General Storm Discussion Thread

[Hathers]

:what part of Telford u in? sky does look dark but i can see blue sky coming towards me!! think im on the edge on it

Aqueduct. I've heard 2 distant rumbled in the last 10 mins. Looks like our neighbours in shrewsbury are going to have it.

[SalopWatcher]

For the folks in Telford, it looks for once like this storm is more our way... its not in shrewsbury, but over by Atcham seems the darkest part..

its not massively active to be fair, but to see a form of lightening in this days is like winning the pools!

[The watcher]

WOAAAHH! The height of this little cumulus cloud is HUGE....tried to get a pic but my camera battery died, it didn't fit in the picture though.

[Cheese Rice]

Didn't have time to post yesterday but we had a very good storm at 7pm, plenty of lightning, thunder, and torrential rain. That makes 3 storms so far this July which is good going, and to my west it's gone very dark and the blanket of cloud is getting closer, looks like another storm on the way.

Edit: Just heard thunder in the distance

[A.J]

torrential downpour here....just waiting for a flash and a rumble

[Stuart]

Lucky ones who getting a storm right now hope i see some later

[Cheese Rice]

Unfortunately no towering cloud formations, current view form my window.

Edit: Image is size of Leeds, so right click over image and click on "open link in new tab", once image loads it will zoom out

[Lewis]

Unfortunately no towering cloud formations, current view form my window.

Could get interesting for our neck of the woods tomorrow.

[Marcus_surfer]

The keep missing me just to my east But keep getting light showers and currently picking with rain. Dark cloud to the south looks like it might actually hit me this time! Dont think much will come from it though!

Nope...it's not moving fast at all, and if anything those showers if they did make it across the sea would probably die out. I'm keeping my eye on tonight's developments. There has been reports of Thunderstorms over Ireland this afternoon, and with this unstable air moving southwards, we could see further showers tonight. Fingers crossed.

[The PIT]

Anybody wanting too see the rain shadow effect type in s89en in net-weather extra radar and watch the approaching shower. What normally happens it will weaken or even go altogether then if it survives the journey start to build again as it heads away.

Got to admit I'm surprised at the lack of shower activity today thought there would be more around.

[Cheese Rice]

Gone windy and sheet of cloud has gone milky white, which usually means heavy rain and lightning.

[Lewis]

Looking at the NMM model, shows some decent CAPE values tomorrow for these areas, Although the lower resolution (normal GFS model) shifts the CAPE values further South each run, I would expect some decent values around much of England tomorrow.

What do people think on their chances tomorrow?

[Shane]

Well i cant see anything for our neck of the woods on the rain today rader that will head our way ( storm sheild too strong there are beefy looking showers either side of us!!) .. but good luck to the rest of you

[Guest]

Didn't have time to post yesterday but we had a very good storm at 7pm, plenty of lightning, thunder, and torrential rain. That makes 3 storms so far this July which is good going, and to my west it's gone very dark and the blanket of cloud is getting closer, looks like another storm on the way.

Edit: Just heard thunder in the distance

Nice one!

That skirted by to my west, couldn't see much from my window.

Got some stuff heading up from Birmingham which should clip here, if not then I'll head out to get a better view of it approaching later, assuming it keeps its intensity. No idea whether the Brum cell is electrificated though

[vortex_liam]

Good luck looking at radar strike over brighton come to me

[Cheese Rice]

Rain is pouring horizontally, quite heavy too, nearby hills have disappeared.

[Guest FireStorm]

Good luck looking at radar strike over brighton come to me

Anaprop surely? Theres nothing down that way on radar or satellite to give off any sferics

[BFS/BHD]

Little video i took earlier. Quick flash and some lovely thunder from 1min 30 .

[I remember Atlantic 252]

massive shower to my south, cannock, walsall way, im still in no storms club, ajpoolshark in penkridge getting a drenching?

[r_dancing]

The sun is shining brightly here in Manchester. Great towers forming to the east and west!

[A.J]

massive shower to my south, cannock, walsall way, im still in no storms club, ajpoolshark in penkridge getting a drenching?

damn right I am...lol....probably more rain in the past 2 hours than in over a month.......This heavy shower is very slow moving, I can just see the back edge of the anvil as the rain now eases...I haven't seen/heard lightning/thunder from this shower, but it certainly packs a punch with rainfall!

[Cheese Rice]

Well this shower has turned out rather disappointing, after an initial burst of heavy rain and strong-ish winds things have died down, just over-cast with light rain. The shower North of Brum looks like a direct hit.

[A.J]

Sorry Mark in stafford, but looks like that shower I had, has had the stuffing knocked out of it, much weaker on radar now

[Joey.G]

Little video i took earlier. Quick flash and some lovely thunder from 1min 30 .

Nice preview of whats heading our way tomorrow then

[The watcher]

Erm, I've just heard about 6 rumbles of thunder from the distance in the last 30 seconds and they all seem to be new rumbles. Whats a cookin?