StormChaser
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If I dont see any action within the next half n hour im off to the land of nod:( I was so hoping we get something.
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Oh well sod all from our end again. Not even, raining now:(
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Man this is furstraiting , lots of stormy clouds nothing atm not even rain now.The clouds are impressive looking.
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Lots of dogs barking...
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I bet im just sitting on the edge of this thing and get nothing again, apart from rain:(
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We got some really strange weather here,Clouds were moving in fast now they have slowed down and the air seems to be stickyish, wondering if this the start of the storm?
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Dark skies raining, no storm yet.
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As someone has said above, the decline in thundery activity can be explained by natural climate variability and I think we would need to see a much longer record of thunder days to determine if there is a trend or if this is just normal fluctuation.
This post has reminded me about something I learned almost by accident while doing some research for a paper. I was looking into the spike in deaths recorded in many parish records associated with the last real super eruption, that of the Laki fissure volcano in Iceland. Many of the deaths were related to A, increased particulate matter and sulperous gasses in the atmosphere causing respiritory problems and B, Exceptionally hot summers occuring as a result of the greenhouse effect of the gasses from the eruption. These two products of the eruption resulted not only in the spike in deaths, but also in a increase of severe thunderstorms. Infact I was reading accounts from the time that described people running screaming in the streets as they thought the apocalypse had come such were the unprecedented severity of the storms. The newspaper coverage suggested that in the summer of 1783 (July onward) the storms affected most of the country and were unprecedented in their severity and frequency, described in one correspondance as 'unremitting'.
Although this is an extreme case i think it illustrates that storm frequency / severity is very sensitive and is influenced by more variables than we might expect. I dont know why we seem to be on a negative trend at the moment but im willing to bet that its not permenant!
This is, one of the better explanations ive have herd in a long while:)
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Over the past few years I have noticed a trend in thunderstorms dissapearing, a few years ago we used to get quite regular thunderstorms in summer time. But where has our summer gone? We get one week of intense heat 31oC and thats it back to autum. I remember when our thunderstorms used to get really bad in summer time but now all we get is heavy rain.
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Well after the monsoon we had this morning turned out to be a loverly summers afternoon again. Almost like, nothing happend! We diddnt get any thunder or lightning:( Im seriously considering to moving to the usa or summin. Oh hell, at least theres my youtube fix of "big loud thunderstorms" my god id wish for a storm like they do any day:(
Im joining the no storms club 2009.
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Wall to wall sunshine here very warm again:) Miles better then the monsoon rain I had this morning - summer is back again yey!
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Well as I predict eariler it fizzlled out. Im joining the no storms club for the rest of the year. Its just going to be another hot sticky humid day. I bet the storm it self said to itself, "Wtf, its too hot for me here..!"
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When you say south east? is oxfordshire included nick?
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Hmm, I just seen 3 sets of birds not sure what kind, flying in a perfect v formation moving away from here, i wonder if thats a sign of bad weather on its way. I sware the humidity has just gone up a tad here now. Really feeling sticky again.
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Actually yeah that would be cool (no punt intended) But no cold front for another day and heat up to 31 again should trigger a monster off.
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I hate to say this i hope it dont, but I recon these storms will fizzle out before they reach us properly. Or just get the odd rumble.IOW Lightning detector looks like there moving away not coming towards us.
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hmm, normaly if theres rain in Exeter we get it the next day. So as I stand for now no storms for me tonight:(
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No storm for us tonight just another sticky humid one.
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All quiet on the western front for me... Just me and the sticky warm humid air:(
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God I need a storm to clear this humid air its so , so sticky here. Ive given up hope now, even tho netweather has me at 65% for one.
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hmm, i think i maybe getting my hopes up too high, just looks like a passing cloud. Allthough it does have the indication of a storm brewing.
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Its looking very stormy here, some lovely storm clouds forming i just hope It kicks off.
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No settings have changed this end SC - have you been fiddling with it your end? :lol:
Explain what you're seeing.
Where it says Posts in this topic I seem to have it in tree mode rather than the flat mode i like. Its annoying and have no idea how to change it back again:(
Thursday / Friday Storm Discussion
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I knew it its moving away from us again! jesus. So damn frustraiting!