Convective/Storm Discussion Thread 25/5/16 onwards

[WillinGlossop]

Four loud booms & torrential rain..... Very very heavy huge tropical rain drops.....  

[weatherobsuk]

1 minute ago, WillinGlossop said:

Four loud booms & torrential rain..... Very very heavy huge tropical rain drops.....  

 

Looks to be merging with the cell over the Goyt aswell, 2 rumbles from that but nothing showing on the lightning maps yet.

[Speedway Slider]

A defined wavy line of convection now appearing, but unlike yesterday, it's moving south west!! So Leicester is safe today?

 

[Staffordshire]

The warning zone the met office issued is near on perfectly aligned for where showers have broken out today, very impressive forecast.

[Arnie Pie]

Convection kicking off with some towers beginning to show over Birmingham

[Nick F]

Can see the heavy showers on the outskirts of north London / M25 and they appear to be headed my way but not electrified yet though. Much better visuals on these cells today without the mid-level crud to obscure them!

 

Edited June 8, 2016 by Nick F

[Gordon Webb]

at the moment the real electrical activity is in those further north

Edited June 8, 2016 by Gordon Webb

[William Grimsley]

5 minutes ago, Arnie Pie said:

Convection kicking off with some towers beginning to show over Birmingham

Quite similar to here, though not quite as advanced, some of the clouds do look like going boom very soon here though!

[Windblade]

Getting increasingly darker and unstable looking to my north east. Looks darker in real life than the picture suggests...

 

[Windblade]

34 minutes ago, James_southampton said:

After yesterdays change in direction where are todays storms due to head? 

From what I can see I think the wind is blowing from the north east today (at least in my neck of the woods) so I'd expect any storms to travel south-westwards.

Edited June 8, 2016 by Windblade

[weirpig]

7 minutes ago, Arnie Pie said:

Convection kicking off with some towers beginning to show over Birmingham

And just over the better side of the border  still quite sunny and warm here

[Windblade]

7 minutes ago, Nick F said:

Can see the heavy showers on the outskirts of London / M25 and they appear to be headed my way but not electrified yet though. Much better visuals on these cells today with the mid-level crud tho obscure them!

 

Nice pic. Lovely anvil there.

Edited June 8, 2016 by Windblade

[Gordon Webb]

2 minutes ago, Windblade said:

From what I can see I think the wind is blowing from the north east today (at least in my neck of the woods) so I'd expect any storms to travel south-westwards.

yep same here temps have drooped by a massive 1c in the last hour

[Staffordshire]

Some very nice towers shooting up to my E/NE

[Darren Bown]

I cant work out my chances today, the sky is pretty much some small Cu and a gentle breeze, pretty humid, but I think the action will be east of here now.

[MartinD]

I think I just heard a deep rumble from a little cell that's gone up just north of me I'm Worcester. I'm off out to investigate!

[WillinGlossop]

15-20 minutes of torrential rain, roads are rivers...still hammering it down... Strike hit snake pass.... 10-12 lightening strikes...very close as they were instant loud rolling shot gun booms.... Luckily had lunch in garden at 120pm before this hit....

[Windblade]

Fresh strikes in rainham just to my west on lightningmaps. Netweather radar showing two cells heading straight for me. Come on!

Edited June 8, 2016 by Windblade

[Darren Bown]

Another interesting point is that the clouds here are moving very slowly south to north.

[Gordon Webb]

GFS actually predicts higher cape values to transfer more SW during afternnon not by much admittedly but some

Edited June 8, 2016 by Gordon Webb

[Windblade]

Raining heavily here now and gone very dark. I'm heading to the roof...

[Daniel*]

Getting darker to my north/northeast view is quite obscured. 

Edit: just heard a rumble....

Edited June 8, 2016 by Daniel*

[Homerr]

Heavy convective rain here in Watford very dark but no sign of electrification yet

[Windblade]

Its gone torrential here in tower hamlets but no thunder or lightning yet. Getting lighter now as well as the bulk of the cell has passed over but still chuckig it down at the moment. Don't think this one's going to drop the goods but it looks like there's an active cell just north of chelmsford and tracking this way so we might get that in a while with some luck!

Edited June 8, 2016 by Windblade

[WillinGlossop]

Near new mills the storm that developed overhead is now giving returns of 250mm per hour..... My waterbutt was empty now full....