Storms and Convective discussion - June 2023

[dvdfjojo]

Oh my word, it’s amazing here in Warton, north warks. Non stop thunder and lightning, deafening cracks, power going off and on.

[ANYWEATHER]

Beautiful storm here ️️️it’s gone so dark that the solar lights have come in in the garden

[WeatherArc]

Absolutely crazy skies over south Birmingham, can hear distant thunder now. 

[Phildb2]

Absolutely BRUTAL 

 

[cyclonic happiness]

11 minutes ago, Gordon Webb said:

Well the Gap filled in but I think we'll get off relatively lightly

Looks weird on the radar, it should be torrential here 

[Eye to the sky]

Had a dozen decent rumbles to my NW half an hour ago with one visible lightning flash.All quiet now apart from dogs barking.Very threatening to the SE but think the storms will miss here by 20 miles or so.

[TJS1998Tom]

Looks like cooling will help these for those further West

 

[Phildb2]

5 minutes ago, WeatherArc said:

Absolutely crazy skies over south Birmingham, can hear distant thunder now. 

Three inches of rain in an hour here in Leamington ,rolling thunder that  should be heading your way .One hour of lightening and thunder here so far moving very slowly

Edited June 11, 2023 by Phildb2

[Grazy2266]

Decided to go on a little storm chase, started in Aylesbury (Bucks) - Thame (Oxon) - Didcot (Oxon) - Wantage (Oxon) plus stopped in a few villages on the way.

What I thought would be simply be chasing for a few rumbles and flashes was certainly not the case. I literally followed the line of storms, roads were flooded, lightning all around (really angry I never replaced my dashcam, the footage would have been insane) booming thunde, what an afternoon.

I am now as far as Swindon and will slowly trek back home to Pitsone (Bucks), but what a Sunday afternoon it's been. I never expected things to kick off quite like this certainly in my top10 chases.

Edited June 11, 2023 by Grazy2266

[It's a Philcast]

Just overlooking Alcester at the mo.. will upload more vids soon. 

[Allseasons-Si]

Just got back in and boy what a trip though not much lightning visible

went over Woodhead pass then towards Glossop and parked up on top of a hill then went back towards Woodhead  pass but took the Holmfirth road up on top of Holm moss to get ahead of the next storm,i got absolutely pelted by marble sized hail

will go through the footage in a bit

huge boom to my SW as i type.

[Sweatyman]

6 minutes ago, Dancerwithwings said:

It’s just a waiting game for me but the rumbles are very close 

but while I’m waiting the skies over me here look amazing and sort of twisting around each other 

 

 

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And here. Amazing black skies

[near northampton]

Mind the Gap

[markw2680]

About to be engulfed 

 

 

[The PIT]

Some great shots folks jealous the best I got was distance thunder and one distant flash of lightning. Amazing how all the energy transferred from the south of us to the west of us in five minutes.

Edited June 11, 2023 by The PIT

[Mr_ Nexus]

On Flightradar24 a few planes have been put into a holding patterns now waiting to land at Birmingham Airport .

No thunder here yet , hoping it doesn't burn out before it arrives . Missed out yesterday as it went west of here .

[Allseasons-Si]

Oh! WOW

[Shane]

1 minute ago, Mr_ Nexus said:

On Flightradar24 a few planes have been put into a holding patterns now waiting to land at Birmingham Airport .

No thunder here yet , hoping it doesn't burn out before it arrives . Missed out yesterday as it went west of here .

Yeah i have seen about 7 or 8 planes pretty low for around here (apart from earlier when Cosford was on lol)

[Jamie M]

Absolutely massive system

 

[summer blizzard]

Is the risk in the same place tomorrow.

[matty40s]

We have an element of backbuilding from the west of Northampton, feeding up towards the sutton coldfield storm. For 2 hours now we have been having thunder.

[Purplepixii]

3 minutes ago, Mr_ Nexus said:

On Flightradar24 a few planes have been put into a holding patterns now waiting to land at Birmingham Airport .

No thunder here yet , hoping it doesn't burn out before it arrives . Missed out yesterday as it went west of here .

The hold for Gatwick earlier this afternoon was dizzying.

[davehsug]

16 minutes ago, Azuremoon2 said:

Hmm....very possibly the Coventry cell is heading towards Stoke way...Will it last?

The lightning never seems to get closer than Uttoxeter and it seems to be losing intensity anyway. Just heavy rain I guess.

[Shane]

5 minutes ago, near northampton said:

Mind the Gap

100% this will happen 

[summer blizzard]

3 minutes ago, The PIT said:

Some great shots folks jealous the best I got was distance thunder and one distant flash of lightning. Amazing how all the energy transferred from the south of us to the west of us in five minutes.

This concerns me because it suggests your 250m was not high enough to spark the match. It's no good if the energy this far north just jumps to the west of Bradford or the Dales.