Convective / Storm Risk Discussion - 21st June 2013 onwards

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

Still feeling muggy and today has looked the most threatening convective wise! quite a few big cumulus wanting to go cumulonimbus.

Hope something comes off this evening at some point.

[Convective]

Best convection I've seen here for a while. Sharp and well defined although quite high based.

[Harry]

Sky just gone very dark here all of a sudden.....pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!!!!!!!

[Buzzard]

Very dark in Camden, NW1.

 

Second shower just about to hit. Got to run to Euston in 25  mins, I might be getting VERY wet very soon!...Here it comes!!

[Harry]

Come on, come on!!!! Lovely dark based Cb over London at the moment, some rain curtains off to the North it seems and what looks like a low topped anvil to the southern skyline.

 

Trying to rain, with limited success.

 

Most convective looking skies I've seen in AGES!

[NUT]

Tomorrow might be a interesting day for us up here

[Keraunic]

Very humid and muggy in Ipswich with heavy cloud and its darkening to the South with some convection (I think) :O

[Coast]

Most convective looking skies I've seen in AGES!

 

What does that say then H?!! :lol: 

[Stuart]

well I might see some thing Tomorrow up here if i lucky

[Harry]

What does that say then H?!!

 

Exactly!!! Can't remember the last time I saw a good robust Cb! (To be honest this today is hardly special!)

 

It used to pain me watching big storm clouds when they were either to my East or West...I'd be happy just to see that these days!

[nitro_deluxe]

Perhaps netweather may consider setting up a hotline for any slightly more disgruntled, storm aficionados..or whenever it goes belly up?

Bit like the Samaritans but for weather folk LOL. But please no premium charges - or heavy breathing

Or, green sleeves, should you be placed on hold..

[Adi F]

There is more convection here than I have seen all week. Still wont come to much though. 

[Methuselah]

Tomorrow might be a interesting day for us up here

It has been a week of tomorrows...

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

Something beginning to kick off over Essex/Suffolk border, looks like an intense line is forming there. Looking thundery here too with developing showers over Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Leicestershire by the looks of it.

[Buckster]

it looked more promising earlier to be honest

 

feels cooler now

[Bluebreezer54]

It has been a week of tomorrows...

 

That sums it up nicely

[poseidon]

Probably best day of the week. Big dark clouds around here. No lightning though!!

[Methuselah]

That sums it up nicely

And tomorrow will be brilliant!

[Captain Shortwave]

Some brightness now as the low cloud lifts, could squeeze a shower perhaps 

[poseidon]

Had some promising looking CBs but they seem to have moved east at a rate of knots.

[poseidon]

Some nice clouds going overhead. Not a spot of rain though.

 

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

Just had brief but very large convective drops of rain. Best bit of this last 4 days has just happened there and then. 

Ill be keeping my eye on the models. Its time now to drown our sorrows of this week's epic fail and wait till the next possible plume, if we get one that is! 

Hopefully July will deliver some decent action, from what I recall throughout my childhood years, July delivered the most intense plumes. I really hope I don't end up clutching straws in September to see my actual first proper storm of the year in Ibiza though!

[poseidon]

Torrential rain here now.

[jamesthemonkeh]

Just had brief but very large convective drops of rain. Best bit of this last 4 days has just happened there and then. 

Ill be keeping my eye on the models. Its time now to drown our sorrows of this week's epic fail and wait till the next possible plume, if we get one that is! 

Hopefully July will deliver some decent action, from what I recall throughout my childhood years, July delivered the most intense plumes. I really hope I don't end up clutching straws in September to see my actual first proper storm of the year in Ibiza though!

 

I watched this crazy storm start off one morning in Ibiza, September 2009 I think, I had never seen convection like it, very low level clouds forming so fast at 8am with rumbles of thunder and huge spots of rain, but that was all it was for us and it drifted away westwards to leave a glorious day.  I checked the news later to see some severe flooding somewhere on mainland Spain which could have been the very same storm.

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

I watched this crazy storm start off one morning in Ibiza, September 2009 I think, I had never seen convection like it, very low level clouds forming so fast at 8am with rumbles of thunder and huge spots of rain, but that was all it was for us and it drifted away westwards to leave a glorious day.  I checked the news later to see some severe flooding somewhere on mainland Spain which could have been the very same storm.

Ah wow, sounds exciting stuff. I was in Majorca 2 years ago in August and had a very intense pulse storm pop up one afternoon. The speed of which it built up at was incredible, like as if someone was speeding a video up! I was just lounging by the pool watching it form. Its things like what you mentioned that make me love holidaying abroad. A tan is good, but catching the intense storms is what I call getting my money's worth the most! 

So is Ibiza's best storm month September then? I've heard that there is some very good ones at that time, but October I know is when they say it really gets bad.