Stormrider
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Storm just passed with torrential rain, roads as rivers, frequent booming thunder and the odd CG visible
Huge wall of storm clouds across the whole of the northern horizon
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Just had the most incredible storm that brewed up seemingly out of nowhere, rain heavier than I've ever seen, frequent flashes and whip crack thunder.
About time the Chilterns had a decent storm
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Had several rumbles this morning about 3 am with distant flashes to the west, some heavy rain and a close strike and bang. I'm happier now
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had one flash and tremendous bang about 17.10 after a heavy rainshower. the lightning couldnt have been further than a few hundred feet!
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I've just this minute watched the 18.30 live forecast on BBC 1. Daren Bett presented it and an informative forecast it was too.
The main focus being on the Cold Front for tonight / tomorrow, including showers breaking out ahead and after the main band of rain.
My reason for posting is about the predicted rainfall animation. As the 3 hour slots were shown with the rain band edging W-E it appeared that, as each slide changed, there were 2 bands of rain. This corrected itself to show only one band in actual reality, but this could easily cause confusion for less (for want of a better term) knowledgable viewers.
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I remember this happening a lot - the rain band would be shown to intensify in one line, then de-intensify, then magically appear 100 miles east and do the same thing
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horribly murky and muggy, almost total humidity
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Mostly clear, but can see virga from ac cas perhaps to my north-west - fairly unusual?
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Because the BBC have been inefficient with spending of resources as well as lazy in their implementation of the new graphics.
I also miss the old rainfall radar they used to have before the new graphics. The old radar had more colours on to denote intensity, and it just looked neat. The new radar often shows heavy rain as misleadingly light, i.e. all blue. The only coloured parts it shows is if the rain is exceptionally heavy or torrential, it does not represent moderate or sharp rainfall as well as the old legend.
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I agree entirely - i miss seeing all the colours of the rainbow in one storm, instead of poxy green and yellow denoting torrential thunderstorms
The blue colours account for all light and moderate rain, so its very hard to distinguish
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nice and sunny again here with a light breeze, a few puffy cumulus clouds blowing around. seemed to miss all the storms yesterday
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just starting to brighten up after being miserable all day. right on edge of front and can see weird cloud formations. max temp 16C
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Sunny, with a light breeze and some cirrus to the west
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heavy drizzle now after having rained heavily all day
enjoy tomorrow if poss!
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Storm Reports 16th August Onwards
in Storms & Severe Weather
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complete damp squib here, hoping for some proper action later