Phil UK
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Not a problem PiggiePalace.
Now, as for sleeping through night time storms. Unless you have a friend or neighbour nearby who can verify that a storm had occured overnight then that is your ticket out of here.
It happened to me in May 2005 when I slept through an elevated storm about 2 or 3 miles away from me. My Brother and friend said to me the day after, those dreaded words... "Did you see and hear that storm last night?" I had to say no as I was grabbing my Zzzzz's.
Although my Brother could have woke me up to let me know. The git!!
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Newbie here politely requesting details on the eligibility...or maybe that should be escape ..... NSC criteria?
I can answer that for you PiggiePalace, although we get this question every year. So now, a nice couple of video examples taken in fact on Monday 29th July 2013. (And taken by moi here in Solihull!
)Overhead storm. That gets you out of the NSC in an instant PROVIDED it is more than just one flash and rumble. Even if intracloud lightning.
This next one will keep you locked in here (muwuhaahaaaah!!) because as myself and my lovely boss Jane agrees, the storm needs to be near enough for visible lightning and audible thunder. This one had audible thunder but too far away to count as an actual nearby/near overhead storm.
I only wish it were dark at the time. I'm sure this one would have made for some impressive night storm viewing.
Hope this finally clears the T&C of leaving, or indeed remaining in the NSC. :-)
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Count yourself lucky, absolutely nothing here today, it rained just 7 miles away in Southam and Solihull was hit hard also, just unbelievable how just south of Coventry always misses the showers, am going to try and contact a local meteorologist to find out the answer why.
The NSC Official Office will be opening here soon
Solihull was hit quite hard. Amazing day. I thought near misses as per usual but nope. 4 storms in one afternoon. Been waiting years for a day like this.
And even more so, waited almost 10 years to capture something like this... (Video still I know but it did happen!)
For those who have missed out today, keep the faith. Still August/September to go yet.
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Some torrential showers and heavy rain but absolutely no thunder. Thing that annoys me is that places just slightly to the East and North to me are getting thunderstorms! I am expecting a thunderstorm today, and if not today then I expect one tomorrow, Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday at least. We are set for some storms later on though however it seems that London is getting SEVERE storms.
I was watching the radar like a hawk watches its prey late afternoon/evening yesterday when I saw this MCS moving up. Then from out of nowhere, and to my east as per usual, I counted 4 intra-cloud flashes of lightning and 9 rumbles of distant but audible thunder here in Solihull. Came out of nowhere.The main MCS coming up from Le Storm Hogging Froggieland made land into the south east but then like that magician Dynamo somehow disappeared.
But from about 10pm onwards, intense rain from the main front moving north east. Not one sferic detected.
Which brings me to agree with TWS about the parallax shift (if any?) in our weather pattern. I'm old enough to remember when you had a Spanish Plume and a low pressure system (be it Atlantic or Bay of Biscay!) Storms would reach the mainland overnight and last for several hours.
Gone are those days. More your half hour effort pulse storms and even if frontal ones, not what they used to be.
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Course you can.
you can also rant and rave as much as you want. I was hoping most members would be out after last night! Still there's always tonight instead.I was thinking the same Jane. Am quite surprised that we still have a few members here given how widespread these things were. Although I think much of Wales was unfortunate. I should be technically out of here but I'm the tea boy/beer provider for the NSC so here I'll stay.
Not sure what time Solihull began to see the main early morning action but around 11pm/midnight on 21st July, I was watching distant lightning to my east from heat storms that had developed during the afternoon/evening. Then during the small hours, it all went BANG and especially at 07:58am yesterday morning when I was metaphorically thrown out of bed with one uber loud gunshot crack of thunder. Continued up until around 10:30am but not constant. Still technically a storm but not as intense as I would have thought given this long heatwave.
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Circumzenithal arc that be. Or at least the makings of one.
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One distant flash of lightning in late April and that has been it thus far for Solihull. But going back to one year ago yesterday at around 10:20am, it all kicked off until about 12:30pm.
Hasn't even come close since. Maybe the predicted hot spell in early July may produce something? The beer glass is still half full, not half empty metaphorically speaking where my optimism is concerned.
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Blimey! 6 months since my last log in.
I haven't died but the storm activity did after 25th August 2012 for my area.6 months later... Bit of snow, cold. Becoming a little bored of it now so roll on Spring when the storm action begins.*
* (Well one can but hope!)
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Oh dear. The epitomy of sheer irony.
Happened to me in September 2008. The floods that occured in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Herefordshire. Now I hadn't seen a storm throughout that Summer here in Solihull. But on the day one DID arrive, I was either on my way to, or was already in Exmouth for a weeks holiday.
I only found out when I came back and my youinger Brother said to me, you missed it? I said missed what? He said a thunderstorm on the afternoon you left for Devon.
My initial reaction was, (and understandably...) "AAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!"
