Convective / Storm Chat And Discussion

[Kain]

Just had a hell of a shower here. I couldn't hear the TV over the sound of the rain!

Don't think I'll see a storm today, but there are some lovely cloud formations around this morning

[Stormyking]

Another small shower passing over there has been loads so far, the shower that produce the couple rumbles of thunder looked amazing ont he back edge of it

[Guest Kent-Weather]

A friend on Facebook has managed to capture a funnel cloud in NI yesterday (lucky bugger) - been posted also on the BBC website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-13691150

[Neilsouth]

Heavy Showers now

[Harry]

Had a couple of rumbles of thunder about and hour ago from a surface based shower that developed to our South west, my friend phone me up to say and went outside and heard 2 rumbles and then cleared off

Been a great year for thunder here so far

For some, ahem!!!!

Another small shower passing over there has been loads so far, the shower that produce the couple rumbles of thunder looked amazing ont he back edge of it

Looks rather uninspiring on radar - certainly doesn't look impressive enough to have produced thunder

Jets? I'm not disbelieving you btw - just wondering what use radar watching will prove with weak echoes generating lightning.

[Stormyking]

For some, ahem!!!!

Looks rather uninspiring on radar - certainly doesn't look impressive enough to have produced thunder

Jets? I'm not disbelieving you btw - just wondering what use radar watching will prove with weak echoes generating lightning.

It was about an hour and a half a go it was small but a potent little shower that had passed through, Im using raintoday as my net weather radar ran out

I meant the back edge of cloud looks really good

My bad it was about an hour ago even, when you go on raintoday or net weather go to about 10:00 - 10:15 hours and it shows up along the south of the IOW

[Harry]

It was about an hour and a half a go it was small but a potent little shower that had passed through, Im using raintoday as my net weather radar ran out

I meant the back edge of cloud looks really good

My bad it was about an hour ago even, when you go on raintoday or net weather go to about 10:00 - 10:15 hours and it shows up along the south of the IOW

Awesome...very encouraging that intense showers are brewing this far South...Estofex has pretty much the entire UK under a 15% risk zone, with N and W areas under the 50% zone.

Best of luck then for more of the same

[Andy Bown]

Had 1 or 2 fairly heavy showers here too already and as we are more or less in the centre of the low the downpours are lasting quite a while.

Whereas in the Southern portion they are moving very quickly! Lovely radar viewing with all the showers developing now, very obvious

to see where the LOW centre is!

Looks rather uninspiring on radar - certainly doesn't look impressive enough to have produced thunder

Jets? I'm not disbelieving you btw - just wondering what use radar watching will prove with weak echoes generating lightning.

It is possible that even on the 5 minute radar updates the heaviest bursts may be missed. With these pulse type showers/storms the rain rates

increase and decrease very rapidly.

[Stormyking]

Awesome...very encouraging that intense showers are brewing this far South...Estofex has pretty much the entire UK under a 15% risk zone, with N and W areas under the 50% zone.

Best of luck then for more of the same

It does look encouraging indeed, I got a feeling there will be quite a few of theses small heavy showers later as well

Cheers mate and good luck to you as well

[Thundery wintry showers]

I think it would be fairly uninspiring on the radar if this was 2pm, but it's only 11:20am, so still plenty of time for those showers to flare up into something more significant. According to GFS outputs, southern Scotland, northern England and East Anglia are the most likely hotspots.

[Snowangel-MK]

Torrential rain here atm road is like a river !!

[lewisosd]

I think it would be fairly uninspiring on the radar if this was 2pm, but it's only 11:20am, so still plenty of time for those showers to flare up into something more significant. According to GFS outputs, southern Scotland, northern England and East Anglia are the most likely hotspots.

I like this forecast!!! Bring on the convective weather in the East!!!

[Harry]

A number of sferics appear over SW Midlands and western CS England...initiating a fair bit further south so far than was expected.

I think it would be fairly uninspiring on the radar if this was 2pm, but it's only 11:20am, so still plenty of time for those showers to flare up into something more significant. According to GFS outputs, southern Scotland, northern England and East Anglia are the most likely hotspots.

EA?

[Guest Quantumsnow]

Had a couple of rumbles of thunder about and hour ago from a surface based shower that developed to our South west, my friend phone me up to say and went outside and heard 2 rumbles and then cleared off

Been a great year for thunder here so far

I'm not at all bitter :lol:

Just another convection-free day here

[NUT]

Skies looking interesting here.........just a pity it doesn't look half as interesting on NW Extra radar for us

[sunny scunny]

Looking at the radar things could get interesting around here in the next few hours.Just cloudy at presant.

[Thundery wintry showers]

A number of sferics appear over SW Midlands and western CS England...initiating a fair bit further south so far than was expected.

EA?

Yes, GFS shows a "pool" of relatively high CAPE and shower activity over East Anglia at 18Z today- that's not saying it will necessarily be right though!

[Guest]

Thunder here in Dronfield S.Yorks

[alr1970]

Hail, heavy rain and a couple of flashes and bangs in Trafford Park, Manchester now.

[Megamoonflake]

Just had 6 or 7 loud rumbles of thunder almost overhead here in Newcastle under Lyme

[paul m]

Yes at last thunder and lightning

[Richie V]

Huge cracks of thunder and hail here In darton, Barnsley..... 7th storm of the year

[Eabie]

Well, no thunder over here today (at least not that I've heard) -- but we did just get several seconds of pea-sized hail. Surely that counts for something.

[Richie V]

Monumental stormcloud development heading my way, Post pic in a min :unsure:

[lfcdude]

thunder and lightning just woke me up lol