19 July 2011 - Storm/convective Forecast, Discussion And Reports

[Stuart]

still no rain thunder or Lightning here yet

[Harry]

Phwoar I feel roasting hot all of a sudden!! Wonder if the humidity is up!?

[paul m]

Looking intereasting to our north fella. hold your horses!

Im keeping a good eye on that its slowly heading south. I cannot get lightning up on the nw radar map anyone else having the same problem

[lorenzo]

This is West Lothian not far from Edinburgh which has been a magnet for storm systems recently.

Again the skies look loaded especially that pic looking northwards - some potential in there..

Looking East

Looking North

[johnholmes]

very sharp shower here a little while ago, max r/f rate of 63.2mm, but total only 4mm. No thunder here with it.

Look at the surface wind covergent zone, try http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

and link that with the radar off Net Wx, and it clearly shows where the major activity is at the moment.

link in to this site for the Watnall 12z ascent, tops to 30,000ft + and again it all fits neatly.

http://weather.uwyo....1912&STNM=03354

copy of latest radar for my area

Edited July 19, 2011 by johnholmes

[sunny scunny]

It's just started thundering.Could be another heavy shower shortly.

[nimbus20]

It's just started thundering.Could be another heavy shower shortly.

Has the Scunny shield finally broken then mate? Told you eating custard creams was the answer :lol:

[seabreeze86]

Im keeping a good eye on that its slowly heading south. I cannot get lightning up on the nw radar map anyone else having the same problem

Yes i cant get it up either just completly blank

[nimbus20]

If my geography is right then they are not too far from you. Its that line of convergence precipitation you can see on the radar, heading SE.

[paul m]

Yes i cant get it up either just completly blank

Glad its just not me then

[liambailey09]

Just had a rumble, small cell built up near by and is moving away now

[tomp456]

If my geography is right then they are not too far from you. Its that line of convergence precipitation you can see on the radar, heading SE.

ahh okies, thankyou

[Katherine Birkett]

and its still developing, and merging with what has just gone over me!!

Any flooding Katherine?

None reported - storm is essentially over here, skies brightening, rain almost stopped, birds returning to feeders.... that's probably it for today...

[sunny scunny]

Has the Scunny shield finally broken then mate? Told you eating custard creams was the answer :lol:

Only one rumble mate :lol: It's starting to get dark to my west now though

[weatherobsuk]

Try to keep the language clean tomp456. This is a family-orientated website afterall and it can do without the references such as that.

[TonyH]

Newcastle area about to kop it again, how many thunder days is that this Summer up there?

[paul m]

Newcastle area about to kop it again, how many thunder days is that this Summer up there?

Too many... Greedy buggers

[lorrie]

Too many... Greedy buggers

i havent seen many and am not far from newcastle...i still go sun

[IanM]

Try either the V5 radar or zooming the V4 radar for lightning info, we're working on the loss of data on the default view, sorry we moved servers earlier today and some bits still need a squirt of wd40 and a kick or two

[paul m]

I have a nasty headache and usually only get them when stroms are around

[Cloud 10]

Gone very dark here but not heard any thunder yet.

[weatherobsuk]

I still have lighting feed on the v4 when zoomed in. So it's still avaliable, just as IanM pointed out not on the wider-field view.

[Alex95]

Distant rumbles of thunder in Newcastle now, storms firing to my West and Northwest.

[paul m]

I still have lighting feed on the v4 when zoomed in. So it's still avaliable, just as IanM pointed out not on the wider-field view.

Just tried that and it works thanks. At least i can see local strikes now

[Alex95]

No thunder for 5 minutes now, still getting more and more threatening though!