Rufus Butterfield

Just had an insane hailstorm as that squall came through. Some pretty close strikes as well. I’ll have to search through my camera and share later.

Just heard thunder

Very close to the storms to my north but no thunder heard.

Big cb to my north

Sun is about to come out now so hoping I might see something later on.

Looking like a very quiet couple weeks ahead, storm wise.

Passed it! It did chuck it down at one point, but it was brief.

Driving test tomorrow; hopefully won’t get caught in a downpour.

Decent afternoon convection, with some mammatus.

Interesting blue colour under the base of this shower earlier

Unfortunately, the cell is dying off. Just having heavy rain atm.

Storm near Sheffield area

Threatening skies to the west

Feels quite humid today. Once the cloud finally breaks up I reckon it’s go time!

Had a nice looking shower pass over with the sunlight shining through the rain core.

Watched this cumulus grow when walking back from college

Some cape about on Friday/Saturday and ukv showing scattered heavy showers. Might be worth looking out for.

First decent looking convection this year. Classic cold air showers.

How rare is that? There’s a condensation funnel above it so it’s either an actual supercell tornado/land spout, or I think it’s most likely a waterspout that came ashore. Probably to do with the comparatively warmer seas having an affect. Never seen any videos of a tornado in a snowy environment so I’m absolutely amazed.

Finally compiled all my footage from last autumns storms.

Earliest in the year that I’ve had a storm was late March 2016, on Easter. But I’d guess first good storms of this year starting mid May onwards.

I recall seeing that a while ago, but it’s been proven to be an edited video.

That’s quite a lot of lightning for January

Bit late, but finally got round to finish editing the video of the storm we had on the 5th September. Just shows the best highlights of lightning and thunder.

Good storms for the beginning of September. Had around 5 thunder days. Decent temps until the last week where it started to get a bit cooler than average. October was weirdly warm throughout the month, even seeing a distant lightning storm on the evening of the 23rd. Squally thunderstorm on the 30th. November was dull, mild and very wet. Interesting features were the temperatures being so mild for most the month, until the end of the month began getting cold into December. Surprisingly hardly any really windy days for the entire season. Overall I’d say it was better than average because of the warmer temps and convective activity. 7/10