Convective / Storm Chat And Discussion

[sunny scunny]

Plenty of convection around here, but as always the showers are missing by less than 5 miles.

[Jane Louise]

Just had a nice long heavy downpour, still raining now. No thunder or lightning though.

[Tim B]

Strike alert has gone off a couple of times in the last couple of minutes, hmm.

[sunny scunny]

Just had a nice long heavy downpour, still raining now. No thunder or lightning though.

Send it my way jane as my area badly needs rain lol.Checkout Dn15 on the nw radar

[Hughsey]

No showers at all in my region yet, but the suns out , up to 20 degrees now and the clouds look to have the potential to develop if this heating continues so still hopeful for rest of the day.

[TheToastPeople]

MEANWHILE IN BEDFORD Another sunny day, any convection taking place in east anglia later?

[paul m]

No showers at all in my region yet, but the suns out , up to 20 degrees now and the clouds look to have the potential to develop if this heating continues so still hopeful for rest of the day.

Same up here

[Chris.R]

Tim Could you tell me where you can get strike alert from and how it alerts you? I'd be interested if it gave the heading and distance of the strikes. Thanks.

[Hughsey]

Send it my way jane as my area badly needs rain lol.Checkout Dn15 on the nw radar

Same here brah, I heard my area was driest in the country currently

[sunny scunny]

Same here brah, I heard my area was driest in the country currently

In that case mine will be the 2nd driest Ive now given up looking at the radar as it's too frustrating :lol:

[Phelpsy]

real heavy downpoor here now

[Jane Louise]

Send it my way jane as my area badly needs rain lol.Checkout Dn15 on the nw radar

I would if I could Shaun. Hope you get at least some rain today. Temperature didn't half drop it's cold and fresh out there now.

[Tim B]

Tim Could you tell me where you can get strike alert from and how it alerts you? I'd be interested if it gave the heading and distance of the strikes. Thanks.

I bought mine from here many years ago when we had a weather gadgets shop, you can still get them though from other places:

http://www.strikealert.com/ProductInfo.htm

Might be worth a check on ebay and gadget sites from time to time to see if you can find a bargain, its a lot less reliable than expensive detectors like say a spectrum thunderbolt but it is also much much cheaper. Just keep it a couple of meters away from any electrical equipment to prevent false positives.

[Muffelchen]

A few showers rattling through here now. Nothing too heavy though. Really interesting watching the rain develo in the N Sea overnight - looked for distant lightning but saw nothing

Today seems better than forecast so far

[Lauren]

Light hail shower there that's gone on for about 5 minutes.

[Chris.R]

Thanks tim shall do

[paul m]

Thanks tim shall do

There is one on evilbay for 38.00 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/StrikeAlert-II-Personal-Lightning-Detector-Strike-Alert-/330567055980?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4cf754fa6c

Edited June 11, 2011 by paul m

[Chris.R]

thanks paul shall take a look

[Guest Kent-Weather]

Light hail shower there that's gone on for about 5 minutes.

Was lovely

[Raidan]

Lovely day here sun is shining blue skies not a drop of rain to be seen brilliant.Wouldn't mind a storm but not yet enjoying this nice weather after yesterday's rain.

[Craigers]

Just had explosive storm with large hail and loud thunder woop

[grab my graupel]

Just had explosive storm with large hail and loud thunder woop

Nice one mate

There's not a lot happening here atm. The clouds appear to be bubbling up nicely, but I'm still waiting for my first shower of the day. I wasn't expecting to see anything until later in the day, so there's plenty of time for something to happen.

[Stuart]

not much happing here just wet

[johnholmes]

slight thunderstorm, just one flash and crack-correction 2 flashes, seems they are to the east of here, but with hail for about 2 mins, will try and upload a picc, the brief video may take more time

Edited June 11, 2011 by johnholmes

[AndyFromDonny]

Just had explosive storm with large hail and loud thunder woop

Could hear the thunder, but didn't have any hail from it, could see something was falling somewhere but nothing here, very small and isolated it was.