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Robbie Garrett Seasoned

Robbie Garrett

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  • Location: London, UK
  • Weather Preferences: MCC/MCS Thunderstorms
  • Location: London, UK
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The storm that just formed over London, about as boring as anything... one thunderboom and a flash of lightning with light rain.

Formed out of nothing..... but lots of Anvils about at the moment.

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SteveB Veteran

SteveB

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  • Location: Weston-S-Mare North Somerset
  • Weather Preferences: Hot sunny , cold and snowy, thunderstorms
  • Location: Weston-S-Mare North Somerset
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Had some decent showers just pass through with pea size hail

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I remember Atlantic 252 Maestro

I remember Atlantic 252

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  • Location: Wildwood, Stafford 104m asl
  • Weather Preferences: obviously snow!
  • Location: Wildwood, Stafford 104m asl
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loads of anvils around today, but no thunder/lightning here, or hail, seems like the Stoke area had lots of anvils all day

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Aaron Community Regular

Aaron

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  • Location: Whitkirk, Leeds 86m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Anything but mild south-westeries in winter
  • Location: Whitkirk, Leeds 86m asl
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It remained completely dry all day again here with not one drop of rain falling at all.. plenty of convection today to my east, south, and west however.

Looking at the RainToday radar I made the right choice by taking advantage of the mostly sunny skies today (until recently), because we just missed out.

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marksp Aficionado

marksp

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  • Location: Matlock Derbyshire
  • Location: Matlock Derbyshire
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plenty of storms around at the moment. posted attached photo in midlands thread, this one just side swipe my location but it looked impresive as it glided past.

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Snow Queen one Rising Star

Snow Queen one

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  • Location: Maidstone
  • Location: Maidstone
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Well today at around 4pm we had a lovely storm Lots of lightening thunder and the sky went black a perfect April day not had such a good storm in about 3 years here maybe 4. Gave us 6mm of rain in 1.5 hrs with hail thrown in too.

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Lauren Veteran

Lauren

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  • Location: The North Kent countryside
  • Weather Preferences: Hot summers, snowy winters and thunderstorms!
  • Location: The North Kent countryside
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Woohoo! Got a storm here this afternoon, not a huge one or anything special but about an hours worth of rumbling and flashes. Lots of incloud lightening and saw a few fantastic cloud to cloud forks. Lots of hail and rain too. Probably equal with El Gordo of last year.

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tara303 Newbie

tara303

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  • Location: Templeglantine, west County Limerick, Ireland
  • Location: Templeglantine, west County Limerick, Ireland
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just getting dark here by heathrow - please let's have a storm, I've been radarsnooping all day!

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Coast Veteran

Coast

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  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)
  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)
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Don't you just love convective weather??!!!

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dave48 Apprentice

dave48

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  • Location: Godalming, Surrey
  • Location: Godalming, Surrey
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No storms here in southend yet today, lovely cloudscapes though, firm anvils all around! Have been watching the Kent 'monster' rumble it's way to the coast all afternoon.

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Tim B Explorer

Tim B

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  • Location: Darwen, BB3
  • Location: Darwen, BB3
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Seen a few massive anvils around today but they have all been way north and east of me and I'm stuck with this damn northwesterly wind, the sooner this northern air flow sets in the better!

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Robbie Garrett Seasoned

Robbie Garrett

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  • Location: London, UK
  • Weather Preferences: MCC/MCS Thunderstorms
  • Location: London, UK
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Nice cell passsing southbound... I believe it's west of, or overhead Heathrow. Looks to be towering to at least FL350 (35,000ft)

and the one lightning on the ATD detector throughout the whole of London is my location. haha!!

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Flipflop

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  • Location: East Hull, East Yorkshire
  • Weather Preferences: Warm and stormy.
  • Location: East Hull, East Yorkshire
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Had two rumbles of thunder and pea size hail around dinner time here. Better than nothing :)

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vortex_liam Rookie

vortex_liam

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  • Location: West London - ASL 36.85m/120ft
  • Weather Preferences: Cold/stormy
  • Location: West London - ASL 36.85m/120ft
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Nice cell passsing southbound... I believe it's west of, or overhead Heathrow. Looks to be towering to at least FL350 (35,000ft)

and the one lightning on the ATD detector throughout the whole of London is my location. haha!!

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That'll be this:

About to hit... rather dark now, its east of heathrow now!

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Robbie Garrett Seasoned

Robbie Garrett

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  • Location: London, UK
  • Weather Preferences: MCC/MCS Thunderstorms
  • Location: London, UK
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That'll be this:

About to hit... rather dark now, its east of heathrow now!

Cannot be to bad, two aircraft have just gone through it at FL330 and FL160. Just looking on my radar box.

Going to go get another picture, looks amazingly thundery, yet I doubt it's doing much!!!

And whatever that is south west of Heathrow, looks bloody immense.

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vortex_liam Rookie

vortex_liam

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  • Location: West London - ASL 36.85m/120ft
  • Weather Preferences: Cold/stormy
  • Location: West London - ASL 36.85m/120ft
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Cannot be to bad, two aircraft have just gone through it at FL330 and FL160. Just looking on my radar box.

Going to go get another picture, looks amazingly thundery, yet I doubt it's doing much!!!

And whatever that is south west of Heathrow, looks bloody immense.

Yep, not got any lightning on it, any at about FL500? Wish i had my plane near me and not 35 miles away lol

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Lauren Veteran

Lauren

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  • Location: The North Kent countryside
  • Weather Preferences: Hot summers, snowy winters and thunderstorms!
  • Location: The North Kent countryside
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Where are these Heathrow cells heading? My way?

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robt Contributor

robt

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  • Location: Hatfield, Doncaster, South Yorkshire
  • Location: Hatfield, Doncaster, South Yorkshire
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Heading for East Sussex by the looks of it.

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Robbie Garrett Seasoned

Robbie Garrett

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  • Location: London, UK
  • Weather Preferences: MCC/MCS Thunderstorms
  • Location: London, UK
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Yep, not got any lightning on it, any at about FL500? Wish i had my plane near me and not 35 miles away lol

Nope, the highest one I saw was FL410

The highest for most commercial jets is about that, depending on aircraft type. Your casual easyJet or British Airways is about FL390 maximum. (39,000ft)

London TMA this evening at 1854 (London Local time) 1753z, these are Mode S transmissions only, so probably only represents 60-70% of the total number of aircraft in the air. Older aircraft don't have Mode S installed as it's not mandatory, but most carriers now have it.

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Mikel Nimbus Explorer

Mikel Nimbus

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  • Location: Barnet, North London
  • Location: Barnet, North London
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Some great pictures out there. Looks like it's been an active day!

NW London Storm shields are working perfectly you'll be pleased to hear. Not a single drop of rain yet.

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