Azazel
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In Whitchurch hants at an elevated position on top of a hill near the train station. Gusty outside. Every so often a gust will shake the whole house and there was one almighty gust where I genuinely thought my bathroom window was going to implode. Hearing trains between Salisbury and london Waterloo have been cancelled due to a tree on the line at Whitchurch. Probably one of ours from the back garden:/
Bit hairy out there! Worst noise I've heard in a long time
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those two pics are lovely
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I would not want to be travelling on the A34 Northbound in the next hour or so, judging by the impending supercell like structure heading that way. I think the heaviest of the rainfall will be as AJ pointed out, in the vicinity of Andover, Whitchurch, Basingstoke, Tadley area in the coming couple of hours. Time to batten down the hatches in that neck of the woods.
1815BST 290713 NW v6 radar.jpgDidn't look too shabby as it came over either;) Tilted updraft, dare i say displaying some supercellular characteristics?
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had a cracking storm down here today, tilted updraft, rotation with possible short lived meso before it blew itself out. lots of lightning and booming thunder.
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I know my post is partially borne of frustration, but i just feel sometimes they could do better. Trust me, I really do appreciate how difficult the weather is to predict and how you need a multitude of ingredients to fall into place at the correct time. You have no idea how angry it makes me when i see someone consult their iPhone weather app and say "its meat to snow here at 4pm" acting like the weather is similar to trains or buses.
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Everyone can defend the BBC and Met Office to the hilt if they want but it makes no difference to me. I watched the forecast several times last night, even as late as some time around midnight and they didn't mention potential showers, they showed an ORGANISED band of rain moving up from the south which NEVER happened. If they had said potential, thundery showers then I wouldn't had a problem as I know how sporadic they can be and you can't really predict where one will pop up, but an organised band of rain the size of Hampshire you think they might have an idea.
Reminds me of the snow in 2010(yes again i appreciate how hard snow is to predict) when the forecast said we MIGHT see the ODD flurry in the wind for my area (the whole of hampshire) and it snowed solidly for 8 hours, trapping my friends and family who had ventured out into towns in their cars not expecting snowmaggedon.
I appreciate the weather is hard to predict and there is a lot of science and calculation and even guess work involved, but blimey they don't half get it wrong A LOT. People shouldnt get upset and so defensive when they get it wrong either, its their job. If i got as many things completely wrong in my job, I would probably be fired.
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massive bust for us last night. Still no rain, nothing. Closest we got were the wiltshire storms in the afternoon/evening that werent even forecast. Not sure what happened to the thundery rain that was supposed to move up from the channel. Good thing I didnt stay up! Think maybe central southern England should be removed from all future forecasts as we never get anything here
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my first ever attempt at capturing lightning! boom! (from earlier today mind)
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just went out to the fields behind my house and could see the wiltshire cell producing some pretty neat fork lightning. set the camera up and BAM! realised i had forgot my memory card:/ ran all the way home and back and the lightning just stopped lol. zilch!
got this one earlier though from whitchurch, hampshire so cant complain.
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The best storm i have ever seen was sometime in may 1999. think it may have been towards the end, not sure. i was 15 at the time and going to florida the next day. I was in the woods and climbing the trees with my friends as you do out here in the countryside. I looked over to the horizon and i saw the most perfectly defined anvil i have ever seen, it was textbook with what looked like an overshooting top and judging by wind direction it was coming our way. I even remember shouting down to my friends "looks like we might be in for a bit of thunder!"
i climbed down from the tree and we went to my friends house to grab a couple of cans of beer (tut tut) and sit in his garden as the storm approached. When it got closer, there was beautiful structure visibile, no heat haze obscuring the base of the cloud which was clearly visible with tendrils of scud crawling along the base and the sky behind it turned a curious bright orange. Desperate to get a better look, i headed into the village centre by which time the storm was fast approaching. It got so dark at 1pm on a may afternoon that the streetlights came on (day darkness)
there was a real eerie calm and the wind seemed to be blowing towards the storm which at the time i thought was off because wind normally blew from the direction of the storm (obviously i didnt know about inflow/outflow etc back then) the wind also felt hot and the sky was a really really deep shade of sea green with whispy white scud circulating the base at an incredible speed.
