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  • Location: Thorley, west Isle of Wight
  • Weather Preferences: Spanish plumes & stormy winters. Facebook @ Lance's Lightning Shots
  • Location: Thorley, west Isle of Wight

Disappointingly, any ideas of a plume have been dropped on the last few model runs, with more of a typical UK SE/NW divide being shown next week, still, at least it'll be warmer

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  • Location: Bedfordshire
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, plumes, snow, severe weather
  • Location: Bedfordshire

Love a whale's mouth!

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  • Location: oxford, uk
  • Location: oxford, uk

Reckon the skies might look pretty tonight over birmingham/cotswolds area - no chance of a storm though. Just some lingering CAPE beneath a strengthening ridge 

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  • Location: NW Bexley, Kent
  • Weather Preferences: Storms, rain, tornados, funnel clouds and the northern lights
  • Location: NW Bexley, Kent

Well this is boring isn't it? Exactly one month ago from now I was enjoying a cracking little storm at home. Since then I've had about ten minutes of proper heavy rain on Wednesday night, apart from that, absolutely nothing, with wall to wall sunshine most days and a few grey stratus filled boring days but that's it. No sign of anything on the horizon for the foreseeable. April used to be a brilliant month for small pulse storms round these parts not so long ago...

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  • Location: Kent,Ashford
  • Weather Preferences: Love heat & thunderstorms, but hate the cold
  • Location: Kent,Ashford

Big cumulus clouds here right now, will see if i’ll be able to get some nice pics later if it continues being like this

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  • Location: Southend-on-Sea
  • Weather Preferences: Storms
  • Location: Southend-on-Sea

Huge downpour on Canvey Island at the moment. I was hoping to find some geocaches before watching Concord Rangers play, but I'm stuck in the car watching huge rain drops bouncing off the bonnet. First really meaningful rain for a couple of months round here. 

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  • Location: Kent,Ashford
  • Weather Preferences: Love heat & thunderstorms, but hate the cold
  • Location: Kent,Ashford
3 hours ago, Atmogenic said:

Big cumulus clouds here right now, will see if i’ll be able to get some nice pics later if it continues being like this

nvm I got absolutely soaked by the downpour over me which lasted for over 20mins and eventually went home, there is no way i'm going out again unless I get good cloud formation outside my house  

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  • Location: King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Hot and Thundery, Cold and Snowy
  • Location: King’s Lynn, Norfolk.

Still waiting to hear some thunder this year! Already nearing Mid May, and nothing. Thank god I’m off to Florida in September! Another monotonous start to the storm season to say the least! 

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  • Location: Glasgow
  • Location: Glasgow

Rainy and dreech in Glasgow, but no signs of convection none of the ingredients are there to produce anything exciting.  I think the last time I heard thunder was the first month of Autumn

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  • Location: Thorley, west Isle of Wight
  • Weather Preferences: Spanish plumes & stormy winters. Facebook @ Lance's Lightning Shots
  • Location: Thorley, west Isle of Wight

ECM has been getting more thundery with each run for 7-9 days out. Getting a little nervous as I have office/work event days Tues/Weds and have to be up at 5am to go to 'the mainland'. If this plume could delay itself by 48 hours...

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  • Location: Bristol
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms and Snowstorms
  • Location: Bristol

Yeah ECM might actually be one of the best thundery runs I've ever seen. Close to mid-teen 850s throughout from late Sunday, approaching 17'c at 850 for SE later in the run. Persistent southerly flow due to high to E, and low to the W. Slack region over the UK, with moisture advection and overriding portion of the jetstream at upper levels. Simply a recipe for severe thunderstorms. 

Merely an observation of this evenings run and not to be taken as gospel!

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  • Location: Woodchurch, Kent.
  • Weather Preferences: Storm, drizzle
  • Location: Woodchurch, Kent.
28 minutes ago, Ben Sainsbury said:

Yeah ECM might actually be one of the best thundery runs I've ever seen. Close to mid-teen 850s throughout from late Sunday, approaching 17'c at 850 for SE later in the run. Persistent southerly flow due to high to E, and low to the W. Slack region over the UK, with moisture advection and overriding portion of the jetstream at upper levels. Simply a recipe for severe thunderstorms. 

