Southern Storm

UKv 18z latest update has moved tomorrow night's storms firing slightly further west than what was shown on todays 15z, which continues today's trend Still plenty of time for rough timings and position to change

that looks like a volcano has blown it's top! I'd love to be under that

I'm really hoping that something does develop tomorrow, this year has been to first in a long time in which I have not managed to get one photo of lightning in the UK The only consolation is that a recent trip to France delivered the goods, so I shouldn't complain really

No worries, I've been keeping an eye on it today and it's definitely been changing every run. Most of the hi res models have been struggling recently so I'm gonna fill the car and be on standby to see where things develop, seems like the best strategy

That's the 15z, has the 18z come out already? If so I can't find it anywhere

It looks like 2 am Sunday morning is the time that somewhere from Cornwall to the IOW can expect something to appear It's got nowcast situation written all over it

This is showing for early hours of Sunday, I'm sure it will change as we get closer, hopefully it is more widespread than showing

What makes it worse is that if you run through the latter frames of the latest UKv, the showers/storms literally skirt around us, bar the very far southwest Par for the course as far as this year is concerned, but there is still time for things to improve, however, there is a voice saying I should know better than to cling into fale hope. As for less storms, it certainly feels like we are running way below what we'd usually get in any given year, but a remember thinking the same 10 or so years ago, only to be blessed with some reasonably decent storm seasons. Our time will come again I just hope it isn't a long wait.

That's an amazing photo! There will always be something you wish you could change when photographing lightning, I always think I could have done a better job after the fact. But we must always remember that we are dealing with lightning, in a country that doesn't experience that much of it, that in itself makes the photo you posted very special indeed! Let's hope for something to appear later this week, more epic shots to add to the library

Great video, it looked like it was really spinning, very nice to watch Now we finally have some settled weather, and things are starting to heat up, I wonder if we have some decent storms to look forward to. Or are we going to have the heat fade away without any convective breakdown? It's something that has happened a few times in recent years In the 90s you'd have a couple of day of 25 degree heat culminating in some big storms, nowadays it seems it can be hotter and have no real breakdown to speak of, I'm hoping for the former 90s scenario Only time will tell

Just heard some really loud thunder just east of Bristol, it's a nice reward for missing the storms in Christchurch this afternoon

The sun has come out now, I wonder if it will trigger any convection further inland?

Yeah, I nice to finally hear thunder on home soil, I think that's it after this lot has passed through, I'd be surprised if the stuff further out west gives us anything

We have thunder on the south coast It's a miracle

It's absolutely chucking it down here in Christchurch, no sign of anything electrical yet, but I do have my eye on the stuff out in the channel. Here is something I put together, I edited most of the storm footage and pictures I managed to capture while over in Burgundy last week, unfortunately I'm not there for today's storms, but I can't complain too much really Shared album - Scott Terrell - Google Photos PHOTOS.APP.GOO.GL

I think your probably right The sky is so dark to my south, I can't believe there's no lightning coming down

There's some nice instability passing though at the moment, hopefully this doesn't ruin any chances of storms developing in the coming hours

This is from early hours of this morning looking north towards Troyes No storms developed around the area I'm staying at, but I had a great view of the storms that were passing to the north of me. I decided to post a facebook link instead as it takes ages to upload full quality images with the connection I currently have, so the rest can be seen over at FB Enjoy Facebook M.FACEBOOK.COM

Not uk related, but it's been lively here in Burgundy, a well timed vacation, and a lot luck https://community.netweather.tv/topic/83731-european-storm-convective-discussion/?do=findComment&comment=4905518

Yes indeed, finally I've been able to catch a decent storm after waiting literally months for something to show up around the central southern counties of England The forecast for my location in Vix, Burgundy is looking very promising for the coming days And I've already been able to capture some lightning shots from a few storms that passed to my south in the early hours of this morning I'll be out as much as possible with the camera to make the most of this spell, as I'm not holding my breath for this years storm season to suddenly come to life for us southern folk.

I've seen some Great Vlogs of the storms that form in that area, truly epic stuff. So good luck for today, the weather gods really do have a few debts to pay don't you think.

Wow, that's sounds amazing! Has this years so called "storm season" driven you to the extreme of travelling across the Atlantic at great expense, or had you already signed up? I can't wait to hear all about it as it's definitely something I want to do at some point in the future, until then I'm keeping my fingers crossed for some action while I'm in France, there's usually a storm or two when we're over there and it's hotting up just as we arrive otherwise I'm facing my first storm free season in a very long time Good luck with the storms! Feel free to send some this way if you can

There are a few reports from Belgium and the Netherlands floating around on social media

Just the warmup act before the main show? Definitely worth keeping tabs on, good luck

Thanks, looking at the forecast it does show cloud increasing from 2am, so we'll see, this will probably be my last chance for this year, so fingers crossed Hope it clears up for you.