Cb's building over West Midlands

[Cloudbuster]

Just taken a look out of my window (NE facing) which overlooks Birmingham. (14.30 local) There is a great deal of cu activity and against a mid grey sky is a line of developing cb's. They look most impressive, being brilliant white, and the upward growth can clearly be seen. No really big ones visible, but a lot of the lower growth disappears into the grey hazy sky. I have often experienced conditions like this that don't appear too spectacular on the ground, but once airborne with a change of perspective provide very large Cb's. General movement seems to be towards the N or NW.

As suggested on the convective index maps, and noted during my early morning flight from scotland, there does indeed seem to be a good deal of atmospheric instability across the midlands today. Looking forward to seeing how they develop.

[Tim B]

Cool, and welcome to net-weather.

However, this would be better in the storms and extreme weather thread located here.

http://net-weather.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.p...=8578&start=198

Stay tuned to that forum, as that is where all the storm discussions are taking place at the moment.