Convective / Storm Chat And Discussion

[Alex95]

Aw no, I think its going to be too far west - its moving directly S-N again! Just 10 miles too far west mind.

[Cloud 10]

Are those cells in County Durham electrified?

I,m keeping my ears peeled,but have heard no thunder yet.

[SnowJoke]

Been sunny here since 9:30 am and warming up nicely now, currently it's 19.2'c in CMK. A fair bit of large cumulus bubbling up now. Not sure if we'll get some showers let alone a storm. The only event to go bang from a plume was the two male peacocks I saw on the way to Woburn fighting in someones garden yesterday afternoon

[weatherobsuk]

Broken-S signature now registering over the Northeast. Conclusive with the high shear, low CAPE environment its currently placed in. A good chance of Tornadic activity already taking place under this line, if not already.

[Alex95]

BOOM cg strike out west! There's a roll shape of dark cloud, then a greenish grey area behind where the lightning came from

[Muffelchen]

Heavy rain though most of last night but no thunder, however, the lights in the Leisure Ventre did go off about 19:30 so I guess there was some lightning about...somewhere.

Rain died off about 08:30 this morning and since then it has been cloudy with subnny spells. Humidity is at 84% currently and the temp is 17.6°C so there should be plenty of energy, especially if the sun stays out.

Usually it is quite good in this are with these set-ups so let's see what happens later on. Quietly confident.

[Cloud 10]

BOOM cg strike out west! There's a roll shape of dark cloud, then a greenish grey area behind where the lightning came from

Rain just starting here with a gust front coming through.

edit. torrential rain now with strong winds

EDIT Big boom of thunder!!!!

Edited May 8, 2011 by Cloud 10

[Alex95]

The wind is freshening up now, its 17°C though.

[Chris.R]

sun's come out now after a band of rain. Temp rocketing up. Was 15.4c 5 minutes ago, now 16.6. Looks like I'll be in the thick of the convective action this afternoon!

sun's come out now after a band of rain. Temp rocketing up. Was 15.4c 5 minutes ago, now 16.6. Looks like I'll be in the thick of the convective action this afternoon!

[Lynxus]

Appears to be some convective showers show somerset way ..

[Alex95]

Starting to hear distant rumbles of thunder now on the wind.

[Stuart]

I think i hearing thunder

[sn0wman]

Where abouts in the Borders are you Stuart?

[Stuart]

Galashiels

[Lauren]

Windy today with a lot of cumulus. The sun shining on them looks very pretty.

[jpwild]

I ma no weather expert but looking from Disley to Kinder Scout I can see lots of convective cloud formations. Beautiful sight really.

[sn0wman]

I think there's a storm passing to your west, judging by the radar.

[Alex95]

Bright flash and reasonably loud rumble of thunder. 10 seconds apart.

[Lynxus]

Whoohoo, LOTS of convection down here now.

Some big cells popping up. Esp to my SW

[weatherobsuk]

low-topped convection around here. Mainly some high-alt murk giving the drizzle we just had 10 mins ago from the passing Occluded front. Good news now is that this part of the world is clear of the frontal zone at least, with looking SW'wards later on to see if the trough forecast into tonight gives anything substantial.

[Cloud 10]

That was an impressive if brief thundery shower,with some truly torrential rain and strong winds.

4 rumbles of thunder as well.

Should continue to develop as it moves NNE

[Alex95]

Heavy rain and strong winds, occasional thunder (5 so far)

[Chris.R]

RE my earlier question, I was looking at the rong location, I see now that there is indeed some fair instability and SBCAPE both today and more so Tomorrow. Sorry!

[weatherobsuk]

now coming into view on the Northumbria Uni webcam (Newcastle).

http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/development/webcams/lib4_webcam/

[Alex95]

And its over. 10 minutes of torrential rain, 8 visible flashes of lighting (2cg) and 10 rumbles of thunder. I'll settle for that

Lots of mid level cloud following on, I think that'll be it for this afternoon.

EDIT: Just checked, 4mm fell in those 10 minutes - that's 24mm per hour!

EDIT 2 : Another rumble as it moves away, that makes 11.

Edited May 8, 2011 by alza