Storm & Convective Discussion - 01/03/15 onwards

[Azazel]

 

managed a short timelapse. My bloody camera turned away from the tasty action in the wind:/ not happy! still kinda cool though

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

Numerous flashes of lightning in the anvil of the storm near kings Lynn/Downham market area!

Awesome!

[MP-R]

Super thunderstorm here between 18.30-19.00 this evening, unfortunately while I was out but my fantastic mother recorded it for me! Whiteout of hail with a number of loud bangs of thunder. This would have been the storm that went onto towards the Mendips into Somerset. Bristol however was dry throughout.

[Pursuer of Storms]

Had a lot of rain and hail this afternoon and this beautiful monster of an anvil in the distance a little earlier this evening!

https://forum.netweather.tv/gallery/image/21143-anvil-19th-may/

https://forum.netweather.tv/gallery/image/21142-anvils-19th-may/

https://forum.netweather.tv/gallery/image/21141-anvil-19th-may/

[poseidon]

Spotted this looking north, about an hour ago..

 

 

 

 

 

[Weather-history]

Some nice rainbows this morning

[Cyclonic]

Lightning and thunder just a little bit off the IOW

[Mokidugway]

According to xc weather it's snowing in Kent !!:0..

[Supacell]

In the end heading to the Humber paid off and then chased around Lincolnshire, just got back. Being Lincolnshire I was certain to not be disappointed. Storm clouds, gust fronts, hailstones, roads covered in hail, bolts of lightning, ground shaking thunder. Just an ordinary day for Lincolnshire folk but exciting for a visitor such as me :-)

[Tom Jarvis]

Anyone able to get estofex up says server error for me

[Thunderbolt_]

[Cyclonic]

Anyone able to get estofex up says server error for me

Says the same for me too

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Very low risk of a storm today how I think it will pan out if anything happens..

 

 

 

[snow raven]

Had a couple of short storms (and hail) yesterday evening back home in Bexleyheath between 6-7pm.  Hopefully we get some decent storms this summer that last hours (rather than minutes!)

[BrickFielder]

  Slight risk of storms today mainly in Lincolnshire and Norfolk.

Triggering for storms appears to be a convergence zone developing along the east coast.

Instability is fairly weak but should be enough given daytime heating is not blocked by cloud (which is a risk).

Low mid level vorticity charts show some development is possible.

Forecast skewT's and mid level lapse rates suggest cloud tops may be limited, but there is a risk of spout like weak tornadoes along convergence zones (low level winds turning).

 

Over all the limited cloud tops and warmer upper layers will limit development. The low zero degree isotherm presents a possible hail risk. I am not convinced from the forecast air profile that storms are really viable, so would suggest the risk is very limited. Sharp downpours in some eastern counties most likely.

 

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First shower here today.. Earlier than yesterday As pointed out above East is best!

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Is that convergence zone sitting down the spine of the country currently or something?? 

[Harry]

I would say chances for my neck of the woods for anything electrical are comfortably <10%...extensive cloud cover (after a glorious start earlier) making the sky a stratified mess, chilly feeling, just meh! 

 

Prospects thereafter pretty dire on the outlook, bar slim chances later this week for the SE. Outlook generally is NW'erly rubbish.

 

As for a plume (or even generally warm/hot weather), nothing of any note on the horizon

Edited May 20, 2015 by Harry

[Atmogenic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_RmgkgGO7M

 

The last storm that hit me yesterday that dropped quite a bit of hail.

Edited May 20, 2015 by Atmogenic

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Convection there just not as good as yesterday 

[NL]

Anyone able to get estofex up says server error for me

An upgrade of OpenSuse linux based operating system is causing an issue and preventing the site being available.

[Greeny]

Had 2 hail showers today so far in and around Norwich. The second one just southwest of Norwich about 45 mins ago, pea size and lasted longer. Cloud tops notably higher than yesterday due to I guess the convergence zone helping with forcing. Now in Cambridge for work and its getting dark again.

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Norwich is about to light up like guy fawkes

[Methuselah]

One clap of thunder at 15:15.

[Supacell]

Freeze frame of one of the bolts taken from yesterdays storm chase around Lincolnshire, this one taken not far from Brigg.

 

 

Hail left behind on the road

 

 

Nice rainbow as storm moved away

 

Edited May 20, 2015 by Supacell