Uk Convective General Discussion & Forecasts - April 2012 Part 4

[A.J]

Some beefy thunderstorms have fired up over southern France in the past hour, and by the looks of the SAT24 visible imagery, convection/storms may well be initiating in the Paris area....An area to watch for later on tonight?

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dam..Them so high top clouds over France Tasty

[Eskimo]

dam..Them so high top clouds over France Tasty

dam..Them so high top clouds over France Tasty

Excuse me?

[Robbie Garrett]

Some beefy thunderstorms have fired up over southern France in the past hour, and by the looks of the SAT24 visible imagery, convection/storms may well be initiating in the Paris area....An area to watch for later on tonight?

Yeah that was exactly what I was going to say regarding Paris.

Just awaiting my freinds to get to Biggin, some distance TCU but nothing out of the ordinary. Might be a tad bumpy, going to head south/south east in the next 1hr and half to see what happens. Guaranteed it will explode with me being up there.

[Wilxy]

The last thing we need right now is more rain i dont think the river near here can cope with any more but i would like a thunderstorm even though i know thats not possible in this area.

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Excuse me?

you heard it !

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you heard it !

Sorry I ment for that quote to sound funny not angry lol !

[Neilsouth]

No storms but big thundery drops! sure developed quickly, also has that thundery feeling in the air... shame it's april

[Harry]

Well VM, heading East through Kent along the A2 and the sky looks thundery! That classic sky you get during a plume event!!

[A.J]

well, the good news is that today's first home-grown is developing right over my head...thunder to my SE...this has fired up from nowhere over the past 30 mins...

[BlueHedgehog074]

Bit of a vicious shower passed through with a few large(ish) looking rain drops. Cleared quite quickly, though, but was nice to see.

[Robbie Garrett]

Anyone interested, I shall be departing in about 45 minutes time from Biggin hopefully on 129.400

Then going over to Gatwick for the Transit on 126.825 and then Farnborough Lars on 123.225...

Looking at the Radar, that stuff over Paris unless it gets some oomph shouldn't bother me, just watching that stuff over East Kent right now, seems to be going North East and should brush to my east.

Callsign is G-BUJO

I shall hopefully *Alive* let you know what it looks like....

[cyclonic happiness]

Had a nice little shower around half and hour ago, with nice big 2" thunderspots falling from it, there's a good deal of convection going on too atm.

[Neilsouth]

http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-3&soort=satradar

Oh nice :D

[Robbie Garrett]

I am wondering if that's an MCS forming West of Paris or the stuff to the south east of Paris, a long line of crap. Debatable which one may form into one.

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hell yeh...Bring on the lightning tonight..If there is a lord he will bring it!

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http://www.isleofwightweather.co.uk/live_storm_data.htm essential tonight imo

[Dean E]

Evening guys,

Very humid feeling out there this evening, with a very interesting looking sky!

Just heard a rather noticeable rumble... not sure whether is was thunder or something else. Make that 2 deep rumbles now.

May head to Portsdown Hill later for a wider shot on things!

SM

[Buckster76]

very very odd sky in the S-East this evening - quite unlike I've seen in a while

lots of very high upper level clouds - mid-grey - but then dark grey mid-lower cloud that just looks like its cloud thats been shredded - more like the ripped apart scud you get associated with decent Cbs

its quite strange looking. Associated with it is light rain - but very large drops

[staplehurst]

very very odd sky in the S-East this evening - quite unlike I've seen in a while

lots of very high upper level clouds - mid-grey - but then dark grey mid-lower cloud that just looks like its cloud thats been shredded - more like the ripped apart scud you get associated with decent Cbs

its quite strange looking. Associated with it is light rain - but very large drops

Some mid-level instability spreading showers in, but given dry surface air some of it is evaporating before reaching the ground (so intensity on radar may not reflect that experienced on the ground).

Interesting anaprop over Anglesey too.

[Duane S.]

VERY VERY dark here. Heavy rain about to become torrential. Looking at the clouds would be suprised if we don't get a flash or two in the next hour.

[Dean E]

Can report Thunder, cell has Electrified in the Channel

Edited April 30, 2012 by SnowMania

[fromey]

evening all

anybody in andover/ basingstoke?, looks like a very heavy shower has developed over that way.

fromey

[Weather Wizard]

I am intrested in the stuff on the French/German/Swiss border looks good for the SE later and it has appeared out of nowhere

[Sprites]

I would be very surprised to see a thunderstorm here overnight, id say its about a 5% risk...