Convective / Storm Chat And Discussion

[viking_smb]

Woop Woop, finally some rain here in W Sussex! Anyone else in Sussex area had anything interesting?

By the way, awesome pics thunderman thanks for sharing

just had a big clap of thunder which shook the house, - could feel the vibration

[Phelpsy]

lightning to my west

[Andy Pepler]

oooooooo dead on midnight a lone flash of lightning

coffee anyone

Edited May 6, 2011 by Andy Pepler

[richep]

I don't think the south-west will get anything else tonight judging by the direction of the storms in the bay of biscay, although the south-east might

[Biggin]

Deffo something instore for London in the next couple of hours.

[viking_smb]

lightning to my west

probably from the thunder i'm getting atm

[Phelpsy]

probably from the thunder i'm getting atm

I did think that

[MP-R]

I'm hoping something does come to Surrey within the next hour or two as I am tired and want to go to bed but won't if something is on its way.

[camiscool]

Woo hop could be first rain in 2 months??!

[Tim B]

Good, that cell that generated lightning over Cumbria has moved out of range so maybe I'll see some development soon now that its cold outflow isnt killing everything.

[mark-anstee]

Plenty of lightning to the west of me but cannot hear any thunder though must be a high based storm

[snow raven]

big cluster of storms developing in english channel now. Looks like kent\london is gonna join in tonight, and not tomorrow as others have stated!!

Looks like another band of rain will hit us soon although whether or not it will be electric (I doubt it) Tomorrow is the main event for us storm wise

Let's hope so, both for tonight and tomorrow!

Even if we don't get thunderstorms, rain would be great... if only for getting rid of that yellow dusty film that seems to be on every car (including my own) for the past month or so!

[weatherobsuk]

Northerly alignment of the jetstream in the next 6 hours. So the upper vectors that are shifting the MCS in the Bay of Biscay NNE will soon start to veer more Northerly by the time the system is passing France into the Channel. From there and into tomorrow wind vectors at jet level are orientated directly South to North with little variation except to the extreme East.

[Slingfox]

Had a couple of rumbles earlier and just had a decent rain shower.

Not seen much else, went down to Portsmouth earlier and saw a few flashes of lightning but not much else.

[viking_smb]

Northerly alignment of the jetstream in the next 6 hours. So the upper vectors that are shifting the MCS in the Bay of Biscay NNE will soon start to veer more Northerly by the time the system is passing France into the Channel. From there and into tomorrow wind vectors at jet level are orientated directly South to North with little variation except to the extreme East.

IOW lighting is down again.

[Tim B]

Even if we don't get thunderstorms, rain would be great... if only for getting rid of that yellow dusty film that seems to be on every car (including my own) for the past month or so!

Bud dust?

Aye loads of that here too from all the trees, sticky as well.

[Rustynailer]

I think we overloaded the server on there judging by the message on the map screen

Its usually OK all the big storms in the past didn't overload it, mind you until tonight we hadn't had a proper storm since the year before last, busier Internet since then.

Looks like the storms are fading on both IoW radars now.

No1 radar says nothing hardly. No2 radar says something may be a small storm to my NW and a few strikes over Normandy.

Edited May 6, 2011 by Rustynailer

[snow raven]

Bud dust?

Aye loads of that here too from all the trees, sticky as well.

Not sure what bud dust is... but I was wondering if it was from one of those sand storms in the Sahara Desert..?! The cars in my area are covered in it.

[Slingfox]

Its usually OK all the big storms in the past didn't overload it, mind you until tonight we hadn't had a proper storm since the year before last, busier Internet since then.

Looks like the storms are fading on both IoW radars now.

No1 radar says nothing hardly. No2 radar says something may be a small storm to my NW and a few strikes over Normandy.

The problem with IOW this time is their script that runs the lightning detector has been deemed as abusive by UK2, their website provider.

Thus they keep taking it offline and replacing it with a message saying that it's overloading the server on which the site is hosted, thus where the problem lies.

[NUT]

Off topic but got to say huge thumbs up for the NW Extra Radar. Does seem pretty accurate from what I been seeing here today so far Definety will subscribe again in the future.

[viking_smb]

Off topic but got to say huge thumbs up for the NW Extra Radar. Does seem pretty accurate from what I been seeing here today so far Definety will subscribe again in the future.

for those with NW extra radar

is there anymore strikes near cardiff?

[Southern Storm]

Don't give up if you live on the south coast, just had another storm here in Christchurch the came out of nowhere.

i'll try to upload some video that i have just captured with my phone

quite active to 1 flash every 5 seconds.

[Static Prevails]

Right, I'm off to bed, unless someone can convince me I'm going to have a storm come from nowhere tonight/this morning.

On to tomorrow/this afternoon!

[MP-R]

Any idea on the prospects for Surrey, or Egham to be precise over the next hour or two? Debating whether to stay up or not?

[andymusic]

for those with NW extra radar

is there anymore strikes near cardiff?

cracking storm over Pontypridd - threw my electrics right out and mains fuse went with one cracking flash - really nasty thunder too - from the radar that looks like it for south wales for tonight