SteveElbows

Some clouds with reasonable top heights have been lurking around my area for the last hour or so.

Indeed, I mostly mentioned it as its one of the few regional descriptions of the weather from the met office that had been updated this afternoon when I looked, and it still mentions thunder. And since I am in the far east of the west midlands I may still get some. A previous run of their graphical rain map did have more rain overnight for parts of the west midlands than the current run shows, I'm right on the edge of the area of rain at 4am now.

Met Office text description of the weather for the west midlands tonight, updated at 15:02, maintains the 'perhaps heavy and thundery' language, although its mostly referring to the north east of that region.

Hail and a single lightning strike in Nuneaton a few minutes ago

Of the numerous thunderstorms that have come near here this year, that one had the best thunder. Blimey as I type that the loudest boom yet!

Has the Solihull one stopped already? From here I saw a few flashes, the light dimming and thought I heard one roll of thunder some minutes ago, but seems to have quietened since then?

Wow, continuous thunder and rather large hail! Most impressive thunder activity for this location in many a year.

A strike is showing up just by Much Wenlock. Detector also confirms the thunder I heard in Nuneaton, location of strikes looks to be Hinckley.

6 instances of thunder heard by me here in Nuneaton in the last 15 mins or so

Several rumbles of thunder in Nuneaton in the last couple of minutes

2011 was very poor for hail in my location, so yesterdays first activity of the year almost beat 2011 in a single attempt. But I probably can't quite go that far since both of yesterdays hail events here were rather short-lived. The skies are looking interesting already today.

Stuff seems to be moving rather rapidly on the radar now so I'm off out for a walk before its too late.

Yeah its been a while hasn't it, long enough that Im getting good novelty value out of it anyway.

Station 62105, the K4 buoy recorded a low pressure of 962.6mb as of 2am. http://www.ndbc.noaa...p?station=62105

Thought I might have a year without hail for my location, but just had a short intense shower of small hail here a few mins ago Its mostly rain now.