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Aurora: I'm glad to report we had a nice show over Reigate around 11pm onwards. I have never seen the Aurora, and it is something I've always had on my list of to dos. Well, I got a great home show for me yesterday, right overhead, and all quandrants, too. The northern sky was a general wash of blue-white with a visible base and I guess that might have been the main downflow up t'north. A guess.
I hope we might see it again tonight. It is still active up there.
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Durham City - no luck at all today. Oh well - my curse is alive and thriving!
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Durham City. It looks like my 'local high pressure' storm-killing ability has affected Durham. No change here from this morning, apart from some visible low level convection (think: pathetic level) out of the disorganised stratocumulus. There's a lot of haze, too. And a police helicopter (all the excitement is here). However, radar shows we might get imports from the coast later on.
The borders are doing well!
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Eagle Eye Durham City. At 9.am it was cold, and sky layered with a very low stratocumulus - probably a fret off the sea - with sun breaking through. Once the sky cleared, there was a very small level of convection for a period of time. But now it's a mix of sun and haze with general low level badly defined messy stratocumulus. There's very little sign of convection activity, so it would have to be imported rather than home grown.
It might change.
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Good heavens - after abandoning the Reigate area, I might yet be in for a little luck in Durham! That will be some mild compensation at least for my self-induced bust!
Thanks for cheering me up @Eagle Eye!
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I wish you all happy storm watching! Me? Storm Loser took the train to Durham to see his elderly mother. Family comes first. The day after I arrive, all the action starts.... How typical is that! Anyhow. I will watch from afar. Enjoy!
(Breaks down in tears...)
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Nice big flash of lightning and good thunder over Reigate! 11:20am.
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Sorry to be off topic, but did anyone read this appallingly patronising video news item from the BBC?
Watch: Explosion in Tennessee as storm sweeps through
WWW.BBC.CO.UK
Tornadoes battering Tennessee leave thousands of people without power.Considering some poor souls died from the Tennessee outbreak, I'd like to flag Mr David Braine for dismissal from his post, after being quoted as saying:
"The weather phenomenon has also been described as a "baby tornado beginning to form but never quite getting there", according to BBC meteorologist David Braine."
Inaccurate, insensitive and patronising. Apologies, but this really riled me up.
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Whilst continuing living in my small, local lightning cold-spot, I noticed this intriguing article on Space Daily science site:
Scientists figured out what causes Earth's strongest lightning
WWW.SPACEDAILY.COM
Jerusalem (SPX) Oct 02, 2023 - Superbolts are more likely to strike the closer a storm cloud's electrical charging zone is to the land or ocean's surface, a new study finds. These conditions are responsible for superbolt...Fascinating to see that our neck of the world gets "strong lightning"...
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I often joke about the local Reigate High Pressure Zone.
Here it is in action:
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I see the Met Office managed to cough out a yellow weather warning for the south east (probably after their roof got struck by lightning). Curiously they omit the Reigate area - it's all further north and east.
Yet their own radar shows some thunderstorms heading for....Reigate and environs. And then they wonder why people have given up over the yellow warnings!
I'm hoping we'll get a couple of rumbles here. Unless the storms take their customary u-turn on Reigate's borders.
PS - just one nit-pick at the Netweather radar and lightning indicators. The 1-10 minutes colour of strikes is pretty much the same colour as the heavy rain, making the indicators invisible in storms. And I'm slightly colour blind to reds, too....
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Hey, what happened to the SE's weather warned storms? Have they gone already? I must have missed them whilst having my breakfast cuppa.
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55 minutes ago, WeatherArc said:
Just come across this good vid from the severe thunderstorm outbreak we had 2 weeks ago, i believe this was the storm near Holbeach, absolute insane shelf on that thing
Sounds like continuous thunder as well, quite rare for the uk and indicative of a very powerful storm.
That is just awesome!!
Estofex looking good for parts of the UK tomorrow! A Level 1 for some of us.
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I'm signing off for some sleep. It's been a good evening in Reigate, and my storm drought has been well and truly broken! I did try some video but it was absolute crud. Sorry about that. Enjoy, everyone!
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Flashes are becoming rain-wrapped, but it's still going strong here. Pretty much continuous lightning and thunder. Lightning elevated.
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Continuous elevated lightning and thunder here! Spec tac ul ar!!!!
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Yay! Two lots of anvil-crawling lighting all over the sky above me! Beautiful display!
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Cell popped up to the south of me in Crawley. Here we go!
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I have distant lightning and thunder now, pretty much continuous to the south of Reigate. Seems like the 'Corridor' has closed and I'm going to get some action.
The Brighton Marina webcam is going nuts
Brighton Marina Webcam
WWW.CAMSECURE.CO.UK
Live Camsecure webcam from Brighton Marina looking out across the promenade and beach towards the sea.-
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Brighton marina Webcam has some nice activity.
Brighton Marina Webcam
WWW.CAMSECURE.CO.UK
Live Camsecure webcam from Brighton Marina looking out across the promenade and beach towards the sea. -
Just now, Allseasons-si said:
Mate it's heading for you from the S/SW.
Not S/SW enough, sadly.
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None of you believed me. Here it is! The Reigate Corridor Meteorological Phenomenon at work:
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Uh-oh. Looks like the Gap Between Storms is going to be my curse once again.
Enjoy your storms, all!
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OK, I saw that. The cell forming south of Reigate fizzled out, rained on me and then popped back up again north of here. That's seriously not fair.
Storms and Convective discussion - May 2024
in Storms & Severe Weather
Posted · Edited by StormLoser
Very warm, but not a lot happening here other than fair weather stratocumulus, My favourite boring cloud. I think the east is out of the firing line but I guess we see the odd one. Enjoy, the rest in the west!
That said, imports from France may be possible here, later on?