Suddenly almost right above us, the clouds began really rotating and 'sucked up' in the middle. I thought at the time it didnt look real and almost like a playstation game or something. then it began to fill and extend down towards us, basically dropping a funnel cloud ontop of us which whipped up the air around my feet and my hair.
At that point it was time to run for it and as soon as we turned on our heels, a flash of bright red lightning and the loudest crack of thunder before the heavens opened up and dropped the heaviest rain ive still ever seen til this day with constant thunder and lightning
amazing
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sun has come back out again here after some heavy rain but im starting to be sceptical of the chances of much here..too much clag.
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well even though the warmth of march has been long-replaced, we have had a lot of beautiful, convective cloudscapes down here in the last week or two.
Today i get home at 4.30pm and hope to go out with the camera.
fingers crossed development holds off until then in my area..hate being stuck on the bus on the way home when i can see thunderstorms but cant stop to photograph them!
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This pic from XCweather showing where the best DP's are and the progression of the warmer air nicely.
Think I'll be going to work tomorrow unfortunately..looks good east though
i cant see my attachment?
EDIT: Thats better
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^^no tell me about it..before he took the video he tried ringing me 3 times to stick my head out the window and my phone was on silent:(
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hi guysss..just wanted to share with you the funnel cloud over whitchurch, hampshire my friend Richard Long caught on his phone on the evening of the 19th
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thanks guys:) fingers crossed for some actual storms this year
these were the only images i captured last summer (unfortunately on my mummy's digital camera) nice powerful updraught tower though..the cell was sat somewhere over reading.
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beautiful pictures again in this thread..a couple from me
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Hi guys, still getting the hang of my DSLR but took my first ever sunset snaps today:)
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some absolutely beautiful pictures in here. That one of the wolf jumping the gate is fascinating if not a little unnerving!
one of my fat tabby cat william and my dopey dog asha
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First potes..old pants ones showing a volcanic sunset last year...a large convective cloud with what appeared to striation banding and a strange horitoztal area of cloud connecting the two bases..third is a suspect wallcloud.
also attached some other photos
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Havent been here in a while due it being the dullest period of weather i can remember!
had a shower pass over yesterday which dropped some heavy rain and my mate rang me from the pub 100 yards away across the street to tell me it was hailing there. THATS a SMALL margin!
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this seems most likely..although not 100 percent sure as there were a few thunder days that month it seems!
taken from www.met.rdg.ac.uk
"Rain continued to fall over many parts of Scotland until early afternoon on the 29th, while Ireland has a mainly cloudy day. England and Wales began dry and sunny and became quite warm in places. An area of thundery activity (accompanied by hail in places) moved into SW England by 0600 GMT, moving NE and spreading to the E Midlands and East Anglia by late evening. A thunderstorm at Bristol (Totterdown) from 1215 GMT until 1515 GMT resulted in 18mm of precipitation, including 10mm from 1325 GMT to 1338 GMT when a 26 kn gust occurred. During the passage of a thunderstorm at Wokingham from 1551 GMT to 1608 GMT 15.7mm of rain fell, with a peak rainfall rate of 199 mm/hr around 1554 GMT over a two and half minute period. Thunderstorms resulted in local flooding in many areas (eg. in parts of SW and Cent S England) and there were reports of small tornadoes in the SW. Rainfall under the core of the storms was heavy, eg. 25.4mm at Cirencester (of which 15mm fell in 15 mins with winds of force 5 to 7). Several places from Birmingham to Wokingham reported rapid pressure fluctuations during these storms (associated with temperature falls as large as 5degC). Hail in a storm at Dartford was 1cm in diameter, while in Danbury (Essex) 17mm fell in 5 minutes. (Southampton 27C, Lerwick 6C, Chipping Norton 34mm, Folkestone 14.0h.) "
although it could also be this one!
