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cold front now over Bicester Oxfordshire 16.5c when I looked at my website from work in Oxford this morning in the mid 20s had a good storm about 13.00 but stuck at work 6 till 2 shift rushed home to get camera gear but except for rain at times almost tropical amounts the lightning seems to have gone hoping for some more soon as looks like quite a storm wiltshire way heading this way looking at satpics, radar & various Nexstorm sites so lets keep hoping for more today
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After reading peoples descriptions of what they observed and looking up the criteria for a supercell, a good place to start is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercell the Kent Storm certainly fits the criteria to my mind.
As a note most people and websites on supercells say that the Supercell Thunderstorm was first described in 1962 by a meteorlogical student in Wokingham England
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storm chase yesterday once storms where close enough set off from Bicester to Brill not quite right as unable to get good visual off storms so set off for some higher ground further southeast to some higher ground looking south to the chilterns excellant view of storms from road but unabale to pull over an get camera set due to too many others out storm watching taking up every suitable field gate and track entrances etc
with there cars an camper vans never seen so many out storm watching buy the time I found someware suitable to pull over (a vacated spot) the very active storm front had passed waited a couple of hours but nothing took the same track well disapionted as I was waitng with my new LIghtning Trigger that I had imported from US to get my first daylight lightning photos missed last weeks due to having to go to work at crucial so you can imagine my frustration.My son & his mate tried Stokenchurch area up on the Chilterns to video some storms the claim to have seen that most elusive devil Ball Lightning but were unable to get video cam out of bag in time before it faded away.
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looking at my eumetcast msg weather satellite system it shows a fair amount of convective cloud forming of southwest britany in bay of biscay this looks to be tracking towards se england there is also some hopefull looking cloud in english channel sw of isle of wight
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looks they are finding it hard to sleep in benlux countries tonight see good link to storm activity http://www.strikesta.../sslt/sslt.html
may be usefull thursday/friday
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Thame Oxfordshire missed out last night only heard a few distant rumbles of thunder about 05:00 this morning, woken up a few times during night by heavy rain, well disapointed
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just looked at my lightning detectors both showing activety to the southwest
as an interest I have a StrikeAlert v2 (2 days) it has bleeped twice at the same time as my Boltek indicating 24 to 40 miles but they are 150 to 200 miles on Nextstorm
looks a bit sensitive
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latest sat view
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interesting drive to work in Oxfordshire at 05:30 this morning checked my weather station before I left it showed no wind on my journey there was patchy mist at tree top hight clearer underneath but almost thick enough to obscure the treetops by 06:15 wind was blowing quite hard and was dispersing the mist into low cloud.
just looked at my webpage http://www.bicesterweather.co.uk/StormVue.php look at the estofex forcast for today
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just been looking at the http://www.strikestareu.com/
very little in the way of lightning over europe & uk at the moment
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Cheers Paul!
Assuming I have read it right lol
, there is one flight leaving Heathrow on Tues 27th April at 11:40am, arriving at DFW at 15:40 (£165) - then coming back, departing on Fri 8th May from DFW at 17:35 and arriving 08:40am (£180) - total £345. It appears that this is the only BA flight on Tues 27th April! So I am thinking it is worth booking up earlier rather than later....would that be advised?Cheers in advance.
Harry 8th may 2010 is a saturday
checked flight prices heathrow/ dallas fw. AA. depart LHR 10:25 arrive DFW 14:25
Dallas FW/heathrow depart DFW16:45 arrive LHR 07:50 or = £438.10p
depart DFW 19:40 arrive LHR 10:45
or with BA depart LHR 11:40 arrive DFW 15:40
depart DFW 17:35 arrive LHR 08:40 = £344.10p
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remember any flights leaving on friday pm/saturday am will get booked up early checked AA flight from heathrow on 8th may some of the seats in economy class are already booked so be carfull if you want to arrive sat. afternoon
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after yesterdays excitment looks like a possibilty next week,
latest met office
UK Outlook for Monday 13 Jul 2009 to Wednesday 22 Jul 2009:
From Monday to Friday, the weather is expected to be dominated by an area of low pressure drifting slowly eastwards across northern Britain. This will bring an unsettled mix of sunshine and showers across much of the United Kingdom, albeit with a fairly gentle wind for much of the time. Although hit-and-miss, the showers will generally be on the heavy side, especially inland during the day, when localised thundery downpours are likely. Feeling pleasantly warm when the sun's out, with temperatures around average for the time of year. Looking ahead to the weekend and the start of the following week, the bright but showery theme is set to continue, with a significant settling down of the weather thought to be unlikely at this stage.
Updated: 1139 on Wed 8 Jul 2009
my days off work next week wednesday & thursday so please thor send us some bolts
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just had a good thunderstorm in Bicester Oxfordshire 8.4mm rain in 5 minutes severel cg + ic some overhead unable to photograph storm as it arived due to rain on windows missed it the other side as I was setting up camera the storm give up with one last stoke
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looking at sat pics looks like Austria/Northern Italy (Tyrol) & the French/Spain (Pyrenees) areas are having good storms,
now please export them to Brit.
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Thunderstorm Bicester Oxon just leaving with camera to Brill Hill view to northwest from there
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pond just taken a hamering from passing hail shower no thunder though
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just had a couple heavy showers in Bicester Oxon. but evoparated away before rain guage could even measure it clouds looking to be a disorganised mess at moment
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I know it may be slightly off topic but look at these nssl mesonet chasers cars in us
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/observations/imag...bilemesonet.jpg wow
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My bus is fueled up camera batteries charged up laptop ready wireless networking ready which way do I go north to Birmingham west to south wales or sit on the Birdlip or South to Coast for todays best chance
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sun beginning to burn away cloud
temp now 21.2c
uv rising
humidity now heading down 68%
more comfitable feel now after the last few days :lol:
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working nites woken up hot and sweating yet again this week
need :o in Bicester Oxfordshire :
temprature 18.7c
humidity 86%
wind westerly directions
pond temp. 21.9c (goldfish look happy & frisky)
sky overcast
rain small amount evaporating away before it can tip rain gauge
all in all need a thunderstorm
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spites can be photographed from quite a distance you need to be able to look over storm google sprites one site to check out is http://eurosprite.blogspot.com/ it talks about low light special cams but they can be photographed on normal DSLR
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looking at my eumetcast system the storms over Brittany Normandy area ar slow moving is any one standing bye on the west coast of Isle of Wight or high ground in Dorset to try for a photo of sprites above the storms
with there cars an camper vans never seen so many out storm watching buy the time I found someware suitable to pull over (a vacated spot) the very active storm front had passed waited a couple of hours but nothing took the same track well disapionted as I was waitng with my new LIghtning Trigger that I had imported from US to get my first daylight lightning photos missed last weeks due to having to go to work at crucial so you can imagine my frustration.
, there is one flight leaving Heathrow on Tues 27th April at 11:40am, arriving at DFW at 15:40 (£165) - then coming back, departing on Fri 8th May from DFW at 17:35 and arriving 08:40am (£180) - total £345. It appears that this is the only BA flight on Tues 27th April! So I am thinking it is worth booking up earlier rather than later....would that be advised?
need :o 
Convective/storm Discussion 5Th August >>
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Posted · Edited by gpspete
just noticed some sferics around Brittany perhaps round 2 on its way