Azazel

I remember it well

Yeah that’s the problem - we haven’t had even convective showers here. I saw some towering cumulus way to the north on one day in the last few months. I can’t describe how poor it’s been here for anything remotely interesting since May. I was excited about the potential of the squall but it just doesn’t look that impressive on radar with most of the energy remaining offshore - and even then, all this mid level cloud would make it impossible to see anything.

I definitely don’t think this but I find it hard to get excited over moderate rainfall personally.

It is cool though I don’t like that haloing around the bush on the left

Legitimately does look like it weakens on its western side and the good heavy stuff transfers east. Just gonna be a mass of pointless rain by the time it moves inland

Same here so even for the squall in a few hours it’ll probably just get a bit darker before raining

There is quite obviously something geographical or otherwise occurring in the past 4-5 years that prevents storms from forming in this part of the world. Not only do we get nothing forecast, but even when we do, it gets taken away at the last second. I don’t recall this happening for other areas of the U.K. at such short notice.

Lmao of course there’s now nothing for us this evening.

The guys over at UKWW seem a lot less bullish in their predictions. Really hope they’re wrong.

A nice big green squall with a huge shelf at lunchtime followed by an evening elevated strobe fest. It’s what we deserve

Heavier echoes developing NW of the Channel Islands now

Here’s hoping for two rounds of storms tomorrow

Subtle mid-level instability here in the Hampshire void

It looks more west-based to my admittedly untrained eye - I also didn’t see the stuff over Peterborough happening like it did - though I did pick out Newcastle

If they were in the North Sea they would be absolutely fine

UKV has us down for a band of something at like 9am on Sunday. No thanks

Wow. oh well, it was fun while it lasted. See you guys in May.

The migration away from Hampshire begins!

It does look too good to be true doesn't it Storms drifting up from France into the central south by around 7-9pm (plenty of time to let the roast dinner settle and early enough to be able to go to bed after at a reasonable hour) It won't happen.

the central south finally seeing something? This is why next weekend wont happen.

You could be in the central south

I believe so! Can’t really remember which suggests it was pretty grey!

I’ve seen your pics - it definitely looked cool! My main memory down here was that I was working for my mate in his warehouse and it was brutal haha. Gathering around the space heater every hour to stop us freezing to death.

I would genuinely love that - it really is just wind and rain or endless grey (unless it’s freezing fog or there’s snow on the ground) that gets to me I think.

I’m 38 so there or thereabouts! We used to play something called ‘hedge hopping’ where we would wait for it to get dark after school (about 5 once the clocks change) and then we would sneak through people’s back gardens. The idea was not to damage anything and slip through unseen and not be caught. I can always remember the strong smell of dead leaves and hearing the crunch underfoot and as the evening wore on and the temperature would drop away more, the grass would also start to get crunchy. Or we used to play football in the train station car park and I can always remember the tarmac ‘sparkling’ in the streetlight