Uk Convective General Discussion & Forecasts - May 2012 Part 2

[weatherobsuk]

near-streaming webcams in Dublin, should give a good indication on how this storm interacts with the city skyscape over the next 30 mins.

http://www.nci.ie/ispy/cam3.yp

[A.J]

all we had is a lil rain shower and dull overcast skies, bring me the storms! lol

Lucky people in the midlands.

[Cloud 10]

near-streaming webcams in Dublin, should give a good indication on how this storm interacts with the city skyscape over the next 30 mins.

http://www.nci.ie/ispy/cam3.yp

Check out cam 4 for all those who haven't had a storm yet!

Live View of Talbot Street from Dublin, Ireland - Webcam 4

[I remember Atlantic 252]

all we had is a lil rain shower and dull overcast skies, bring me the storms! lol

Lucky people in the midlands.

midlands a big area, Im in the NW of the area and seen nothing, although this time last year monday evening was good

[Convective]

Is it worth me taking a drive to see this or not, looks like its dying although the hills here could aid development?

[03jtrickey]

Looks like Kidlington got quite a bit of action - only a few miles north of here.

https://www.facebook.com/Kidlington

[multi cellular thunderstorm]

Is it worth me taking a drive to see this or not, looks like its dying although the hills here could aid development?

Doesn't look that great on radar, no sferics, and it looks like it's heading right at you anyway.

Nice pic though.

Looks like the big storm near Dublin is hooking slightly on it's tail.

Edited May 7, 2012 by multi cellular thunderstorm

[A.J]

We should have been chasing today, AJ. We've got to step up our game.

Er, think I picked the wrong smiley...

You probably won't believe this but I planned to work in the Banbury/Bicester area today seeing some customers, but I called it off this morning as the forecast was more persistent frontal rain and I didn't fancy getting wet......To express how I feel right now, the word 'Bugger' sums things up nicely

[simonbiggs]

The storm that passed through Milton Keynes late afternoon as per http://ukasf.co.uk/blog/read-53

This was the remains from Huntingdon, Cambs

http://www.youtube.com/embed/KmDRH1IehvA

Edited May 7, 2012 by simonbiggs

[Kain]

Seems like Yahoo has picked it up

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rare-type-storm-sparks-tornado-210613161.html

[Neilsouth]

The storm that passed through Milton Keynes late afternoon as per http://ukasf.co.uk/blog/read-53

Nice!, i've seen one of those in kent they are amazing

[DubWeatherAddict]

Right so , heres what i got today. No Lightning im afraid ... but still a great day all round!

Convective timelapse , be sure to watch in HD

Couldnt use my main camera while out as card was full!

Mammatus !

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Panorama of the Gust front / outflow

And A fantastic lowering !

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See all photos from today here http://www.flickr.co...69aba05cda52c99

Well done everyone with the great shots and videos!

Best day of weather on here in a long time!

Edited May 7, 2012 by DubWeatherAddict

[03jtrickey]

Wow!

[gpspete]

my observation of the storm caught unaware by a close clap of thunder looked at my boltek display this looks good quick look at nw radar yikes right under storm decided not to video from home (Bicester) so out to car for a better view, pulled up in rear end off the cell which looked to be a decent hook with decent rotation in it then hit by large hail in downdraft, so back into car and head towards Buckingham see a tornado ropeout over Stratton Audley unable to get back to storm after core punching it due to slow moving traffic roads flooded due to melting hail stones see a decent wall cloud with scuds being ripped up into it so back to Stratton to see if any evidence see some small debris across road just where it looked like we saw the tornado ropeout from the A4421

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[pad199207]

Hi new to this Forum,

Took this these today from a very intense storm that developed west of Dublin

[Paul Sherman]

Amazing Footage and Definately a Supercell in my eyes. The rotation in that video was insane and clearly something was on the ground ripping leaves off Trees.

Hope we get something like that here in the next 2 weeks although from the Outlook we might have been better placed in the Uk - Pmsl

[Hodgheg]

Some amazing videos. Does make me think whether the 30-40 tornadoes a year in the UK is a big under estimate, as was said most people would not even know what they were looking at

[Coast]

If you took the 21st OWS map literally today, then Kent might scrape in, but all the other sources say not:

(unless you are fishing off Dover!!)

I'm afraid it looks like our continental neighbours who get anything going today

Maybe a slim, slim chance on the Scottish borders?

[Stuart]

and i dont want to khow that coast about scottish Borders

[Coast]

and i dont want to khow that coast about scottish Borders

Have you had anything up there since your move Stuart?

[Stuart]

Have you had anything up there since your move Stuart?

not at all coast

[Chris.R]

You had some thunder the other week Stu didn't you? Be greatful for that and think about the people in NW england like me who haven't even had a hailstorm to get excited about this year!

[Cheshire Freeze]

You had some thunder the other week Stu didn't you? Be greatful for that and think about the people in NW england like me who haven't even had a hailstorm to get excited about this year!

Had some torrential rain about 2 o'clock last night though. Check the radar for that time.....was quite impressive. Surprised there was no thunder as some of the returns were showing 100+mm/hr over Merseyside

[matty8]

Just seen the amazing footage on youtube/ various news websites from the supercell footage in Oxfordshire yesterday. Very rare for the UK to get that type of storm, shows that in certain set-ups we can get them though. I'm sure we probably get more supercell type storms than we realise with supercell related tornados but they probably go under the radar/not reported.

It's worth noting the set-up we had for this storm to build, as the next few days definitely seem to provide similar set-ups, potentially the door is open for another supercell storm to develop? We seem to be having very similar weather patterns to Japan recently.... and you know what happened there.

[Neilsouth]

Just seen the amazing footage on youtube/ various news websites from the supercell footage in Oxfordshire yesterday. Very rare for the UK to get that type of storm, shows that in certain set-ups we can get them though. I'm sure we probably get more supercell type storms than we realise with supercell related tornados but they probably go under the radar/not reported.

I've seen one!

It was during mid 2000 I believe, got the video somewhere... I remember watching it develop rapidly over the channel by the time it hit the south east coast it was a supercell, i've NEVER seen a storm of that height before it was so angry with thunder booming in the distance constantly. Lightning streaking into the sky from all directions, however by the time it crossed into the south east properly it lost it's supercell charateristics. There's always been some discussion over it actually being a UK supercell purely because was it a supercell in the channel or actually on land UK.