Uk Convective General Discussion & Forecasts - April 2012 part 3

[Evening thunder]

Counted 10 relatively distant but definite rumbles to my south now. Shame it's not coming here but at least I've heard thunder I guess.

[saint]

First shower just passed through here... Just rain, no thunder

[I Cumbria Marra I]

i can guarantee those showers over dumfries and galloway heading for me will die over the irish sea, they always do.

i was right

[Supacell]

I can't chase today as I have my two small children with me and not sure they would appreciate being sat in a car for hours on end being driven around the country. Would hope for something here, but I think it will be eastern areas getting any storms on offer today, just inland from the coast.

Good luck to those out chasing, hope you do better than I did yesterday.

Sorry, better just add that I was talking of just inland from the east coast relating to around these parts, not the rest of the country.

Edited April 21, 2012 by Supacell

[Kain]

Lovely cloudscapes if nothing else! Looking towards the Wrekin.

[A.J]

plenty of sferics along the south devon coast stretching from Start Point through Torbay & up to Exmouth......up here in the Midlands a line of cells sinking slowly SEwrds, anvil topped but not producing any lightning, pulse type convection so updrafts quickly building, dying & building along the outflow

[Aaron]

i was right

I gaurantee we will see nothing here today at all. I will post 'i was right' later today.

Edited April 21, 2012 by Aaron

[Cheshire Freeze]

plenty of sferics along the south devon coast stretching from Start Point through Torbay & up to Exmouth......up here in the Midlands a line of cells sinking slowly SEwrds, anvil topped but not producing any lightning, pulse type convection so updrafts quickly building, dying & building along the outflow

Can see the dry slot limbering up over NW England, ready to spoil our afternoon lol

[Evening thunder]

Heard 11 rumbles several miles to my south, and also a couple distant ones from a storm that developed to the NE. I'm sat in the gap in the middle without even any rain.. that's unusual!

[chionomaniac]

I can guarantee that in these type of set ups some people will miss the showers and moan incessantly about it. I am sure that I will be able to write "I was right" later.

Ps there is the no storms thread to moan into!

[Aaron]

I can guarantee that in these type of set ups some people will miss the showers and moan incessantly about it. I am sure that I will be able to write "I was right" later.

Ps there is the no storms thread to moan into!

Sorry, I need to moan in threads where there are plenty of people to see me!

[Evening thunder]

Actually now we have showers developing which would have been coming towards us.. but the direction of their movement changes slightly so we're still in gap! You couldn't make it up really. Sorry if it sounds like I'm moaning, I'm not intentionally moaning just stating whats actually happening here.

Edited April 21, 2012 by Stormmad26

[Eye to the sky]

No showers here in Derby as yet but 2 huge towers visible.The one to the south east is producing dark streaks of virga,winds strengthening from the South east

[Convective]

Some dark clouds around me here. It just seems to be lacking that 'thundery' feel to it!

Edited April 21, 2012 by Convective

[NO LONGER POSTING]

Its early days yet...The showers are starting to chuck out some electrical stuff..Let them build and kick in a little ... we still got ages yet!

[Supercell 89]

No thunder here it appears to be cells driving to the south of us and to the north . Hopefully something beefy will hit us later got some pretty nice cloudscapes today

[Chris.R]

It's not a case of missing the showers here, it's just that showers

haven't,

won't

And carn't develop over a cold sea it this time of year.

[A.J]

No thunder here it appears to be cells driving to the south of us and to the north . Hopefully something beefy will hit us later got some pretty nice cloudscapes today

Thunder in Brixham in the past 30 minutes & in Dartmouth, close but no cigar for you atm!

[Chris.R]

I'd love to be rong though!

[Kookylou]

just rain in Cardiff.

[Supercell 89]

Thunder in Brixham in the past 30 minutes & in Dartmouth, close but no cigar for you atm!

Lol story of the last few years here when it comes to storms.

[Liam Ellis]

Looking pretty dark to the NW of here, with some spots of rain. Lightning detected near Swansea...

[Thundery wintry showers]

Today is looking rather more promising for convection near the Tyneside coast- just had an unexpected hailstorm (the first occurrence of hail here since last Sunday) and more heavy showers showing up on the radar.

I do think Stormmad26's location seems to have a benign microclimate- when I was down in Exeter back in 2009 I picked up quite a few notable weather events that he missed. In Tyne and Wear the equivalent of that is probably Tynemouth- quite often Tynemouth seems to miss the convection even if Cleadon is getting one shower/thunderstorm after another.

[Stormeh]

Thunderstorm to my NW, managed to capture a strike with my camera. Just going to miss here.

[Supercell 89]

Another nice black cloud bubbling up behind us but its not heading our way, another one to our south.