The Midlands Regional Discussion 16th July 2013 onwards

[Bishop Brennan]

Just saw a flash in the far distance, out to the west 

 

Bish

[nitro_deluxe]

Just saw a flash in the far distance, out to the west 

 

Bish

Beats Mull of..LOL!

[BlueHedgehog074]

That radar seems to have really powered back up with showers exploding back in from the South-South-West, (although could do with them developing a little further West for those in the more Western side of the region to have a chance, too).

[Serendipity]

Yes the radar looks good. We had a very short but heavy shower about 15 mins ago.

[Dancerwithwings]

This is cool, Lighting in Slow Motion.

 

Edited July 22, 2013 by Dancerwithwings

[BlueHedgehog074]

This is cool, Lighting in Slow Motion.

 

That's amazing! There's more to the whole lightning process than I thought.

[Bishop Brennan]

Just started tipping it down here, our first rain for what seems like an eternity!

 

...........aaaaand now it's already easing lol

 

Bish

[Summer of 95]

Not a drop here, not even any convective cloud just haze and a bit of strato-muck. Shropshire must be the cloudiest rainshadow in the world!

[marksp]

light2.MTS.wmv

 

 

took some video from the storms over Nottingham, I was on Crich stand overlooking trent valley. cropped the video to fit it on uploader, looks fast but its filmed in real time.

 

[Costa Del Fal]

Latest storms down south have faded again. Models seem to be firming up on tonights/tomorrow mornings stuff being East of Birmingham too. Same old same old.

[Bishop Brennan]

Belting it down again now, huge raindrops - I thought it was hail at first.

 

Bish

[nitro_deluxe]

Some may be in need of a little motivating it seems

Frustrating to see reports popping up everywhere else though lol, the M5/M6 as ever usually leads to the goods!

Edit - storm Central London...bulls eye?

Edited July 22, 2013 by triple_x1

[mackerel sky]

Plenty of rumbles out there now.

[conor123]

Urgh given up now completely, clear hazy skies and the SW channel storms are fizzling into nothing, what makes it even more frustrating is the fact it's still 22.9c at this hour! with a dewpoint of 19c!!!!!!! PERFECT ingredients for it to go bang, but nothing

[hammy]

Belting it down again now, huge raindrops - I thought it was hail at first.

 

Bish

 

I literally live about 10 miles away from your location and we have absolutely nothing! 

[Costa Del Fal]

Urgh given up now completely, clear hazy skies and the SW channel storms are fizzling into nothing, what makes it even more frustrating is the fact it's still 22.9c at this hour! with a dewpoint of 19c!!!!!!! PERFECT ingredients for it to go bang, but nothing

Same feeling here now. Everything just seems to have magically shifted East tonight. Even southerly winds shortly arriving replacing the SW/SSW ones wont be enough. Leicestershire to Lincs in the ripe zone again.

[azores92]

Same feeling here now. Everything just seems to have magically shifted East tonight. Even southerly winds shortly arriving replacing the SW/SSW ones wont be enough. Leicestershire to Lincs in the ripe zone again.

patience, we will get our turn, i'm confident

[Costa Del Fal]

patience, we will get our turn, i'm confident

Cant see where its coming from tbh. Earlier in the day it looked great for an MCS to track our way but slowly through the day it looks like the E mids as per usual. But ive enjoyed the heat and at least I got to hear a little thunder this evening.

[Bishop Brennan]

Big flash to my east and my first rumble of thunder of the evening

 

Bish

[matt_in_dudley]

Well i do believe im going to bed...major let down for us in the West Midlands County. Has rained a little again since earlier but i'm up early tomorrow. Am in Leamington Spa tomorrow morning then in Harborne for the afternoon. We need the wind direction to change for anything tonight. Night

[Dancerwithwings]

Belting it down again now, huge raindrops - I thought it was hail at first.

 

Bish

Just heard that one a right good crack and the rain ya having just started here

[nitro_deluxe]

Big flash to my east and my first rumble of thunder of the evening :)Bish

Ditto...definitely minus the rumble.Very distant flicker (DNK) or short for, destination not known. Warmest or most humid night of this spell so far. Edited July 22, 2013 by triple_x1

[azores92]

Cant see where its coming from tbh. Earlier in the day it looked great for an MCS to track our way but slowly through the day it looks like the E mids as per usual. But ive enjoyed the heat and at least I got to hear a little thunder this evening.

tomorrow daytime i meant, plenty of time

[PolarWarsaw]

What a crud last day or so, I'd prefer it if the storms weren't 40 or so miles away either. Makes it more frustrating.

[Bishop Brennan]

Righto I'm off to bed for a few hours..............hopefully I'll be woken at four in the morning by the sound of a monstrous MCS bearing down on us (well I can but dream).

 

Night all

 

Bish