Uk Convective General Discussion & Forecasts, 17th July 2012>

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

Yeah most of the good stuff doesn't even happen until after 2pm ! plenty of time left still

[Supacell]

Sun is out in Bradford and its very warm, no breeze either despite forecasts of a breezy day today.

It is way to early to give up yet, best stuff for the NW is going to be later this afternoon.

[Chris.R]

A heavy prolonged shower here now.

[Cloudwatcher]

Yeah Ok, couldn't stay away!

That cell just SW of Chester has got my attention...! Keeping an eye on it.

[Chris.R]

Heard two closer sferics in the last few minutes, maybe from the Chester cell? Sun is out here now.

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

very good storm going on to the East of me, lots of IC lightning couple of CG's too with some pretty loud sounding thunder

[Cloud 10]

A couple of rumbles of thunder from a cell a mile or two to my NE.

[john175]

morning all. seems to be a promising day by the current look of things, even for us up here which makes a change

got a nice cell building just to my south east , hopefully it will produce some noise .

[Chris.R]

yet another shower now, getting quite frequent, we must have the perfect wind direction at last. Sferics have exploded into life around the regian now.

[I Cumbria Marra I]

nowt here, havent had 1 drop

[Lynxus]

Wow, Loads of activity.

Some amazing convection going on.

Gonne go for a ride, hopefully by the time i get back, that storm to my SW will be here

[bensainsbury]

Some rapidly intensifying cells to my south and west. All the action too far west for me and not heard any rumbles yet but hoping for some action later + starting to get very windy.

Edited August 4, 2012 by bensainsbury

[nwales]

Plenty of thunder rolling around here at the moment. Had a heavy burst of rain, nothing torrential though

[Cloud 10]

Sudden downpour here at the moment with huge raindrops which almost looks like sleet!

[Sprites]

storm heading towards mildenhall lakenheath area

[Chris K]

Where i live I can look out towards the Severn Crossings and Chepstow which is about 7 miles from here and there is a huge dark stormy cloud. Sferics being detected within it to. All part of that cell moving up the Severn Estuary. Faint rumbles being heard to.

Anyone in Clevedon or Portishead seeing anything? Seems to be a good place right now to view this cell travelling up!

Edited August 4, 2012 by Chris K

[Ross B]

Frequent thunder here now in Kilmarnock, just on the edge of the storm here so can watch the structure form on it in the dry. The north end of the town is getting a hammering from the rain though!

[Weather-Voyager]

I can hear the brontide to my south.. Had a passing moderate shower a few moments ago and now the sun is trying to break through, looking forward to what develops later on.

[Supacell]

Thunderstorm to the east of Leeds but decided against chasing as it is moving away from me and have ended up behind storms and ending up with nothing too many times to be drawn in again. Plus that area is notouriously difficult with regards to traffic.

I have decided to stick with my initial thoughts of the western Pennines being best and so am now sat not far from Saddleworth. Nothing here yet but I am hopeful in the next couple of hours things may start kicking off here.

Nice cell around Chester atm moving into Merseyside.

Edited August 4, 2012 by Supacell

[DeepSnow]

Just had a moderate shower here, fingers crossed for something thundery later though, I think any showers won't turn thundery until further north than me though

[Ross B]

Awesomes. Watching CG's coming out from the huge white cell about 1 mile to my north and a smaller one which Isn't on radar yet.

[Chris.R]

now I think, I'm not sure but I think I just heard a very distant boom of thunder about 8 miles away. Will weight for the next sferic from the cell to see, they're very infrequent ATM:

[Allseasons-Si]

Went down to KFC in wath earlier and had a little storm with all the lightning beieng CG's,good stuff,i filmed it but my camera has been damaged some how,it's showing loads of pinkish lines through the film,gutted

[littlemissy]

heavy showers again, flicker of lightning .Big black clouds contrasting with brilliant sun.I'm not complaining (but poor dog shook like a leaf)

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Edited August 4, 2012 by littlemissy

[Aaron]

Heavy thundery shower here recently - nothing special. Think Garforth and areas further east got it properly though.

Edited August 4, 2012 by Aaron