexhill

Already seeing gusts of around 50mph in exposure in Bexhill

The MO app tends to be rather conservative with wind gusts. rule of thumb is to add on a good 5-10mph

Red warning for a large part of the SE. Wow.

Red warning for a large portion of SE

Haha I know, just an unbelievable chart in isolation for so close to the time!!

If THIS isn't red worthy, then I don't know what is quite frankly!