Storms and Convective discussion - 1st May 2022 onwards

[OddSpot]

 

[Sam jackson88]

Damn my head is killing me with this intense pressure change but I'm loving the bolts every 5 10 seconds

[South coaster]

Can confirm strikes portsmouth area just taken the woofs up the hill frequent lightning no thunder tho proper electrical storm in coming ️️️

[Lu.]

She’s a beast!

[Harry's House]

16 minutes ago, Harry's House said:

Frequent sheet lightning now to S/SW'ly.

Distant thunder now

[viking_smb]

2 minutes ago, OddSpot said:

 

People just got out of car and are watching the storm lol

[Man With Beard]

 

The last minute from here.

[Justin1705]

Loads of descents but kept the phone at bay until now. Brighton beach with a nice IC and the burnt west pier. Ironic 

[TJS1998Tom]

Wont be seeing that storm in the channel but hoping for some Lincolnshire goodness with those cells North of it, looks rather hit and miss unless its mostly elevated

 

[alexisj9]

39 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

Easterly winds ahead of the shortwave trough, and westerly on the backside.

 

So it's one big convergence zone moving north east. Shame I was hoping it wouldn't stay linear, and start to build outwards, so it would storm for longer.

[Southern Storm]

[matty40s]

Weve got high level lightning East of Daventry, 3rd flashes without thunder in 5 minutes

[Azazel]

If it was daylight there would be some exceptional structure on this squall as it passes. Quite clearly a ground dragging gust front on it.

[Mizzle]

Just hit rain now in Fareham as we head to the Solent - lightning flashes all over the place, rain getting heavy.

[Super_Uwe]

7 minutes ago, Super_Uwe said:

Wow! We are in Kingsbridge, South Devon.

Have a clear view east as we are fairly high up and I can see the flashes of those storms from here! Cloud tops must be very, very high.

That's got to be at least 100-120 miles away

A basic video but you'll eventually see in the centre right a flash of lightning! Woo!

 

 

[Sam jackson88]

Constant lighting and thunder I love it

[bluearmy]

Looks to me that the channel island storm will run ne and possibly pass across London at its westerly point 

the line of storms (less intense) that have developed west of this channel MCS will mean that most of central and e england should receive something as they trundle ne …

[Guest]

That storm on the Eastbourne cam is going nuts! Proper 90s rave strobing! 

[chapmanslade]

13 minutes ago, Dbarb said:

Cloud tops of 40,000 are pretty standard for summer storms are they not? Remember a few years back a storm had really high tops can't remember how high

Well they are reaching the tropopause, probably with overshooting tops which is as high as they can get. Obviously the tropopause is lower in the winter and higher near the equator. Commercial airliners fly at around 40k ft, so not something you really want to encounter, coffin corner and all.... hence the reason they are avoided

[Sam jackson88]

Wow just wow

[Saint coolio]

Just now, Sam jackson88 said:

Wow just wow

nice

if you can arrange for it to do a bit of minor damage to signalling round the station area - just enough to get my out of a 5:30 start - that’d be great 

[Tom Knight]

Im betting that the storm dies down before it hits medway 

[matt111]

That smaller storm over Southampton is really going for it now

 

[matty40s]

5 minutes ago, matty40s said:

Weve got high level lightning East of Daventry, 3rd flashes without thunder in 5 minutes

Ok, thunder as well now .

[LeveLUP]

Gatwick airport is still sending out flights so my guess is they're trying to get as many as they can out ASAP before the storm hits