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Hmm passing already, about 2 bangs 4 rumbles, 20 seconds of hail and very heavy rain. Looking at the radar it was very localised right over the top of MK, perhaps the UHI effect kicked it into gear, gone quiet now as i'm typing. Oh well short but sweet
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Huge raindrops, hail and an enormous crack of thunder just now in MK, sky is black as hell.
Numerous rumbles here now and bangs, wind is very strong and gusty trees swaying and getting blown everywhere.
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It's not going to be long before things go bang, can see some very large towering CB's to my south which are gaining height all the while. Looking very angry with that lovely crisp hard edged definition
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lm just curious, when is this "thundery" weather due to pass? ld much prefer settled weather now to be honest.. getting kinda tired of it :/
admittedly lm not a fan of storms close to home (lost a few computers to strikes which doesnt help as l need them to do my job) plus pets start damaging the place when they hear loud bangs
that being said when are we expecting a lenfthy settled peroid?Buy surge protectors for your PC equipment to stop any lightning damage, and secondly the pets damaged the house due to loud noises? Holy Moly do you keep elephants indoors or something, my dog just goes and lays under the coffee table and goes to sleep.
On another note, been raining heavily on and off since I woke around 8am. Cloud cover is becoming lighter and looks like the sun will be out pretty soon. Atmosphere feels ripe for a storm like it did on Thursday, so just waiting for the fireworks to get started
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Some lively activity still happening to the SW of Luxembourg heading our way! Can only pray it keeps its sferics by the time it hits Kent/ East Anglia !
Sadly I'd say don't hold your breath, as the effect of no insolation & the channel kicks in they'll likely die and turn into moderate rain. Hopefully this will clear late morning and allow things to warm up nicely, any storms that develop will be after the overnight rain clears feeding off the moist air at mid levels and any sbcape that builds, although I don't think any storms tomorrow that form will be on the same scale as Thursdays due to less sbcape and lower vorticity.
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Thank you Muffelchen I didn't think I was imagining rotation. I was looking at the SAT24 vissable radar playback up until it got too dark to see another frame, and that particular cell on satellite did show clockwise rotation with a small up draft at the rear of the cell protruding above the rest of the anvil which looked like an overshooting top. This is evident on the sat photo's if anyone has access to some higher resolution images I'd very much like to take a look at them.BTW: Nice piccy of the approaching shelf cloud
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It's a lovely shelf cloud indeed. However it isn't supercellular, before everyone gets too excited. It's a squall line feature
I mentioned super cellular upon looking at the precipitation radar, there appeared to be an odd area of rainfall at the back edge of the storm which spread out as though it was moving in the opposite direction to the main forward thrust of the storm, yes it's within a squall line feature, but some squall lines in the UK are known to have embedded storms with super cell characteristics, and a lot of super cells often have very large well defined shelf clouds on their outflow... We won't be able to tell unless there is some more photographic or video footage showing the base and inflow area to determine whether rotation was present.
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Storm in York now, photo from twitter
Holy CRAP! That is a nice shelf cloud, structure above looks like it may be super cellular, hope people get some more pictures, and some of the base of that beast...
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Sorry to say it, but it just doesn't feel thundery today at all. A couple of light showers earlier, but it's been mainly cloudy and cool with a naggingly cold south easterly wind blowing today. Feels more like the beginning of October than the end of May at the minute. Here's hoping tomorrow see's the SE wind pull in some more warm humid air of the near continent to get the storms firing.
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Playing around with the video from the other day, anyone know what type of lightning you would specify this as?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2-adynS2VI&feature=youtu.be
Looked like a negative cloud to cloud strike below the cloud base due to the storms high level.
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Interesting line of developing showers running from the SW. NEwards. Looks like it's down to current wind convergence, worth keeping an eye on to see if they can develop into storms, the suns going to go down but with so much energy in the atmosphere still it could be the needed trigger.
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supercells over germany:
Awesome, you can clearly see the overshooting tops
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Here is the 3 vids of the storms in MK today that I managed to film when the rain & hail wasn't so heavy it would have wrecked my phone, hence me trying to keep it dry by pointing out the window. Apologies for my bad language but in the third video we had a triple positive IC strike & extremely loud thunder
Video 1:
http://youtu.be/cs1-YOWKzkgVideo 2:
Video 3:
Enjoy peeps....
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Latest BBC News 24 weather forecast mentioned another area of developing showers affecting the SW, CS England and the South Midlands later this evening and overnight, all those folks complaining they haven't seen anything today, may be in luck tonight. Some rapid development around the Bristol Channel, so anything is still possible in the very unstable airmass.
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Band cleared through about 30 minutes ago and the sun came out, now going very dark to the south of MK once more, nothing showing on radar but by the look of the sky and the fast cumulus development I'd say something is trying to form to the south in the clearer air. Have three clips from the storm earlier which I am uploading in HD to Youtube, will publish later once my poor old internet manages to send them.
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Gone quiet here in MK now, just left with some moderate rain which now appears to be clearing, the last storm that moved through had a dramatic shift in wind pattern with a lot of rising scud in the lower levels, one minute it was blowing from the NE, then round to the SW and after about a minute the winds have moved back to the NE after it passed. Worth keeping an eye on as it pushes NNE as it definitely had vorticity within the back end.
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Thunder still booming to the north the east and the south. I'm a little worried looking at the sky to the south of MK, not sure if it is a shelf cloud approaching but it has the appearance of a linear stacked super cell with bands of distinct cumulus all sitting on top of each other
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New potent cell going up right on top of MK with a huge one to the south, merging together, light rain but constant angry growling thunder with crisp clean cracks from the new developing cell and vivid bright lightning!!!!!!!
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Three storms close to MK now, the one to the north, can hear thunder from the east and from the south now aswell, the one coming from the south sounds like a beast, the rumbles and booms are so deep
Edit: Heavy rain now and there is rolling deep thunder coming from every direction of the sky in the distance. I'm more excited than a kid in a candy shop at the minute, don't know where to point my eyes or ears
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The MK storm is throwing out a serious amount of sferics.
Not joking it was NUTZ with a capital Z, the thunder was so loud and close at one point it made me cower, really thought I was going to be struck
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First storm now clearing MK to the north, that was intense to say the least, can hear more thunder booming away to the south of MK so I suspect round two isn't far away. Managed to grab a couple of vids on the IPhone as it was close with the torrential rain and hail core, at one point the lightning and thunder were within a second of each other and the whole garden is now flooded with water...
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Constant loud thunder and bright lightning in MK, also pea sized hail and torrential rainfall, garden is a wash with water
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OMFG, huge CC arch of lightning right accross the sky here and instantaneous crisp crackling thunder thats rolling away,,,,
Holy moly the house is shaking for huge positive CG and IC bolts of lightning it's right overhead in the center of MK
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Lightning app on the iPhone just went of telling me there was a strike within 10KM of MK, currently sat under the outflow of a huge cumulonimbus to the south of MK, hardly a breath of wind with darkening skies to the south and heavy convective rain falling straight down.
that being said when are we expecting a lenfthy settled peroid?
Convective / storm Discussion - 22nd May 2014 onwards
in Storms & Severe Weather
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I think it's down to the temperatures, not exactly been warm today, maximum here has been 14'6c. Probably got something to do with all the heavy rainfall this morning and residual cloud which took until just after lunch to finally clear away.