Southeast England & East Anglia - Weather Chat >> 1st March Onwards

[HammerJack]

Skies seem to brightening up now. Still very humid though!

[Chloe]

Rumble in the jungle to my north

Getting very dark and eari

[Daniel*]

Plain old moderate rain isn't this fantastic.

[Methuselah]

Rumble in the jungle to my north

Getting very dark and eari

Like this: 

[Meggy]

Skies seem to brightening up now. Still very humid though!

Just got back from the station. it was too warm for a coat but rather wet.

[Harps]

Lovely evening until 20 minutes ago, light rain now and gotten darker and cooler. Shame, was just after cracking open a beer to sit back in the garden.

[scrat]

Blue sky now and very 'rain forest' like.....mist,rising from the ground.  Valley looks amazing!

[Chloe]

We'll that was exciting one roll of thunder>

On the other hand if you love planes they have nearly been landing in the back garden!!!

Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlN8wxhAKuA

lol!!

[Blessed Weather]

LoL!!!! Based on model output over the last couple of days (and the High Res models in the last 24 hours) my posts have been suggesting that Suffolk and Norfolk were likely to miss out on the storms, with the best of the action over to the west of our Region. And.... yep, you've guessed.....  the ONLY lightning activity on the Lightning Radar at 20.15 was around Ipswich!! The lightning to the south of London was an hour ago.   What can you say!! The fickle nature of weather strikes again (possibly the only strike of the night for some!!).

 

Lightning 20.15 

 

EDIT: In hindsight, some credit to this morning's NMM for at least picking up the eastward shift of instability towards our Region and its general lowering of CAPE/LI potential. But all in all, a very disappointing day. Even the Met Office predictions (humdingers anyone?) were clearly a little wide of the mark.  

Edited June 12, 2015 by Blessed Weather

[Biggin]

Blue sky now and very 'rain forest' like.....mist,rising from the ground.  Valley looks amazing!

[Biggin]

Surely not this dead ??  http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime

[Steve C]

LoL!!!! Based on model output over the last couple of days (and the High Res models in the last 24 hours) my posts have been suggesting that Suffolk and Norfolk were likely to miss out on the storms, with the best of the action over to the west of our Region. And.... yep, you've guessed.....  the ONLY lightning activity on the Lightning Radar at 20.15 was around Ipswich!! The lightning to the south of London was an hour ago.   What can you say!! The fickle nature of weather strikes again (possibly the only strike of the night for some!!).

 

Lightning 20.15 Lightning Radar 20.15.jpg

Brilliant!

[Methuselah]

I think that 'bugger all' sums it all up nicely?

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

Raining here.

[Daniel*]

I've thrown in the towel it seems evident all plumes thus far have been 24 hour episodes this is the issue. Really disappointed considering all the hype surrounding today but 9 times out of 10 it goes up in smoke.

[suffolkboy_]

Just did a mini storm chase to follow the storm that has just crossed Suffolk. Followed it up the A140, only 1 or 2 strikes a minute but there were some beautiful forks and very deep and loud booms. Some flooding also on the A140 in places. It's certainly dampened the ground down nicely!

 

Currently 16.1C here.

[Steve C]

I've thrown in the towel it seems evident all plumes thus far have been 24 hour episodes this is the issue. Really disappointed considering all the hype surrounding today but 9 times out of 10 it goes up in smoke.

 

That's the thing though. Have no expectations and you won't be disappointed - just look at the normal parameters of the Estofex charts...

 

I saw nothing today. but was glad that East Anglia saw developing storms. I'm happy enough.

[jaynemc]

Thunder and lightning in the distance now, no rain though.

[Blessed Weather]

That's the thing though. Have no expectations and you won't be disappointed - just look at the normal parameters of the Estofex charts...

 

I saw nothing today. but was glad that East Anglia saw developing storms. I'm happy enough.

 

Cheers for the earlier comment Steve. And suffolkboy, thanks for the 'on-the-ground' report! The thunderstorm you chased keeps trundling north; now into Norfolk. And the latest Lightning Radar at 21.15 shows a storm has moved into West Sussex.

 

[Methuselah]

Torrential rain, but no thunder.

[jaynemc]

Cheers for the earlier comment Steve. And suffolkboy, thanks for the 'on-the-ground' report! The thunderstorm you chased keeps trundling north; now into Norfolk. And the latest Lightning Radar at 21.15 shows a storm has moved into West Sussex.

 

Lightning 21.30.jpg

The storm is just south of us at the moment, I'd say Horsham area must be in the firing line. Distant rumbles and flashes

[Bogman]

Not a drop of rain let alone a rumble of thunder.

Like chasing snow this.

[Steve C]

Cheers for the earlier comment Steve. And suffolkboy, thanks for the 'on-the-ground' report! The thunderstorm you chased keeps trundling north; now into Norfolk. And the latest Lightning Radar at 21.15 shows a storm has moved into West Sussex.

 

Lightning 21.30.jpg

 

I like the way the storms have been best over East Anglia (or hopefully so far ). Their capricious nature is great IMHO.

[Daniel*]

Not a drop of rain let alone a rumble of thunder.

Like chasing snow this.

We're always stuck in no man's land it is either a fraction of a degree too warm for snow or we have freezing conditions but we have a fat HP cell sitting over us doing sod all. One day plumes, bog standard rain showers, supposed to be storms of cataclysmic proportions - It is getting tiresome. I think we just all should accept the UK has a mundane climate, even I can get dillusioned by those bright colours, let's be honest we're never going to compete with southern states. 'Always the Optimist'

[Atmogenic]

Just had another rumble of thunder right now over ashford