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

[Ben Lewis]

Love the fact the showers look like running well to the north of me.

Sun back out and feeling lovely in the spring warmth.. Hoping it holds out for this evenings run.

 

[Blessed Weather]

Haha!! The parting of the storms as they pass me by! But it's looking like Ipswich, 9 miles east, is getting a soaking and a few rumbles though.

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

That line of cells (in particular the inland ones) appear to be weakening as they drift north-east, which isn't really surprising given that they're moving into an area where the stratus cloud from the front lingered much later into the day (indeed, it thinned and lifted to cirrostratus but never really cleared here).  It's therefore not as much of a "loaded gun" atmosphere as further south and south-west, IMO.

 

EDIT:  Malcolm (BW) posted his similar comment while I was typing mine.

Edited April 12, 2016 by chrisbell-nottheweatherman
For the record

[essex coast matt]

New storm just to the west of here,thunder every few mins.looks like going to miss us just to the north

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

4 minutes ago, essex coast matt said:

New storm just to the west of here,thunder every few mins.looks like going to miss us just to the north

It seems that the north Essex and south Suffolk coastal districts are the only areas north of the Thames with the requisite atmospheric conditions for cells to develop, as those which developed south and west of London have weakened at the same time as those you're seeing have appeared.

[Blessed Weather]

28 minutes ago, chrisbell-nottheweatherman said:

That line of cells (in particular the inland ones) appear to be weakening as they drift north-east, which isn't really surprising given that they're moving into an area where the stratus cloud from the front lingered much later into the day (indeed, it thinned and lifted to cirrostratus but never really cleared here).  It's therefore not as much of a "loaded gun" atmosphere as further south and south-west, IMO.

 

EDIT:  Malcolm (BW) posted his similar comment while I was typing mine.

Yes, a good observation chrisbell. But from the Realtime Lightening Radar the Ipswich cell seems to be setting off up the A140 towards Norwich!

Will it run out of juice before it reaches you?

 

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

5 minutes ago, Blessed Weather said:

Yes, a good observation chrisbell. But from the Realtime Lightening Radar the Ipswich cell seems to be setting off up the A140 towards Norwich!

Will it run out of juice before it reaches you?

 

Not so sure that a cell producing a strike on the line of the A140 that far south of here is heading my way, Malcolm; if you review the last few frames on Netweather radar, the cells are drifting north-east.  In fact, on closer inspection, the cell that's producing those strikes is heading for Southwold, not Norwich (though there is a shower on the way here).

Edited April 12, 2016 by chrisbell-nottheweatherman
Correcting typo.

[Blessed Weather]

4 minutes ago, chrisbell-nottheweatherman said:

Not so sure that a cell producing a strike on the line of the A140 that far south of here is heading my way, Malcolm; if you revire the last few frames on Netweather radar, the cells are drifting north-east.

You're right of course - it's nowhere near following the direction of the A140. It does seem to have Ed Stone's house in Beccles in its sights though!!

Oh well. Just a bit of fun to cheer up an afternoon!

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

2 minutes ago, Blessed Weather said:

You're right of course - it's nowhere near following the direction of the A140. It does seem to have Ed Stone's house in Beccles in its sights though!!

Oh well. Just a bit of fun to cheer up an afternoon!

  There he was last Monday evening moaning that that lot of storms were avoiding him (mind you, I noticed the following morning that he posted about having had something the previous evening after all!)

 

EDIT:  I notice there's a cell appearing over Thetford Forest that's disproved my hypothesis about atmospheric conditions inland not being conducive to storm development.

Edited April 12, 2016 by chrisbell-nottheweatherman

[essex coast matt]

All moved to the north of us now very near miss to our west and north,looks like its lost its thunder now,saw a nice few cloud to cloud lightning strikes from it,looks like thats it for us now today unless anything moves up from france overnight.

[Methuselah]

Thunder, lightning and torrential hail. Yes!!!

[Methuselah]

And a whopping fork, and increased rainfall...I love this!

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

Just now, Ed Stone said:

And a whopping fork, and increased rainfall...I love this!

 

Thought you might be enjoying it!

[JennyJane1]

Very dark here now and heard some distant thunder most likely over Beccles way

[Methuselah]

2 minutes ago, chrisbell-nottheweatherman said:

 

Thought you might be enjoying it!

Oh yes, you predicted it well. Another flash bang!

[Methuselah]

1 minute ago, JennyJane1 said:

Very dark here now and heard some distant thunder most likely over Beccles way

Depending on how big it is, I think it's going your way; though maybe a bit too much of an eastward vector? Let's hope not!

[Rain123]

Beautiful day here, but a massive shame that there was no heavy, thundery, showers. But, it was very warm today...

[Ben Lewis]

Beautiful evening here, just getting ready to run! 

Heavy rain with a few rumbles of thunder? No thanks.. Blue skies please continue as you were :-) 

Ive seen enough rain to last a lifetime this winter/ early spring!!! 

[Blessed Weather]

The hail from the earlier storm over Ipswich was the talk of the local weather presenter on the Beeb this evening. One of the pics shown:

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

6 minutes ago, Blessed Weather said:

The hail from the earlier storm over Ipswich was the talk of the local weather presenter on the Beeb this evening. One of the pics shown:

I saw that a few minutes ago.  I can't say I'm surprised given the radar from earlier. 

Edited April 12, 2016 by chrisbell-nottheweatherman

[Captain Shortwave]

Well the morning here was dire and it took until late afternoon to actually see some sunshine as the high cloud just kept lingering on. After all that not a shower in sight.

[March]

Struggled to shift the cloud today until about 6pm so the temps were suppressed. Still mild enough at 14.8C, but what could have been...

[Dami]

very heavy shower (s) around 9:45 pm, although no thunder

feels cooler today 

[stainesbloke]

Lovely sunny start again here but chilly at 4C currently.  

[Dami]

16 hours ago, Blessed Weather said:

Haha!! The parting of the storms as they pass me by! But it's looking like Ipswich, 9 miles east, is getting a soaking and a few rumbles though.

morning

welcome to my world, i see that so many times where i live, even happened yesterday.