South East and East Anglia weather discussion/Chat - 18th February onwards

[stainesbloke]

Certainly looks stormy this evening 

[Crepuscular Ray]

My parents in Hailsham are reporting some thunder and wondering whether it's anything to do with a rumoured Spanish plume...

[Daniel*]

Cells to my south big boom just heard.

[stainesbloke]

Looks rather dark to the SE...

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

3 minutes ago, Crepuscular Ray said:

My parents in Hailsham are reporting some thunder and wondering whether it's anything to do with a rumoured Spanish plume...

AFAIK it is a form of Spanish Plume - can anyone more knowlegeable advise whether this is true?

[scrat]

Had some awesome fork lightening here about 15 mins ago....lovely to see 

[k66yla]

Plenty of thunder & lightning here in Maidstone!

[Snow Queen one]

Thunder and lightening here too heavy rain.  Hope this bodes well for storms this year.

[Crepuscular Ray]

And now in inner west London. That's a first for a long, long time.

[SMU]

Early start to the season here

 

thunder & occasional lightening here in Greenhithe !

[loopydreamer]

BOOM!!! ;D

[Daniel*]

I'm very impressed by that discrete cell to my east numerous bolts of CG lightning and purple! A terrific start to April and the season one hopes - it would not be out of place in mid summer. 

[MP-R]

15 minutes ago, chrisbell-nottheweatherman said:

AFAIK it is a form of Spanish Plume - can anyone more knowlegeable advise whether this is true?

The difference being this time that there isn't much warm air to tap into from Spain. In fact Madrid hovered around 11-12C today with westerly winds. I think this is warmth more from a southeasterly direction.

[HammerJack]

T&L here...

[tinybill]

6 minutes ago, LeighD said:

T&L here...

radar  picking  up some very large  storms  in the ashford  area

[Mesoscale]

Shotgun thunder here about 10 mins ago! it was insane as I wasn't expecting anything and caught me by surprise.

Edited April 3, 2016 by Mesoscale

[stainesbloke]

Nothing here apart from 5 minutes of rain. No thunder but the skies looked ominous for a while. Maybe more luck tomorrow  

[loopydreamer]

No T&L here now but plenty of rain.

[loopydreamer]

Very wet out 

Edited April 3, 2016 by loopydreamer

[scrat]

Very dark 'thunder cloud' incoming....my girls are on lightening watch.

[tinybill]

look  like there some  very heavy stuff heading towards  Essex  ,Suffolk  very  soon

[anything-but]

Bah, mucked that post up...lets try again!

Pffft, can't edit the pics into the right order.....the last should be the 1st and visa versa.

Edited April 3, 2016 by anything-but
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[laurenx]

Had some thunder and lightening about 15 minutes ago...will there be any more for me tonight? I do love a bit of thunder and lightening!

Edited April 3, 2016 by laurenx

[tinybill]

4 minutes ago, laurenx said:

Had some thunder and lightening about 15 minutes ago...will there be any more for me tonight? I do love a bit of thunder and lightening!

there  is  more stuff  coming out  of france    it  looks  like

[Relativistic]

Plenty of horizontal fork lightning from a south-westerly direction, but strangely, no thunder! Either that or it's very faint.