Convective Storm/Discussion thread - 11/06/16 onwards

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

2 minutes ago, Delka said:

Holy COW! Strike just hit the house across the street from us and the rain just got even worse!

What it looks like from the side! hell of a thing! 

Edited June 15, 2016 by East_England_Stormchaser91

[Frosty hollows]

3 minutes ago, East_England_Stormchaser91 said:

Been hearing it from here over the last half hour! Seems to be back building. Think this will be on the news, the rain rates in there are close to dangerous. 

Anyone got any photos of the storm?

[Delka]

Biblical rain, sirens rushing around, huge flash again.. gardens underwater

[Darren Bown]

Really high based thunder here. Can't see the lightning but it's rumbling faintly overhead.

[Stephanie Starr]

3 minutes ago, East_England_Stormchaser91 said:

What it looks like from the side! hell of a thing! 

Is this spalding horseshoe  road

[Fiona Robertson]

19 minutes ago, snowprincesspboro said:

Cloudscape at the moment is amazing, storm definately approaching

That second piccie looks like a walloping great shelf cloud. Any sign of rotation at all?

[Delka]

Reports from a friend in Sedgeford, a town where the rain totals were even higher, said his station has recorded 42mm of rain and its still raining pretty heavy!

EDIT: More sirens, rain died of a bit now, flashes aren't as close but still too close for comfort, rumbles as big as ever

Edited June 15, 2016 by Delka

[snowprincesspboro]

1 minute ago, Fiona Robertson said:

That second piccie looks like a walloping great shelf cloud. Any sign of rotation at all?

None yet but seriously pretty skies, changing every minute, keep hearing distant rumbles 

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

3 minutes ago, Stephanie Starr said:

Is this spalding horseshoe  road

Nope, not far though  near the BP garage. 

[Darren Bown]

What a beauty! Flared up in the last 25 minutes.

[MrNooo]

Nice storm passed through here 10 or so mins ago, plenty of lightening, power went off for a short while, all quiet now. Some amazing cloudscapes today looking North.

[IanR]

a new cell has formed a few miles to my west ,  i can hear a few rumbles, 

[IanR]

lightning now ! 

[William Grimsley]

Cell intensifying even though the lightning activity has stopped. Ok?

[Stephanie Starr]

4 minutes ago, East_England_Stormchaser91 said:

Nope, not far though  near the BP garage. 

Cool I'm pinchbeck morrisons end are you going chasing. I'm not sure weather to go out to get some pictures or stay put not really sure which easy storms are approaching from

[Spikecollie]

Getting really dark here again. I'm a bit scared without hubby...

[Supacell]

Not such a good day around Derby so far, just lots of moderate/heavy rain. These cells are spawning and dying all over the place though. It would be a hard day to chase, unless you are in north Norfolk/Wash area :O

[Costa Del Fal]

Most interesting skies so far here today now. Plenty of scud on some rather dark cloud bases too.

[Delka]

7 minutes ago, Supacell said:

Not such a good day around Derby so far, just lots of moderate/heavy rain. These cells are spawning and dying all over the place though. It would be a hard day to chase, unless you are in north Norfolk/Wash area :O

Storm drifted out to sea from here now, but constant rumbles still with the occasional flash still! sirens in distance, probable flooding with all the rain

[STORMGUY]

Thunder here just now

[Spikecollie]

Serious spawning here in Limousin, France! 

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

2 minutes ago, Stephanie Starr said:

Cool I'm pinchbeck morrisons end are you going chasing. I'm not sure weather to go out to get some pictures or stay put not really sure which easy storms are approaching from

Wish I had chased it, but knowing my luck if I do now, it'll have dissipated :(!! Kicking myself for not heading towards Kings Lynn way! 

Developing quite a shelf on its back edge though :o 

[IanR]

cell is moving away to my south no more thunder now ,it was mostly cloud to cloud lightning the thunder sounds more crackley rather than the deep booms of the storm last week

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

Wish I'd gone to Norfolk this afternoon!

Can I call bust on this week for the South? Despite repeated 'thunder risk' days our neck of the woods really hasn't seen anything.

On top of this I've even been travelling to Hertfordshire every day and was sure I'd see SOMETHING... But it really hasn't lived up anywhere near expectations for me.

I must say however that Tony's forecasts from UKWW have been very good - he hasn't hyped up the thunder aspect of things much and that's exactly what's happened.

[STORMGUY]

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