Southern Storm

April 23, 2023

1 minute ago, SnowBear said:

KP index 8 and totally overcast

Tell me about it

Someone's getting a proper show though, I'm sure there are some epic photos already doing the rounds on Social media

April 23, 2023

I'm currently located at the highest spot near me, and I can see some faint purple sky glow

But I feel we've missed the best opportunity for the very far south

April 23, 2023

3 minutes ago, The Tall Weatherman said:

Looks like tomorrow evenings/nights cloud cover will be crystal clear from the Central midlands to pretty much everywhere north, as the night goes on the risk for aurora will increase to southern England. The Latest Aurora watch is showing a general upward trend tomorrow evening and anywhere that has clear skies in the UK will have guaranteed Aurora out of city lights.

Isn't that graphic showing current conditions though?

Just now, Weather-history said:

Isn't that graph showing for tonight rather than tomorrow night? Look at the date period.

This is what I thought,

I could swear that this graph used to show the 24 hours to come, not the past 24 hours, Has it changed by any chance?

April 23, 2023

8 minutes ago, Metwatch said:

48N now!

Wow, I might just head out with the camera

I'm about as far south as you can get, but that image has given me some hope

April 23, 2023

Can someone help me understand why we are currently in a geomagnetic storm, but the graph shows really low activity for the current timeframe

I've noticed the same thing on a few occasions, and find it a bit puzzling

Actually looking at the graph, I can see the dates are from the 22nd until the 23rd, silly me, I thought they were showing conditions for the following 24 hours

April 23, 2023

22 minutes ago, SNOW_JOKE said:

The CME impact from Friday has now impacted Earth with a geomagnetic storm underway.

If only it was clear skies and night-time for us in the UK.

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Tomorrow evening could be interesting!

Just need the strength to hold up until after dark, and for there to be clear skies, not too much to ask for

April 22, 2023

3 minutes ago, The Tall Weatherman said:

No at the moment model guidance shows this will fizzle out although you might see some potential heavy showers (most likely void of thunder) later around 4z as highlighted by the 12z UKV.

Thought as much, were not that far off now though

I can't wait for this thread to really get going

April 22, 2023

Some beefy showers have developed off the northern coast of France, the most potent one looks to be heading towards the IOW

Does anyone think there is a chance for southern areas this evening?

As decent as it looks on radar, there doesn't appear to be enough juice to spark into life

April 14, 2023

4 minutes ago, Willsy said:

fair enough, oh dear that’s not good bet you was kicking yourself.

yes that was from the same storm

here’s my vid from the cliff top

That's Amazing, well done for capturing, I bet you were surprised to see that!

Did you try chasing it?

April 14, 2023

15 minutes ago, Willsy said:

yes it was me that posted it. was such a sight. i wish i got ahead of it to film the damage as it happened. ah wow that was defo the storm. i literally pulled up in the car park at barton cliff top and there it was.

no worries i can send you the full vid if you want

I'm not very lucky when it comes to seeing nearby tornados.

I lived in Birmingham back in July 2005 and didn't get to see that event, even though I would have had a great vantage point from where I was working at the time.

Although one of my colleagues did manage to see it from staff balcony just as it was dissipating!

and than later seeing it on the news was quite shocking!

And to only be a short distance from this one and being oblivious to it is very annoying

I believe this was the same day? Amazing view !

https://youtu.be/1mhS99QjqZ0

April 14, 2023

2 hours ago, Willsy said:

i know this is old news but i witnessed a very large waterspout/tornado last year. After torro did their research they found that the parent cell traveled 62 inland producing at least 3 tornadoes maybe more . i caught the first one as it came in at barton on sea. was quite a sight to say the least. wasn’t your standard water spout as had a broad rotation with lots of spin ups within. seeing the damage first hand was like something out of a movie lol. i know i’ll probably never see anything like this again but with a warming world who knows! These aren’t my photos neither is the written info but thought i’d share it for. the torro forum i’m on

That's some damage! Was it you who posted a video of it coming ashore? I did remember seeing a couple of videos from the new Milton area.

I was sat in the car in Mudeford, just about to set off on a chase and could see some serious motion.

Thanks for posting

April 13, 2023

This is what's left of the line of showers.

I don't think they'll be around much longer, but it's been nice watching them grow to my northwest since mid afternoon

April 13, 2023

I great to see the thread up and running so early in the season, we are really off to a great start

Here are some drone shots of the cells that passed to the north of my location, can't wait for storm season proper, bring on the Spanish plumes

April 13, 2023

15 hours ago, Eagle Eye said:

I'll be honest I don't make the maps. I just do the discussion. The guy who does the maps seems to think that's the area of interest down south and I'm agreeing to disagree as I think it'll be more to the east but we'll see how it goes. Hard to pin down any specific areas with thunderstorms of course.

Well played, you called it! Definitely more east than the forecast

March 8, 2023

1 minute ago, Mark Parsons said:

The rain is trying to turn to snow here, heavy wet bits of snow in the rain......

Same here, unfortunately the street lights have turned off now, from what I can hear hitting my window, it's more rain than snow.

I was hoping we'd get lucky, it's not looking likely that I'll have snow on the ground when I wake up though.

March 1, 2023

5 minutes ago, Sprites said:

They were taken on Sunday from about 22.00, I just got the tail end of what you captured. On Monday I picked it up again at the same location, but it was barely registering on camera.

