Stormy Wednesday 15th August 2012

[mulzy]

A non-event here in London - as expected.

Edited August 15, 2012 by mulzy

[Rainy]

Yay!. here it is Wow! Horozontal deluge!

[Nick F]

Pffttt ... nothing more than some bursts of light to moderate rain and gusty winds as the cold front went through London.

An impressive thundery squall line stretching from the SE Midlands up to Nern Ireland though! Given the linear forcing nature of the cold front and cloudiness before the fronts arrival, not really been chance for discrete storms to develop severe weather, though quite squally winds along the squall line.

Pinning hopes that Sunday may bring a chance of one or two isolated strong storms across the SE before cold front moves through, hot and humid air in place (30-32C possible) - with high CAPE values suggested by GFS (maybe OTT), though only thing that will stop storms triggering will be lack of upper support.

[Staffordshire]

The met monkey warning proved very accurate so far! Watch lincoln get hammered in the next 2 hours!

[NUT]

Rain is not far away from here it would seem. Could get interesting in a while

[weatherobsuk]

Could be more developments to come from the theta-plume as the humid air transfers westwards forcing yet more instability behind the front.

[Lion]

Oh no.. I've sat patiently waiting for the squall to get here, it appears to be breaking up ..someone please tell me imagine wrong :'(

[Love Snow]

Really dark it Leed/Morley at the minute with heavy burts of rain on and off.

[PolarWarsaw]

1 heavy burst of rain a couple of hours back, moderate rain at most before and after that. Sun breaking through the clouds now. Yawn, another non event.

[purpledragon90]

Very heavy rain for about 5 mins and now just heavy rain, and the winds dropped completely here in Lancaster

[I Cumbria Marra I]

i know people will disagree but west cumbria and the area around crewe is the worst place for storms in the uk.

[The PIT]

No storms here but some shorts bursts of very heavy rain with gusty winds.

[Chris D]

wow OMG! I just had the most amazing squall ever About 10 minutes ago. It lasted all of 3 minutes but it was the heaviest rain I have ever seen in my life! The garden was flooded in a few seconds with water cascading off the house. There was even a flash of lightning during it but no thunder sadly. I had heard a few close sferics before the squall began but no thunder from any of them. It was a really great squall anyway and will be a treat for anyone in its ppppath.

It was some of the heaviest rain I've ever seen. Nearly all roads were flooding!

Edited August 15, 2012 by Chris D

[Boro_andy]

Very very dark over here now....all very sudden too....

Rain just started too - Light at present

Edited August 15, 2012 by Boro_andy

[AderynCoch]

wow OMG! I just had the most amazing squall ever About 10 minutes ago. It lasted all of 3 minutes but it was the heaviest rain I have ever seen in my life! The garden was flooded in a few seconds with water cascading off the house. There was even a flash of lightning during it but no thunder sadly. I had heard a few close sferics before the squall began but no thunder from any of them. It was a really great squall anyway and will be a treat for anyone in its ppppath.

That must be the same system which passed through here about 3:15pm. I haven't seen rain that heavy for a long time. The streets briefly turned into rivers.

[Paul]

Should this sort of image be reserved for autumn?!

[Boro_andy]

We have thunder & lightening!

[Love Snow]

Torrential rain lasted about 10 Mins here very dark at present.

Edited August 15, 2012 by Love Snow

[weatherobsuk]

...and just like that the clouds have parted to reveal daylight once more. Its been quite a treat today watching the progression of a frontal system from start to finish, not too often this happens visually.

[Supacell]

No T&L for here but just got very wild out there with torrential rain and really strong winds. Lasted about 10-15 minutes and its back to traditional moderate rain now.

[TEITS]

Currently have torrential rain accompanied by thunder and lightning. Very impressive in what has been a good summer so far for storms in my area.

[gottolovethisweather]

With all the talk about the Squall line which is still keeping its act together, here is an image from my Davis weather station as it went through earlier today. Can you guess the time at which the squall passed, clues to this being Air Pressure kick, Temperature drop and Rainfall rate.

Still it continues its journey Northwards and Eastwards

And here again is how the Squall line or the LEWPy thing looked nearer its early stages as it hurtled through Newbury, Berkshire area.

Here's to more of the same, some day soon.

[gottolovethisweather]

Should this sort of image be reserved for autumn?!

You would certainly think so, must be thankful it wasn't another Fastnet storm though.

[Supacell]

Can anyone see the way it is all being sucked towards Lincolnshire

[mattyk1985]

Can anyone see the way it is all being sucked towards Lincolnshire

Looks like its edging slightly westwards to me?

So close come on!!

Edited August 15, 2012 by mattyk1985