Merely an observation of this evenings run and not to be taken as gospel!

Absolutely, if this were closer I'd be getting excited but first we wait and see what the high and the low do before we look at something like this (this just as an example from the ECM run).

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  • Location: Thrapston | Northamptonshire
  • Weather Preferences: Severe weather
  • Location: Thrapston | Northamptonshire
38 minutes ago, Eagle Eye said:

Absolutely, if this were closer I'd be getting excited but first we wait and see what the high and the low do before we look at something like this (this just as an example from the ECM run).

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I love dreaming about this stuff but this far out it is kind of a guess but one thing I have seen is every single model going for plume situation with temps soaring past 26 degrees and some runs going near 30 degrees. Anyways if this does happen my camera will be ready and my yt channel will be hungry. I just looked at some other runs and there hinting storms as well.

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  • Location: Bristol
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms and Snowstorms
  • Location: Bristol
11 minutes ago, viking_smb said:

tbh i wouldnt worry its too far out.

You’re not wrong to be honest 

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  • Location: Thorley, west Isle of Wight
  • Weather Preferences: Spanish plumes & stormy winters. Facebook @ Lance's Lightning Shots
  • Location: Thorley, west Isle of Wight

Game on for some imports around Sunday night? This is being picked up on on both main models.

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  • Location: Woodchurch, Kent.
  • Weather Preferences: Storm, drizzle
  • Location: Woodchurch, Kent.
8 minutes ago, Lance M said:

Game on for some imports around Sunday night? This is being picked up on on both main models.

Much closer and I wouldn't be surprised if something happened but still a long time to wait as to anything. I'm just hoping at the moment, if the UKMO follows in on a similar setup then definitely something to watch because we very rarely saw that last year or even the year before.

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  • Location: Christchurch, Dorset
  • Weather Preferences: Extreme weather what else!
  • Location: Christchurch, Dorset
59 minutes ago, Lance M said:

Game on for some imports around Sunday night? This is being picked up on on both main models.

Things are definitely on the up, but we've been burned far too many times for me to get too excited this early on.

I'm planning on heading out to do a time lapse of the Lunar eclipse, a thunderstorm would be the icing on top if anything does come off

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  • Location: Thorley, west Isle of Wight
  • Weather Preferences: Spanish plumes & stormy winters. Facebook @ Lance's Lightning Shots
  • Location: Thorley, west Isle of Wight

Awaiting tonight's ECM with keen interest...let's see those Sunday night cells again please!

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  • Location: Christchurch, Dorset
  • Weather Preferences: Extreme weather what else!
  • Location: Christchurch, Dorset
17 minutes ago, Lance M said:

Awaiting tonight's ECM with keen interest...let's see those Sunday night cells again please!

The GFS has precipitation pushing up from the south, for Sunday evening, but it doesn't look particularly thundery

Is that just lower resolution making look that way on the GFS?

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  • Location: Thorley, west Isle of Wight
  • Weather Preferences: Spanish plumes & stormy winters. Facebook @ Lance's Lightning Shots
  • Location: Thorley, west Isle of Wight
32 minutes ago, Southern Storm said:

The GFS has precipitation pushing up from the south, for Sunday evening, but it doesn't look particularly thundery

Is that just lower resolution making look that way on the GFS?

Yeah, usually down to the lower resolution! I've seen some bright colours on there when MCSs and the like are forecast though.

As for tonight's ECM, it's an interesting one, with something of an MCS clipping the south coast on Saturday night, with various other pulses of showers and storms for many days afterwards. Great to see thundery potential back in the models, but there's a hell of a long way to go on this one.

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  • Location: Dorset
  • Weather Preferences: warehamwx.co.uk
  • Location: Dorset

In the last couple of days, the models have moved to the 'Kent Clipper' scenario. A way off yet, but never a good sign imo.

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  • Location: Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland 20m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snow,Thunderstorms mix both for heaven THUNDERSNOW 😜😀🤤🥰
  • Location: Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland 20m ASL

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  • Location: Andover, Hampshire
  • Location: Andover, Hampshire

an incredibly dull spring here to continue the thunderstorm drought in C/S England. 

Convection in these parts has been rarer than hen's teeth since 2007.

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