Northwest Weather Discussion

[Cheshire Freeze]

1 minute ago, cheshire snow said:

Now monsoon rain and hail with frequent lightning off inside for safety reasons now.

Dead calm here

[alr1970]

Very close strike, less then half a second to the thunder. Made me jump!

[Turquoise]

I live by the black dot. All the storms developed just to the north and intensified as they moved away. Frustrating. A few distant flashes and rumbles but that's it. No rain at all.

[Rush2019]

There's some beautiful deep orange coloured strikes out East/North East, great fun watching.

[Cheshire Freeze]

AROME take on tomorrow...same broad progression as the WRF.

Looks to be a wind convergence west of the peaks (Cheshire/Staffordshire area) which is there on the WRF also. I guess this may enhance convection towards that area?

Edited June 18, 2023 by CreweCold

[Had Worse]

🌩 woohoo and first CG to my West 

[James M]

Lovely surprise to be woken up by a thunderstorm. Several cloud to ground strikes and one monumentous bang nearby! (Reddish currently)

[Dark Horse]

Belting it down here with rain but we really do need it . And a close lightning strike too. Probably more to come tomorrow we'll see.

[Turquoise]

Seems to be another cell just east of Birmingham, that will too far east for me again so don't think I'm gunna bother staying up

[alr1970]

I see the enhanced lighting detection in the app still can't see any of this

My Lightning Tracker app can see it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrustonapps.mylightningtracker

[pip22]

Just seen a flash of lightning outside now. Also it is pouring down as well. 

[Chris.R]

 Big strike to the north-east. Very infrequent but better than nothing.

[Frigid]

If you also just woke up cus of the thunder, you're not alone. Probably the single loudest thunder clap I've ever heard.. 

[cheshire snow]

Northwich storm not my picture sadly.

[Dark Horse]

4 minutes ago, Frigid said:

If you also just woke up cus of the thunder, you're not alone. Probably the single loudest thunder clap I've ever heard.. 

Yeah this has been one hell of a storm been stood at my back garden door watching it lol. Love these kinds of nights!  

[dodge]

Yep awoken by flashes of lighting and crack of thunder but in some ways the loudest thing is the torrential rain its hosing it down.   Feels tropical out there.   Looking short lived on radar but very impressive while it lasts

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What is this guy doing. ?

Apptly has CG in the reg.

[Had Worse]

[Chris.R]

The odd strike still going one to my east and one to my west still audible.

[pip22]

It has been raining for a good couple of hours here. The night is showing it's age now as the dawn about to break and it's only almost 4am as well. Nights should start to get longer from Thursday I think. 

[Cheshire Freeze]

27 minutes ago, pip22 said:

It has been raining for a good couple of hours here. The night is showing it's age now as the dawn about to break and it's only almost 4am as well. Nights should start to get longer from Thursday I think. 

The 29th is the first evening where the sunset is a minute earlier than the latest sunset.

This is balanced by the mornings which start to draw out again from the 22nd. The mornings actually draw back out fairly rapidly, by the time the 29th comes around, we've already drawn out by 4 minutes. It's not until July the 6th until we've taken 4 minutes off the evenings.

Edited June 18, 2023 by CreweCold

[weatherobsuk]

Obligatory photo-dump, the best imho from tonight looking at the storms all around up on Pym Chair near Shining Tor. I was going to stay at the Cat & Fiddle but the mast and lack of view to the north is what prompted the quick change once things began to get going.

[Weather-history]

Rain woke me up. just after 2am

[Margaret J]

Well that was an exciting night! Though I prefer my thunderstorms in the daytime when I’m not trying to sleep!  Lots of bright flashes and some impressive thunder right overhead. Some nice rain but not nearly enough for the garden. Outside smells wonderful now.

[alr1970]

Another 22mm of train out of that. If we get another lot later it could be the wettest day for a long time. Plus two strikes within 300m of the house makes up for the general low rate of lightning.