Storms and Convective discussion - October 2024 onwards

[DeepSnow]

Got woken up by thunder and lightning 12:30am, wasn't expecting it!

[Alderc 2.0]

Was woken up by heavy rain about 02:30 and observed a single lightning strike approx 10miles away. 

[Daniel_c150311]

Woke up to this at 12am. Definitely not expected

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Snowspout]

Boom! Right on top of the trough, probably some land breeze convergence helped too.

[Eagle Eye]

Decent little storm and I think some kind of good structure at some point as well though hard to tell. 

 

[wimblettben]

Unfortunately I don’t know if I may have seen something here last night had I been looking because I didn’t see anything on the forecasts but I am not surprised some places had some lightning yesterday as I knew there was potential as soon as I got up in the morning as there were quite a few cumulonimbus clouds about bringing heavy showers and rainbows, even some hail in some of them.

Edited November 26 by wimblettben

[Metwatch]

Decent looking updrafts from a shower near Banbury earlier this afternoon. Not bad at all for the first day of meteorological winter around these parts!

 

Edited December 1 by Metwatch

[Summer8906]

Re the storms above, am I right in assuming these occurred overnight Nov 25/26?

Don't remember anything here - a clear Monday evening followed by a clear start to Tuesday. Or were they associated with Conall overnight 26/27?

Edited December 2 by Summer8906

[Harry's House]

  Summer8906 Nothing to do with Conall. You are right in assuming that the storms occurred overnight November 25/26. I heard a couple of distant rumbles to SSW'ly shortly before 3 am on 26th.

[Sprites]

Slight chance of thundery showers tonight near western coasts , heading into the midlands by early Thursday perhaps?  

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 16:28 by Sprites

[Supacell]

 Sprites

ECM and Arome seem to show something convective and thundery during the early hours. Hard to imagine storms in the Midlands during December but it's definitely there on some of the models.

[Snowspout]

Moderate to heavy rain here. Nimbostratus though, not expecting anything seriously convective tonight here in Midlands apart from a few embedded C. congestus. Speaking of Western coasts, this will be named and quite severe if it comes off...

[Sprites]

 Supacell Yes , not exactly the ideal time of year...

Edited Wednesday at 19:22 by Sprites

[Willsy]

Is it me or does this storm on fri/sat look like it could produce a sting jet somewhere in england and wales as it rapidly deepens. There’s quite a temperature difference with this to which could definitely aid one forming 

The latest fax looks like it could. One more hazard to watch out for! 

 

 

[Snowspout]

Heavy showers and thunderstorms to clip Northern Ireland, may strengthen again over Irish Sea.

[The Tall Weatherman]

Small chance of a tornado dropping tonight. Even if no tornado it looks like winds will ramp up for a very short time in the midlands.

[Eagle Eye]

Low-level windfield with this system is certainly interesting. But think if anything the angle is still too small from what I've seen. May get some decent amount of streamwise vorticity but problem is that there's not much energy being put into rotation for that to be worth particularly much for tornadic potential risks though you never know and damaging winds are still likely with this system anyway. Breaks in any lines of convection would be the conventional and most likely way of spotting one tonight as that suggests that the winds will turn into a more rotational component. 

[LIGHTNING ACTION]

Started raining heavily with a few rumbles, caught one flash 

 

 

 

[Metwatch]

Squall line passing through. Have seen heavier ones but certainly not too far off from being one of the more intense ones.

[viking_smb]

something lit up the sky about 17:35 coming home from work driving down a470 towards cardiff and saw a whitish flash in the clouds towards cardiff, rolled window down (without getting wet) couldnt here anything, checked blitz when i got to lights, nothing. wierd.

[beckyonsea]

 Metwatch Yes that rolled through Somerset a couple of hours ago. Not looking forward to Saturday here on the coast!

[viking_smb]

 beckyonsea going to be bad on this side as well. got function at cbyc on saturday evening which is the cruiser racing prize giving, so will prop pop down pontoons to check my rib fleet, will have lifejacket on though.

[Joey.GII]

Looks like the squall was pretty interesting going over the peak district. Passed to the north of here but it seemed to accelerate through a long with sferics and intense echos.. this pic was from the A515 between bakewell and Buxton around the time

 

 

[The Tall Weatherman]

 

[Liamkaboom]

Potential tornado in Stoke On Trent an hour or so ago.