Thunderstorm activity Thursday 13th June 2013

[Cheshire Freeze]

Nowt here :s Just a lead grey sky to be observed.

Edited June 13, 2013 by CreweCold

[nitro_deluxe]

Short convective type shower..looks good Ellesmere, Oswestry way? They always seem to catch the heavier stuff. Could get interesting later - few flashes and bangs, hail and localised flash flooding.

[Darren Bown]

Couple of Sferics popped up in Midlands now. Looks like most of the action will skew south and east of here

[Coast]

Looks like GFS and NMM are broadly correct so far

[Staffordshire]

Looks like a tasty cell just north of wolverhampton

[weatherobsuk]

Just noticed that myself, although thinking in hindsight the winds aloft around 850hpa would be pretty strong given the barometric gradient, so more likely its just an overshooting top being carried eastwards along the upwind direction. Looking at the RADAR currently i'd say on a visual basis most if not all the cells today are showing the same characteristic.

 

At least it's a relatively good indicator showing where the cells are likely to go.

[Keraunic]

Some activity over Wolverhampton way.

[PolarWarsaw]

Perfect that should head nicely this way. Heavy shower as we speak.

[Staffordshire]

Perfect that should head nicely this way. Heavy shower as we speak.

yep should be a preety direct hit for you in rugely, i miss out though, oh well you guys deserve it after your bad luck with snow i spose storms arent our thing hereI take that back long rumble of thunder here

[Nick L]

Just had a cloud fart! Unexpected.

 

Edit: And another!

Edited June 13, 2013 by Nick L

[Staffordshire]

Moderate rain here and more rumbles of thunder, quite blustery too

[Nick L]

Just a shame that my time in Oklahoma has completely dulled my enthusiasm for the UK-style thundery showers...

[PolarWarsaw]

Heavy rain and 3-4 rumbles of thunder.

[Staffordshire]

Passed me here i must of been on the very edge with just 2 rumbles and some moderate rain

[Staffordshire]

WOW VERY CLOSE LIGHTINING STRIKE AND HUGEEEEE THUNDER ALMOST INSTANT RUMBLE AMAZING!!!!

AND ANOTHER HUGE RUMBLE, rain dying off though

Edited June 13, 2013 by Staffordshire

[Cheshire Freeze]

Midlands looks the place to be, a whole rash of downpours. Game over here, not that it was ever on.

[Costa Del Fal]

WOW VERY CLOSE LIGHTINING STRIKE AND HUGEEEEE THUNDER ALMOST INSTANT RUMBLE AMAZING!!!!AND ANOTHER HUGE RUMBLE, rain dying off though

Just like what we had in Falmouth last Saturday except for 2-3 hours, not those pathetic thundery showers today.

[Chris.R]

Sure I just heard thunder here.

[Lion]

Few long but distant rumbles here

[Alex95]

It's gone rather quiet up in the North East now, looks like the best showers will be restricted to the Midlands.

[seabreeze86]

Few flashes of lightning to the south of me just missed a direct hit by about a mile , First lightning i have seen since my trip to Greece last year

[Muffelchen]

Thunderstorm in Doncaster right now. 2 rumbles per minute at the mo, intensifying and getting nearer.

[Eye to the sky]

One almighty sharp crack of Thunder here after a brilliant CG strike!.Winds really picking up now,with further rumbles of Thunder.

[Cheshire Freeze]

Thunderstorm in Doncaster right now. 2 rumbles per minute at the mo, intensifying and getting nearer.

Sounds good. Hard to imagine some places have had multiple storms in the time I've had none. Enjoy.

[weatherobsuk]

The LLC driving these showers is now starting to gather pace as it begins to cross Shropshire into Derbyshire, the showers still advecting to the east and will continue to do so over the afternoon. Unfortunately we only had the one cell just as midday came and went, with the instability slowly starting to transition out across the central midlands into Lincs by the early evening.

 

Still a slight chance for something along the back-edge of the LLC as it moves through however.