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thanks mate

cheers

looks very dark Jurgen de Boer ! But some fantastic shots there :o

Thanks everyone for your comments, it certainly was a spectacular sight :o

Cheers Is this the same 'storm' you had?

I wasn't sure whether these being in the storm section was right, so i decided to repost them here. Here are a sequence of shots of the storm that passed overhead this evening - only 1 rumble of thunder though and no lightning The first two images were taken around 7.20pm, after reports that a storm was 40miles to my west, I had a quick look in my garden, and saw 'the storm' in the distance, slowly getting closer, approaching from the west/northwest. The Sun was still shining when the first 2 images were taken. Shortly afterwards, the sun went in and it turned very dark. That's when i dashed out around 7.40pm and took pictures 3 & 4. There is a definate 'white band' inside this storm, if you can make it out in the photos :huh: Images 5-10 were taken between 7.50-8.00pm showing a lovely cloud structure display. Using characteristics displayed by this storm, it certainly looked like it was rotating in an anticlockwise direction as well as moving slowly eastwards. In the last image you can see a grey/brown 'sheet' behind the storm, which i presume is the torrential rain in the distance It's a shame little activity came from this storm, but still got some lovely cloudscapes Please note: there is no editing to these photos, they are purely what the camera took B) Larger versions:

They are fantastic Neil, always a good place to go Reculver for scenes like that

from general observation of last night, i noticed that flash warnings were issued at 22.25 for heavy and thundery rain in CS England from Sussex northwestwards to Gloucester. That lead me to believe that the storm we were all keeping our beady eyes on was going to move NW-wards into these regions. Not the case. Instead it took more of a NNE track towards the far NE of France (around Calais). This prompted the METO to issue further flash warnings at 00.30 for Kent and other home counties, suggesting it would still move NW-wards towards the central Midlands. Once again not so, instead it moved northwards, clipping east Kent and eastern coasts of East Anglia. Now i understand that there was some heavy rain in regions that didn't see the storms, but the real torrential thundery stuff didn't fall in many of the regions highlighted. Another thing i don't quite like is the fact that from 00:30 all BBC Weather forecasts on the BBC News Channel are recorded for "an 8am start" so they say "we've seen some heavy and thundery rain overnight in many regions", which is just a stab in the dark (literally lol). It would be nice to be kept updated in events like this to see where the storm may go, not put a lightning symbol over the southwest for 8am when it didn't even storm there...

the North Sea for the past week has been showing quite a few 'potent showers' which aren't actually there! B)

fantastic photos there UKStormchaser, you must've taken them during the afternoon? Shame it was almost dark when it passed to the east of us B)

it was certainly a beast, never seen anything quite like it Here's the footage clicky I apologise, photobucket has made it completely black (instead of different shades of grey) so all you can see is the streetlamps and the flashes of lightning. The video is shy of 4 minutes long. Although admittedly not the most interesting of storms, it was strange to watch it from such a distance with no sound either. The pictures in my post above are of better quality than the footage. Anyway, i hope it is useful...

Thanks:) I'll see what i can do:)

hi there, sorry it's a late reply, just recently come across this thread i saw that storm from my home in the Weald of Kent looking east (on a Sunday evening i think?). I did film it but the video footage isn't that good, however i have some snapshots from the video. I apologise for the poor quality of the images but they were filmed around 9.00 - 9.45pm and the sun had started to set, so everything went dark. The anvil could clearly be seen from my house and there were lightning flashes on average every 10 seconds. Distant thunder could be heard, but nothing close by or loud. The storm seemed to last in my view for about 2 hours, when i heard the first rumble just after 8 pm and it moved out of sight just after 10pm. The first image is a photo of the storm stucture as seen around 9.30pm, the following 6 images are snapshots from a short film i took of the large amound of orange lightning.

nothing on Blitzortung atm

4.0c here but i have a long wait yet :o

sounds good, earlier today we were only supposed to get the odd flurry here and that would be around 6am, completely changed and shifted now. Nothing settled at Easter, do you think there is any chance this time here at 32m asl?

BBC suggesting that it wont start until after daylight here (9/10am) but it could last most of the day (3/4pm)

thats good for me, because last night it looked marginal for here but now it looks like i could have a few hours of snow tomorrow morning soon after dawn

generally the end of the week i feel, Feb 2007 was a Thursday and a Friday and March 2005 here in Kent was a Wed-Fri period. April 9th 2006 overnight was a Sunday so generally here in Kent, snow is normally in the 2nd half of the week

hopefully looking good because then i might get something :wacko:

they had an article on their website about two weeks before the change happened, informing of the changes as to why they were necessary and how and when warnings are issued: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/guide/warnings.html