Uk Convective General Discussion & Forecasts, 16th August 2012>

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

Just shows anything can happen, who would have predicted them storms that have fired up out of nowhere in the channel!

[highdef]

A line of explosive convection now visible on the radar, stretching in a north northeast direction from just south east of the IOW to near Billingshurst. The growth of this is phenomenal! Lots of strikes being recorded too

[Staffordshire]

The SE looks like there having there version of june 28th!

[West Sussex Kate]

Yep I'm in billingshurst, we have a storm.

[Biggin]

Thunder and Lightning at Selsey at the moment according to my son who is down there.

[chionomaniac]

Just shows anything can happen, who would have predicted them storms that have fired up out of nowhere in the channel!

Errr Boar Wrinklestorm did. Now where is that ex village plank?

[Wet'n'Dry]

Looking very tasty on radar and it's heading my way!!

[Supacell]

Explosive convection in the south as expected if the cap gets broken, which is what has happened.

I am now not far from Worksop and it is muggy with some dark skies to my west. What has happened in the south is a good sign for later

[staplehurst]

Explosive convection in the south as expected if the cap gets broken, which is what has happened.

I am now not far from Worksop and it is muggy with some dark skies to my west. What has happened in the south is a good sign for later

Surface cap remains, it's mid-level showers and storms developing, destabilising most on western edge.

[SnowJoke]

Very warm & still dry in MK, some patches of Ac every so often. It's the humidity that's the killer at the minute, you only have to move and your dripping. BBC & the Meto show a cluster of strong storms over the midlands, Oxford to Luton all the way towards Leicester area this afternoon. Certainly feels like it's going to go bang, just hope the storms running up through Sussex don't go ape and spread a cirrus sheet everywhere killing off chances here.

[twister2005]

Are we still going to see storms today for gloucestershire northwards as per met warning ???

[NUT]

Other half reporting thunder in bramley (Not far from Guildford)

[Supacell]

Surface cap remains, it's mid-level showers and storms developing, destabilising most on western edge.

Ah right thank you, well hoping that cap breaks across the Midlands later so some storms can develop.

[Staffordshire]

Something going up in portsmouth now?

[highdef]

Anyone got any pics or video? As there is still as surface cap, would I be correct in saying that these storms are not particularly photogenic at the moment?

[chionomaniac]

Surface cap remains, it's mid-level showers and storms developing, destabilising most on western edge.

Surface cap is breaking down here.

[West Sussex Kate]

Power keeps going on and off! looks like its moving away now.

[chionomaniac]

First distant rumbles here.

[nanu]

Getting thunder here now.. got a storm developing just a tad south of me

[Guenhwyvar]

Amazing cloud structures here on the south coast...deep rumbles of thunder and lightning..Didn't think we would see anything till tonight.

[Sprites]

the rain and downdraughts from the mid levels can help to allow surface based storms later maybe.

[legritter]

best of luck to all those in south east and eastern parts also s east mid ,london area , and other prone places . so frustrating in west country main band of precipitation missed me by 40/50 miles now just watching the action kicking off in channel and n/france ,im not giving up perhaps our action will come later /out of the blue /thick mist fog here at 6 30am this morning with a pink glow in the sky .im not having chicken today its a diet day so im having SALAD ,SMALL JACKET WITH PEPPERED MACKERAL ,A GLASS OF FRUIT JUICE AND GOING TO EAT IT SAT OUTSIDE IN A MEGA SUPERSTORM THAT ROTATES IN MY AREA ALL EVENING AND NIGHT ,CHEERS LEGRITTER

[RUSH]

morning all

here in new malden (kt3) the ski is steadly going quiet dark looks like day to keep an eye on things .shocked that these storms got going early in the channnel mmm intresting.

[chionomaniac]

Amazing cloud structures here on the south coast...deep rumbles of thunder and lightning..Didn't think we would see anything till tonight.

Loving the clouds here as well.

[MKN]

Be careful what you wish for people, just search YouTube for Hinckley hail storm lol.