tornadomanuk

Love the report especially as I know the area very well. Roads are a little tricky as they bend around the Quantocks, and can be hard to get a good vantage point. The flooding on the A358 juat past the Crowcombe turnnig is always happening there. There is a stream that passes under the road just before the road sweeps to the left and up the hill. Normally gets bad towards Bishops Lydeard too. Thank you for the videos.

Gradually easing off now. Lightning very sporadic compared to earlier. Had a good flash 10 minutes ago and now nothing. Was a potent storm half an hour ago too. Very happy with how the afternoon went. What I would class as quite a dangerous storm lightning wise earlier on (all storms with lightning are dangerous of course) but these were some vicious looking bolts with shotgun and ground shaking rumbles. Then this storm. Not as earth shattering as the earlier one, but nighttime lightning is a tick in my book! Heres to summer!

Certainly is chucking out some lightning here now. Frequency of around 1 every 15 seconds or so. Good thunder too Lightning activity just starting to ease up as of 21.50. Very heavy rain though and the main core of torrential rain to my south east isnt moving very much. Flooding could well be an issue

A nasty storm again just to the east of me in Chard again today. Seems to be intensifying too. Frequent lightning and booming thunder. 2 storms in a day.......what are the chances!

More thunder now audible from the East? I think. Certainly a nice afternoon! Really enjoyed the thunder. Some of the loudest I have ever heard.

Although as soon as it got going it has magically stopped! Rain is tropical here but thunder has ceased. Weird! It's like it's used up all the energy and decided to give up!

Ilminster getting a good pasting right now. Some very loud bangs going on that wy. Some very dangerous lightning raining down at the moment with some earth shattering bangs

Must of been a positive strike here in Chard. Extremely loud shotgun thunder that lasted about 4/5 seconds.

Interesting little cell now fired up over Exmoor according to the radar. Wonder if anything electric will come of it!

Small cell just passed to the West of me, not a lot of thunder but quite a gusty wind following on behind. Moderately heavy rain now, but thunder very intermittent. Watch out Bridgwater, Burnham and Weston. Just as I type this a very bright flash lit the room! Great thunder too. Heavy rain now falling. UPDATE - Electrical activity seems to be very intermittent - maybe 4 - 5 minutes between each strike. Sky is overcast and wind has died off now. Nice audio on the thunder though

Close but no cigar! Amazing cloudscapes to my West, now overhead. Plenty of instability and strange whirls of cloud. Amazing. No thunder or lightning observed here tonight and no rain either! Clear skies now incoming.

Nothing of note in Chard unfortunately. I'm not going to moan about how there hasn't been any T&L at all here over the last week or so as I could easily of jumped into my car and chased instead of waiting for something IMBY! (when I'm not working of course!) To be honest apart from some decent rain on Thursday its been a very dry week here. I did wake up around 12:30am Saturday morning to a very faint 'strobing' in the sky far to the East, but no rain at all here. Still looking forward to a storm here eventually, but it certainly;y shows how fickle storm forecasting can be. I think we need to send Mother Nature a Thunderstorm cookbook because most of the time she forgets to include an ingredient! EDIT - Although after saying all of this, its started to rain here now...................Typical!

Cheers for that Paul S. I pursume MCS can travel the furthest and over a larger area? I heard that they can travel for 100s of miles as well.

Thank you Nick L for your answer - the BoB storm seems to be taking a much quicker turn to the right now, perhaps that could be a Supercell? I will be watching it in case it 'splits'

Realistically if a organised storm had a good energy supply (air/moisture, etc) how long could they rumble on for? Are there any UK records or is this type of thing not recorded? I say this only because of that amazing storm in the BoB. Could it sustain itself up towards the UK given the right conditions?

Well it certainly looks like a second round of storms are starting to fire up in the Bay of Biscay. Hopefully they will start to head N/N-E towards us over time. EDIT - Even the Faroe Island are getting storms.......what's all that about?? lol EDIT 2 - It's just amazing how many ingredients goes into 'making' a thunderstorm! All these charts and all the data is mind-boggling, and it really does show that a slight change in data, even by half a number can really make or break a storm outbreak. LAST EDIT (I promise!) - I also think that the atmosphere is so unstable in parts that anything can fire up at any time without warning. Who needs charts and data when the skyscape provides so much information.

Have to say I'm a little dissappointed with regards to this mornings developments. It all started so well down here with numerous storms firing over the channel and making landfall from South Devon across to Lyme Bay. But unfortunately they lost all energy and has ended with some amazing cloudscapes and thats it I heard a couple of far off deep rumbles of thunder, but nothing materialised. Shame, but nevermind.

Not sure if this has been mentioned, and I'm not sure what the set up is for one, but is there a possibility of a sting jet with this Low midweek?

Looks really nice on sat24, although not very electrically active now

Cells really gathering pace and organising into a line from West Somerset down across Exmoor and into Exeter. In fact some of the cells really are intensifying very quickly on radar.

Yeah I suppose you are right, although nothing like the intensity of some of the storms that some people have, and continue to see now Living this close to the south coast (Lyme Bay) I start thinking to myself, if storms that are active over the channel then hit land and decay, Am I close enough to see them or, on the other hand, If they are not active over the Bay but become electrified over land, will I be too far south to miss them when they 'pep' up as it were! If you know what I mean!

Have to say I'm a little dissapointed at how little storm activity has occured here, although I understand that the further west you are the risk had deminished anyway. Everything had occured about 15-20 miles to the East of me towards Yeovil heading Northward. Im not entirely sure if anything else will happen in this part of the country now, but the week ahead is looking warm/hot and the thunderstorm risk increases during the week. On a side note, I really enjoy lying in bed listen to distant thunder booming away even if it was over 20 miles away. The bass on some of it was amazing, the way it echos from afar.

Yes a very definate Northerly track, maybe even a slight turn to the NNW? Almost a direct hit in Brighton - Eastbourne. Meanwhile, Im keeping an eye on the BoB developments for my area later

Even though things are looking a little dissapointing down in this neck of the woods, I been checking http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en and already there seems to be a fair bit of activity way West of the BoB.

It certainly rattled through pretty sharpish. Nice structure on the back edge of the cell moving Northwest. Lightning was impressive, I counted 4 CG bolts at the same time, although the thunder was quite quiet until the end rumble that shook the windows even though the storm was a reasonable distance away.