Storms and Convective discussion - 20th March 2023 onwards

[Harry's House]

29 minutes ago, Atmogenic said:

huh you're right, if i was back home the storms are just skipping by me all going north east. That would be unfortunate and annoying

Nor here either, well out of it.

[LightningLover]

18 minutes ago, Thunders said:

It was on Wednesday 19th of June 

Off the top of my head, 2006, 2014, 2016  and 2017 were fantastic seasons for us!

[Thunders]

Just now, LightningLover said:

Off the top of my head, 2006, 2014, 2016  and 2017 were fantastic seasons for us!

Yeah we are in pretty much the same area

I think today is gonna be another bust down here 

[LightningLover]

4 minutes ago, Thunders said:

Yeah we are in pretty much the same area

I think today is gonna be another bust down here 

As is often the case with surface based home grown setups! We do better looking towards France with the juicy elevated stuff.

[SummerShower]

Not going to complain about that.  Insane hail and at times close thunder here this afternoon, storm lasted about 3h in total in varying intensities.

The first truly homegrown thunderstorm in this area since august 2020

[daveinSB]

Lovely downpour just now in Shepherds Bush, no thunder, but a lot of rain and its cooled right down

[Turquoise]

35 minutes ago, East_England_Stormchaser91 said:

Your year was 2020. A warm Southeasterly most of the summer, storing the high dew points in the Cheshire gap and Manchester area. August that year up your way was insane. A rare setup. 

Yea you are correct. The last good storm we had was in August 2020 which i believe went down as a supercell.

[Thunders]

12 minutes ago, LightningLover said:

As is often the case with surface based home grown setups! We do better looking towards France with the juicy elevated stuff.

Yeah often more towards the end of may, June July august and September, 

[Robbie Garrett]

1 hour ago, Allseasons-si said:

Satellite images with clouds height of United Kingdom and Ireland, Weather in United Kingdom and Ireland - SAT24.com

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Satellite images with clouds height of United Kingdom and Ireland, Weather in United Kingdom and Ireland - SAT24.com

 

About 30k ft...

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

Pano of the shelf could earlier. It had some drizzle behind it but other than that just drifted over. Well weird. Maybe it was associated with the reading cell from earlier? Was moving SEwards, which seems to be against the direction of everything else  

[Sunny76]

20 minutes ago, daveinleices said:

Lovely downpour just now in Shepherds Bush, no thunder, but a lot of rain and its cooled right down

Just down the road from me. I’m in Ealing. Chucking it down, but no thunder. 

[Jamie M]

That looks like a downburst on the footage I have, will edit further 

 

 

[Sunny76]

12 minutes ago, Thunders said:

Yeah often more towards the end of may, June July august and September, 

I believe this is just a warm up. The true storms will come later on this month or further into the summer.

[Rufus Butterfield]

7 minutes ago, Flash bang flash bang etc said:

Pano of the shelf could earlier. It had some drizzle behind it but other than that just drifted over. Well weird. Maybe it was associated with the reading cell from earlier? Was moving SEwards, which seems to be against the direction of everything else  

They tend to form on the outflow of storms, so I’m guessing the cell it came from died off so just left it on it’s own.

[Mapantz]

Here's the rainfall accumulations for the past 12 hours:

Absolutely zilch here today.

[francois]

10 minutes ago, Jamie M said:

That looks like a downburst on the footage I have, will edit further 

 

 

Nice rear flank downdraft yes...

[LightningLover]

13 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

Here's the rainfall accumulations for the past 12 hours:

Absolutely zilch here today.

Can certainly pick out the convective hot spots though! 115mm in 12 hours for some...

[Freeze]

16 minutes ago, Jamie M said:

That looks like a downburst on the footage I have, will edit further 

 

 

Looks like it,you can clearly see it fan out in all directions as it hits the surface.

[Jamie M]

A frame of lightning earlier before my tripod got blown over in the strong outflow of the storm.

It's a miracle I've got any of the footage as it did hit the ground very hard

 

[Jamie M]

A timelapse from earlier of the storm rolling in, starts from 4 seconds in.

 

 

[Cornishdave]

Well if that’s the only thunder I get down here in Exeter this year then I’m happy. Superb afternoon. Lovely to get nice cloudscapes too. How good was today for fairly early on in the season! Had to turn the borehole pump off at the brewery as the water started coming in muddy after the deluge! Saw the potential early this morning so filled a couple tanks with 20000l of water in anticipation as I have beer to brew tomorrow

[Eagle Eye]

Got loads of timelapses and images from today. No direct hit but lots to my north and absolutely need it today. Been having a bad week as a hormonal teenager who just got rejected but I'm back to getting the best footage of storms I can .

 

 

 

 

[minus10]

18 minutes ago, Jamie M said:

A frame of lightning earlier before my tripod got blown over in the strong outflow of the storm.

It's a miracle I've got any of the footage as it did hit the ground very hard

 

Beautiful shot Jamie...

While i accept that many areas didnt see any activity...those that did...well it didnt disappoint..

...just an example of what was happening fairly continuously this afternoon here in herts from about 4pm ..

 

..also a couple of poor quality screen shots ..

...after the dismal morning with just dull grey clag it was quite a dramatic change and one i will remember for a good while..almost 40mm of rain fell too...lets see if the activity tomorrow and Thursday matches this...somehow doubt it...but....

 

[ChannelThunder]

3 hours ago, Azuremoon2 said:

no rain or thunder at all today here...probably the only place in England that has happened

it really is incredible the bad luck we have. 

Sarcasm?

Plenty of England had nothing thundery today. Even the SE has plenty of gaps: 

 

[chilly milly]

50 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

Here's the rainfall accumulations for the past 12 hours:

Absolutely zilch here today.

Must have got your share here. Photos from Facebook