Storms and Convective discussion - 1st August 2022 onwards

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

A collection of ones from last night parked up just south of Guildford

Edited September 5, 2022 by Flash bang flash bang etc

[Southern Storm]

10 minutes ago, ResonantChannelThunder said:

Congrats on those! I also had my camera pointed at one of our two TV masts (Chillerton) over here but didn't get so lucky! You've done really well there given the lack of CGs. There are more in your photos than I even saw with my eyes! I really messed up in terms of positioning etc which didn't help.

Thanks! 

There was some quite prolific lightning over your way, I'm surprised you didn't see more than you did,

but I agree, from what I could see most, of the lightning was in the cloud

 Hopefully tonight yields better cloud to  ground lightning prospects...

Looks like it could be a late one

[Liam Taylor]

Thunder here in Doncaster South Yorkshire at 2:25am this morning and the it was quite a light show too. ️️️

[minus10]

14 minutes ago, Flash bang flash bang etc said:

A collection of ones from last night parked up just south of Guildford

Beautiful pics mate...

[Lynxus]

My handheld is picking up strikes nearby, Blitzortung not showing anything yet. Weird.

[Harry]

Despite the lower temperatures today, it feels sooooooo humid!

21c temperature / 17c dew point

[Lightfox]

A couple of years back i managed to snap this close lightning bolt near my home on my phone!  How i do it is just record a video and then take the snaps from that

[Stormyking]

Good Afternoon

Was gonna post last night but got really late. Anyway it was a very eventful one last night, we headed out just after 10pm due to the first load of cells that developed way to our South. First we went up to Brading downs and could see the lightning very clearly in the distance which was very frequent. As these moved closer further storms developed ahead of the current cells that was already firing, by this point we were looking in all directions with frequent lightning all around, and eventually these made it over head. The lightning was constant along with almost constant thunder too, much of the lightning was intra cloud, so a lot of the thunder was fairly quiet. Though there was some cg's at times leading to some very loud cracks of thunder, this was accompanied by some very heavy to torrential rain which became quite hazardous for a time, as well as some very strong wind gusts to our surprise!

Once these started to move through we then decided to drive to Culver downs to watch the back of the storms as they moved towards the mainland. The lightning was going absolutely crazy, with all different types from big cg's including posi's, anvil crawlers as well as classic spidery looking lightning, at one point it was flashing every second for long periods. A very entertaining night which had all ended just before 1am as the storms moved to far away. I do have some footage which ill try to upload over the coarse of the day

Got my fingers crossed for round 2 later this Evening and overnight! Its looking quite promising again along with a higher risk of hail!

[Lynxus]

oOOHHHHHHH

[sconetone]

What a lovely storm that was!

Managed to catch this on the phone.

[sheikhy]

Storms look like they are developing much further west across south west england!!maybe the metoffice warnings are correct with the more westward projection!!!

[Lightfox]

9 minutes ago, Lynxus said:

oOOHHHHHHH

Yes mate, yes please  

bring me the storm ⛈ 

[SarahWxm]

Please let me get at least a flash and a bang. Not had anything all year so far

[Liam Burge]

15 minutes ago, Lynxus said:

oOOHHHHHHH

Now this looks very interesting. Is this the first ever TORRO tornado watch issued for us? I've never seen one before.

[Harry]

Cornwall getting some action right now. Looking fairly active too.

From a very much NIMBY perspective, UKV is now on the same line as AROME and NMM with a thunderstorm cluster across SE parts tonight.

Edited September 5, 2022 by Harry

[Nick L]

Just now, Harry said:

Cornwall getting some action right now. Looking fairly active too.

The radar site is right in the middle of that, and it's suddenly gone down.

[TJS1998Tom]

Looking unstable here at Birmingham NEC

Edited September 5, 2022 by TJS1998Tom

[Harry]

1 minute ago, Nick L said:

The radar site is right in the middle of that, and it's suddenly gone down.

Blitzortung hasn't gone down  

[Liam Burge]

Looks like development has started further west that initially expected. Once again, the best place to be is outside the Met warning zone! 

[Slysi100]

Hoping for some thunderstorms later in south Devon, we always seem to avoid the worst here. 

[Nick L]

4 minutes ago, Harry said:

Blitzortung hasn't gone down  

Perhaps I wasn't clear, I mean it looks as if the radar site has been taken out by the storm. There is a radar at Predannack airfield and it has been peppered with lightning strikes. Stornoway suffered a similar fate a few years ago.

Check out the radar images in Cornwall over the last half an hour, the resolution goes to crap just as the storm moves through. That radar has for whatever reason disappeared from the composite. I think it's been zapped.

Edited September 5, 2022 by Nick L

[sunnijim]

Turning,hot,humid and sunny now on the East Sussex coast.

Plenty of broken mid level instability.

Feels and looks primed..

However,the pre cursor to last nights super display was anything but classic in terms of the look and feel.

[Rufus Butterfield]

Main star of the show last night was the shelf cloud structure and the intracloud lightning. There were a few decent bolts visible though.

[sheikhy]

17 minutes ago, Liam Burge said:

Looks like development has started further west that initially expected. Once again, the best place to be is outside the Met warning zone! 

Bang in line with the meto output!!!

[Mark Parsons]

2 minutes ago, sheikhy said:

Bang in line with the meto output!!!

Outside the meto and netweather warning area haha but I'm sure they will pop up elsewhere through the rest of the day........