South East & East Anglia Regional Discussion - August 19th 2012>

[Snowangel-MK]

Update from the Met O

Issued at: 1059 on Sat 25 Aug 2012

Yellow Warning of Rain for London & South East England :

Bracknell Forest, Brighton and Hove, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Greater London, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Medway, Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, Portsmouth, Reading, Slough, Southampton, Surrey, West Berkshire, West Sussex, Windsor and Maidenhead & Wokingham

Yellow Warning of Rain for East of England :

Bedford, Cambridgeshire, Central Bedfordshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Luton, Norfolk, Peterborough, Southend-on-Sea, Suffolk & Thurrock

Valid from: 0005 on Sat 25 Aug 2012

Valid to: 2200 on Sat 25 Aug 2012

Spells of heavy rain and thundery showers have the potential to cause disruption during Saturday. The public should be aware of the risk of localised surface water flooding, with strong to gale force winds clipping the extreme south, notably East Sussex and Kent.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/?regionName=se&from=rss&sn=3F25ADCB-32E7-5247-2FBE-52C23649C9D8_5_SE

[saint]

Very heavy shower just passed through, mixed with hail... Led to water seeping through our French doors, which is quite a worry!

[Keraunic]

Are you in Ipswich all day now, or heading to Norwich later?

All day now matey. Norwich tomorrow after flying visit to Lowestoft. Thats the prob with having family all over EA. Hope we get TSs here. âš¡âš¡âš¡âš¡âš¡âš¡

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Ahahahahahahhahahah yehhh buddyyy constant thunder here!!!! Wowowowowo!!!!!!!!!! :D

[Chloe]

Booming thunder to my East who has this storm????

[Steve C]

Sudden very heavy shower here.

Looking at the CAPE charts, I'd say our best time is still to come, later this afternoon.

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Oh deary, reports of flash flooding in my area roads are really bad

[Steve C]

It's really muggy outside here at the moment. A very interesting afternoon coming up, imo.

[80sWeather]

Anybody up near Hunstanton area its getting a pounding on the radar.

Will be a great day for taking pictures of clouds.

Edited August 25, 2012 by 80sWeather

[Steve C]

Anybody up near Hunstanton area its getting a pounding on the radar.

It seems to be the sweet spot for thunder in our area this summer. I'd noticed that on the radar too, but didn't want to post about it, as I have already done several times this summer and don't want to be known as Mr Groundhog!

[Ruthie]

Torrential rain here, got the gazebo up thank god. Thunder, haven't seen any lightning yet.

[Keraunic]

Nothing here yet. I am hopeful however. Quite muggy and close though with dark clouds gathering. Good luck everyone. âš¡âš¡âš¡âš¡âš¡âš¡âš¡âš¡âš¡âš¡

[Ste L]

Will we get some of these juicy storms in Essex SS7 ?

[Steve C]

Nothing here yet. I am hopeful however. Quite muggy and close though with dark clouds gathering. Good luck everyone. âš¡âš¡âš¡âš¡âš¡âš¡âš¡âš¡âš¡âš¡

There's a heavy shower passing north of Colchester, headed your way, but with the life cycle of individual cells, it might not make it. Fingers crossed though.

Here are CAPE charts for 3 till 6 this afternoon, from the Hi Res Model, which might give an indication of timing (will probably be wrong though )

Edited August 25, 2012 by Steve C

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It must be my lucky day 0.0 more thunder and lightning!

[Ruthie]

Mega loud crack of thunder made house quiver. And me.

[Guest archiesmummy]

Coming over very dark here...fingers crossed!

[Jason T]

All kicking of here,Small T storm right over me at the mo.As for the rain WOW...

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In my opinion this is a warm up for later, as posted earlier the cape charts look amazing from 3-6 tonight.. Allowing storms to get going and last into the night (hopefully) good luck everybody stat safe!

[Guest archiesmummy]

WOAH......massive crack of thunder! Am under the table but wanna look out of the window too!

[Chloe]

Who has a massive storm goin on towards the West geez thunder every second not on my door step yet?

[RUSH]

afternoon all

just had sum very loud thunder claps over the last 20 mins or so here in new malden(kt3) & looking quiet dark to my sw mmmmm .

[West Sussex Kate]

I'm in north london today, I can hear some thunder in the distance!

[Ruthie]

Who has a massive storm goin on towards the West geez thunder every second not on my door step yet?

I'm in brentford, west London, have had this storm rumbling past hour or so. Torrential rain a few mins ago. Got a v bad head too. Sky v dark to my south.

[Norfolk Sheep]

Line of showers heading up towards the Wash, on my doorstep and electrified but I'm busy right at the moment Unlikely to see anything move further east at the moment.