Jamie M

https://meteologix.com/uk/lightning Wasn't logged in to see the lightning analysis so no

The only half decent shot from last night showing the structure

Someone had a hole in their roof and a blown-up fuse box from it about half a mile away so I was a bit lucky

Exported file was a gigabyte so I thought I'd just post the YouTube video here instead

Aye us Kent lot all sound the same Strike was only a few streets away so I can see why it was so bloody loud

Forgive the language but that is the loudest clap of thunder I have ever heard Untitled.mp4

Lots of IC flashes here, very bright lightning

Bust imo

15z AROME has things kicking off just after 8 pm

Really not a massive difference between 06z and 09z, just more on how the cells develop

Lol further west again

Wessex Convection Experiment in full swing, can see em all on https://sondehub.org/

Aye I agree - The Theta-E plume is a little bit more extensive in the west but the east still holds the best parameters

I do tend to notice AROME does go a bit east and west flippy right up until these events although does tend to be close enough by the evening runs. I'm team UKV at the minute because it gets storms here

UKV 9z is earlier & further west ever so slightly

Was looking at some of the soundings from AROME 00z's run for Lincolnshire and they did look pretty good so might be worth charging em just in case

AROME says no bueno to Kent/Sussex storms

There we are

Had thunderfog here along the coast on the 13th August 2020 here, bright flashes of lightning through the fog as it rolled in

Models seem to have shifted east for Fri night and UKV is less aggressive

Met Office 10 day trend for today shows this

Light curve from C/2023 P1 (Nishimura) | astro.vanbuitenen.nl ASTRO.VANBUITENEN.NL Looks like it'll be a relatively hard object to see due to the early dawn sky but wouldn't stop me from trying

Discovered on 11th August by Hideo Nishimura and is currently sat at magnitude 10 in the east close to the sun in the Gemini constellation. https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K23/K23P87.html It had a temporary name of HN00003 until about an hour ago - approaches perihelion on 18th September with some estimates of it getting to mag 2 (https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/31550?p=%2C%2C%2C20%2C0%2C0%2C0%3A%3ACreated%2C%2Cposterid%3A2016356%2C20%2C2%2C0%2C100739383). Picture is from Michael Jager -https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/31561

Casual 100 mm + over East Kent in 12 hours