I'm guessing you new there would be a decent chance, and were ready and waiting? And if so, can you recommend where to look for any decent reliable sources, within reason of course, just Like any rare phenomenon, there will always be letdowns.

I thought waiting for, and predicting noctilucent clouds were one massive tease

Looks like my new fascination is going to cause a lot of heartache

March 1, 2023

27 minutes ago, Paul Sherman said:

Have had some mad displays in the last 6 weeks or so. Firstly went to Norway on a Netweather Scouting Mission for starting to run tours up there. It was my 5th Visit and have now over 150 viewing locations up there. The January 22nd Display was very nice only a KP1 but the Aurora Oval is pretty much overhead as you are at 70 Degrees North up there.

22nd January on the Norway/Finland Border

Then went Back for a 2nd Trip last week and another decent display this time a KP3 Event and Clear Skies over the Fjords which always make for some stunning viewpoints

Then after getting a 5 Hour Blizzard our flight home got delayed from Tromso so we took off when darkness fell and big props to our Pilot who turned all the Cabin lights off and told the whole plane to head to the right hand side to watch the unfolding display as the sunset was in progress way off to the west.

Then as I got back from the trip over the weekend I knew once watching the Bz swing down to -17 South that the Aurora would be viewable at much lower latitudes and grabbed it like Jamie at 51.5N in Leigh On Sea

The trips also gave us rare Sun Pillars and also in January the beautiful Nacreus Clouds on 25th January

Its been a bit of a mad winter for Solar Pictures.

The Solar Maximum is still good for the next few years and we will be running more trips upto the Arctic Circle for anybody that is Interested. They are a Photography trip as well for any Photogs out there.

Regards

Paul

That's a cracking set of pictures there Paul.

Is this the first time you've traveled specifically for aurora? If so you must have been very happy with what you got to see.

It's fair to say your potential customer base has just increased especially after the few nights

I'd definitely like to find out more information on the tour's

I'll keep an eye out for any future updates.

March 1, 2023

18 minutes ago, Sprites said:

A few more Aurora photos from 26-28 February. I missed the peaks but still a subtle display.

Short phone time lapse

Amazing photos sprites, it looks like the conditions couldn't have been any better for you.

Seeing the aurora reflection on the lake Very well done

Were they taken on the first or second night?

March 1, 2023

5 minutes ago, Weather-history said:

Yes, at least from other parts of the world but clouds plagued my area, so I didn't see them

Largest Geomagnetic Storm in 20 Years

WWW.GEOMAG.BGS.AC.UK

Thanks for the link

I'll have to read some of the early pages of the thread, I'm sure there will be plenty of information that others have added over the years, after all

This thread was started in 2006

March 1, 2023

19 minutes ago, Weather-history said:

Hopefully as we get nearer to solar maximum in 2015, we get some truely spectacular displays. I think the late October 2003 displays were the last great ones seen from the UK.

I hope your wish comes true

Was the 2003 event as widely seen?

I was living up north back then, but with no real coverage on the news, plus not having access to the net, I would have been oblivious to it anyway.

Also, it made me wonder if there is a best time of the year to see aurora? Especially when it comes to lower latitudes

Now seem to be the sweet spot.

Not too light in the evenings, and we are heading towards the equinox, which means our hemisphere is more side on in relation to the sun than in would have been around the time of the winter solstice

March 1, 2023

Here is a short Time-lapse of Mondays Aurora.

Looking back shows how lucky I got with the cloud, if it had happened a couple of minutes later, myself and many others at that location would have been oblivious to what was going on.

February 28, 2023

15 minutes ago, Sprites said:

Brilliant photos

Was there much on camera before or afterwards?

From what I can tell the Aurora was just about showing up on camera between 22-01.00.

I stayed out hoping for another flare up I haven't warmed up yet...

Thanks

Other than the main show

From what I could see, there looked to be a slight green sky glow, with some very faint red shafts low on the horizon.

I had one camera shooting continuously at 24mm wide

just downloading them to the Pc

First time creating a time lapse from stills as I usually let the camera do it, but at the cost of not being able to properly edit the end result, not something I was willing to do with such a rare event, more work but hopefully it will pay off.

You did the right thing in staying out, even if it didn't amount to anything, sometimes you just have to brave the cold whatever the end result.

I was planning on heading out Sunday evening just to do a star time lapse, I had no idea there was a chance of aurora, especially down here, but I decided to watch tennis instead

I did give myself a good telling off for being lazy after seeing everyone's photos yesterday morning

February 28, 2023

2 hours ago, *Stormforce~beka* said:

What time was this?

21:00

February 28, 2023

Hi guys, unfortunately it the second showing never amounted to anything, which is a real shame if you missed out.

Sorry if I got some people's expectations up with my earlier post, that same optimism resulted in me standing an extra 3 hours in the freezing cold, with feet like blocks of ice

I have to admit that I got very lucky tonight, because it clouded over not long after I arrived at Knowlton church

but the cloud had cleared just in time before the spectacle began, just before 9pm.

It was visible to the naked eye, even though the moon was quite bright, however, i was able to see a faint red glow to the Northwest, before the aurora started filling the sky directly north.

It was a truly amazing experience to see the aurora, especially this far south, and something I've always wanted to see, I'll never forget it .

I Hope there are a few surprises left before this spell of increased activity come to an end

Here are some snaps from this evening, not many really, as each exposure was around 20 second long, and the whole event from Start to finish only lasted around 6 minutes!

southern Storm