Storm/convective Discussion 27th June >>

[tara303]

i am having a nosebleed! air pressure must be all over the place

a definate rumble about 10 mins ago, and looking out of either side of my house could be two different planets - south/west blue sky one or two clouds, north/eastish is very dark and has the green tinge of storms clouds.

can feel a cool breze getting up again....

come on!!! it's sooo on the edge!

[BarnetBlizzard]

heres hoping

i could of sworn i saw that exact cloud earlier, now im in torrents of rain and lightning

[dallas]

rain just started wating to see if we get any hail

[Mike Storm]

and my sky has died. the road is flooded.... i have video will upload soon

[Noctilucid]

Still flashing and booming away to my South, thats the first time I've seen a storm come overhead then come back at me!

Very powerful lightning to the South, its very bright but its also very distant.

City airport has preictably fallen silent, earlier they were dodging round the updrafts.

Edited June 27, 2009 by jshaw

[saint]

Just started to rain, quite a close strike just then with booming thunder 3s later.

I think me you and Barnet Blizzard could be having the same storm or storms which are closely conected or joined.

[Nath]

all my god..... the biggest hail stones ive ever seen some the size of a 2p coin..... i hope my cars ok...

Had some marble size hail about half hour ago during the most fierce storm I have seen for ages. Kilburn high road is like a river of water, must have been a solid hour of torrential rain, constant thunder and lightning. WOW is all I can say!!!

[Phil UK]

Wish they would hit Wimbledon so we can all watch it!

Was it 1985 when it got struck by lightning?

But forgot they have a roof now, and probably a free Cliff Richard concert.

AJ, inkeeping track with this thread. I'm watching closely. This afternoons storms have buggered off so. (Still wondering if a near miss although anvil overhead constitues a storm? I'm perplexed as to include a third storm in my sig?)

Phil. (That said, night is still young. )

[Paul R]

Cell recently popped up just west of Stoke; ideal area to initiate if I'm going to get a storm this evening. Looks fairly hefty on radar.

[Neilsouth]

Really, this has been out much of the afternoon!

I assume these are in fact warnings?

Met office BBC / Sky forecasts

Oh and i had a call lots of thunder and lightning somewhere near rochester

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Couple of power cuts here, but no storms in sight

[Glideslope]

Got Mammatus clouds overhead now very dark to my south-west.

Steve

[loopydreamer]

for weather09 and other Brummy type people, there are new cells firing up just north of coventry, probably from the outflow boundary of the earlier Birminghm cell....definitely worth keeping an eye on for the next hour

ooooh! sun has just started to come out here! hope that will heat things up even if its just enough!

[dallas]

well and truely storm conditions now, sky tv gone ti&& up

[saint]

A very close flash of lightning just caught my eye.........

The Thunder has got more regular again and it is very dark, all the lights in the street and houses are on.

WOW 3 VERY CLOSE FLAHSES OF LIGHTNING!!!!!! :o :o All within 1 minute, very scary and now we have hail.

[Neilsouth]

I think thats it for the storms here , they decayed awhile ago.... Can't complain , had some good lightning , thunder and awesome atom bomb style clouds

[UKSupercell]

HUGE electrical storm to my east, unluckily it's dodged me to the east but i'm still very happy with the massive storm I had about 1 hour ago. Loads of lightning and thunder to my east though towards west London.

[TonyH]

30mm past hour parts of the London area, there must be local flooding!

[SalopWatcher]

first convective rain of the day here, really dark to the east north east....

my sky has gone funny watching wimbledon too, guess thats the storms in London effecting it...

[Snowyowl9]

A couple of anvils are coming in from the east/NE direction long time no see from there, which have weakened,wind is NE,mid-level cloud from the SE very slow,and a TCU in that direction and low cloud from the east just to add to the confusion of directions!

Edited June 27, 2009 by Snowyowl9

[A.J]

Nice looking cells fireing up over salops/cheshire heaading slowly WNW....cells over the home counties continuing to build along a maature area of vorticity centered just to the west of London, looks like an MCS developing there

[Nick F]

Just come back from a fantastic chase near Ashford, Kent this afternoon, I bagged a funnel cloud!!!!.

Funnel cloud looking north just off junction 9 of the M20 at Ashford:

Convection to the north of Tunbridge Wells recently looking towards London:

Caught some CGs on video from the slow moving storm just north of Ashford earlier ont his afternoon, will upload it later ...

[saint]

Right guys.

This storm has suddenly intensified into a large one, with some close strikes, i am not feeling safe on the computer so i think i may log off for a while till it's past.

Good luck all and keep safe.

Oh and lighting is about every 30 seconds - 1 minute.

Edited June 27, 2009 by saint

[Tom D]

Just started raining here, very dark all round. Haven't heard thunder for a few mins.

[tom_f123]

Wow Great pics Nick F