Convective / Storm Chat And Discussion

[john pike]

http://www.severe-weather.co.uk/

useful site

[Costa Del Fal]

Thunder here.

[pottyprof]

Thunder here.

Don't use it all up.. Save some for us oooop north.

[Southern Storm]

How do you even go about getting lightning shots like that? Please explain!

Nothing happening here by the way, but you knew that.

Hi Northants

a bit of pashents and luck

I have a Canon Eos 1000D, its an entry level digital SLR but it does the job

The camera does most of the work to be honest, the hard part was trying to focus in the dark.

I had the camera in aperture priority mode, the camera choses the shutter speed to allow for a balanced exposure and thats that.

The shutter was open from 15 - 30 seconds which allows plenty of time to catch a flash of lightning.

Edited May 7, 2011 by thunderman24

[Costa Del Fal]

Don't use it all up.. Save some for us oooop north.

:lol: This is already storm number 2 from this set up. Its nice to be pampered now and again. :lol:

[Stormcast]

I need sleep if I can get any , it's a muggy 17c up here.

night night netweather

Edited May 7, 2011 by Stormcast

[Eabie]

Did any storms go up through Coventry yet? I'm not there yet but still rooting for it from afar.

[pottyprof]

:lol: This is already storm number 2 from this set up. Its nice to be pampered now and again. :lol:

Enjoy..

Can't complain because I got caught up in the Sheffield storm a couple of weeks ago. Not expecting much here until late morning really. That's if the storms don't split and head either side of us, as is usually the case in this sort of set up.

[Costa Del Fal]

Did any storms go up through Coventry yet? I'm not there yet but still rooting for it from afar.

Dont think so. They mainly went from Wiltshire via Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Dudley, Wolverhampton before beginning to die off at around Stafford/Stoke.

Just the one or two rumbles in the end here. Night all.

[john pike]

http://www.sat24.com/en/fr?ir=true

this lot coming up from north west france

still looks strong,

probably hit south,south east around 4am

if it holds its strength over the water could be good.

time for my bed although will leave the window

open and hopefully get woken up

goodnight all

[Adi F]

Just back from Portsdown hill a nice little show but it started tipping down just after I arrived so didn't dig the camera out. Every man and his dog was up there watching the sparks but it seems non of you lot were, light weights lol

Lets hope tomorrow come through now.

I see IoW weather has been taken down by the number of people using it!

[Neilsouth]

Looks like the showers or storms made it into kent, i can say i told you so!...

Nae was rubbish and even nick's forecast was off, always nowcast and only use forecasts and models as guess work when it comes to storms

[feb1991blizzard]

looks good for some reallly heavy rain soon here, hopefully with thunder.

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

[SnowJoke]

Really heavy convective rainfall here now, only just started no lightning or thunder though

[Tim B]

looks good for some reallly heavy rain soon here, hopefully with thunder.

http://www.metoffice...ather/uk/radar/

Aye, looks like the northwest will be in for a soaking soon.

[Neilsouth]

Rather intense echoes coming into sussex from channel!, one to watch

[Adi F]

Rather intense echoes coming into sussex from channel!, one to watch

i am watching it just dont think there is any lightning in it

[SimonP]

Looking at http://www.sat24.com/gb the stuff that is hitting NW France looks like it's intensifying quite nicely - next couple of hours could be interesting

[95 Degrees]

Sarkozy's Storm Shield is working wonders sadly, convectional rain can't make it 10 miles into the channel before being replaced by plain rain!

[sabre999uk]

Hi,

Thunder here sounds like north of me, constant rumbles for last 10 minutes.

Steve

[Stormyking]

Wow this has to be one of the best nights in a long long time, all started with that Shelf cloud and gust front that past threw. Had some Amazing Lightning on and off all night, the storm we had produce some unbelievable CG'S and CC'S, lots of Anvil crawlers. Theres been about 8/9 Storms go threw tonight with all amazing Lightning.

Would believe it, we have another lil thunderstorm over us now, saw 2 amazing CG's about 10 minutes ago, and had extremely loud crack of thunder about 3 minutes ago.

Lightning going off every 30 secs as well!!!!!!!!!

[ZONE 51]

had a downpour around 1am ,first rain for as long as i can remember! good for the snails, anyway it would be more exciting to include other activity.

this situation is where thunderstorms spark off again, i expect an active time towards morning, from the south/se then these storms moving north..

Edited May 7, 2011 by ElectricSnowStorm

[ZONE 51]

we have new activity over the channel as lightning is increasing once again! lots of cells setting of around the IOW and in channel, over in France watching large convevtive mass heading for southern/se england...

[ZONE 51]

some action moving in now, this lots just expoded into loads of cells, radar looking very active right now..its on its way, i expect some major electrical activity with this lot setting off, stayed up in case i missed it! could have got some sleep, think this is the stuff all the talk was about for us in the se/central south

[Grazy2266]

Plenty of rain overnight here in Buckinghamshire, which was very welcome indeed, a few flashes and a couple of distant rumbles that's about all. Things surprising still look fairly good with what's coming over the channel, dawn activity cant be bad lol