Thunderstorm potential and activity for Wednesday 19th into Thursday 20th June 2013

[Panayiotis]

No, that's an illusion. In general terms, everything is moving SW-NE

It depends where you live:

[Costa Del Fal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1mX60ZPJFk&feature=youtube_gdata_player nice vid of a very close strike in that mcs last night

Thats crazy! As exciting as these storms are, no doubt they were a little terrifying as well! Just seen on blitzortung how many strikes were basically colouring the map was incredible. Very powerful.

Edited June 20, 2013 by Blizzards

[nitro_deluxe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1mX60ZPJFk&feature=youtube_gdata_player nice vid of a very close strike in that mcs last night

Turned volume up..it also set the car alarm off outside! Remember seeing something similar to that a good many moons ago...hasn't to say the sheer randomness frightened me more than the actual instant flash and subsequent loud whip crack sound! There was no few seconds delay..Ears rang a bit too, eyes stung :)Nice catch though.

[UKSupercell]

Just caught some what look like, huge, high towering cumulus clouds amongst the broken haze in South Bucks. Looks potentially thundery, but I doubt it. So far, I'm right again, unfortunately. Patchy drizzle is the best we can get here....Yawn. 

[Supacell]

Raining heavy in Belper but that's it. All that mass of showers around me and not one sferic. Tomasz on BBC still thinks we will get storms this evening, but I just don't see it. I hope he is right and I am wrong.

[Mapantz]

When i look at this ..

 

 

I get feeling that the folks under that lot are doing this ..

 

[Carl46Wrexham]

Firing off across the east now. Nowt over this side of the country though. Looks like pretty rapid development over Lincolnshire way.

LINCOLNSHIRE???????? REALLY???????? OH MY GOD WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT IT???

 

zzzzzzzzz So much for UK weather being supposedly unpredictable.

 

Sorry MetOffice but a custard pie is coming your way....epic fail.

Edited June 20, 2013 by Carl46Wrexham

[Supacell]

When i look at this ..

 

 

How come it shows that has been sferics across the UK when there hasn't been a single strike?

[ChezWeather]

Heavy rain here, nothing else though 

[Chris.R]

hahaha

[NUT]

Getting very dark again over the hamburg cam. Weather porn last night so it was watching. Round 2?

[Captain Shortwave]

So the thunderstorms developed in France, died across East Anglia, then blew up again in Lincolnshire.

Why, weather why               

[nitro_deluxe]

Watch out in the North Sea tonight...

[Methuselah]

So the thunderstorms developed in France, died across East Anglia, then blew up again in Lincolnshire.

Why, weather why               

In other words, they all bypassed the Triangle!

[Mesoscale]

Keep your eye on Berlin and Munich tonight.

[Captain Shortwave]

Watch out in the North Sea tonight...

Standard norfolk weather, thick low cloud and 12 degrees. No chance of seeing any light show

[Supacell]

So the thunderstorms developed in France, died across East Anglia, then blew up again in Lincolnshire.

Why, weather why               

 

There's no thunderstorms in Lincolnshire, just lots of rain as there is here.

 

If there are going to be thunderstorms anywhere this evening then keep eyes on those cells around Hereford and Worcester. These are developing in higher CAPE, it is a big IF though.

[Mapantz]

How come it shows that has been sferics across the UK when there hasn't been a single strike?

 

Attenuation can cause that but it can also be a bit more sensitive, so it may have picked up a couple across the Midlands early this morning. 

[Arnie Pie]

 

From Ian:

Ian Fergusson â€@fergieweather12m

Still time for some heavy showers into next few hours generally N of M4 / across Glos.... watching closely for signs of this.

Cells firing up in that general region.....mmm last chance salon

edit; yes supercell...i can see these firing up say... just outside Stourbridge

Edited June 20, 2013 by Arnie Pie

[nitro_deluxe]

Standard norfolk weather, thick low cloud and 12 degrees. No chance of seeing any light show

No but worse luck or should things KO over the sea instead..Another perhaps mute point re our lack of action? Seem to recall many years when just prior to thunder, there would be a sudden infestation of flying ants? Now, of course the ants may well be still hiding somewhere - it is the trigger mechanism that gets them to do the flapping, escaping the nest etc that got me thinking... Edited June 20, 2013 by triple_x1

[poseidon]

On small cell has made it to Dunkirk, producing lightning as it goes. However, now it's crossing towards the UK the bit over the water has fizzled.

[stainesbloke]

Pretty much clear skies here now with a gusty SW wind, much less humid...has a front gone thru that I'm not aware of?!

[Eskimo]

Incredible swirl of heavy rain and storms across the whole of Northern Europe. 

 

[nimbus20]

So the thunderstorms developed in France, died across East Anglia, then blew up again in Lincolnshire.

Why, weather why               

 

I cannot speak fro the whole of Lincolnshire, but in my little part of the county there has just been heavy, frontal-type rain, with no sign of any cumuliform cloud - just Nimbostratus.  No lightning or thunder either.

[nitro_deluxe]

SW Mids looking fairly interesting at present? Stourbridge, Kidderminster way..hefty showers behind the main area developing in situ.