Far North Of England - Weather Chat, July 4 and on...

[gazzac69]

you are right Metoffice radar is down

its back on now 10.10am

Edited July 20, 2016 by gazzac69

[Boro Snow]

My Rain Alarm app on my mobile is fine 10.35 last updated

[mort]

Just had a red banner message pop up..their working on it..until its back its back to the old rain today radar 

[Boro Snow]

Any ideas it doesnt do it justice on these photos 

Edited July 20, 2016 by Boro Snow

[mort]

Now i've not seen inflow like that before..wow

[gazzac69]

more photos to the south(10.55am), also pic from real time lightning map at 10.55am, can hear distant thunder

[mort]

Seems the last bit of this storm is about to hit..then its the waiting game for newcastle...nice start though!

[Summer Sun]

All clear now big gap to the next lot unless the sunshine triggers off some local showers 

Edited July 20, 2016 by Summer Sun

[Summer Sun]

Sunshine breaking through now ground starting to dry and the rain is now almost 7 miles north of us 

Edited July 20, 2016 by Summer Sun

[gazzac69]

lightning now just south of Westmoor - I may of videoed a streak of lightning for the 1st time will try and edit it and show it later

[mort]

Radar time now...fingers crossed something occurs later.

[gazzac69]

storm has now passed to the North - a short lived spell of heavy rain,some forked lightning and thunder, 

spoke too soon chucking it down now

Edited July 20, 2016 by gazzac69

[Summer Sun]

Any Toon fans heading to Donny tonight be warned the ECML is closed between Toon and Darlo

 

[Summer Sun]

Not a cloud in the sky at the moment lets see if this can trigger off some more storms

[gazzac69]

some pics to my south at 12.15pm - moderate rain at the moment with very big drops.

 

 

 

[Boro Snow]

lovely clear blue skies looking at the radar some cells have suddenly popped up near manchester, sign of things to come perhaps, 

[snowgirl30]

Work at hartlepool had one tiny shower and a rumble of thunder then back to sunshine

[Boro Snow]

Something developing above darlo 

[Summer Sun]

Cloud is bubbling up again no rain for now 

[4wd]

2 hours ago, Boro Snow said:

Any ideas it doesnt do it justice on these photos 

Is it a very ragged rope funnel cloud?
It is quite windy so could soon get distorted.
Brief funnels are common but easily missed as quite short-lived

Those showers near Manchester appear to be heading north, but at same time there is constant new development at the southern end so wouldn't be surprised if something else suddenly spins up.
Having said that the real heat is gone, it's a 'normal' 21C here.

[Summer Sun]

2 hours ago, Boro Snow said:

Any ideas it doesnt do it justice on these photos 

Not seen clouds like that before have you got a BBC Weather watchers account? if so you could upload it

[Boro Snow]

Cheers i might do that, not liking all this cloud cover that has rolled in over the past hour

Edited July 20, 2016 by Boro Snow

[Summer Sun]

Rain slowly moving towards the region 

[Boro Snow]

Yep and thats all it is rain, i am not sure whether this cap is going to break now and there was a chance of that happening, 

[Summer Sun]

That rain is closing in on us around 7 miles away now