General Storm Thread

[NorthantsSnow]

Ex-Daventry storm is arriving in Northampton. Just giving rain so far.

[Gordon]

Winter is the only time the radar becomes alive, :'(

I'll have a look at the charts

GMTV's weather forcast said there is a chance of the odd rumble across the midlands!!!

Friday has a chance of a storm.

well lets praise the GMTV's weather boys and girls

[Lynxus]

Some lovely towers going up round here now.

Getting a bit late though 23c at the moment.

[NorthantsSnow]

Looking at the NW forecast there is a fair chance of a storm here on 5 out of the next 6 days. After a quiet summer so far bar Saturday, just wondering what it is about the current setup that is so conducive for storms and how likely is this to continue?

Edited August 17, 2010 by NorthantsSnow

[Backtrack]

Looks like the North West have a chance tomorrow with a CAPE approaching 900 and a -3 lift index? I'd say the conditions are great?

[flump]

I can confirm we have had heavy rain for the last 20 minutes and now thunder but no lightening seen

[remymartin]

Hmm that line of showers is splitting in two, im going to be in the gap hope my luck changes soon

[Summer of 76]

One rumble of thunder about five minutes ago and really heavy rain at the moment

[remymartin]

Can anyone tell me how the convective inhibition scale works, ie what do the minus numbers mean

[saint]

My thunder news from the weekend: (Sorry it's late)

I was staying in Milton Keynes on Saturday night, at around 7:30pm dark clouds started rolling in over in the distance and flashes appeared soon after this, several rumbles of thunder followed before more lightning in the distance including several ground strikes, this storm avoided us by a small distance, it went through what looked like central Milton Keynes, while we were on the edge of the City near the MK Dons stadium. It was very slow moving and it rumbled away till at least 9:30/10pm, lightning could be seen for this amount of time along with thunder, it was a good storm to see, but a shame it didn't pass right over us.

There were also several other thundery showers on Saturday in MK, with very heavy rain and thunder. A good day!

Also, on BBC 3 Counties, they are reporting there was a mini-tornado in Hertfordshire on Saturday. http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/threecounties/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8918000/8918168.stm I wouldn't call that a tornado.

[Bronski]

Evening all!

Brilliant storm over Henlow at the moment, been on the go for a good hour now. VERY heavy rain and constant thunder!

[remymartin]

Below are a couple of links from this site: http://www.theweatherprediction.com/

Convective Inhibition (CINH)

Capping Layer

Basically, CINH is the opposite of CAPE - it represents a stable layer in the atmosphere which prevent lifting of air parcels from the boundary (surface) layer. Rather than air parcels rising, they are instead sinking once they reach this stable layer. It's measured in the same way as CAPE (j/kg) and so the lower the figure, the stronger the CINH or "cap".

Thanks mate much appreciated

[Arnie Pie]

Cell over Birmingham 17/8/2010 this afternoon

Testing first post

Edited August 17, 2010 by windypants

[cyclonic happiness]

Cell over Birmingham 17/8/2010 this afternoon

Testing first post

yay!!! gratz on first post!! Welcome to the forum and just you wait until winter....queing to post...it's really on fire in here

Me and my sis were shopping in Brum at about 3.20pm earlier and we saw that monster coming and decided to head back to the train to Nuneaton.

We got there ok, but by the time the train had got to Nuneaton station at 4pmish, the cloud had followed us and became a monster, which on my car journey back to Bedworth had left some of the roads flooded under 4-6" of water!!

It passed pretty quickly, but the cloudburst was something to behold.

(p.s. there was no electrical activity at that stage)

Edited August 17, 2010 by cyclonic happiness

[remymartin]

Had a quite heavy shower from this earlier, no thunder though

[Arnie Pie]

Cheers for that Cyclonic

It seems like a real fun forum

I'll be posting like a mad man once i find my feet

[Wivenswold]

<br />Cheers for that Cyclonic<br />It seems like a real fun forum<br />I'll be posting like a mad man once i find my feet <img src='http://nwstatic.co.uk/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/crazy.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /><br />

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No need to find your feet sir.

Anyway, I'm hanging out of my window hoping to catch a rumble or two this evening.

Is anyone in Mid-Essex getting anything at the moment?

Mike

Wivenhoe

Essex

[cyclonic happiness]

Cheers for that Cyclonic

It seems like a real fun forum

I'll be posting like a mad man once i find my feet

Rest assured there are no feet to find on here as all views are welcome and valid

Just make sure that you are never afriad to post stuff, so long as it's not inappropriate or rude.

some of the folk on here are very technicle in their posts but they are not always right, neither are us less technically minded.

a love of weather is all you need to post here and I'm sure all of us will enjoy reading your post and seeing you photos for many years to come

[TheToastPeople]

Had a great storm in bedfordshire today! Lots of heavy rain and some beautiful skies and even saw a wind turbine get struck by lightning!

Here are a few pics of the clouds if your interested.

[cyclonic happiness]

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No need to find your feet sir.

Anyway, I'm hanging out of my window hoping to catch a rumble or two this evening.

Is anyone in Mid-Essex getting anything at the moment?

Mike

Wivenhoe

Essex

welcome to the forum too!!!! woot!! two new recruits!! (slaps self for exclaimation marks abuse)

[Harry]

I CANNOT believe there are storms a matter of 20 odd miles from here and I didn't even realise until right now!!! Utterly dumbfounded....pleeeeeeeease reach here!! It's not too far!! Pleeeeease mother nature....!!!

[cyclonic happiness]

Had a great storm in bedfordshire today! Lots of heavy rain and some beautiful skies and even saw a wind turbine get struck by lightning!

Here are a few pics of the clouds if your interested.

really good photos there matey, it really was a narrow band wasn't it? but so slow moving...I'm sure I saw some circulation from it at one point?

as it is now, judging by the radar, it's holding it's intensity.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_forecast_warnings.html

oops weather warning out now!

[TheToastPeople]

really good photos there matey, it really was a narrow band wasn't it? but so slow moving...I'm sure I saw some circulation from it at one point?

as it is now, judging by the radar, it's holding it's intensity.

Yeah it came over in two waves, the first was really narrow as seen in the pic then then it went pretty dark and hammerd it down for about an hour!

[cyclonic happiness]

about to strike Londinium!!!!

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/

[TheToastPeople]

sweeet! there in for some heavy rain and a half! i think the lightning is gone now though :S