Storm risk - Monday 9th May onwards

[Paul]

16 minutes ago, BrickFielder said:

 

Nice to have you back BF, always good to read your forecasts   

[Gordon Webb]

19 minutes ago, Harry said:

Shame I'm at the low end of potential today as some good diurnal heating underway here.

I suspect storms will be more isolated that Estofex is going for, but then that's half the excitement, trying to second guess models/forecasters 

well estofex aren't taking any chances with the whole of the UK , Ireland and France in the forecast although they do seem to have overdone it just a little bit when compared to uk specific forecasts and nobody on that front is going for anything too dramatic

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

Looking forward to some little storms hopefully coming to me this afternoon -hehe bout time the weather did all the hard work!

Just looking through a video from yesterday and found this little strike

 

[MattTarrant]

Incoming!!

[carl1980]

Showers turning heavy heading towards me from North Wales and the wirral 

[MattTarrant]

Still no thunder and lightning 

[Raidan]

Started of dry and sunny this morning but now its grey cloud and raining hope this clears and the sun comes back out to maybe give us a chance of something thundery.

[Supacell]

First lightning strikes detected NE of Plymouth.

Edited May 22, 2016 by Supacell

[carl1980]

12 minutes ago, MattTarrant said:

Still no thunder and lightning 

Strikes showing up now on the radar

[Paul]

Yep, strike on the Plymouth cell, so we're away for the day - could get quite lively I think!

[Stuart]

looking forward to today as things are now kicking off

[MattTarrant]

5 minutes ago, carl1980 said:

Strikes showing up now osai

5 minutes ago, carl1980 said:

Strikes showing up now on the radar

Yeah we had one massive crack of thunder and some 1-2 cm hail for about 6/7 mins 

Edited May 22, 2016 by MattTarrant

[Paul]

North Devon cell is electrical now too. 

[Harry]

Going to be one of those days when I get back from shopping later and we'll be on page 50 which tonnes of updates and hopefully lots of pics/videos.

Couldnt be more perfect here at the moment for some convection to bubble later.

[Mapantz]

It's all missing here thank goodness! I have wet cement to contend with. There are black clouds all around me though..

[NUT]

Had 1 or 2 odd showers here but main cluster down south and east still plenty of time for the atmosphere to fuel more though

[NO LONGER POSTING]

Indeed lovely looking skies 

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

Rare that the storms are building as they approach our area.

i imagine Surrey is getting rather excited by the prospects for the afternoon - looks like we're in the crosshairs for some good sharp storms!

[Carl46Wrexham]

1 hour ago, carl1980 said:

Showers turning heavy heading towards me from North Wales and the wirral 

Don't get too excited, pretty meh in truth. Very cool temperatures as well. Just 10.8c right now...been raining for more than half an hour..

Edited May 22, 2016 by Carl46Wrexham

[alexisj9]

Just had a long shower here, light rain mostly

 

[carl1980]

3 minutes ago, Carl46Wrexham said:

Don't get too excited, pretty meh in truth. Very cool temperatures as well. Just 10.8c right now...been raining for more than half an hour..

Had strong sunshine this morning, clouds were shooting up,cloudy now temp has dropped started to rain 

[10 Days Away]

11 minutes ago, Carl46Wrexham said:

Don't get too excited, pretty meh in truth. Very cool temperatures as well. Just 10.8c right now...been raining for more than half an hour..

The temp was only 14 C yesterday in Kent and it kicked off big time on the coast.

[Gordon Webb]

latest news 24 didn't put any real emphasis on thunder except for the SE later on this afternoon which judging by radar that's those showers that's Surrey may see shortly and Flash bang flash bang etc will see later on , gone little cloudy here but nothing of significance coming my one at the moment , interestingly for tomrrow the bbc actually show that line of showers that was in the spine of the couintry perhaps moving west and into E Wales probably change again by the morning

[Ben Sainsbury]

3 hours ago, Supacell said:

My plan was to chase today but it seems some forecasts favor the west whilst others favor the east. Wind convergence looks stronger further east as does DLS but CAPE looks stronger further west. I think I will await the 06z!

Plenty of showers along the M4 oh wait...

[Supacell]

Things aren't ramping up as much as I would like across Wales and western England. I am hoping it gets a bit of a kick in the next hour or two before the showers start to get here.