Storms and Convective discussion - 1st August 2022 onwards

[virtualsphere]

Thundersnow here at 7am, a couple of bright flashes and loud rumble of thunder.  Left a covering of snow and small hail in the garden, brightened up now but more sleet and snow showers forecast for later.

[Wold Topper]

Just seen this on Twitter, wasn't sure where to post it!

 

[Mapantz]

3 hours ago, Wold Topper said:

Just seen this on Twitter, wasn't sure where to post it!

 

Old, and fake.

It was a CGI project done about 4 years ago.

[Rufus Butterfield]

4 hours ago, Wold Topper said:

Just seen this on Twitter, wasn't sure where to post it!

 

I recall seeing that a while ago, but it’s been proven to be an edited video.

[Wold Topper]

1 minute ago, Rufus Butterfield said:

I recall seeing that a while ago, but it’s been proven to be an edited video.

Ok thanks, good old Twitter eh...

Edited January 19, 2023 by Wold Topper

[RebsAbbo]

Shame, but does look just like how it was described to me by someone who has experienced ball lightning

[ChannelThunder]

You can tell that's fake just looking at it, although almost convincing with the lens flares going on!

[Rufus Butterfield]

Finally compiled all my footage from last autumns storms.

 

[Eagle Eye]

For my birthday a couple days ago my parents got me a canvas of a lightning photo I took last year .

[ChannelThunder]

There's always one winter chart every year that makes me wish it was the summer. This time, we have a 'Spanish Plume' showing for Tuesday night, ahead of an advancing cold front. The kind of set up that would provide an elevated treat if this were July.

[Jamie M]

Reckon we might have some thundersnow in next few days

Very low heights along the east coast

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

AMAZING CB and Anvil right now with my view of a big snow shower approaching Edinburgh

[Zak M]

This happened yesterday in Shetland apparently... bloody hell.

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02QmLtWoxccEjnmgmnxJBqyANSmLaivF24SVMvtt5DbJNxR8PokL4YPYcKjqVErgfCl&id=1207524501

Included the actual video in case some are unable to view the link.

Edited March 8, 2023 by Zak M

[Rufus Butterfield]

21 minutes ago, Zak M said:

This happened yesterday in Shetland apparently... bloody hell.

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02QmLtWoxccEjnmgmnxJBqyANSmLaivF24SVMvtt5DbJNxR8PokL4YPYcKjqVErgfCl&id=1207524501

 

Included the actual video in case some are unable to view the link.

How rare is that? There’s a condensation funnel above it so it’s either an actual supercell tornado/land spout, or I think it’s most likely a waterspout that came ashore. Probably to do with the comparatively warmer seas having an affect. Never seen any videos of a tornado in a snowy environment so I’m absolutely amazed.

[Allseasons-Si]

43 minutes ago, Zak M said:

This happened yesterday in Shetland apparently... bloody hell.

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02QmLtWoxccEjnmgmnxJBqyANSmLaivF24SVMvtt5DbJNxR8PokL4YPYcKjqVErgfCl&id=1207524501

 

Included the actual video in case some are unable to view the link.

SNOWNADO

[Scuba steve]

17 minutes ago, Allseasons-si said:

SNOWNADO

Torsnodo ?

[Windblade]

Had a flash of lightning last night during some heavy rain that lasted from about 7 - 9pm, then came back later. Lovely and relaxing (ain't had proper rain since new year ). There was no sound with the lightning though but I have had that happen before when it's quite far away right on the edge of audible range (light travel's further and faster than sound after all). I've also had the same thing when I've experienced thundersnow (I feel really lucky and privileged to have witnessed this rare event not once, but twice in my life ) which can give a dampening effect to sound.

I'm hoping this is a good sign for a stormy spring/summer ahead. 

Edited March 10, 2023 by Windblade

[Eagle Eye]

Edit of last year's big shelf cloud that I've forgotten to edit here.

[Cloud 10]

GFS cooking up something nasty for the early hours of Tuesday morning?

 

[Eagle Eye]

To get you all ready for storm season here's a load of stormy radar images over recent years.

Supercell last year that produced the tornado near Amiens which actually tracked a total of 206 KM (the longest in French history) just to add a bit of history here.

Final one, 2019 squall with large TSR.

 

[ChezWeather]

Possible tornado in the Peak District this morning 

[ChezWeather]

From the village of Great Hucklow this morning, certainly looks like tornado damage!

Edited March 13, 2023 by ChezWeather

[GreyCrag]

Great Hucklow is just a few miles down the road from me so if the roads are clear-enough tomorrow I may have a pop-up and do a quick damage assessment, i'm fairly sure someone from TORRO will also be looking at this from a meteorological pov as the initial pattern of damage suggests a Tornadic event but with locals in the village reporting that it lasted some 45 seconds i'm also thinking in the lines of a microburst/rotor wind given the RADAR at the time didn't look too potent in terms of CAPE convection.

Tornado tears through Peak District village amid Met Office weather warnings - Derbyshire Live

WWW.DERBYTELEGRAPH.CO.UK

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The freak weather incident has caused significant damage

 

[Azazel]

I got absolutely nothing in the summer months last year (apart from that crazy derecho in the south of France when I happened to be down there) but here’s a selection of what I did get last storm season.

 

lets hope this year brings more!

 

 

Edited March 13, 2023 by Azazel

[GreyCrag]

A nice run-down by Metweather with their thoughts on this morning's Tornado at Great Hucklow, the team have access to higher-resolution data and can confirm (themselves) that it was indeed a Tornado by looking at the synoptic data & preliminary damage reports. Officially it'll be down to TORRO for confirmation but based on what i've seen my thoughts are swinging back to the likelyhood of it being a Tornado than a localised Microburst or Rotor-Winds. I was skeptic at first as it didn't seem like the atmosphere was conducive of Tornadic development but the SKEW-T shows where the low-level shear was hiding in the very lower layers, which is all the cell needed for 'spinning.'

https://twitter.com/alex_wx_