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  • Location: Cheltenham,Glos
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms :D
    • Location: Cheltenham,Glos
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    And it's on with a new thread :D  I've had 4 rumbles in the past 2 days :) not bad considering I have been very storm starved for a very long time Lol. Looks to be more tomorrow, now who's going to strike lucky tomorrow  :) It's a shame I have nothing here tonight as the convection is awesome. Anyway, here's hoping to read some great reports and don't forget your pics and videos which are most appreciated :D

    Good luck everyone :drunk:

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  • Location: Catchgate, Durham,705ft asl
    • Location: Catchgate, Durham,705ft asl
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    Had a torrential downpour here about half an hour ago which didn't look like much

    on radar but still managed to produce some hail before it cleared away.

     

    Another interesting day tomorrow with that trough lying across Eastern areas.

     

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  • Location: Dundee, Scotland
    • Location: Dundee, Scotland
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    Posted this on the Scottish regional thread yesterday, thought I would share it here. My first live twister !!!!!

    Yesterdays storm over Dundee 6/7/14 about 12:15pm .......

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    The storm then passed directly overhead and I shot this wee video

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    paul m Aficionado

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  • Location: Morley, Leeds West Yorkshire
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and thunderstorms
    • Location: Morley, Leeds West Yorkshire
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    Heavy rain here. At least it held off for the Grand depart at the weekend

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    Allseasons-Si Maestro

    Allseasons-Si

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  • Location: Hoyland,barnsley,south yorkshire(134m asl)
  • Weather Preferences: severe storms,snow wind and ice
    • Location: Hoyland,barnsley,south yorkshire(134m asl)
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    Live stream in stuttgart here

     

    http://www.stuttgart-tourist.de/en/weather-webcams

     

    plenty of lightning there when it zooms out

     

    any more live stream in that area folks as i am struggling to find any.

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    Cloud 10 Accomplished

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  • Location: Catchgate, Durham,705ft asl
    • Location: Catchgate, Durham,705ft asl
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    Live stream in stuttgart here

     

    http://www.stuttgart-tourist.de/en/weather-webcams

     

    plenty of lightning there when it zooms out

     

    any more live stream in that area folks as i am struggling to find any.

     

    Pretty much constant lightning from that storm over Germany.

     

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  • Location: Catchgate, Durham,705ft asl
    • Location: Catchgate, Durham,705ft asl
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    nothing new there then !!!.....

     

    Lol,yeah another day,another supercell. :laugh:

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    Boro Snow Seasoned

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  • Location: Darlington 63 m or 206ft above sea level
  • Weather Preferences: Cold, Snow, Storms, Snow Thunder, Supercells, all weather extremes
    • Location: Darlington 63 m or 206ft above sea level
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    Lightning alarm going off already to my south and east , distance rumbles can be heard , hopefully the start of a great day

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  • Location: Medway - 125m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Hot summers, snowy winters and thunderstorms!
    • Location: Medway - 125m ASL
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    I have a question about 'thunder days'.

    Who exactly measures if thunder has been heard or not and does it have to be above a certain noise level?

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  • Location: South Shields Tyne & Wear half mile from the coast.
    • Location: South Shields Tyne & Wear half mile from the coast.
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    Crazy 'monsoon' type weather currently with frequent thunder and lightning..

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  • Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms and heat, North Sea snow
    • Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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    Frequent lightning display over towards the coast to my north east (I'm in Newcastle), and I can see another smaller storm coming up to the south of it.

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    Jo Farrow Accomplished

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  • Location: East Lothian
  • Weather Preferences: Not too hot, excitement of snow, a hoolie
    • Location: East Lothian
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    I'm at the north end of the TS line from Durham to E.Lothian, rumbling away

    I have a question about 'thunder days'.Who exactly measures if thunder has been heard or not and does it have to be above a certain noise level?

