Convective / Storm Chat And Discussion

[Thundery wintry showers]

Anyone around from Tyne and Wear? Looks like some pretty heavy showers and a few sferics around there at the moment.

[Jane Louise]

:lol: Oooh I do hope so and Stu ..

Right tomorrow Look better for Storms

Stu, I really do hope you get one tomorrow . It's not fair though, those storms don't seem to like me and you .:unsure:

Shall we move to France?

[Stuart]

:lol: Oooh I do hope so and Stu ..

Stu, I really do hope you get one tomorrow . It's not fair though, those storms don't seem to like me and you .:unsure:

Shall we move to France?

there was thunder in the area jane but was not here

Edited June 7, 2011 by Stuart

[paul m]

:lol: Oooh I do hope so and Stu ..

Stu, I really do hope you get one tomorrow . It's not fair though, those storms don't seem to like me and you .:unsure:

Shall we move to France?

Sods law states that as soon as you move to france the uk will have constant thunderstorms

[Jane Louise]

there was thunder in the area jane but was here

The same thing always happens to me lol You can bet a storm will fire off about a few miles away from me, but here nothing.

Chin up though, a better chancefor us tomorrow.

Sods law states that as soon as you move to france the uk will have constant thunderstorms

I agree with you there, will definately be sods law grrrrr :lol:

[Dorsetbred]

I agree with you there, will definately be sods law grrrrr :lol:

If you want to check that here's the maths to do so:

Five factors are taken into account with any task to allow us to calculate its RSL-value, the Sod’s Law rating.

Urgency (U), complexity ©, importance (I), skill (S) and frequency (F) are scored between 0 and 9.

How to calculate the Sod's Law Rating of a task:

Rate the urgency, importance and complexity of the task on a scale of 1 to 9 and add these figures together.

Rate how skilled you are at the task. Subtract this from 10.

Multiply your answers to steps 1 and 2 together and divide by 20.

Rate from 1 to 9 how frequently you perform the task and divide this by 10.

Calculate the sine value of your answer to step 4 (you’ll find this a ‘sin’ on most calculators) and subtract this from 1.

Divide 1 by your answer to step 5.

Finally, multiply your answer to step 3 by 0.7, and then multiply this by your answer to step 6. Voila - you have your Sod’s Law rating.

The closer to 10 it is, the higher your risk of falling victim to Sod’s Law.

Of course, by the time you’ve twice got as far as step 5 to then forget a vital number, started again only to get up to the beginning of step 7 when the batteries in your calculator run out the urgency rating of your original task has probably gone up much more!

Now where were we

[Costa Del Fal]

You Jinxed it again Jane. Same for tomorrow now. :lol:

Friday looks better but could change right before just like today did.

[Jane Louise]

If you want to check that here's the maths to do so:

Five factors are taken into account with any task to allow us to calculate its RSL-value, the Sod’s Law rating.

Urgency (U), complexity ©, importance (I), skill (S) and frequency (F) are scored between 0 and 9.

How to calculate the Sod's Law Rating of a task:

Rate the urgency, importance and complexity of the task on a scale of 1 to 9 and add these figures together.

Rate how skilled you are at the task. Subtract this from 10.

Multiply your answers to steps 1 and 2 together and divide by 20.

Rate from 1 to 9 how frequently you perform the task and divide this by 10.

Calculate the sine value of your answer to step 4 (you’ll find this a ‘sin’ on most calculators) and subtract this from 1.

Divide 1 by your answer to step 5.

Finally, multiply your answer to step 3 by 0.7, and then multiply this by your answer to step 6. Voila - you have your Sod’s Law rating.

The closer to 10 it is, the higher your risk of falling victim to Sod’s Law.

Of course, by the time you’ve twice got as far as step 5 to then forget a vital number, started again only to get up to the beginning of step 7 when the batteries in your calculator run out the urgency rating of your original task has probably gone up much more!

Now where were we

Good one.

You Jinxed it again Jane. Same for tomorrow now. :lol:

Friday looks better but could change right before just like today did.

There's still plenty of storm season left lol

[paul m]

Good one.

There's still plenty of storm season left lol

Where for???? France!!!

[paul m]

Me thinks its time to subscribe to netweather features as strike display is about as much use as a chocolate teapot. Apparently its raining here using sd paid subscription and has 22 mins remaining. Unless my eyesight is going there is nothing falling nor does it look like its going to

Edited June 7, 2011 by paul m

[todd1970]

Where for???? France!!!

Lol..true..ye know its amazing so it is there is only a few hundred miles that seperate the UK from the Continent and yet there it seems to be the perfect breeding ground for storms.

We havent had a storm here since May 2006 yet we were in Paris last year for a week and seen 6 seperate storms..4 in the one day..where's the justice in that...

[Snowangel-MK]

Shall we move to France?

No ...but I wouldn't mind a NW storm chase day trip !!

Just gone dark here and started to rain - no thunder though

[Markh737]

Lots of thunder and very dark clouds in the Darlington area at the moment, mainly the east side of town, havent seen lightning yet, its just a matter of time I think

[paul m]

No ...but I wouldn't mind a NW storm chase day trip !!

Just gone dark here and started to rain - no thunder though

Now with all our luck with storms we would get to the ferryport and find out all silings cancelled due to storms on the french coast!!!!!!

[Nick F]

Lots of thunder and very dark clouds in the Darlington area at the moment, mainly the east side of town, havent seen lightning yet, its just a matter of time I think

Yep, nice line of storms in the area on radar currently, must be along the A1 now:

[seabreeze86]

Looks like i could be right in the firing line for that cluster of storms heading north east at the moment, will update when the hit in the next half hour or so.

[mountain shadow]

Posted in the wrong thread thread.

Just had a heavy rain/t-storm in South Belfast.

[P-M]

Aye the skies are black to my southeast and I can hear the all too familiar sounds of distant thunder lol

[Markh737]

All gone! Sun back out! Robbed!!!

[P-M]

Good size hail and thunder repeatedly in the Washington area. I can see black clouds to my southeast and flashes of lightning. Also 2 huge rainbows lol

[Alex95]

I can see occasional lightning to my SE now, fairly distant. Quite a near miss really. I can also see the double rainbow, makes for quite a good view!

[seabreeze86]

All gone! Sun back out! Robbed!!!

Yes looks like the outcome will be the same here, had a bit of hail and some heavy rain but that was about it or well there is always another day

[Terminal Moraine]

No thunder here but we did have a couple of minutes of small hail at the back edge of a shower at 1810 g.m.t.

The first hail in June since 2007.

[Geordiesnow]

Going by Isolated Frost status, I've missed out on all the fun and games it seems. Only heard a crack of thunder and didnt see any lightning myself but looked a very good thundery shower none the less.

Oh well, I'll live.

[Bluebreezer54]

Lol..true..ye know its amazing so it is there is only a few hundred miles that seperate the UK from the Continent and yet there it seems to be the perfect breeding ground for storms.

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A few hundred miles from the continent ?? Down here on the South Coast I can see the French coast on a clear day, a distance of about 35 miles. The distance to the continent from Dover is even less, approximately 25 miles. Not sure where you get the 'few hundred miles' from, unless you mean from Scotland to the continent.

Edited June 7, 2011 by Bluebreezer54