Convective / Storm Discussion - 28th July onwards 2013

[Darren Bown]

Looking very convective outside, looks like a much better day for some traditional home grown UK storms

[nitro_deluxe]

Convective rain will always throw up large differences in spot totals, some places seeing little if any others bucket loads - such is the nature of the beast. Last night into today was indeed a perfect example.

Expecting lines or areas of heavy showers to form later, locally thundery, whilst some places remain completely dry.

[Ben Sainsbury]

Good old fergie;)

[Ben Sainsbury]

Heavy rain here currently towering cumulus in the distant and dark base above me.

[Aberthaw]

Just had a nice crash of thunder here near St Athan

[DAVID SNOW]

Good chance today of some of us getting pulse type storms imho .

[BornFromTheVoid]

Looks like a squall line may be developing to my south west, stretching up from Cork city but moving this direction. Skies are dark and it's eerily still out.

The rain is starting...

[Jane Louise]

http://www.estofex.org/

 

[Captain Shortwave]

Well that's good to hear, just whether the showers develop in the first place here. Ironically the area of highest thunderstorm risk is the area with the best chance of staying dry today.

[joggs]

Well here in Bingley,west yorks,torrential rain woke the whole household up at half 3 and it bounced down like that for a good hour n half!

Good to see n only just risen from the pit lol.Gona go for a measurement but the firepit bowl is around 3 quaters full lol.Good luck to all seeking storms.

[nitro_deluxe]

Looks like the Devon/Somerset, Salisbury area and S Wales are currently seeing some of the heaviest showers, all moved along by a fairly gusty wind.

Tough call for any spotters today, road systems and traffic amounts are going to influence any degrees of success

Edited July 28, 2013 by triple_x1

[Snowshine]

28mm of rain, caused little but some flooding, Global Gathering did not seem to enjoy the rain! The weather warnings seem ridicoulous today, the Met Office are going to update their warnings because the Environment Agency has, no more amber alert also.

[MP-R]

Strikes now over South Wales. Pretty dark radar echoes on the radar too. Thankfully, skies clearing a bit here.

[Bobby]

Torrential downpour here, satellite signal lost, gone dark as night. No thunder though looks like there should have been.

[rich1974]

_{Some people should be thankful for what they had last Tuesday night, those storms completely passed Hampshire by and yesterday amounted to about 3 hours of drizzle, I'm not knocking the MO as I think they generally do a great job but when at 9am on Saturday they forecast rain on the south coast by 11am but it doesn't arrive until 4pm then that's not good, especially when you have events arranged.}

 

_{We cancelled a walk in the New Forest because of the forecast but actually would have been slapping on the sun cream!}

Totally agree, so far today has seen much more heavy bursts of rain, where as yesterday the BBC and MO had Saturdays forecast as extreme heavy rain with flash flooding, which never happened.

[NUT]

Ireland seems to be taking a pounding yet again! Seems to have been every day this week there!

[SalopWatcher]

Nice cluster of cells south of Hereford had a couple of strikes recently. If it stays heading for us and peps up today could be the day...

[Bobby]

Actually we did have thunder apparently, musn't have heard it as was busy. Is the storm shield cracking??

[J10]

A heavy shower passed through now with some very dark clouds, no thunder (so far), although further heavy showers look likely in the next 30-60 minutes.

 

A good balance today, some decent sunny spells, but some worthwhile rain as well.

[carl1980]

First downpour of the day,no thunder yet

[jam2010]

Gone extremely dark here but doubt there will be any thunder. Sky dish is still working though bonus :-)

[Chris.R]

Still dry, warm and very sunny here.

[Chris.R]

Still dry, warm and very sunny here.

[Bobby]

There's the satellite signal gone again, black skies moving in. Torrential rain starting...

Rumble of thunder just heard.

[The PIT]

Light showers but skies getting darker. Fairly cool as well at 19.5C