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

[Methuselah]

It's thundering again!

[crazysnowcatz4]

must be the tropical heat has set it off.

[alexisj9]

8 minutes ago, crazysnowcatz4 said:

Blimey the thunderstorm over Canterbury has brewed up quickly

 

Been watching that develop. Clouds still going upwards as far as I can tell, unless it's getting closer which would be strange.

[Neilsouth]

Just now, alexisj9 said:

Been watching that develop. Clouds still going upwards as far as I can tell, unless it's getting closer which would be strange.

Pretty active too, big booms every 4mins

[Neilsouth]

Good storm too here, lots of bangs, flashes and forks high up! Must be right above my head

 

It's getting worse  

Edited April 13, 2016 by Neilsouth

[March]

Yay 17.1C reached. 

[Neilsouth]

That just knocked my lights out!!

[<<Ryan>>]

That's a great storm out Canterbury way, can no longer see the tops of those storms as they're hidden behind some of our boring clouds here

If nothing forms here I hope those storms can continue into darkness so I can at least see some distant flashes

[Neilsouth]

WOW WOW OWW!!

 

My speakers just popped, flashed and an almighty bang that shook everything in my house!

[<<Ryan>>]

Towers rocketing up in a line Canterbury Southwestwards.

[Blessed Weather]

Hat's off, that's a fantastic multi-cell storm that's developed over Canterbury. It's been fascinating watching it develop and expand on the Real-time Lightening site. If you like a storm and live there you must be having a great afternoon!

[Neilsouth]

3 minutes ago, Blessed Weather said:

Hat's off, that's a fantastic multi-cell storm that's developed over Canterbury. It's been fascinating watching it develop and expand on the Real-time Lightening site. If you like a storm and live there you must be having a great afternoon!

Yeh, pretty potent storm, few strikes to ground which may have hit someones house

[crazysnowcatz4]

Been out in the storm, roads are covered in hail ice, my daughters umbrella was white with hail. Hail stones are a good 1/2 cm across on average with some considerably bigger. Absolutely horrible .

[alexisj9]

Hubby is on his way to canterbury hospital for a scan, he's just phoned me Reporting flooding hail and somehow sleet. I'm not sure as I'm not there if he's right about the sleet part.

[k66yla]

It just clipped here, still hearing thunder. But looking at the radar Canterbury is looking amazing.

[alexisj9]

Got cloud in the way now think it may even be the anvil to the Canterbury storm.

[crazysnowcatz4]

Hi it wasn't sleet but did look like it, it was kind of half formed / clumped hail that when it hit the ground / car windows looked just like an enormous snow flake, but when you looked closely it was clearly hail.

[Neilsouth]

Storms have died here, nearly 2 hours worth of a great thunderstorm! Best for a few years

[Daniel*]

1 hour ago, crazysnowcatz4 said:

must be the tropical heat has set it off.

You folk make me laugh  honestly I'm not feeling this heat, maybe it's because I'm a Londoner... It appears Canterbury experienced a lengthy storm overhead lucky gits!

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

6 hours ago, Blessed Weather said:

 Of course, storms have a got a mind of their own, but I'm sure local topography plays a role, e.g. being on the lee side of a range of hills. Hadleigh is in a river valley and all the locals say that 'weather' goes around us. It often seems to!

 

Strange that you should say that, Matcolm.  We're on a plateau of slightly higher ground with river valleys on all 4 sides (near enough) - Yare to our north, Tiffey to our south-west and west, and Tas to our south-east and east, and storms which move up from the south or south-west often seem to follow one of those valleys and skirt our immediate locale.  If they get up onto our plateau, though, they tend to hang around for a while!

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

Light shower now popped-up over us.  It seems fairly elevated, with characteristic large raindrops.

[<<Ryan>>]

Decided to head out to the storm over Sutton Vallence that popped up behind the Canterbury storm. By the time I got there it was nothing but heavy rain and decided to head home instead of driving to Canterbury area. Glad I did as it seems to have died away now  

Radio reporting chaos on the roads around Canterbury with numerous accidents being reported and undriveable conditions at times.

[Neilsouth]

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/morrisons-evacuated-after-lightning-strikes-94203/

 

[Dami]

bug all here as usual.

[Captain Shortwave]

Some beautiful cloudscapes up here as cells running through Lincolnshire and a closer one hitting Wisbech pass by. Nothing here though, just pleasant and sunny.