The Midlands - Weather Chat

[Costa Del Fal]

Clearing now but that went insane for a bit.

Actually lightning picking up again to my south now!

[Bishop Brennan]

Awesome forked lightning due south, and increasingly loud thunder.

 

Incoming!

 

Bish

[snowangel32]

Huge claps of thunder here and frequent lightning its a show

[Gord]

Clearing now but that went insane for a bit.

Actually lightning picking up again to my south now!

 

Never!

 

Where's that one coming from!

 

Best stay up a bit longer then!

[matt_in_dudley]

Clearing now but that went insane for a bit.

Actually lightning picking up again to my south now!

 

I've just gone on Blitzortung n there are strikes to our south west, lets see what happens!

 

Rains stopped! South is still flickering away again though. Maybe it's back building??

[Bishop Brennan]

This already gets a 10/10 from me - I love a good night-time thunderstorm, me 

 

Scary forked lightning everywhere to my south and west.

 

Bish

[syed2878]

frequent lightning here and it's just started raining

[matt_in_dudley]

The three major cells seem to be merging across most of Southern England! Gaps are quickly filling up!

[Gord]

The three major cells seem to be merging across most of Southern England! Gaps are quickly filling up!

 

Indeed! Sadly, we might end up a bit too far west now. But who cares! That was incredible!

[Bishop Brennan]

What an incredible sight to behold.

 

And here comes the rain, torrents of it.....

 

Bish

[matt_in_dudley]

Still flickering away to the south!!

[Gord]

I think...think...we're done here.

 

However, there are sfefics in South Wales..which I think may be the cold front itself. So maybe a little more to come?

 

Edit:....um.....maybe we're not done then!

Edited July 4, 2015 by Gord

[Costa Del Fal]

Lots of flickers to my south and southeast. Looks like this may be coming off that Storm which has drifted up from Southampton. Might not be overhead but will give flashes for a long time yet!!!!

[fizz511]

stained glass window Me.

[I remember Atlantic 252]

just started here, frequent lightning/thunder,

[fizz511]

you can guess what I nearly wrote there - thanks forum swear moderating thingy!

[Gord]

Lots of flickers to my south and southeast. Looks like this may be coming off that Storm which has drifted up from Southampton. Might not be overhead but will give flashes for a long time yet!!!!

 

Yep. Solihull getting their turn now!

 

So the cold front itself in an hour or two time might just have a little afterthought on it?

[Adzyy]

All kicked off here. Crazy!

[Staffordshire]

Missed me slightly to the west but I still had a decent view mind... Not too bad, maybe that other cell maybe give a better hit if it stays heading due north?

[Gord]

Sferics appearing down in Worcestershire again.

 

Need to see next radar update.

 

Edit: Must be rogue. Only interest downwind from us in the stuff in the Welsh Valleys. That looks interesting mind.

Edited July 4, 2015 by Gord

[Bishop Brennan]

Biblical amounts of rain here now. This is one helluva storm!

 

Bish

[Convection currents]

Typical that theres a gap around Leicester!

[I remember Atlantic 252]

was near enough overhead, now most flashes to the east/northeast

[Gord]

Well we did it again...just as we think all is lost we've sneaked in on the fringes of an event.

 

How lucky are we that it intensified when it did? And we got the best out of it too!

 

When we do get amazing weather events here in the Black Country..be it snow or thunder...it seems to be by the skin of our teeth!

[Staffordshire]

Yeah glad I stayed up now, was fairly decent here, I bet it was awesome for you guys who got it overhead!

Thinks that's it for tonight anyway folks!