Jamie M

Rather incredible outflow feature from the passing band of heavy rain that moved east. Shame there wasn't any sparks with it but was pretty damn impressed!

Could see the convergence working its magic along here today. No thunder but was definitely a rapid increase in intensity

CW forecast out. Convective Weather WWW.CONVECTIVEWEATHER.CO.UK Forecasting thunderstorms and severe convective weather across the British Isles and Ireland for up to the next 5 days.

Bit of lightning on the Eastbourne cam

Incoming.

Seen this with a few Pivotal Weather soundings before, seems to always have some analogue for supercells or tornadoes from any puny sounding like that!

Looks like there may be some good cloudscapes tomoz, lightning risk looks fairly limited but some good convection kicking about. Shortwave trough moving east through the day, all dependant on surface heating though and looks quite disorganised. Shear supports some strong wind gusts under the outflow of them.

Timelapse from today, looks like a little bit of snow might of started to settle around 6 am but not sure because of the sun rising and all that! VID_20220401_085330.mp4 Had a bit of some fluffy snow just before 9 but all showers after were a mix of hail and snow.

Trickle of snow in Westgate and Birchington earlier, might a bit more to come later but we will have to see. VID_20220331_110746.mp4 VID_20220331_123504.mp4

cracking sunset tonight.

Dodged the rain here for now so there's just a layer of sepia coloured cloud over here, feels very odd! Drizzle managed to deposit a bit of dust all about although nothing too bad.

Love an anvil.

Thundersnow in Westgate earlier. Crazy stuff, heavy graupel and a flash of lightning as it turned to snow. Accumulation was a conglomerated mess of graupel and snow

Crazy gusts just across the pond with that squall that went through the UK. Oostende in Belgium recorded 81 mph and a 6.6c temperature drop within 30 minutes.

Bit of lightning from line convection near Lincoln

00005.MTS.mp4 Sea spray earlier along the sea here in Herne Bay. The bandstand had recorded 74 mph just before I started recording. Don't have any video but damn near got thrown to the ground on the road just behind the pier on St George's Terrace. Must be a wind tunnel!

Been a few gusts round here already that have caught me a bit off guard, sign of what's to come I suppose. Manston's up to 57 mph. It'll be up to above 70 by Friday.

CW Outlook: Day 1 Convective Outlook VALID 06:00 UTC Wed 16 Feb 2022 - 05:59 UTC Thu 17 Feb 2022 ISSUED 08:02 UTC Wed 16 Feb 2022 ISSUED BY: Dan During the afternoon and evening hours, a marked mid-level dry intrusion will overspread a surface cold front shifting southeastwards across Ireland, England and Wales. Very strong low-level shear and some modest CAPE suggests the potential for shallow but intense convection, with line segments both along the cold front, and perhaps other clusters in the post-frontal environment through the evening/night. These will be capable of producing squally winds and perhaps one or two isolated tornadoes - and a SVR has been introduced to highlight this risk. While the convection will, for the most part, be too shallow for lightning there could be a few odd strikes from the strongest cells - this perhaps most likely over northern England (while the tornado risk, albeit still very low in any one location, is probably higher across Wales/Midlands/East Anglia). Further showers, some with squally winds, will continue to feed into Ireland and N + W Britain through the night hours, and there could be a few sporadic lightning strikes in western Scotland, for example.

68 for me on the Met, can't recall the last time it was that high. Bristol Channel area definitely looking prime for a red nearer the time I'd of thought.

Whitstable Times & Herne Bay Herald 02/03/1895 Incredible story that I found when searching through the newspaper archives on Herne Bay. It goes to show the incredible level of cold and that reflects in the station data. Although, I don't think I'd be that ballsy to walk on one even despite it being that cold! Margate had 31 frosts from 22nd of Jan to 20th of Feb. Jan 1895 had a mean of 1.65c, Feb had a mean of -0.88c. Jan 1895 had a mean min of -0.86c, Feb was -3.18c.

0900z obs: 2.9c 2.8c dp 1026.4 hPa 24h max 6.3c 24h min -1.0c Grass min -2.9c Thick fog ~190 m visibility

Manston has had one of its dullest Decembers on record by the looks. 4th dullest on record although I know December 1969 had 15.2 hours here in Herne Bay so 5th dullest I'd say.

Kent daily maximum temperature records have gone in the last week or so, retrieved from a huge range of data from the MIDAS database: December: 29th - 15°C East Malling (2021), previously 14.2°C at Edenbridge in 1974. 30th - 14.3°C Manston (2021), previously 14°C at Faversham in 1998. 31st - 14.1°C East Malling, Manston (2021), previously 13.9°C at Dartford in 1967. January: 1st - 15.8°C Frittenden (2021), previously 15°C at Edenbridge in 2012.

1200 - 1800 Seems rather odd they've issued a warning but I'm not the expert.

Was very foggy yesterday, forgot camera cloth so shots are full of camera spots and overall wet. Just cleaned the sensor today!