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gottolovethisweather

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  • Location: Newbury, Berkshire. 107m ASL.
  • Weather Preferences: Summer:sunny, some Thunder,Winter:cold & snowy spells,Other:transitional
  • Location: Newbury, Berkshire. 107m ASL.
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I guess our weather patterns have changed since the 1980/90's as people said on here a warm spell meant guaranteed storms. I think pattern shift in the jet stream is probably to blame instead of the jet stream heading north over the uk (or close by) its just heading in a east/north east direction meaning anything that forms in france goes the same direction.

Never thought about that but you are probably absolutely right! acute.gif

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80sWeather

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  • Location: Cambourne Cambridge 70M ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Blizzards,Hot Thundery nights.
  • Location: Cambourne Cambridge 70M ASL
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Remember them days when the lot of that would be surging its way towards us. We're a far cry from that now by the looks of it :(

Yes remember many "all nighters" back in the 1980s. As a child i used to sleep on the window sill watching lightning all for hours on end. All we had was the bbc weather saying storms will spread up from the continent, it was so much simpler then lol

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gottolovethisweather Accomplished

gottolovethisweather

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  • Location: Newbury, Berkshire. 107m ASL.
  • Weather Preferences: Summer:sunny, some Thunder,Winter:cold & snowy spells,Other:transitional
  • Location: Newbury, Berkshire. 107m ASL.
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Yes remember many "all nighters" back in the 1980s. As a child i used to sleep on the window sill watching lightning all for hours on end. All we had was the bbc weather saying storms will spread up from the continent, it was so much simpler then lol

Likewise when they're not forecast, we seem to get them, well some lucky SE'ners tend to get them. sorry.gif

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East_England_Stormchaser91

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  • Location: King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Hot and Thundery, Cold and Snowy
  • Location: King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
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Yes remember many "all nighters" back in the 1980s. As a child i used to sleep on the window sill watching lightning all for hours on end. All we had was the bbc weather saying storms will spread up from the continent, it was so much simpler then lol

I know, back in mid 1990's I remember them saying there was going to be showers or longer spells of heavy rain, no thunder even mentioned! Go to sleep, wake up only by the loudest thunder I've ever heard! It scared the living daylights out of me, even though im a die hard fan of severe storms! We just seem to be a force-field these days, the last 10 times ive seen plumes from Spain, they just seem to be repelled badly from the SE corner.

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Eskimo

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  • Location: Kings Norton, West Midlands
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, Cold & Snowy
  • Location: Kings Norton, West Midlands
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As someone mentioned, the jet stream has been in an awkward position for the past few years, just concocted something quickly and it shows why perhaps we hardly ever see anything.

Could this be the reason?

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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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As someone mentioned, the jet stream has been in an awkward position for the past few years, just concocted something quickly and it shows why perhaps we hardly ever see anything.

Could this be the reason?

It's something we discussed a while back, one relationship was discussed to be the NAO. A negative NAO isn't that good for storms, whilst a more neutral state NAO is probably the best.

One thing for sure is we haven't had an Iberian low in a long time after some warm weather. Imports are sparse, last big ones I remember where July 7th 2009, absolutely amazing thunderstorms that headed northbound from France and the Channel.

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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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Couple of showers popping up west of London and on the EA coast....

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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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.....which seem to be beefing up a little heading east.....

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Robbie Garrett

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  • Location: London, UK
  • Weather Preferences: MCC/MCS Thunderstorms
  • Location: London, UK
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How on earth did it chuck it down like that? There was not much cloud, even so it was very high altitude....

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Keraunic

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  • Location: Ipswich. (Originally from York)
  • Weather Preferences: Thunder Storms. All extreme weather.
  • Location: Ipswich. (Originally from York)
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Some activity SE of London on the radar. Heavy rain or something like.

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  • Location: Guildford, Surrey.
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms & Snow
  • Location: Guildford, Surrey.
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I guess our weather patterns have changed since the 1980/90's as people said on here a warm spell meant guaranteed storms. I think pattern shift in the jet stream is probably to blame instead of the jet stream heading north over the uk (or close by) its just heading in a east/north east direction meaning anything that forms in france goes the same direction.

I guess our weather patterns have changed since the 1980/90's as people said on here a warm spell meant guaranteed storms. I think pattern shift in the jet stream is probably to blame instead of the jet stream heading north over the uk (or close by) its just heading in a east/north east direction meaning anything that forms in france goes the same direction.

In the past when the storms missed this part of S.E. England and stayed over France moving away in the 'wrong' direction there would always be the good prospect of storms from unstable cooler S.W.ly / westerly / N.W./y situations that inevitably followed. We don't even get any chance with those, once reliable, setups either.

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Sprites

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  • Location: South East UK
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms/squalls/hoar-frost/mist
  • Location: South East UK
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heavy showers for sunday yes ,and polar maritime storms can be photogenic, but not ideal for lightning after dark, when september arrives i wish it was March again..., the winter and zero thunder is not very enticing.

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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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Hmmm is Sunday going to disappoint too?

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Someone must get something out of this lot even if I don't!

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Central England toward EA again then?

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East_England_Stormchaser91

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  • Location: King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Hot and Thundery, Cold and Snowy
  • Location: King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
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Worst breakdown of hot weather yet, Its got to be said! I didnt even feel a single drop of rain ! Lets take the time to remember 'El Brumo', the best tornado to have ever stuck Britain 7 years ago today.

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john pike

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  • Location: west croydon (near lombard)
  • Location: west croydon (near lombard)
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sorry posted in wrong thread

leave the charts for tomorrow though

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gottolovethisweather

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  • Location: Newbury, Berkshire. 107m ASL.
  • Weather Preferences: Summer:sunny, some Thunder,Winter:cold & snowy spells,Other:transitional
  • Location: Newbury, Berkshire. 107m ASL.
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test post - wheres my convection?

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East_England_Stormchaser91

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  • Location: King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Hot and Thundery, Cold and Snowy
  • Location: King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
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Did a SI ever get carried out in Sleaford, Lincs after the June 28th event? From the footage I saw I wouldn't be surprised if the tornado that affected the region turned out to be just as strong as the Birmingham and Peterborough tornadoes in 2005, if not stronger.

Looked very similar in terms of its size. The damage was very minimal though, as it was much less densely populated in that area.

A reminder of the storms we used to get after a hot spell back in the 1990's. This was in Macclesfield, Cheshire!

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Backtrack

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  • Location: Runcorn, Cheshire
  • Weather Preferences: Snowy winters, hot, sunny springs and summers.
  • Location: Runcorn, Cheshire
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Just had a mad thunderstorm. Very very heavy rain, fork lightning, loud, overhead thunder!

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Sunny Android

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  • Location: Warrington, Cheshire. 16M ASL
  • Location: Warrington, Cheshire. 16M ASL
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Just had a mad thunderstorm. Very very heavy rain, fork lightning, loud, overhead thunder!

The centre of it tracked to the south of me so all I got was a shower !

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Cloudwatcher

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  • Location: Chester
  • Weather Preferences: the stormier the better...
  • Location: Chester
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So frustrated now. Towers springing up all around us, Runcorn ten miles away just seen some action and we are currently under clear blue skys! Wonder if anything will pop up later....

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