justinflavin

one of the most evil looking clouds has just passed overhead, heading in a north east direction. a few rumbles of thunder. the northeast direction is as black as night. heading towards reading i'd say.

a bat just flew right over me in the garden - normally those chaps come out at sunset. good omen for an evening storm on the way? maybe he's getting his evening meal in now before all hell breaks loose. i must admit this horizon-to-horizon haze looks ominous.

a pity. we could do with a bit of a storm down here. its been horribly humid/muggy for the past few days. no chance of something hitting us from across the channel later?

down in the south here , the entire sky has become overcast with a higher level haze, with lower level clouds floating around. very muggy, humid at well.

i picked up spanish radio on FM - not sure if thats a sign of storm activity?

we could do with some storms down south. its been awfully muggy the past few days.

i'm picking up Spanish radio on FM! must be the sferics in north France?

very difficult to pick. but i voted for posty 2 - the simplicity of it and the stunning colours.

if you watch closely you'll notice secondary lightning, but thinner , coming even closer to the camera.

yes - i saw that too , on the road to Alton , driving from Petersfield in Hampshire this evening (around 6pm). the mammatus was spectacular, but unfortunately, no lightning with it.

i remember the last time that happened (snow thunder) , about 2 years ago. the country ground to a halt as drivers ended up being stranded , such was the downpour of snow in a short space of time.

--> QUOTE(Matt B @ 19 Mar 2007, 01:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Heavy Snow, soft hail mix falling here in Reading atm is it sticking on the ground? just wondering if my drive home from petersfield to basingstoke this evening will be somewhat dangerous or not.

eight were killed at that High School. students were trapped. very very tragic. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070302/D8NJRM0O0.html local media links: Enterprise Ledger (local newspaper) : http://www.eprisenow.com/ Everything alabama: http://www.al.com/ alabama local tv listing: http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Televi...a/Complete_List wikipedia page on the feb-march tornado outbreak: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February-Marc...ornado_Outbreak

thick blanket of snow here in basingstoke about 3 or 4 inches and its still snowing. http://i12.tinypic.com/2rm4n5g.jpg

about an inch of snow fell overnight here in basingstoke. enough for my daughter to make a snowman before going to school.

not sure if this is the same weather system, but a tornado hit farnborough on saturday afternoon. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/6239537.stm

so basically, the express screaming headline was based on a 2 per cent probability?

my post was originally in another thread, to do with model forecasting - the admins have moved it into this discussion. (odd i know) mammatus replied to it. http://www.netweather.tv/forum/index.php?s...35321&st=85

daily express - "huge storms to batter britain" http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/news_detail.html?sku=1005 any truth in what they are reporting?

winds have started pick up a fair bit here in basingstoke. very stormy right now. wind map: http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

more heading my way... look at the wind speeds in wales. marathon oil platform, off the coast of Cork, southern Ireland, looks v.rough! http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

unfortunately 6 injured. taken to hospital... sky weatherman is warning about a similar system coming in from wales... its heading east. its not over yet for today. the tornado system must have been the one i videoed earlier this morning (the hailstorm) - headed east - and it hit london around 11.05am that was videoed around 9.30am here in basingstoke. update: sky are saying 5 injured. treated at the scene for injuries and shock. update 2: bbc - 5 treated at the scene. 1 man taken to hospital with head injuries. 6 injured total. (and bbc keep saying mini-tornado ... gggaaarrggghhh!!!)

Tornado reported in Harlesden! http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/forum/foru...26&posts=17 Sky news... http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1243278,00.html good lord - look at this picture. side of a house ripped off http://news.sky.com/skynews/picture_galler...43280-2,00.html !!!! its on sky news now. just switched it on... entire roofs ripped off.

yeah - it felt like that down here as well. the wind really picked up in speed during the hail downburst. that westerly line is starting to come over us here in basingstoke. clear blue skies in between.

video i took this morning of the hailstorm downburst in my back garden