StormLoser

Still waiting on the Met Office's Yellow Warnings for the centre of the UK. Not happening is it? Their reasoning is...weird. Perhaps they are waiting for severe drizzle....

I am....scratching my head. The Met Office have issued weather warnings of risks of storms in mostly Scotland for the next few days. Good luck folks there! But...why none of their inane yellow warnings for the massive bulk of rain wandering through England north of London right now? Surely that inundation must count for a risk of flooding? I don't get the Met Orifice and their yellow warnings. They make no sense. Never have to me.

You'll become our resident tornado chaser! Hope you get lucky again. Meanwhile, a five-mile wide circle of intense high pressure is building exactly over Reigate, Surrey, ready for Friday/Saturday. After the recent fiascos here I'm not holding out any hope...

Storms? What's that young fellers? Storms? With lightning? Gad, I remember those. Back in the 1980s it was. Used to roll in from France. Lightning pounding the ground like artillery. Had to keep your head down, you know. Those were the days. Kipling used to write poems about it, you know. Hopefully we'll see some action in the South East as July slides into August...

Lol. I used "in Barry's Hatch" last night and people took it forward. I promise never to use the words again! Although we could consider an inverse hatch - where no action occurs. outside it everything kicks off. Just doing some work outside - gave up as it is SO muggy. (I'm retired, so not exactly a landscape gardener or anything...) Instruments showing 64% humidity.

Well hi all. An ocean of pain with one or two high spots. It's remarkable how many forecasts failed but there we go. It's a learning event instead. (And as for the Met Office - I really am beginning to take a sharp dislike to the arrogant yellow weather warnings. They should call them "Advisories", toning down the language a bit. - just my opinion.) One thing will be for sure here, the excitement will build again at the next event and I find that almost as much fun as watching the storms! One thing I would like to know: did the Ouistreham Beach Hut Cam in France get struck by lightning?! I checked the feed in slo-mo last night and it sure looks like it took a direct hit. The image flickered white - the beach is lit up, then the poles right in front of the cam, and finally a complete white-out before the screen goes black. The camera is still down today. The camera is mounted on scaffold-like poles:

I'm off to bed. G'night all. I can't wait for any more proposed destabilisation to occur because, in my mind, the chance is already gone. The tail end of the "bad weather" is already leaving the French coast. I'm chalking this down as a bust. Across the board. I don't know what killed it but the post-mortem will no doubt show it up. It's a mega disappointment but I suppose these things don't always turn out as expected.

I saw a taxi on the Brighton Pier webcam. It was interesting. Half an hour more, then I'm going with the generic "Thundery Rain" forecast, and have much needed sleep. I give up on the risk of 50,000 lightning discharges, Biblical flooding, large hail etc. I don't see this happening from the current set up - destabilisation or no.

The Rouen storm is building along the lines of the trough the Met Office indicated would settle around that area, west of the low as it cruises north. Good on them for forecasting it. It may wriggle about a bit so perhaps we ought not to call it a Kent Clipper just yet. The Rennes northerly line is an interesting feature. Some kind of short wave trough that indicates compression from the drifting high system to the west?

Yep - that stuff north of Rouen is definitely expanding out into the channel. BUT it's not really heading our way. Is Barry's Hatch turning into a Tony Hatch?

The Rouen storm is perking up. It is also refusing to enter the gateway towards Barry's Hatch. Another Kent clipper? I wonder if it will even get that far. It looks like a Continental Coastal Crawler.

I can manage that! I see the storm NW of Rouen is hugging the coast. The radar track suggests rotation in it, but it might be my rheumy old eyes... The spawning zone at Rennes has also left the town, and is drifting north.

I'm beginning to burn out here. I'm hearing a lot of promises, but not a lot is happening. And I don't see any indication of unstable air masses injecting into something over wherever to revitalise the UK wash out. I'll persist a bit longer, but we really need that Rennes mass to start blowing up. Apart from that, there is a suspicious divergence beginning to happen that appears to go west and east of Barry's Hatch, but not actually into it.

My wife kindly e-mailed me a BBC News article on taking lightning pictures. I read it eagerly. 1. Switch on camera 2. Use a tripod (or make your own...link to BBC provided [ Blue Peter?]) 3. Take photos using the long exposure timer. (Left out things like how to cope with alcoholic tremor, a cat that demands food, a teenage daughter who lost her hairdryer...) 4. How to stay safe in lightning. (Hint: stay indoors.) If anyone said the BBC were not dumbing down, they need to look at articles like this.

That would wipe even the midges away! What's that little device in the left of your yard? (If you don't mind me asking).

Rain arrives in Reigate! And...now waiting for the UK severe weather. Fingers crossed. Legs crossed, too - reminds me I need the loo...

Almost looks like lightning hit the camera or nearby!

Plenty of heavy rain showers spraying out of Rennes - almost like it's shooting them out north and east. But no electrics in them. These could be interesting to watch as they progress. Lots of stuff following up the original development.

New storms bubbling up north of Rennes in France. They erupted very quickly! No lightning in them, yet.

Thanks - been through these and just updated Java - still no luck. Listen folks, thanks for the suggestions, let's all concentrate on storms instead! I'll sort this out somehow (take hold of large wood mallet...)

https://www.bognorregisbeach.co.uk/live

Created an anti-virus exception. No luck. It's like I'm missing a player but the damn web site does not tell me what I'm missing!!

Get a red banner and no video box on Firefox, another black box on Edge. I wonder if my antivirus is blocking it....

Hmmm looking at the French webcams, there's little 'intensity' to these storms. 30 seconds between any flashes, let alone close ones. Hardly a 50,000 and up strike-fest. Interestingly, the lightning has packed up leaving the north coast of France. Anyone know what would block the Bognor Regis webcam from showing up on my PC, please? I use Win10 home, Chrome, have cookies enabled, have Flash and Java, etc.... I get a black box instead of any picture. Rest of the page is OK. Thanks!

I cannot get a picture off that site. Never have been able to. The cam screen remains blank, and no clue as to why.