So I share your pain there QuantumSnow. Fancy a beer or something stronger? I don't care if it's not quite beer o'clock yet but somewhere on the planet, it is. That's my theory anyway. Cheers.
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Thank you Andy.
Just looked at yours in the Weather Photography section and your image is more clearer defined.I almost missed my image above but a strange thing... Was sitting outside having a beer and felt a sneeze coming on. Spontaneously looked up just as the inevitable nose fit came on and then spotted it, thought then "Oh yeah! I'm having me some of that!!" So rushed inside, grabbed camera and voila!
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Taken just under an hour ago. Only the second one I've ever seen. Bird flying by in my camera view for added effect, although not deliberate!
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And introducing (slightly off tangent I know...) The new Summer 2012 range of footwear...
And in our new hardware range... Materials provided by IKEA...
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That was probably the very same night Sprites. If I remember correctly, a shallow LP situated somewhere over the Irish Sea gave cloudy conditions during the day with moderate or heavy showery rain for the south, but during the early hours of the following morning... POWWWWWW!! Storms breaking out over much of mainland UK. I'll try and find the synpotic situation for that date. (Unless any kind person on here could assist. Coast?!?
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Going by recent history, probably not. (Hold on that is!)
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'Tis a beautiful thing to behold!!!!
'Tis a good reason to hate France too.
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I think the only logical reason for this is because the storms that we get overnight of late just happen to be over in Europe. (Yes, I am making special reference to YOU France!!) So we can't hear them that far away.
I do recall one storm though back in September 1992. Was just after 2.am, I was asleep until "BOOOOOOM!!" An MCS had developed out of nowhere and lasted for a good hour or so. Never had anything like it since. Been almost 20 years. :-(
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And here in sunny Solihull, convection looks to be kicking off already and it isn't even 9:30am yet.
Could bode well for an interesting mid/late afternoon and evening, but I agree with Coast that the further south west you are, the more likely a chance of torrential downpours/thunderstorms. Will keep you posted.
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You know, I have come up with this conclusion in which I think most if not all will agree up to now. (And probably beyond...)
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Certainly do Snow_Joke.
This image taken on the evening of 12th March 2012 when both Venus and Jupiter were about as close as they would ever get.
Otherwise, as with other astronomical events of late, they either happen at stoopid O'clock in the morning or else it's cloudy. (Or both!)
Phil.
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A Horizon special relating to this very topic is on BBC2 tomorrow night (Tuesday!) at 9pm.
It will at least be a break from all of this Jubilee humdrum.
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Will anyone be still alive in 2117 who can claim they have witnessed a Transit of Venus?
Well unless, as a couple of members have mentioned, I am frozen cryogenically, or if I live to be the grand old age of 147, then probably not!
That said... I heard yesterday that an experiment using the Hubble Space Telescope will see our Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy collide in 4 billion years thus creating a 'Super Galaxy.'
4 billion years? Hmmmm, no rush then!
Phil.
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I blame the Daily Mail. Everyone else does.
Otherwise I blame the Europeans. If this were the Euroweather Storm Contest, we would get 'Nul storms'. Even Jedward with their cumulonimbus top style haircuts would do better. Spanish Plume won't deliver anymore. Pfft!
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When Tstorm forecasting was more on the nail.
Well. I think after all the hype of thundery downpours that would break up this current heatwave, it has turned out to be nothing more than an anti-climax thus far. And I can't see tomorrow, the main day (allegedly) of heavy showers and isolated storms coming much to fruition either. I hope I'm wrong but with UK weather, you can get used to disappointments. Snow and thunderstorms being in the main.
And Catgirl... I think you're referring to 23rd September 2010 with that storm over Wolverhampton just after sunset. I could see that cell from here in Solihull.
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Depends on two factors.
Is the lightning cloud/ground? (or forked!) If so then if close enough will produce the ear-splitting gunshot, ground shaking sounding thunder. But if intra-cloud, the lightning is higher up so the sound wave will take a couple or more seconds longer to resonate. Can still be somewhat loud if directly overhead but spread over a wider area because there are no buildings or trees to resonate the echo.
Hope my probably useless explanation helps Jess.
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I haven't died but the storm activity did after 25th August 2012 for my area.
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Can sympathise. (And hello again NetWeather!
) Solihull on all those dates mentioned...
Morning of 27th May : Mesoscale Convective System over the SW of England. Reached the south Midlands and then died. Later on in the day, cells developed north of the Midlands so adding insult to injury.
19th July : Was a close but no cigar at stoopid O'clock in the morning even though I had seen distant lightning from a storm which according to Blitzortung mobile app was 53 miles away.
But then came Saturday 5th August, the long wait for a Summer 2017 storm kind of paid off. Was two of them but not quite overhead which does take some of the fun element out of it.
Still the rest of August and September to go but given the current long range forecast to date. It may just as well be Autumn come early already.