25th into 26th Aug 2011 - Storm/convective Forecast Discussion And Reports

[Norfolk Sheep]

Blimmin awful day, rain for over 24hrs - none of your biblical floods though, just grey and miserable, more like February than April. This summer can't even deliver exciting rain in East Anglia, never mind TS. August used to be THE month for storms here..oh well, roll on 2012, surely it couldn't be any more dismal.

[sunny scunny]

Another heavy shower is about to hit here after a dry couple of hours.Plenty of rain today thats for sure.

[Chris.R]

just had another heavy shower proceded by a huge clap of thunder.

And Now another but further away.

Edit, and another but from a different cell!

And now a booming CG!

[slinky1989]

Serious torrential downpour here now!! All our sky channels just went off!!

No T&L though!

It's weird, that same shower is now apparently right over me according to rain today, but nothing's happening here :-/

[onahigh]

Lightning has died off I think now or has here anyway. An epic storm. Pure serious rain to start with then a wonderful Hour long Lightning display with the later strikes viewed as far away as some 30 Miles away near the Warwickshire/Oxfordshire border!

Very happy now!

Happy but tinged with ironey........

reckon it was a good night to add to my gallery

Hoping to get my canon fixed & ready for our comming September storms

remember 2010

Arnie Pie

SW BIrmingham

Edited August 26, 2011 by onahigh

[Erbyskerby]

A still from just before. My very first lightning shot I think:

Lovely lightning shots - your first capture? Looks like you're an expert already. Thanks for sharing!

[Costa Del Fal]

Happy but tinged with ironey........

reckon it was a good night to add to my gallery

Hoping to get my canon fixed & ready for our comming September storms

remember 2009

Arnie Pie

SW BIrmingham

Hehe, September has proved good in the last few years. 23rd September last year brought one of the most frequent lightning display ive ever seen.

[Staffordshire]

What about tommorow?

[slinky1989]

Oh for gods sake, that huge shower that came from bristol literally disintigrated over my head! Gutted

[Phil UK]

Apart from one distant flash and rumble which I assume that was from the cell over west Birmingham some 90 minutes ago, then moved to within 5 miles from my immediate vicinity. Nothing really to report about. Seems like Solihull's storm shield has been fixed.

But that said, well done to those further south west, primarily Hereford, Gloucestershire and Cheltenham who have been devoid of heavy rain and storms since the days of Noah. If Jane Louise didn't catch a storm, or at least see something in the distance then I'll be very surprised.

Phil.

[StormChaseUK]

Think I may have just caught the last flash of a dying cell at 2200 hours.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2QieK3IyMs

[Darren Bown]

Seen a couple of distant lightning flashes from the cells around the Liverpool bay area. must be about 35 miles away!

[Chris D]

Seen a couple of distant lightning flashes from the cells around the Liverpool bay area. must be about 35 miles away!

Just seen some lightning here too in Southport. A surprise thunderstorm is fast approaching according to radar! Must have been 3 or 4 months since the last one...

Edited August 26, 2011 by chris93

[Darren Bown]

Just seen some lightning here too in Southport. A surprise thunderstorm is fast approaching according to radar!

keep me updated if you get lightning overhead, I'll be able to see it here

[Carl46Wrexham]

Lightning flashing to the north of me...distant rumbling.

[Chris D]

keep me updated if you get lightning overhead, I'll be able to see it here

Its just exploeded lol, monsoon levels of rain now with frequent lightning flashes. I have honestly never heard rain fall so heavily!

Wow, short but sweet would sum this one up!

Edited August 26, 2011 by chris93

[Staffordshire]

Lightning flashing to the north of me...distant rumbling.

Good luck mate!

[Carl46Wrexham]

Good luck mate!

Could get a brush past from it but that will do. Cheers.

[Staffordshire]

Could get a brush past from it but that will do. Cheers.

Can you post the nw radar output please, I want to see how things are looking or if I should just got to sleep

[Costa Del Fal]

Lightning flashing to the north of me...distant rumbling.

Yay! About time. Lol.

Can you post the nw radar output please, I want to see how things are looking or if I should just got to sleep

Sleepy time now... :lol: They will not make this far Inland now im quite sure.

Edited August 26, 2011 by Blizzards

[Darren Bown]

Its just exploeded lol, monsoon levels of rain now with frequent lightning flashes. I have honestly never heard rain fall so heavily!

Wow, short but sweet would sum this one up!

the track of that cluster seems slightly SW of me, but I may get something from in over the next 30 mins or so

[Chris D]

How about 12mm of rain in just less than 5 minutes, pretty impressive...(for Southport anyway)

the track of that cluster seems slightly SW of me, but I may get something from in over the next 30 mins or so

Good luck

Edited August 26, 2011 by chris93

[Cheshire Freeze]

Lots of reports about people seeing lightning from x amount of miles away but I've been fruitlessly staring into the west/northwestern horizon for a good while and seen diddly squat....and I'm only about 20 miles from Chester

[Carl46Wrexham]

All seems quiet again. . On the positive side, I have seen night-time lightning for the first time in 3 years. If you're listening Mother Nature...thanks for the starter, now how about that long overdue main course?

[onahigh]

is it my wishful thinking or are the sferics moving down with the cells from Liverpool

Arnie Pie

SW Birmingham