Storms and Convective discussion - 1st August 2022 onwards

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

27 minutes ago, Dami said:

The worst pain is moving from an area that is having the best of storms now. Bedford does my nut in at times.

A shame, because Bedford used to always get good storms. I know as much as I used to watch them roll in from the S and SW from my bedroom window in Peterborough, back in the 90’s and early 2000’s especially! Every week in late spring after school, we would have a good few pearlers roll past. They would often delay the exit from school too! Sometimes you’d get another even better one hit after the first one. That’s how spoilt we used to be. Not sure where it’s all gone wrong. 

Edited September 5, 2022 by East_England_Stormchaser91

[Peachy]

Any luck @Supacell?

I'm in the centre of Hereford and it's gone nuts here. 

[Eagle Eye]

This Storm is strong compared to even the mainland European ones at the moment.

Satellite just over an hour ago.

Edited September 5, 2022 by Eagle Eye

[TJS1998Tom]

2 minutes ago, Peachy said:

Any luck @Supacell?

I'm in the centre of Hereford and it's gone nuts here. 

Is there more than what's showing on the radar? radar at times seem quiet

Not overly convinced now for Birmingham unless it's still early yet

[Harry]

After appearing relatively capped and calm looking, the sky here seems to be rapidly filling with Ac and some chunky AcCas in places (although hard to verify). Can also see  what appears to be anvils streaming in from the far SW skyline.

Visually at least, it’s starting to look promising for our neck of the woods @snow raven

[Peachy]

1 minute ago, TJS1998Tom said:

Is there more than what's showing on the radar? radar at times seem quiet

It's gone beserk to the west of Hereford onto the black mountains. 

Constant booms and flashing 

[snow raven]

Just now, Harry said:

After appearing relatively capped and calm looking, the sky here seems to be rapidly filling with Ac and some chunky AcCas in places (although hard to verify). Can also see  what appears to be anvils streaming in from the far SW skyline.

Visually at least, it’s starting to look promising for our neck of the woods @snow raven

Fingers crossed. I was starting to lose heart a bit!!

[Dami]

7 minutes ago, East_England_Stormchaser91 said:

A shame, because Bedford used to always get good storms. I know as much as I used to watch them roll in from the S and SW from my bedroom window in Peterborough, back in the 90’s and early 2000’s especially! Every week in late spring after school, we would have a good few pearlers roll past. They would often delay the exit from school too! 

I have seen some amazing storms on the coast and I've had some amazing storms over Bedford.  Where we live sometimes we have storms practically develop over us (which happened in August) but mostly storms break up as they hit my area and then re-built later up country. I just think it's the part of the area i live in. Snow is another example.

I would love to see a shelf cloud like people in SW have seen. Not jealous, at all.

Edited September 5, 2022 by Dami

[Lu.]

Currently on top of ports down towards Fareham, bolts are bold & brass but needs to be just a tad closer 

[Peachy]

All moving north now up into Shropshire. 

Time to jump in the car and head up to Ludlow.

[MP-R]

Must have some sort of backbuilding going on as just had an extremely loud positive strike out of nowhere and almost instant gunshot thunder!

My rabbits weren’t phased by fireworks but they did not like that!

[Southern Storm]

Biblical raining here in Christchurch, and very sporadic lightning

Great for the grass, expected more lightning if I'm honest. Hopefully this peps up a little

[Norfolk Sheep]

56 minutes ago, Ed Stone said:

Absolutely sod all: almost flat skies, bone dry ground and not a single blade of green grass to be seen. It's just like last year was -- storm warning after storm warning, and bugger all in the way of rain!

Here ya go Pete, one from the archives (August 5th 2012) just to prove that East Anglia can do (or could do) magnificent. Right on my doorstep.

We may never see its like again.

[Dangerous55019]

Just seen a most beautiful flash of lightning over to my west! 🌩
 

 

[Mapantz]

Just had a proper house-shaker here! I was sat out in the porch listening to the rain on the plastic roof, and I thought the windows were going to cave in! 

[Shaun L]

Watching the lightning over North Wales from the Wirral now

[OddSpot]

Jesus. rewind to 20:18 onwards

 

Edited September 5, 2022 by OddSpot

[Snowonder]

7 minutes ago, Dami said:

I have seen some amazing storms on the coast and I've had some amazing storms over Bedford.  Where we live sometimes we have storms practically develop over us (which happened in August) but mostly storms break up as they hit my area and then re-built later up country. I just think it's the part of the area i live in. Snow is another example.

I would love to see a shelf cloud like people in SW have seen. Not jealous, at all.

I was always told that living near the chilterns if the storm didn’t get in it would travel around and hence miss places in Bedfordshire. Don’t know if that’s possible? 

[SilverWolf]

Well I can hear thunder v quietly some miles away, think it’s gonna miss me here, but the radar is a thing of beauty none the less! 

[Thunderspotter]

Just spotted my first flash! They seem much brighter tonight, i don't know if it's just me or...

Well, 'm going to head off now. I've got a storm to watch! I can't wait for it to get closer. Hope you all get a good storm as well and I'll be back tomorrow afternoon about 3pm. 

This week has been better than 2020 + 2021 storm seasons combined for me... 

Well, bye everyone - Good luck.

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

4 minutes ago, Norfolk Sheep said:

Here ya go Pete, one from the archives (August 5th 2012) just to prove that East Anglia can do (or could do) magnificent. Right on my doorstep.

We may never see its like again.

2012 was actually an underrated year. 

[Sam jackson88]

Seeing lot of flashes heading towards Southampton again hype

[Lauren]

Seems to be slowly moving NE. Question is will it die out before it gets here?

[Mapantz]

I found the culprit.. about 2 miles away. That's the direction I was looking at whilst sat watching.

I now have closure. 

[TJS1998Tom]

Think for us here in Birmingham most of the lightning activity will be tad more to the West