Convective / Storm Risk Discussion - 22nd July 2013 onwards

[Azazel]

my first ever attempt at capturing lightning! boom! (from earlier today mind)

 

[Vikki Roche]

Few rumbles and flashes going on in Waterloo right now. Not doing anything for this dreadful humidity though :-(

[Chris D]

Yet no-one will believe just how bad it is. They think I'm making it up!

 

Well personally I don't think it's that bad and I live on the coast lol! Well, what can reasonably be expected given the location.

[Hodgheg]

my first ever attempt at capturing lightning! boom! (from earlier today mind)

 

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Very jealous, I caught my first today but its not even worth uploading its that dim.

[Vikki Roche]

Few rumbles and flashes going on in Waterloo right now.

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

Lightning getting closer along with rumbling

[Me & angel fiance]

can confirm lightning in stevenage just now.. Thought i caught a glimpse of one through curtain but then went to look and had a smoke. Saw nothing. The second i sit back down and look up the sky lit up to my NW

[Costa Del Fal]

Grr looks like everything will be East of Birmingham tonight now. Same old same old. Looked promising for us too until this evening. Dont know why the cells are rapidly dying as soon as they form. Such a juicy atmosphere up there gone to waste over this way today.

[SnowJoke]

Pretty depressing really to be honest, missed the earlier storms & then cells form all around me, push away to the NE and become electrified towards the northants / cambs border. Heard 3 distant runbles & seen numerous flashes of lightning now too  

[osmposm]

Three rumbles audible from here, further east over London or beyond - one, with a distinct flash well before, was 20 or 30 mins ago...yet nothing visible on the lightning detector.

[Robbie Garrett]

Chucking it down here...

[IanR]

Tiny blobs appearing in south Cheshire on radar. Hope it's not anoprop!

probably just patchy drizzle that will die a death  , or anoprop, I will platt sawdust if anything kicks of there and moves our way. going to bed now

[Tom Jarvis]

Had nothing here on the south coast just wish that mcs in grand would cross the channel quickly

[SnowJoke]

Grr looks like everything will be East of Birmingham tonight now. Same old same old. Looked promising for us too until this evening. Dont know why the cells are rapidly dying as soon as they form. Such a juicy atmosphere up there gone to waste over this way today.

 

Possibly there is a lack of shear to be honest, these appear to be pulse storms, ie form and with no wind sheer to separate the up drafts from the down drafts collapse back on themselves due to lack of inflow.

[Hodgheg]

Clouds totally cleared here. Moon is back out. From the few clouds drifting by the wind has changed  to an easterly, very interesting.

[topbanana]

Chucking it down here...

where abouts?

nothing here in slough

[Chloe]

Distant flashes to my east no thunder as yet

[Eskimo]

Chucking it down here...

Any lightning? 

[Robbie Garrett]

where abouts?

nothing here in slough

Just had a high altitude CC lightning, with a rumble of Thunder. 

 

Something off the edge of Heathrow, EGLL 222250Z 17004KT 140V280 CAVOK 23/17 Q1014 TEMPO TSRA BKN045CB

[topbanana]

just as something may happen I have to go to bed.

windows are open, so I should here it if anything happens.

Camera is all ready to shoot

 

nite all

[Robbie Garrett]

Any lightning? 

 

Yes, one or two flashes that I witnessed. Very odd, the air around us is destablising very very quickly.  I suspect one or two hours before things go bang tonight. If they don't, I don't know what to say anymore.  

Edited July 22, 2013 by Robbie Garrett

[ZONE 51]

 

It's absorbed it

[TEITS]

Something is brewing and it isn't my tea.

 

Just been outside for a cig and noticed distant flashes of lightning. The storms to my SW are intensifying.

[Hodgheg]

This was quite interesting. Read the story, "the thunder moon" http://spaceweather.com/ very possible tonight id say

[samadamsuk]

hey all. That's a potent cell in London - slap bang over the center -

 

I've just been for a swim in the lake near my old village - there was a storm approaching from the south, so didn't stay in there long - mist rising from the wet ground - moon lit - perfect!