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Big area of moderate rain around NW Kent, with what sounds like one isolated cell just South of Southend. :wacko:

Me too, I'm not too fussed though seeing as I'm slightly scared of lightning. :wacko: Paul Sherman left his storm shield on full power, anyone in the upper Thames estuary area is screwed.

Indeed you have a small developing cell to your North over Thames estuary, and a very powerful cell over the French coast, just goes to show where all the CAPE is being tapped into. :lol:

Got that typical arc of storms that signifies the approach of a thundery low moving towards London, back years ago it seemed the storms always moved along cold fronts, nowadays cold fronts are always weak.

I'm sorry for having a different opinion, so terribly sorry.

Interesting indeed, I remember hearing somewhere that positive bolts often come from Atlantic Westerly type setups, perhaps cooler upper air encourages bigger hail formation and so bigger bolts perhaps? I remember one spectacular 'cool weather' storm, its churning base lit up by the setting sun, there were several CGs that hit with almost instant shotgun blasts, setting off car alarms, I've never seen a more spectacular daytime lightning show since, Westerly storms are far better than messy plume storms IMO. :lol: As for lightning frequency, I vaguely remember a storm from the late 90s that had incredibly frequent lightning, barrages of CGs, many of them flickering. Still dosen't beat Krakow in Poland back in 07, we could see the giant storm tops over the Poland/Czech border as we were flying in over Germany, we were at probrably around 30,000ft, and they were higher! After a hazy day in Krakow, the storms moved in late afternoon, lightning was immense, several CGs at a time too and massive anvil crawlers, we were staying near a big power station and industrial area too, and lightning hit some of the stacks a few times. :lol:

I'd love the whole of summer to be like a short spell we had at the end of May (I think!) last year, where daytime temperatures were warm but we had a feed of extremely clean and dry air (from Scandi way I beleive), I can't remember ever seeing such crystal clear deep blue skies, no awful haze or humidity at all, and a refreshing cool breeze, wonderful! Shame it didn't last longer, if I remember correctly the Atlantic then awoke big time (mind you I don't mind a good atlantic blast now and then, Spring has been lacking of them this year!).

Har har, very good.

Super report Paul, you've really done some hard work on this. B) Indeed, towards sundown I could see updrafts and they were only really getting going overhead or just to the West, we ended up right under a red precip area.

Light snow here, very tiny flakes, but its snowing and settling on rooftops. :wub:

Snowing heavily again now, although its been snowing more or less constantly since late afternoon yesterday, thickest covering I've ever seen in my life, even thicker than Early 07 or 04.

Bus went past here only about 10 minutes ago. Looks like college is cancelled then, I'm not going to be able to get anywhere near it for a start. :lol: I really cannot understand what is happening to Paul, all my snow is coming from his direction, and im only about 25miles away, some kind of evil shield is at work here.

Super photos everyone, I have a camera waiting to be used but no batteries (as per usual!). Yes but, around here, there has been no grit at all, the local council seems to have been caught out, maybe its because usually they go mad and grit everywhere and then nothing happens, so this time they've decided to ignore weather forecasts, crafty British weather.

Eerily quiet here, even at this time there is usually a few people out on the roads, the only people mad enough to drive are the bus drivers. I wish i lived in the city centre now so I could go out an join the drunken snowfighting madness. Also no roads gritted here. :o B)

Snow still falling at a steady rate here, its been going for 6 hours more or less constant here now. Quite a large covering here now by London standards, 3-4cm estimate. Damn fine winter. Hah thanks for the link MCT, some rather drunken snowball fights going on in city centre.

I've never ever seen snow fall just about all day before, its still coming down in very fine flakes. :blush: Covering of quite a few cms now. :lol:

Odd very fine snow here, but its all getting rather deep.

Those south of the river are stealing my snow! Can see the line of snow showers to my south, very orangey, but im in a clear slot here as I can see the moon, looking orangey to my North and NE too though. I'm happy with the pretty winter scene outside now, and also the chance that college might be closed tomorrow. The snow that has fallen is really great though, super fluffy and powdery.

From a post a few pages back. Snow virtually stopped here, but they sky is still eerily reflecting light, weve had snow showers on and off all day with the odd quiet break inbetween, best winter Ive ever witnessed in my whole life (haven't been around that long ).

I think I can hear muffled rumbles around here. I see London city aircraft are reporting being struck, damn If I wasn't downstairs I probrably would have seen that from here. Moderate snow here, the main streamer action (and the thunder) seems to be passing south of me.

Snow coming down thick and fast, the sky is that eerie red we had back in the Jan 2004 blizzard, also possible heard thunder, might have been a gust of wind though. Quite a nice covering by London standards now.

Impressive feed of showers here, the last one is heading off WSW but theres a trail of updraft towers coming out the back of it, streamer maybe? Quite a nice settling of snow too.

Big snow showers arriving off the sea here, getting rather dark to my North and East while small flakes begin to fall.

Small flakes just started although the sun is still shining, looks very black to my North, must be getting a decent fall over N Essex way.

Hello all. Blimey %100 percent chance of snow tomorrow according to the Netweather will it snow 'o' metre. Cold 'n' windy but clear here.