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

[AWD]

afternoon all, am i the only person to see sunshine for most of the day.

fromey

Nope, most of our region has seen sunshine today. Just a few rumbles around the Bristol Channel, otherwise sunny and pleasant. Maybe tomorrow hey..... Lol.

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

Good god, them cells over near King's Lynn are giving off rumbles every 2 seconds, they must be gettin one heck of a storm!

[Norfolk Sheep]

Aww, that's nice - a little welcome home to Norfolk TS - barely been home 30 mins

[Ross B]

Crazy day...

Currently thunder and lightning with heavy rain

(Kilmarnock)

[MP-R]

Very much a north of the M4 job today. The cell out in the Severn at 12pm was blurting out some nice rumbles and booms but as I went into Bristol from here the weather improved and after that only a quick shower for 10 minutes and nothing since. Nothing out of the ordinary there.

Maybe tomorrow will be the day.

[Carl46Wrexham]

Storm number 2 closing in.

[Costa Del Fal]

Nothing for here today. Tomorrow looks the same. Again it's so hard to get a god damn storm here. South west midlands dry gap in action again.

Storm number 2 closing in.

Now you've equalled here making here as rubbish as Wrexham. Great

[Luke]

I'm in London tomorrow, will probably miss a storm here tomorrow then

Edited August 4, 2012 by Luke

[Sunny Android]

To answer Carl, yes very bad around Oswestry. Large hail and also frequent lightning. Here in Chirk it's a coming.......!!

Strike rate on the Lightning detector has started to fall so it could be just be rain if or when it reaches here. The path it's taking does look promising !

[SteveB]

Just had a nice little storm pass to the west of me, some nice loud thunder

[syed2878]

Hey guys anything for brum today? Herd a few rombles about an hour ago but they were really far.

[NUT]

Seems like Ross is having a wonderous day for up here in scotland. Still bugger all here though

[Ross B]

Seems like Ross is having a wonderous day for up here in scotland. Still bugger all here though

Yep - currently watching CG's rain down from a cell to my west now! Tomorrow and into Monday looking good as well so still some chances kleft for those missing out.

[Supacell]

Still new storms popping up all the time. The one to the west of Stone in Staffordshire went up from nothing to a storm in just 10 mins according to netweather radar.

[Mountain Snow]

Very dark to my south, can hear a few rumbles. Wind has died down to nothing.

[Deluxe]

Three separate thundery cells today - one at 10:30am, one at 2pm, and one at 4pm. None hit directly, instead they gave us some lovely rumbles to the south before breaking up a little as they moved over. All three gave quite a drenching - lovely big convective raindrops Good day!

[Supacell]

A few sferics near where i live. But of more interest to me there looks to be development across Staffs heading my way (currently near Holmes Chapel).

[I Cumbria Marra I]

Power's been off for about 4 hours here and we missed the storms, iv heard 2 rumbles all day, looking at the radar central and northern cumbria have been hammered, and its been really dark to my north pretty much all afternoon, absolutely gutted

[Mountain Snow]

Fair bit of thunder from this approaching storm, not seen lightning yet. Its moving very slowly, not a breath of wind.

[Muffelchen]

Just come in, been out all day and have heard pretty constant thuinder since 2:40 in Hornsea, E. Yorks. At least two different storms but probably three. On the way home, some 20 minutes ago, observed a small (needle) funnel to the NW of Leven. Lasted about a minute and a half.

I think, looking to South, now I am back at home, there is more to come.

[I Cumbria Marra I]

a flash of lightning would do, havent seen 1 all year, still, its been a nice warm sunny day here something which has been very rare this year.

Edited August 4, 2012 by I Cumbria Marra I

[Allseasons-Si]

A cell has just popped up the east side of me in a matter of half an hour

[Gord]

I thought I just heard some distant thunder here...can't be sure. If it was the sound was carried by the wind...might just be the wind. There is a very dark sky to the south west. We'll see.

Can't see south and east due to houses in my street mind.

Edited August 4, 2012 by Gord

[Darren Bown]

Hoping these storms will still be around when I finish work at 830, Nw seems to have missed the most of the storms but there is a rash of them

In Wales that could affect us soon.

[Paul]

Awesome photos and reports being posted up today, thanks all - keep them coming