Convective / Storm Discussion - 27th July 2013

[BA Baracus]

It's spitting!

[ChezWeather]

Dark skies all around me now and it feels very humid

[Tom Jarvis]

getting rumbles of thunder here now woop

[UKSupercell]

Storms are heading away from Britain for sure. Load of b*ll*cks as per usual. 

[If Wishes made Weather]

Raining lightly here now in south Bucks. Question to any forecasters/pro's here: Where are these thunderstorms on the Eastern edge of this MCS heading? Are they curving round and moving north-westerly or are they moving plain north-easterly and away from Britain? 

My view of the radar ATM is that the MCS is heading North East up through the Pas de Calais

[LadyEv06]

a nice rumble or two just heard to my east, mansfield way :Dits coming!!!

I'm just a few miles south of Mansfield and we've just had really heavy rain and very loud thunder

[Dan the Man]

I see Skywarn have got a SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING rather than a WATCH out.

 

I guess the criteria is different from our friends across the water.

[Harry]

Lightning now visible and thunder increasing in volume. Appears to be a band of mammatus? cloud ahead of the front. Seems to be headed this way unfortunately :/

Mostly IC from what I can see (some bolts have been very low and quite overhead)...thunder has that positive element to it (the loud base heavy booms).Lush!!!!!!

[Richie V]

THAT forecast for the Pennines on BBC1 now. Bloody Nora. That looks a potentially dangerous forecast.

come on..... Spit it out, I missed it.... Enlightem me?

[Allseasons-Si]

WOW,look at this baby now

 

 

 

[MR CB]

Just saw a proper fork of lightning (CtoC) appeared 'beaded' for a second...nice booming bass of thunder - quite close. Not much visible lightning from this - if it was nighttime then it would be more exciting

Edited July 27, 2013 by MR CB

[Deluxe]

come on..... Spit it out, I missed it.... Enlightem me?

Yes I agree. Come on Dan, be a Man! 

[Mazz]

Raining heavily now but no thunder or lightning

[ChezWeather]

Large cell to my north right now and i can see 2 more approaching from the south... 

[Dan the Man]

come on..... Spit it out, I missed it.... Enlightem me?

 

Just a huge blob of green across entire Central England. Never seen anything like it.

[Harry]

First CG I've observed....about half a mile away - again, very positive-esque with the thunder!!! Seems very elevated ATM - sky very very eerie!!!

[Cloudwatcher]

Meanwhile, back in storm starved Cheshire....  

 

Feels "stormy", and plenty of ground heating today but nothing on the cards up here for tonight I think. Wonder what it will actually take for us to get some action!!!

[Cableguy]

Wasn't expecting any thunder here but was expecting at least a good soaking......Sat in a lovely dry sport courtesy of the surrey hills...no rain at all so far.

[BA Baracus]

Just a huge blob of green across entire Central England. Never seen anything like it.

It was yellow too over much of Manchester/Leeds/Sheffield/York. Not seen a forecast like that before on BBC.

[VillagePlank]

My view of the radar ATM is that the MCS is heading North East up through the Pas de Calais

 

The low pressure is, the cells will drift North.

[Evening thunder]

Quick!!  Everybody find victor.. you should get a good lightning display!!

 

Lol! hope he's not as unlucky as whatever got hit by the single surprise CG here earlier! (I'm wondering if there is a slight chance it was a positive bolt with it's brightness and explosive thunder)

[Mesoscale]

anyone else notice the lightning is getting more and more east as it moves closer?

[Mitch1969]

Quite heavy rain here and Strike Alert is going crazy again !

[IanR]

Meanwhile, back in storm starved Cheshire....  

 

Feels "stormy", and plenty of ground heating today but nothing on the cards up here for tonight I think. Wonder what it will actually take for us to get some action!!!

Looks like the same areas being affected again, ah well, chin up at least we have a  mass of moderate rain heading up now,

Storms for tommorrow in the north west? I heard someone say, had to laugh

[Guenhwyvar]

Thundering and lightning here with heavy rain..the thunder seems to go on for ages