Cyclonic Destruction

It’s like the sort of summer storm you get after a stonking hot humid summers day. Weird weather for Mar/Apr - perhaps this year we will get the storms we missed last year.

Perfect position south of Warminster. Convergence and boom!

Some snaps from the storm as it passed Gillingham earlier

No I learnt from Warren Faidley

Dont confuse the sun setting angle making those fronts looking more ominous than they really are. No gold tint on the edges tells me that nothings really growing yet.

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I’ve been more of an observer on here for a few years now. What amazes me is the lack of knowledge of storm chasers. Granted many want to learn, however, I’m 55 and have been studying weather since the age of 7. I started off with the Ladybook of weather followed by the Osborne weather book. Both excellent reads and it amazes me that so many cannot even read the sky. Computer models are fine but the real basics come from reading the sky, the clouds etc. Animals do and yet so many wannabe weather spotters think the latest PC run dog biscuits is the holy grail of information. In essence start understanding the basics and one will know when a storm is approaching. The set up this morning was a joke. There was no way a storm was going to smash the south coast and yet so many got their hopes up over a computer model and yet nature said NO!

My missus would have kicked me out this weekend if I’d performed this badly!

I’m going to the beach to go fishing. Clearly this is a non event! Worst weekend of bigging it up and a complete let down. Sun is shining. Models haven’t a f’n clue and quite frankly I’m fed up with the drama and going to ring the Doc in the morning for a prescription of sertraline to ease the pain lol. I reckon all the expectations on here produce so much negative energy it kills these storms lol

Wt@ It’s all imploded! Lol