3rd Aug 2011 - Storm/convective Forecast Discusion And Reports

[scottyuk]

Its gone from blue sky to bubbly clouds in like 15 mins, That storm in buzzard is sooooo close

Can't see anything from my office window just yet....i can't see how that cell can miss us. Then again, i've been thinking that all year and got nothing.

[Sprites]

i can make out an orange anvil low on the horizon,Bedford celll looks like a bit of overshoot at the left (rear) end, i need something to fire up over essex to be in luck here

[Adi F]

Could someone pleAse post a link to the Iceland met office lightning site thanks

http://andvari.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/i_dag_na.html

[maxemoo]

Given this and your post yesterday evening, I can't help but think that here in Bury St Eds I could end up in a sweet spot today.

Ooh I do hope so. Camera is charging as I type, portable AM radio has fresh batteries and everything is crossed. Just got to go shopping and then in for the rest of the day!!

[bazookabob]

Yep i confirm the cell south of bradford is a storm. Heard 2 rumbles from cleckheaton.

bb

[Weather Wizard]

http://andvari.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/i_dag_na.html

Thanks

[TheToastPeople]

It's heading for Bedford, your 2011 duck may about to be broken!

I hope your right!!! temp is still around 29c more and more convective cloud every minute! cameras on standby, shame i have to walk to town in an hour

[Richie V]

Thunder heard in Leeds just as i was taking the kids out and boy did they run

Yep big bang here at J38 M1 a 1 min ago.

Edit: there she goes again

Edited August 3, 2011 by Richie V

[paul m]

Yep i confirm the cell south of bradford is a storm. Heard 2 rumbles from cleckheaton.

bb

Im happy with that

[Supercell]

A shower overhead. Nothing thundery or particularly heavy, but some action at last

Edited August 3, 2011 by Supercell

[weatherobsuk]

Uplift from Kinder Scout/Bleaklow is on the Menu for the Pennines today. Transitioning northeasterly and meaning YET AGAIN we miss out on the western side.

[Joneseye]

I hope your right!!! temp is still around 29c more and more convective cloud every minute! cameras on standby, shame i have to walk to town in an hour

It might actually pass just to your south, but what do I know...

[Carl46Wrexham]

Uplift from Kinder Scout/Bleaklow is on the Menu for the Pennines today. Transitioning northeasterly and meaning YET AGAIN we miss out on the western side.

Have we offended someone I wonder? Or does someone up there have something against Westerners? We really are getting the rough end of things this year.

[Harry]

The cells which have initiated are going up at some pace!

EDIT - Cell building just east of Oxford by the looks of things

Edited August 3, 2011 by Harry

[NUT]

I did see on the BBC News that it did look jet black over leeds..........interesting

[TheToastPeople]

It might actually pass just to your south, but what do I know...

lol no change there then thats exactly what the small storms last night did! 0.2mm rain in the end but go to like amptil and they had 10mm or more! The sky is getting darker from my south now though...

[Cheshire Freeze]

Have we offended someone I wonder? Or does someone up there have something against Westerners? We really are getting the rough end of things this year.

I can see some towering to the west, nothing at all over your way?

[Richie V]

Very spooky landscape out to my west. 2 large anvils and the one southernmost has a massive pertruding CU bubble blasting out of the top of it. Impressive thunder too.

[lewisosd]

Absolutely

If I was picking a chase target today Bury St Edmonds or somewhere like Saffron Waldon would be my Pick

bang on my area! Bring it on!

[Joneseye]

lol no change there then thats exactly what the small storms last night did! 0.2mm rain in the end but go to like amptil and they had 10mm or more! The sky is getting darker from my south now though...

As Harry has just posted there a couple of Cells that have popped up at Oxford and Bicester. Based on the direction the Leighton Buzzard cell is heading in I would give you more chance of a direct hit from those 2 if they have any potency

[Carl46Wrexham]

I can see some towering to the west, nothing at all over your way?

Nothing.....very innocuous.The only sort of development I can see is to the east of me so undoubtedly something between our locations.

Edited August 3, 2011 by Carl43Wrexham

[paul m]

The sweet smell of the grass in the rain with the odd rumble of Thunder. Bliss

[Serendipity]

Hot here, can't wait for cooler air! Lots of cloud bubbling up but I'm too far west for anything exciting. Great amount building to the East of me though and if I stand upstairs I can literally see the sky darkening connstantly in that direction.

[<<Ryan>>]

I'm getting jealous

[Richie V]

The sweet smell of the grass in the rain with the odd rumble of Thunder. Bliss

Theres a second one rapidly forming behind and it's a big un!