Darth Radar

I wish there was an app you could use that showed the cloud top heights, I know there’s the brightly coloured radars and the brighter colours mean very tall clouds, but would it would be much better if they at least specified the depths (ie. Yellow - 25,000ft, orange - 30,000ft, Red - 35,000ft, Deep Red - 40,009ft, Pink - 45,000ft etc…) seems in America they have all these details but not over here in UK and Europe

Does anyone know how high the cloud tops reached today? Especially when the very active storm over north Birmingham was at its peak, thanks :)

You know I thought last summer was dire for lightning storms, but this summer really has trumped the lot, it’s so perplexing how sparse any convection has been, and where they has been a towering cumulonimbus cloud there hasn’t been a single bolt of lightning. both summers have been scorching so would have thought that the energy in the atmosphere would be primed for static ️️️ just very weird times, very weird

Some crackers in there!! Great footage

Wow just looked at that, it was rotating really fast! There was a fair few rotating wall clouds and brief funnel clouds that week dancing underneath the cloud based for a few minutes before disappearing back into the cloud. I think it was because of just how powerful the updrafts were in all of the storms that week. On the one uploaded, you could actually see the whole structure of the cell (regret not zooming out to show it now). And it was a huge towering cumulonimbus that rapidly shot upwards in altitude and plumed way above the huge anvil cloud immediately ahead of it. It rapidly sped up from a mile or so behind it as well to catch-up and completely merge with the anvil ahead, all the whole rapidly rotating and pluming upwards like a giant belter skelter. It was mesmerising, stunning and just pure luck to be positioned at the right location to see the mechanics of it all unfold. Also the camera only picked up the very strongest of the lightning flashes. It was actually flickering with lightning non stop every second between the super powerful strikes, and there was a constant non stop roar and grumbling of thunder.

This is a clip of a twister just outside of NE Birmingham around Hams Hall / Wishaw from Jun 2020. Had a whole week of thunderstorms from dawn til dusk every single day that week, and you could see clouds billowing up from a cumulus to a towering cumulonimbus within 15-20 mins. The tops of the clouds were that powerful that next to none had any anvils, just huge cauliflower tops that looked like a living beast sailing across the skies. At night you could see the towering cauliflowers flashing red and yellow with the lightning, and so many Positive bright vivid red lightning bolts darting out of the very tops of the clouds to miles ahead of the storm as they approached. I will never ever forget the colours of the lightning bolts I saw that week after dark ️ All of the storms were either heading north or north-west towards Stoke because of a low pressure anchored in the south west of England that didn’t move for days. It helped that the temperature was around 25-26c most of the week too. The exact same thing happened again in August, a whole week of non stop lightning and bolts raining down all over, many near misses and blown chimneys and trees across the road 436856E3-D06C-40F3-9D16-2770C4B37B9A.MOV ️️️️️

Hi mate, I’m just trying to picture what you are all describing as wedge shaped clouds. We’re they as if the anvil almost dragged on miles ahead of the cell almost like the shape of a wedge you put under a door? Or were they almost like just a flat solid 90 degree wall of towering cumulonimbus drifting towards you? sounds fascinating anyway!

Ohh right that’s cool, will have to read up on how to tune into the proper frequencies

Hi dude, any chance you can get a link to whatever site shows the cloud top information? (I’m guessing it’s for aviation only). Always wanted to find a source that gives live info on that. cheers!