    I would imagine it isn't really a thunder day but a lightning day, as the sferics are recorded and they could tot up that data each day. Not sure though, it is a Met Office stat you could check with them

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  • Location: Llanwnnen, Lampeter, Ceredigion, 126m asl (exotic holidays in Rugby/ Coventry)
    • Location: Llanwnnen, Lampeter, Ceredigion, 126m asl (exotic holidays in Rugby/ Coventry)
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    A met observer would record any thunder heard at the station, that practice has now stopped as weather stations have become automatic. Amateurs such as myself still keep a thunder heard days record simply of any day we hear thunder at our location.

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  • Location: just south of Doncaster, Sth Yorks
    • Location: just south of Doncaster, Sth Yorks
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    as Tony H posts things have changed since the 80-90 human observing stations and the WMO definition of what a thunderstorm was. I suspect as Jo suggests re sferics and it may need an e mail to Met to find out what is their definition now with so few full time observers around?

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  • Location: Leicester (LE3)
    • Location: Leicester (LE3)
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    Hmmmmm, nobody has mentioned this yet, and I do use the BBC weather forecasts as a basic start point.... 

    What do you think, and could it have an associated storm risk???

     

    I know it's a newspaper that's rebound for sensationalistic weather front pages, but surely it's got to be based on facts from somewhere???

     

    Monday 7th July 2014

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  • Location: Leicester (LE3)
    • Location: Leicester (LE3)
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    Measuring Thunder Days....

    Surely, must be based on Lightning strikes...?

    I have looked back on a thread, but can't remember where the query was answered... Not all lightning is recorded by detectors?  especially inter - cloud?

    So accuracy of thunder days recorded also inaccurate?

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    Cakie Seasoned

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  • Location: Up North like
    • Location: Up North like
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    I can't see how they could measure "thunder days" other than with a lightening detector. Most observation sites are now completely automated

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    Jo Farrow Accomplished

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  • Location: East Lothian
  • Weather Preferences: Not too hot, excitement of snow, a hoolie
    • Location: East Lothian
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    I've emailed someone at the MetO who could ask the stats people

     

    National Climate Information Centre (NCIC) UK Met office

    "NCIC have produced long-term averages of days of thunder for the 1961-1990 and 1971-2000 averaging periods for the UK, but not for 1981-2010. Monthly days of thunder gridded datasets were produced up to December 2010, but this has subsequently been stopped as the network has become increasingly sparse."

     

    so it was manually recorded in the hourly obs for many decades but now as many stations are automatic  the thunder days are not recorded enough. Lightning is recorded as an alternative dataset

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    Summer Sun Maestro

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  • Location: Darlington
  • Weather Preferences: Warm dry summers
    • Location: Darlington
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    Flooding already affecting parts of the NE http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/england/tyne_and_wear/

     

    Lots of rain for the northern part of the region, cloudy but dry here in Darlington currently we had some rain earlier on but we've avoided the worst so far

     

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  • Location: Llanwnnen, Lampeter, Ceredigion, 126m asl (exotic holidays in Rugby/ Coventry)
    • Location: Llanwnnen, Lampeter, Ceredigion, 126m asl (exotic holidays in Rugby/ Coventry)
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    Hmmmmm, nobody has mentioned this yet, and I do use the BBC weather forecasts as a basic start point.... 

    What do you think, and could it have an associated storm risk???

     

    I know it's a newspaper that's rebound for sensationalistic weather front pages, but surely it's got to be based on facts from somewhere???

     

    Monday 7th July 2014

    :rofl:

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  • Location: Leicester (LE3)
    • Location: Leicester (LE3)
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    :rofl:

    Ahh, didn't have the smiley until I put this into a quote.....

    So, is there info to base this approaching heatwave on somewhere?

                          OR

    Is it totally an unfound headline story indicitive of this rag.....??

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  • Location: Medway - 125m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Hot summers, snowy winters and thunderstorms!
    • Location: Medway - 125m ASL
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    Hmmmmm, nobody has mentioned this yet, and I do use the BBC weather forecasts as a basic start point.... What do you think, and could it have an associated storm risk??? I know it's a newspaper that's rebound for sensationalistic weather front pages, but surely it's got to be based on facts from somewhere??? Monday 7th July 2014

    Nope. They can and do pull it from their backsides!
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