El Gordo! - Spanish Plume Thunderstorm Discussion 3

[Arnie Pie]

Finally some showers developing to my West and SW now. Hope they electrify. All quiet out East and South East though for now.

VERY Humid and more darker skies now.

You`ll be wanting your proverbial towel back then

[95 Degrees]

On the latest pic's on sat24 there is definately something forming in that band of cloud out to the west in the bay of biscay.

Dont all give up yet.

All I see in the Bay of Biscay is thundery showers moving NE but are all the way off the SW coast of France by the Spanish border, where abouts in the Bay of Biscay are you seeing this formation?

[DAVID SNOW]

Also this from Paul Knightley which gives a glimmer (a big one) of hope to those in the SE

Hmm,so the Beeb,Meto may not be hopecasting after all.

Hope so.

[UKSupercell]

Can someone please explain to me how storms could still form over night?

Won't there be naff all diurnal heating due to the sun gradually disappearing.

Do big storms really have any chance of forming late evening/midnight??

Doesn't make sense to me but i'm sure half of you have more knowledge than me about this!

[Polar Bear]

Started picking up some sferics on good old long wave

LOL .... brilliant...all that broadband, internet, radars, and techno stuff and the old wireless springs back into use....trouble is with a digital radio where is my old one...actually talking of digital my telly tends to struggle with signal...or maybe i just imagine it does.

got no idea what the temps and hunidity is here so may have to check GTLTW weather system..

EDIT..must be quite warm and humid as the butter i took out the fridge five mins ago was well and trully on the spreadable...who needs thermometers .....

Edited June 27, 2011 by Polar Bear

[Lauren]

Cooled down here and the sky is looking stormier.

[Mesoscale]

The storm exploded north of paris in clear skies we have no chance for explosive development like that, but does that mean the CAP is breaking?

EDIT: I might live in France and comute back to england everyday... lol

Edited June 27, 2011 by Mesoscale

[Tim B]

Alien space ship or shockwave?

Hills generating lift, I am counting on this mechanic to produce storms once the front passes.

[thundercrazy]

All I see in the Bay of Biscay is thundery showers moving NE but are all the way off the SW coast of France by the Spanish border, where abouts in the Bay of Biscay are you seeing this formation?

Looking out to the west of the bay there is a band of cloud and it is in this band a cell is forming, this may well end up hitting the south coast later.

[tara303]

Looking a bit threatening out towards Windsor, a big wall of grey cloud, plus the breeze has got up now. Dogs had a bit of a scarp about 10 mins ago, that normally signifies something in the offing... the fat lady hasn't arrived to sing yet..... ;-)

[SLEETY]

looks like egg on the faces of the met and bbc forecasters come morning.Bright and sunny here on the SE coast

[Kain]

yay just heard a rumble!

[Cheshire Freeze]

Going dark here to the west and southwest now. Had to remember it's only half 7 from how dark it's gone.

yay just heard a rumble!

That's good news

[knocker]

The 1800z Eumetsat.

[Nick L]

Home is gonna get a storm while I get nothing yet again, I know it :lol:

[Tim B]

Worth keeping an eye out now as the front cuts in, Wales for example..

[camiscool]

Wow what's that down the bottom?

[carl1980]

gone dark here,just started rainning.

[EaasmanG]

The 1800z Eumetsat.

What is the point in this?

That storm is already well east of the UK and moving into Belgium. It means nothing for the UK. Conditions over France are totally different from what we have over here with the convection inhibiting capping and stratus cloud over us. This is meaningless. It's in another country for heaven's sake.

Let's all get excited about storms in Singapore while we're at it.

[The PIT]

Worth keeping an eye out now as the front cuts in, Wales for example..

That's what I'm looking at... Could it Could it. Still warm enough round here.

[A.J]

yay just heard a rumble!

Good stuff mate!....very angry looking skies to my SW now, and explosive development of that cell in the past 15 mins...

compare radar grabs (it's the cell to the north of Hereford)

[conor123]

Torrential downpour here in Telford, absolutely hammering it down, black sky to the South East.

[Phil UK]

Can someone please explain to me how storms could still form over night?

Won't there be naff all diurnal heating due to the sun gradually disappearing.

Do big storms really have any chance of forming late evening/midnight??

Doesn't make sense to me but i'm sure half of you have more knowledge than me about this!

They can, and do, UKSupercell. I remember September 1993 and a small but active cold front was passing through, then at around 2:00am, all hell was let loose with backbuilding storms which crossed over the Midlands and progressed NNE. Maybe Ian (TWS) or some other knowledgeable person on here can verify this?

Now talk about 'out of the blue'. That was literally unexpected given in mind that it was cloudy, humid but the BBC forecast said for a clear night for many areas. So maybe there is a distinct possibility that history could repeat itself?

Currently looking at the radar and something looking rather interesting towards the Bristol area. But after many years of disappointment, you get used to it.

Phil.

[camiscool]

Apart from the fact Singapore is on the other side of the world and France is a couple of miles away. Durr

[Alex95]

What is the point in this?

That storm is already well east of the UK and moving into Belgium. It means nothing for the UK. Conditions over France are totally different from what we have over here with the convection inhibiting capping and stratus cloud over us. This is meaningless. It's in another country for heaven's sake.

Let's all get excited about storms in Singapore while we're at it.

But that is an unusually severe storm in France. It looks to be a supercell to me, not sure whether anyone agrees?