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1 minute ago, Christchurch storm nut said:
I was looking west from mudeford quay, over Hengistbury Head, are you still in the Bournemouth area?
Yes, at home in North Bournemouth.
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Woah! Very close under cloud crawler and rolling thunder. Niiiiice!
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4 minutes ago, Christchurch storm nut said:
WTF have I just seen, quite possibly the longest horizontal lightning known to man, left to right followed by a very long and deep peel of thunder, it's not a fantastic storm but it beats sleep lol
Which direction was it?
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1 minute ago, thunderhead 2005 said:
2 strikes outside Bournemouth GAME ON !!!!
JESUS THERES A CELL
Yes - confirmed! Just as I was about to wave the white flag!
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In Bournemouth but itching to get in the car. Probably wouldn't want to go any further than Portdown Hill, behind Portsmouth.
My worry is this will still be too far west. May stay put.
Any thoughts?
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7 hours ago, Mapantz said:
That was easily the best show I have seen in the last 12 years. Incredible!
+CG's are pretty rare, but when hits at close range, you know the difference between a negative and positive stroke, that's for sure.
The main action here in Bournemouth was 3pm - 4pm - we had almost constant overhead lightning (all intra cloud and very high level) but it was completely dry. Really, really surreal. (We did get some rain afterwards as the electrical activity had mostly passed through).
I went to bed at 4pm but at 5pm the house was shaken to its foundations by what was pretty much a rogue strike - I'm certain a +CG. As you say Cliffy, you sure know about it when it happens!
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11 minutes ago, kumquat said:
I bet Pen-Y-Fan will suck the life out of it.
Not sure about that, but Fan-Y-Big might...
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That band of snow hit the A303 and simply disappeared... I'd be gutted if it wasn't so bloody predictable!
Oh well, I saw the cloud that gave that nice snow shower over Ringwood / New Forest our of my bedroom window first thing this morning. The snow missed Bournemouth, obviously, but at least I saw the cloud...
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2 minutes ago, Midlands Ice Age said:
Can I spot a -51C in the polar airmass?
That is really cold!!!!
That's the windchill, but minama temperatures not far behind in N Russia.
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Well, wow!
Last night was like a storm off of the old days. Lots of big, powerful CGs (overhead too!!!), booming thunder and rain of biblical proportions.
I love the elevated stuff we usually get here in Bournemouth but that was a reminder of how much fun a monster surface-based storm can be!
One happy boy this morning!
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4 minutes ago, Rapodo said:
Very humid along the southcoast Christchurch/Bournemouth area and Dark clouds keep trying to form!
Especially a little inland i.e Ringwood way.
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Puddletown, mid Dorset
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Chasing the back of this thing and it's throwing down forks all over the place!
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Well, that was fun!!!!
Loads of lightning (a lot of which was intra-cloud), booming thunder and some BIG forks. Stopped filming moments before a giant positive CG almost wiped me out LOL!
All preceded by a field of ACs and the most beautiful thundery sky you could hope to see.
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On 19/07/2016 at 19:19, Thundery wintry showers said:On 20/07/2016 at 17:11, Harry said:1 hour ago, Willsy said:
It was in Friday the 3rd into the 4th maybe a once in a lifetime storm. The frequency of lightening was unreal on lightening maps at some points there were 10 or more strikes at once from it. I bet you will man
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10 minutes ago, Harry said:
Convergence zone
Thanks Harry!
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23 hours ago, Thundery wintry showers said:1 hour ago, Harry said:
Judging by the sferic activity showing on Blitzortung it appears to me a CZ is forming (hence eroding the cap)
Sorry Harry, what's a CZ?
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21 minutes ago, Windblade said:
Hi Harry. Yes, I'm I've noticed some low level convection this past hour. Doubtful it will amount to anything - this heat seems to have made up its mind to stay as long as possible and stop any and all attempts to remove it.
I remember when I used to live in London, there was a terrific thunderstorm one afternoon in 1997 pretty much in the middle of a high pressure cell.
Intense daytime heating caused your standard low level convection, but after several hours the cap unexpectedly broke and the sky went from blue sky with small fluffy cumulus to BLACK within a very, very short space of time.
Different conditions today but the principal is the same, if those convective parcels can break the cap things can change very, very quickly.
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This is interesting: the track taken by MCSs in the UK between 1981 and 1997.
Source: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.1477-8696.1998.tb06352.x/pdf
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Shy to my NW.
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God I love evenings like this. It's warm, still and I've just seen a 180 degree rainbow to my SE against a dark sky and one very long, very low, deep rumble of thunder. Love it!
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Hmmmm... Just had a heavy and unexpected shower with big convective drops from a thick AC layer with a very high base. Interesting!
Convective / Storm Discussion Thread - 27th Feb onwards
in Storms & Severe Weather
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CG. And booooooooom!
Cat comes running indoors!