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Uk Convective General Discussion & Forecasts - May 2012 Part 3

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James1979 Community Regular

James1979

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  • Location: St Neots, previously Billericay & Brentwood
  • Weather Preferences: Thunder, snow, gales, all extreme weather really!
  • Location: St Neots, previously Billericay & Brentwood
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1st post so hi! A huge tower developed to the South of here as can be seen from the satellite around an hour ago and has finally reached here giving a little smattering of rain right now but nothing in the way of lightning or even a deluge... yet sorry.gif

4 years waiting for a decent storm might just have to go on- the last really great storm I saw here was 24th June 1994 - never thought I'd have to wait this long without seeing that type again, so much for SE England and loads of storms!

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Tom D Apprentice

Tom D

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  • Location: Ware, Herts
  • Location: Ware, Herts
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Seems to be a good line up from Kent, through London up towards Beds, Bucks & Herts and the East Midlands. These showers will pep up some more I think, slow moving.

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DAVID SNOW Veteran

DAVID SNOW

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  • Location: Near Romford Essex.
  • Location: Near Romford Essex.
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Wow, Those power showers are really getting going daaamn quick!

Explosive convection now,its gonna go bang big time,crazy.gif

Picking up some crackles on the wireless nowsmile.png

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geg1992 Rookie

geg1992

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  • Location: Ipswich, Suffolk, UK
  • Weather Preferences: Severe thunderstorms, Heavy snow
  • Location: Ipswich, Suffolk, UK
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Hate to be a pain, but as this cold front moves north east will my chances increase later on in Ipswich?

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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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Some people asking for photos/pictures.... here goes. This is the lot that formed over me as tiny little Cu. Got a few more Cu to the west of me, but nothing special.

Towards Shooters hill/Kent way..

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East London....Thames Estuary.

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Lynxus Aficionado

Lynxus

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  • Location: Abbeymead ,Glos Member Since: July 16, 2003
  • Weather Preferences: Hot and thundery or Cold and snowy.
  • Location: Abbeymead ,Glos Member Since: July 16, 2003
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First sferics coming through now.

Someones gotta be reporting thunder soon!

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Cheshire Freeze Maestro

Cheshire Freeze

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  • Location: Crewe, Cheshire
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, storms and other extremes
  • Location: Crewe, Cheshire
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The CF has seemingly pushed too far east for anything to kick off here now....the east will get the storms once again....a familiar story. TBH I did have high hopes for today and now Wed is looking like the action will be further south and east of here. NSC is very much a pertinent place for me right now! Over a year and counting.

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liambailey09 Rookie

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  • Location: Stevenage, Herts
  • Location: Stevenage, Herts
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First sferics coming through now.

Someones gotta be reporting thunder soon!

Looks like they were picked up from the cells to my w and NW. Will keep an ear out for thunder but I think it's just too far away. Dark hazy sky out there though, and the towers seem quite high, almost coming over my house aha!

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BB1979 Contributor

BB1979

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  • Location: Bexley
  • Location: Bexley
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permission to get a tad excited?! clapping.gif

Didnt you sleep through the last little Barnehurst effort last month? I suggest a coffee or two tonight acute.gif

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Team Jo Accomplished

Team Jo

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  • Location: Hilversum, Netherlands
  • Weather Preferences: Hot Sun, Deep Snow, Convective Goodness, Anvil Crawlers
  • Location: Hilversum, Netherlands
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The guy next door has just decided to mow the lawn, so any faint rumbling is being drowned out by grass getting murdered... :(mellow.png

I might go round there.

WAIT! Just had a rumble :D

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Neilsouth Experienced

Neilsouth

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  • Location: Home near Sellindge, 80m/250feet, 5miles from Coast
  • Weather Preferences: Severe Storms and Snow
  • Location: Home near Sellindge, 80m/250feet, 5miles from Coast
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Storm over tonbridge?

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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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so how do you do the listening to lightning thing on a radio? I have fm/mw/lw - is am the same as mw?

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Methuselah Maestro

Methuselah

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  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Thunder, snow, heat, sunshine...
  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
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Cell away towards Bedford, at the mo...

I used to tune mw to somewhere just off the old Five-Live station, @ about 700...I think that LW and MW are am signals.

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Tom D Apprentice

Tom D

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  • Location: Ware, Herts
  • Location: Ware, Herts
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so how do you do the listening to lightning thing on a radio? I have fm/mw/lw - is am the same as mw?

I think they just mean that the convection is interfering with the radio waves, so there's some crackling. On a clear day you wouldn't get this but on humid, thundery days like today you're likely to get some crackling from signal loss. Correct me if I'm wrong.

http://en.wikipedia....i/Noise_(radio)

Atmospheric noise is radio noise caused by natural atmospheric processes, primarily lightning discharges in thunderstorms.
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YokTok Newbie

YokTok

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  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
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What are the chances of anything hitting East Surrey (j8 M25 area) - currently thinking it'll all be E and N/E of me?

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Meggy Explorer

Meggy

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  • Location: South Ockendon, Essex
  • Weather Preferences: Anything out of the ordinary, except extreme heat
  • Location: South Ockendon, Essex
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hi everyone? Anyone on from near South Ockendon Essex. Nice few rumbles developing and quite heavy rain. Have my usual storm 'goosebumps.'

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Lynxus Aficionado

Lynxus

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  • Location: Abbeymead ,Glos Member Since: July 16, 2003
  • Weather Preferences: Hot and thundery or Cold and snowy.
  • Location: Abbeymead ,Glos Member Since: July 16, 2003
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Wow all those cells are now showing sferics.. Can only dream of a thunderstorm.

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