Convective / Storm Chat And Discussion

[Mesosphere]

Got altocumulus castellanus clouds building to my south just now , very still with no wind outside

[Buckster76]

we can only hope

look at the 4am and 7am plots on the MetO Invent for down here

[Andy Pepler]

why is it when there is a good storm i am reduced to a giggleing child at the ripe old age of 40..

[wallopweather]

Great! just as I was looking at the lightning strikes south of the IOW the IOW weather live storm site goes down. Direct hit? http://www.isleofwightweather.co.uk/live_storm_data.htm

[Wet'n'Dry]

I don't know why - but I have a hunch the S-East is going to get something of a surprise in the early morning

just feels right to me

MetO Invent seems to suggest this too

I hope you're right but I'm not counting my chickens just yet!!

[chapmanslade]

Is it me or are those storms over France building mega quick and heading towards the south, if they kept the same pattern by the time they reach us they will me huge?!

The one over the bay of Biscay is just growing so fast!!

Just remember you are looking at Infra red (assuming you can't see a visual satelite in the dark !)and so the high level 'false cirrus' blown off the top of the storm is being blown quickly N by the jet there. That shows up very brightly but ISN'T the storm. They are MCS's down there with multiple cells - to big to be anything else really.

Saturday has two parts to it - diurnal heating will set off surface based storms IF the cloud cover breaks - and it might not depending on what junk is left over from tonight. Then a trough will run N later in the day destabilising the plume to give mid level storms again.

Edited May 6, 2011 by chapmanslade

[Liam J]

The storm near Salisbury looks pretty epic on the radar! Any updates from that area?

Here's a useful lightning detector site that gets data from the Met Office... someone posted it on here a few days ago:

http://andvari.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/i_dag_na.html?

Wow can't see cumbria under the red!! That explains the dramatic skies

[Cakie]

look at the 4am and 7am plots on the MetO Invent for down here

Buckster me darling, can you give us a rough idea of where "down here" is ?

[Tim B]

Look at that area over Spain and France which that system heading for the south is connected to.

[weatherobsuk]

Nice 'question mark' offshore Norfolk on the UK Meto Radar. Who says the weather doesn't have a sense of humor.

[JonGill]

Distant thunder now.

[NO LONGER POSTING]

look at the 4am and 7am plots on the MetO Invent for down here

looks pretty good for us, have you looked at the live radar on meteox? looks like they are on there way

[Albion Snowman]

Sheet lightning and rumbles of thunder in the near horizon. There is also this curious phenomenon where wet droplets are falling from the sky, oh its light rain I forgot what it looked like! Temp of 18.3C and certainly feels it. Need more rain, even the grass is dying off.

[conor123]

Raining here now but all quiet.

[wallopweather]

The storm near Salisbury looks pretty epic on the radar! Any updates from that area?

Here's a useful lightning detector site that gets data from the Met Office... someone posted it on here a few days ago:

http://andvari.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/i_dag_na.html?

I'm about 10 miles east of Salisbury and not seen a thing here but a lot of activity south of the IOW. There's a couple of NW members in Winchester and Andover area who may post earlier reports of any activity than me

[Kain]

All the lightning is towards wolverhampton...AGAIN. Bullplop.

[DAVID SNOW]

nice IC / anvil crawler spotted just south of Sedgley and as I type a more overhead flush and rumble

Hmmm,you may need to go back and sit again :lol:

[I remember Atlantic 252]

lightning now to my south, and thundering

[Tim B]

Anyone under that new development over Wales? Not seeing any strikes from it yet but it's only a matter of time.

[Wet'n'Dry]

Great! just as I was looking at the lightning strikes south of the IOW the IOW weather live storm site goes down. Direct hit? http://www.isleofwig..._storm_data.htm

Switch to Burnham. nearly as accurate as the IOW http://www.burnhamoncrouchweather.com/wxlight.php

[Andy Pepler]

Switch to Burnham. nearly as accurate as the IOW http://www.burnhamoncrouchweather.com/wxlight.php

i think we just crashed it ..

[littlemissy]

very heavy rain on/off all evening and just heard a rumble of thunder and distant lightning .oh another flash of lightning.well I hope it is or I'm in for a helluva migraine.

[fromey]

iow lighting detector has gone down.

all quiet here at the moment.

fromey

[andymusic]

Anyone under that new development over Wales? Not seeing any strikes from it yet but it's only a matter of time.

only rain in South Wales at the mo - on and off

[Zephyr]

Interesting from TORRO for tomorrow talk of supercells..

Later in the night, another trough will approach southern parts with a second area of showers and thunderstorms accompanying it. These will move northwards through Saturday. Surface-based storms are possible in places tomorrow, especially in central and northern parts. However, the overnight evolution and eventually distribution of convective cloud debris tomorrow morning means that defining risk areas is not possible at this time. Should surface based storms develop tomorrow, shear/instability profiles look sufficient for supercells with a large hail/damaging wind risk, along with isolated tornadoes. Further discussions and possible watches are likely.

http://www.torro.org...te/forecast.php