Storms and Convective discussion - 1st May 2022 onwards

[Freeze]

8 minutes ago, Azuremoon2 said:

so frustrating living in Cheshire when it comes to storms...no thunder heard since August 2020...and missing out again tonight while South enjoy them all again.

First storm since 2017 here( being awake to actually see it)been a long time overdue.

Edited May 18, 2022 by Freeze

[Derbyshire_snow]

19 minutes ago, TJS1998Tom said:

Will wait for those classic Lincolnshire home grown storms, always wondered what makes Lincolnshire a hot spot. I'm sure someone explained the reason on here before

Just seen on Facebook that there has been lightning in Boston 

[Eagle Eye]

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[Snowman.]

Pretty intense lightning here, not much thunder tho. 

[Norfolk Sheep]

Oh look, staggers into Norfolk and promptly dies the usual death.

Yawn.

[Nick F]

 

One of many CGs I saw while sat atop the North Downs near Caterham watching the #thunderstorms roll through between 10.30-11.30pm

 

 

[Martz86]

It arrived here, rather high intensity with mainly CC and the odd CG mixed in, 10mins or so and now moved East and is now dieing down. Certainly worth staying up and the forecast was relatively spot on. 

[Thunderstruck]

Sounds like it’s moved away now. Was quite a fun 10 or so minutes though, especially considering it’s only mid May.

Time to get some sleep I think!

[alexisj9]

Been watching lightning flashing from the storms in France, not much happening to my east as far as I can tell, may be an anvil covering lighting? Is the front still active.

1 minute ago, alexisj9 said:

Been watching lightning flashing from the storms in France, not much happening to my east as far as I can tell, may be an agile covering lighting? Is the front still active.

Gust front coming through now, a roar of wind, and someone's tin can flying down the street.

Edited May 18, 2022 by alexisj9

[Eagle Eye]

A couple more from this insane Storm.

 

 

 

[snowrye]

Well, that wasn't too bad at all

[Stoic]

Whittlesey nr Peterborough

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

What a storm that was! Not bad for the edge of the warning area. West Norfolk has not been a bad spot during the last two years, I’ve got to say! 
 

Absolutely fantastic night for many. We got lucky for a change! 

[Jamie M]

Thoughts on the structure of this one as it arrived?

 

 

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

1 hour ago, TJS1998Tom said:

Whoever mentioned Boston and Skegness earlier, I think you're right, bit too South for me sadly

 

 

Looks decent off the Lincolnshire coast at the moment!! Hunstanton cams picking a bit of it up when it faces the right way! 

[Petorious]

Over Northamptonshire 3 small storms with thunder and lightning just popped up  

[biddie]

5 hours ago, camturbo said:

Pity we are nowhere near them eh!! But some look like they will

I was was terrifying but luckily short lived 

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

1 minute ago, Petorious said:

Over Northamptonshire 3 small storms with thunder and lightning just popped up  

Round 2!? Why not eh

[Cheshire Freeze]

4 hours ago, Azuremoon2 said:

no chance for Cheshire at all......

August 2020 seems a long time ago now

[Petorious]

Well what a night! I'm glad I stuck to my thoughts of what was going to happen after assesing everything in the early evening. Left my bedroom windows wide open to be sure I'd wake up lol.

Had a really good batch of storms before midnight, pretty quickly moving but a decent amount of CG lightning and close by with some very basey and gun shot thunder. 

Looking at strike displays it was no where near as bad as the south east corner, but considering what the latest forecasts had been saying along with the warning locations, still very good.

And the little cherry was waking up for work and seeing flashes of lightning while brushing my teeth thinking "was that really!!"

All in all very pleased and still all of summer to get through.

[Sprites]

Bit of a close one earlier, the lightning was quite infrequent but did shoot orange sparks from a telephone pole out of shot on the left about 20 feet away. The surge must of travelled down the cable from the strike on the right side of the frame. 

Luckily I was sheltering from the rain, 10 mins earlier I was outside the car with tripod setup.

Edited May 19, 2022 by Sprites

[PiscesStar]

Nothing here east Kent ciaat at all and we are right in the warning area... A bust 

[Woodboss]

44 minutes ago, Sprites said:

Bit of a close one earlier, the lightning was quite infrequent but did shoot orange sparks from a telephone pole out of shot on the left about 20 feet away. The surge must of travelled down the cable from the strike on the right side of the frame. 

Luckily I was sheltering from the rain, 10 mins earlier I was outside the car with tripod setup.

 

That's absolutely unbelievable,great footage mate!!

[JennyWren77]

Woken by repeated thunderclaps here in Suffolk.

[Southern Storm]

Good morning storm fans

I'm finally back after my trip to find some stormage

Mother nature in all her glory!

I took the decision to travel east of my usual stomping around, as it wasn't looking all that promising for my area (Christchurch)

I ended up in Worthing as it looked like it had a decent chance of getting a storm and boy did it! 

It was also nice to meet some other storm fans, many of them also taking photos, and taking it all in 

 It was well worth the 2 hour journey, even if my home town did end up with a storm anyway, but probably just to early to get an photos

I'm looking forward to going back and reading through the thread to see how the evening infolded, should be a great read after getting some sleep 

I did film a fair part of the storm, but need to download, and maybe edit it, I'll try and upload it later today if I have time

 

Edited May 19, 2022 by Southern Storm