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    Convective / Storm Risk Discussion - 23rd July 2013 onwards

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    Ha. Stable here mate. Game over. The NAE and GFS 12z seem to downgrade Thursday's rain now. I don't know where rainfall is going to come from. The ground is still baked hard here.

     

    Like I said before we've currently got the worst of all worlds at the moment and no exaggeration. Dull, lifeless atmosphere, bland murky white cloud, stifling humidity at times and no sign of a decent storm/ downpour to freshen things up. Conscious of the fact this sounds like whingeing now (but I have a point!) so i'm taking myself off into the NSC to drown my sorrows. Happy storms everyone....

    Convective / Storm Risk Discussion - 23rd July 2013 onwards

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    The only thing I can think of (as the Marches used to be a hotbed for storms) is that this must be part of some natural feedback mechanism which is going through a natural phase. How long that phase will last though is anyone's guess!

    True. Generally in the dim and distant past, when we used to have storms here, they would come up from Crewe/ Nantwich area, hit Chester first then cross us and make their way onto Liverpool, Southport etc....now it's like someones flicked the "OFF" switch! 

    Convective / Storm Risk Discussion - 23rd July 2013 onwards

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    Does the motorway follow a natural contour in the landscape?  Was it easier for engineers to built the road along a valley bottom or something?  The M4 also seems to be a regular weather barrier/border along with the M1 in Yorkshire.

     

    Not sure but generally big motorways are cut on the lowest possible ground, and form a shallow valley in themselves. Just wouldn't have thought they could affect something as powerful as a storm cell. But the topography of the Welsh Marches could be worth looking at too. Even on the latest Sat24 images, watch how that plume of cloud literally avoids the Welsh Marches area, and fails to head west into N.Wales/ Wirral.

    Convective / Storm Risk Discussion - 23rd July 2013 onwards

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    This may seem a ridiculous question but I'm absolutely serious in asking it. of my more learned friends, is there ANY way a major man-made feature can influence storms/ storm tracks. Because looking at last nights radar, and other storms like the ones in June last year, any storms that originate in the east/ south east of us...ie: Lincolnshire, North Midlands, Shropshire literally seem to get killed stone dead by the M6 motorway! I know this sounds flippant but its a genuine question! Can it have any effect? 

    Convective / Storm Risk Discussion - 23rd July 2013 onwards

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    It is interesting, maybe they can see something happening up there over these areas. Amber warnings are normally raised when severe weather is more imminent as there needs to be a reasonable likelihood as well as impact. Of course anything that developed here would likely spread NE and so eastern areas would still be at risk. The Amber warnings may get expanded into Yorkshire and NE England later?

     

    That Met warning literally has us just on the outside of that boundary....we will wait and see.

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