Storms and Convective discussion - May 2024

[Eye to the sky]

Very dark and threatening skies moving in from the south here.But sadly all very quiet and still.

[convector]

Lots of wasted cape today in the south.. watching acas form out my window 

[carinthian]

 The Tall Weatherman Just emailed my farmer friend up near Skipton. He tells me of a tremendous storm not seen for many a year. Mostly constant sheet lightning but extreme rainfall and hail. Thinks there could be some flash flooding. I asked about the wind. Prior to storm, wind gusty but now flat calm. This storm comes after a fairly dry May and warm one at that.

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[parhelion]

 carinthian round 2 coming for him as well

[Eye to the sky]

All cracking off here now.The wind has really picked up with spectacular forked lightning and booming thunder to my south.Rain starting now too.

[The PIT]

Shower incoming slowly sadly dead in the way of lightning

[Allseasons-Si]

A bigger tornado formed earlier over the eruption site in Iceland

 

meanwhile back home,...still waiting for a storm,there has been quite a few of them in NW England and Wales and currently still going strong in NW England,not to mention Scotland too

some developments to my south just west of Nottingham but i am not hopeful that a storm will reach here but ya never know,would need the welcome rain though to water the garden.

 

[UnderTheAnvil]

 Allseasons-Si I'm hoping Nottingham lights up and we get a direct hit, there's still time 

[ChezWeather]

Just seen a distant flash to the south here and had a faint rumble 

[summer blizzard]

Glorious. We've got full thunder and lightening. 

[The PIT]

Just heavy rain nothing more for a short while now light to moderate. Stopped the outside disco.

Edited May 12 by The PIT

[RobR]

So annoying how organised the storms are now, yet south Cheshire got nothing earlier. It's like they were organised across Wales in a big zone and fizzled and reignited further north east 

[cheese]

 summer blizzard Can see the lightning from that storm, too far east here for a direct hit though. Still hoping the stuff near Sheffield lights up, but I doubt it.

[The PIT]

 cheese  We always brew stuff for Leeds or Doncaster so as soon as it leaves here expect lightning to start.

[Allseasons-Si]

Oh WOW!!!

nice shelf cloud to my south

Edit: if you are wondering what those orange lines are,...they are burning cinders from someone burning 2 doors down.

Edited May 12 by Allseasons-Si

[Metwatch]

Headed to the high multi storey car parks in the city centre to get a better view. 

Storms look to have missed here with just a light shower passing overhead, but could see some quite ominous looking plumey skies as the showers started to move away to the north. Quite a high cloud base so showers elevated in nature.

Also spotted an anvil back home as the storms moved further north about half hour ago. 

Edited May 12 by Metwatch

[Sparkiee storm]

Unfortunately the more easterly line of storms that would of hit Birmingham and surrounding areas fizzled as it got here, ended up with just a few convective drops, a couple more cells developed after too but didn't hit either. But all is not lost as still got to see a number of flashes and heard quite a few rumbles with a decent view of the structure from the storm that was just west of here. Clouds seem to be bubbling again, maybe as the air cools is helping this, wonder if a few more can pop off, probably not though.

Edited May 12 by Sparkiee storm

[TewksCells]

Some great structure from the cell that hit us earlier, possible inflow tail? Didn’t see any rotation sadly. Plus some bonus lightning pics  

[Eye to the sky]

Not the best,but a clip of some lightning from the storm just north of Derby.

[Josh Rubio]

Gutted that we missed out on anything interesting today here, but I guess we weren’t in the high likelihood area to begin with. It’s still ridiculously muggy feeling here

[The PIT]

Well a nothing end to the day but as expected just to far east.

[Turquoise]

 RobR of course. It happens every single time here without fail. Storms approach, fizzle out, move off and then reignite and become monsters once they have moved away properly from our area. 

[jmp223]

Quite an awesome cell passed over East of Glasgow around 8.30pm.  Extreme levels of precipitation, hail and frequent lightening.  Passed S to N in around 30 minutes.  Best I've seen here in a couple of years, easily. Screenshot below.  Don't know if this would qualify as a supercell or not but winds really picked up.

Edited May 12 by jmp223
Added radar

[Wade]

Anyone notice that continuous back building cell west of Stirling? I can imagine there be serious flooding issues up there at the moment, especially near hilly areas. 

[TewksCells]

 Wade Dang, you’re right, that is a LOT of rain over a couple of hours, maybe a month’s worth