Storms and Convective discussion - October 2024 onwards

[Sprites]

 

 

Edited December 5, 2024 by Sprites

[Joey.GII]

Bloomin eck I did all the roadside tree work at the other end of boathorse road a couple of weeks ago!

[Ball Lightning]

Anyone know how to get archived radar images? Tried to take alook at the morphology of the 'tornado' and parent cell in Kidsgrove but low-res Ventusky isn't quite cutting it. Tried meteologix too.

[Daydream Boy]

 Sprites No such thing as "mini tornado"! It's a tornado or not! Sorry about the damage I really am but it sounds like an F1 tornado 

[Hodgheg]

 Daydream Boy People use the term because there’s a misunderstanding that we don’t get legitimate tornadoes in this country. Of course we do even if they are quite weak spin up type things. 

[Liamkaboom]

 Daydream Boy We rate tornadoes on a T-Scale here in the UK.

[Retron]

 Snowspout The NW radar goes back a day. Here's an animation cobbled together with a 24-year-old version of Paint Shop Pro!

 

Edited December 6, 2024 by Retron

[matty40s]

Oooh, tomorrow...

 

[matty40s]

Interesting looking storm heading past Manchester..

[The Tall Weatherman]

Suspicious appendage thingy in that storm near Bristol.

[TallPaul]

Current NW radar showing a  line of sustained torrential rain passing through the channel islands, heading N/E towards the far south east corner... 

[matty40s]

You mean this lot...

 

[Alderc 2.0]

Looks like there was very little happening last night. Convective bust 139 of the year lol 

Edited December 19, 2024 by Alderc 2.0

[Zak M]

Figured I’d share this from the 22nd of Sept as I don’t think I have already. The thunder was immense

[Harry's House]

 Zak M At 1.20 am on 22nd September where I was at Hamstreet, there was a C-G strike a mile away causing a loud thunder clap with what sounded like an explosion during the normal rumble. 

[Ball Lightning]

Something squally heading northeast near Bristol, is CB according to airport ceilometer.

[Metwatch]

Neat looking line of cloud from the rain that passed overhead earlier. Nothing particularly exciting, but something a little more interesting to see in December. 

 

[LIGHTNING ACTION]

interesting to see at this time of the year

[Sprites]

 LIGHTNING ACTION  Cold air heading south. 

Cumbria getting some Thundersnow. 

[Liamkaboom]

Found these images from a few months back that I said I'd upload and never did .

[Metwatch]

Some more cloud street action with the showers this afternoon 

[Ball Lightning]

My flight today was interesting to say the least, managed to land in 60mph gusts and the amount of deep convection was remarkable over the Channel.

When I first reached the coast there was a few towering cumulus

Then spotted a cumulonimbus capillatus incus about half way between Isle of Wight and Alderney, zooming in and it had a really beautiful structure

Then almost flew straight into a huge one on approach, almost the whole CB was ice crystals due to the cold air aloft, it probably was producing small hail.

 

Very skilled landing in extremely difficult conditions, even though I must admit I was expecting a go-around with 60+mph gusts in combination with the gust front that thing must have produced.

 

 

Edited December 22, 2024 by Snowspout

[ChannelThunder]

So, given my 2024 (here at home) consisted of one distant rumble at 3am one night in May, and 2023 was almost equally as pants, here's to 2025; likely another god-awful year for thunder. Bring back our plumes!

Edited December 31, 2024 by ChannelThunder

[Iceman2606]

2024 - A UK Weather Round Up

 

[Supacell]

Happy New Year to everyone on Netweather. Fingers crossed 2025 gives some good storms to those of us that want the storms. And let's hope we get more sunshine. I don't think I can recall a year as dull as 2024. 

I decided to put together a compilation of some of my best lightning video captures over my last 20 years of storm chasing. I can't believe it's been 20 years already since I started. Anyway, hope you enjoy.