Convective / Storm Discussion - 31st July onwards 2013

[Supacell]

The cell currently moving across the Yorkshire Dales looks a bit of a monster! I wonder if there is any severe weather occurring under that?

[Costa Del Fal]

Oh to be back in Falmouth right now. Big storm heading for west cornwall.

[Supacell]

Oh to be back in Falmouth right now. Big storm heading for west cornwall.

 

Ha ha. I was in Italy three weeks ago and did Milan and Turin. Imagine how I felt when I saw that 2 weeks after I returned they had severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. 

 

Can see dark clouds to my west.

Edited August 2, 2013 by Supacell

[ChezWeather]

Looks like there could be something heading my way, fingers crossed 

[The PIT]

Sheffield Shield powered up. Shredding duties required.

[Utahraptor]

Just got a storm in NI not too long ago. I will upload pictures later if I can.

[Lynxus]

Looks like its about to get real in the SW

Good luck

[StormChaseUK]

Looks like its about to get real in the SW

Good luck

Yes the clouds in South Wales at the moment look really interesting, a disturbance out to sea on the SW approaches is giving a lot of lightning returns at present.

 

Next few hours will be interesting to see how things develop.

[Boro Snow]

Just had a beauty here in Darlington plenty of thunder n lightning and very heavy rain

[Summer Sun]

Frequent claps of thunder over Darlo as I type lots of lightening around as well with heavy rain its coming to an end now but thats the best thunder storm of 2013 so far

Edited August 2, 2013 by Summer Sun

[The PIT]

Thundery shower shredded with ease.

[paul m]

Thundery shower shredded with ease.

Just pull the plug on the shield lol

[Tim Bland]

Storms heading across isle of white towards south! Could hit same areas as this morning?!

[Utahraptor]

This is the cell that hit me. 

It made a bunch of flashes with some loud thunder, and unleashed the heaviest rainfall I have seen all year, with a bit oh hail mixed in too. There were some pretty strong winds before it hit.

[biddie]

Rumbling away in Herts. Can't see any flashes, must be elevated

wow my new tablets must be working didnt hear a thing !

[seabreeze86]

Well that cell that is currently passing through Hartlepool missed me by about 3 miles. so one to the south and one to the north i have got the feeling this will not be my year. 

[The PIT]

Just pull the plug on the shield lol

I would if I could. This time it was shredded so badly the sun didn't even go in. A bit of rain to dampen the pavement that was it. Another one being shredded now.

[Andy Bown]

Seems to be a broken line of convection from SW England up to the North York Moors looking at vis satellite, storms in places along the line - particularly across N Yorks and few storms down across Gloucestershire/Somerset. Think this line maybe the cold front - be interesting to see if storms continue along the front as it edges further east.

I think the Cold Front went through Wiltshire late morning, the fax chart for 0600 showed the cold front with a trough either side of it. So the SE storms tis morning were on one trough, the sporadic showers that affected the West Country late morning were the front and the storms breaking out to the West now are on the 2nd trough.

I may be wrong though! But the temperature dropped from 24c to 21c around lunchtime despite a clearance to unbroken sunshine while the win switched from SSW to W.

 

 

This is the cell that hit me. 

It made a bunch of flashes with some loud thunder, and unleashed the heaviest rainfall I have seen all year, with a bit oh hail mixed in too. There were some pretty strong winds before it hit.

Lovely gust front on that storm! Edited August 2, 2013 by Andy Bown

[Supacell]

Just had a downpour here but no T+L. Lovely line of cells through Cornwall and extending towards South Wales.

 

I have thought about storm chasing this evening but I would need to be rather savvy in order to get ahead of one of these things. They are moving far to fast to chase.

[multi cellular thunderstorm]

I was thinking about chasing too, but the cell I have my eye on seems to be heading straight for me at the moment!

Starting to see some darkness on the horizon now.

Wouldn't mind being on the North East coast now watching that big cell heading out to sea. It now has rain rates of around 200mm/hour on the radar! 

Edited August 2, 2013 by multi cellular thunderstorm

[Harry]

Noticed further signs of mid level instability appearing in the past hour or so over London...this coinciding with those cells approaching from the South....round 2??

[NO LONGER POSTING]

Yep I'm seeing mid level convection here to in west London nae has some ppn around 9 tonight over London here is hopeing!

[Utahraptor]

Cell rumbling to my north.

 

 

Another huge cell is approaching from the south, just beyond the border.

 

 

It has made a decent amount of lightning strikes too, fingers crossed that it reaches here!

[Harry]

Cell rumbling to my north.

 

 

Another huge cell is approaching from the south, just beyond the border.

 

 

It has made a decent amount of lightning strikes too, fingers crossed that it reaches here!

 

That second pic is splendid!!!! Has that distinct mother ship look about it

[Supacell]

I was thinking about chasing too, but the cell I have my eye on seems to be heading straight for me at the moment!

Starting to see some darkness on the horizon now.

Wouldn't mind being on the North East coast now watching that big cell heading out to sea. It now has rain rates of around 200mm/hour on the radar! 

 

The cells don't seem to be holding there energy and appear very pulse like. The main area of sferics is in that band across the SW - but this must be behind the CF if what we are seeing is the CF?

 

I bet that 200mm/hr is hail, there is a possibility of quite large hail in any stronger storms today.