South East England, East Anglia & Central Southern England Regional Weather Chat

[Chloe]

Heavy rain that's about it any chances of these storms heading Our way?

[Reefseeker]

Raining and a bit squally at times here, but haven't heard any thunder.

[ITSY]

Some moderately heavy rain in the last half an hour. Greying up but no thunder or lightning yet. Expect that the round of storms currently south of London will be the best chance of the week for some beefier stuff later. Sure are moving through quickly though

[nanu]

sorry but this is very very boring now.. last storm 2 weeks ago made mince meat of this!!... oh look suns coming out!!

Edited June 7, 2014 by nanu

[poseidon]

Very dark undulatus cloud to my West now.

[nanu]

Some moderately heavy rain in the last half an hour. Greying up but no thunder or lightning yet. Expect that the round of storms currently south of London will be the best chance of the week for some beefier stuff later. Sure are moving through quickly though

trust me.. it aint all that

[Wet'n'Dry]

Well that storm has just rolled on through. 4 lightning strikes, 3cg and 1ic, plus 4 loud rumbles.  And while typing the back end of it just produced another cg and thunder 

[cjwardy]

Disappointing. Storm has fizzled out as it's moved north. Just moderate rain here. Zzzzz

[Meggy]

Heavy rain here just now, and a long loud rumble!!

Heard that one here two. Steady rain atm.

[stainesbloke]

Just had some heavy rain. What a let down! Very overhyped again.

[Ste L]

Steady rain, one rumble and well, ive farted louder....

[smith25]

A big dark cloud has just come over but no rain or thunder

[warrenb]

Here in Tonbridge it has rained for about half an hour, almost moderately for a while there, and now just drizzle. another fizzle of a day

Precipitation total, 0.8mm

Edited June 7, 2014 by warrenb

[smith25]

Just heard rumble.

[Snow Queen one]

Well had one distant rumble about half an hour ago a very heavy rain burst for about 10 mins and that was it for me.  was walking the dog with no coat on did not get very wet.  looking at the radar that is my lot now and this afternoon should be nice for me.  Plan to paint the summer house.  Have a good one everybody.

[Callie]

Feel cheated as I only got about 4 hours sleep and got woken to hear only 5 or 6 decent rumbles of thunder about 90 minutes ago

[Reefseeker]

Just had some heavy rain. What a let down! Very overhyped again.

Same here a few miles to your east. Looking at the radar it shows a few lightning strikes around the M25, so one of those 'a few miles make all the difference' situations.

[Jax]

Morning all

 

Very dark and damp here, some light rain in the early hours by the looks of things, not heard anything of note, got my lie in instead

 

Looks like the first wave was just a bit of light rain here, but it has come on to rain a bit heavier now but nothing major, very mild and muggy though. 17.4oC in the shed.

 

maybe it will be the second wave that holds the storms?

[Wet'n'Dry]

very poor forecasting by the met office, yet again!

their forecast issued at 4am warns of ''frequent lightning in places''

thank heavens we don't live in a country where lives depend on accurate forecasting.....really poor effort!

 

we get more thunderstorms from cold fronts/squalls passing through in winter nowadays than we get in summer.

 

 

You just nailed it there with your comment "frequent lightning in places", well there was frequent lightning in places, one was here and currently "in places" tracking northwards into Suffolk.

 

The forecasting wasn't poor, it's the nature of the beast I'm afraid.

 

By the way, can you stick your location in your profile please, it helps to know where you are in situations such as we have today,

Edited June 7, 2014 by Wet'n'Dry

[ITSY]

heavy rain for best part of an hour here west of Cambridge, one distant rumble but nothing that unusual in this neck of the woods so far

[Stephanie Starr]

if i was to head out where would the best place be to head to im currently at home in whaplode not far from spalding lincolnshire pe12 6tj would like some good activity the afternoon if possible???????

[Jax]

you could head out and just as likely get something right at home, hard to call as youy need to watch the radar and see where the action trends appear, if you heads your way then by all means take it, not an easy call I am afraid, sorry.

[Team Jo]

Just posted in the convective thread - it's really early to be throwing in the towel! It's only 11am, if we get some sun through and the heating gets going, then we could end up with another batch later this afternoon.

I think to expect a 12 hour country/region wide MCS from 9am onwards was a bit of a tall order..... - even if the media hyped it up beyond belief.

[Norfolk Sheep]

Really fabulous skies this morning from the line of (apparently) active storms to my west, however not so much as an ever so quiet rumble - despite the radar trying to convince me otherwise!

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

We missed that first line of cells which developed around sunrise - it weakened according to NW radar.  We did hear a few distant rumbles to our east just after 10 a.m. from the second batch, and I'm now following the stuff on radar to our south-west.