Most parts of S Ireland, Wales, and England S of the Pennines, had a cloudy night with fog forming by dawn on the 19th in parts of the Thames Valley. Other areas had a clear night with a ground frost in parts of Scotland. Scotland then had a sunny day while further s cloud moved N over much of England, Wales and Ireland. After a wam and quite humid day, thunderstorms occurred over SE, Cent S England during the early evening, moving to the S Midlands later in the evening. Some thunderstorms were heavy in the SE with hail in places (1cm in diameter at Maidenhead where 20mm fell in 20 minutes, the temperature fell 7C during the early evening storm, pressure rose 2mbar and roads were temporarily flooded). The NOAA12 channel 4 thermal image at 1637 GMT (courtesy of Bernard Burton) shows what appears to be a mesoscale convective system of storms during this event. At Crowthorne 26.3mm fell between 1630 GMT and 1745 GMT. In Hampshire, golfball-size hail fell at Easton and Itchen Stoke, and the hail was still lying 15 hours after the storm. Conservatory roofs, glasshouses and guttering were damaged by the storm and gardens and crops were devastated there, and several minor roads were flooded. There were also reports of large hail on the Isle of Wight. (London Weather Centre 24C max, Redhill 22mm, Lerwick 16.0h.)
depends which one was a saturday!
although im not sure about the 2nd one as it certainly wasnt early evening.
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Great account Azazel! Was it a Saturday afternoon?
The only green sky I have seen happened on a Saturday afternoon in May 1999, it was the 2nd of 3 thundery outbreaks that happened within 6 days!
The morning had been sunny/warm and the afternoon started similarly although I'd seen a forecast for thundery rain. Looking outside in mid-afternoon there was a massive CB with green tinges to the West and this moved over giving torrential rain and frequent lightning/thunder for a few hours.
I do recall a tv forecast when BBC used to have flashing lightning symbols and the most of the SW/CS England was covered in them during that afternoon.
yes i think it may have been! I was off school so it was definitely the weekend and also i'm pretty sure we flew out to florida on a sunday so that seems to tie in nicely! It was the best storm I've ever seen by miles!
The changing daylight hours thread
in Spring Weather Discussion
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Absolutely love the days getting longer!
I don't understand why people on here have to bash eachother for different seasonal preferences though, we're all different and that's what makes us human.
I for one suffer from SAD, definitely. In the summer I am much more active, feel happier and more energetic and once I notice the nights starting to close back in, I immediately begin an emotional, downward-spiral back into depression.
I do however enjoy Autumn and Winter up until New years eve. I like Christmas and the winter festivities and can't imagine ever spending them in a warm climate, but by the time Jan 1st rolls around I am absolutely sick of the dark and cold.
I have noticed in the last couple of weeks the angle of the sunlight subtley changing (when it hasn't been absolutely jaffa cakesing down with rain) and in those brief moments, i've felt an absolute wave of happiness come over me. I literally yearn for Spring and Summer at this time of year and can't wait for that first "springlike" day when it gets to around 15 degrees with no cold wind and hazy sunshine.
Admitedly, at times last summer it was difficult to sleep, but that really doesn't bother me too much as even with little sleep I still feel twice as energetic as I do in mid-winter. I remember walking home from a friend's house drunk at about 2am last summer and it was so warm and still, it felt like being abroad on holiday. It was magical. It reminded me of being young and camping out or getting drunk in the park all night long (i'm 28 so it wasnt THAT long ago:p).
Having said that, in September sort of time, I again notice the subtle change in angle of the light and I do get excited about the onset of winter and Christmas and particularly the first snowfall of the season - this winter has been remarkable to me as it is the first I can recall without seeing a single snowflake.
All said and done, I think I would put up with whatever winter decided to throw at us as long as I was guaranteed a nice summer and as we all know living here, thats very rarely the case. The driving wind and rain over the last four months has really done my head in.