Storms and Convective discussion - June 2023

[camturbo]

23 minutes ago, Jamie M said:

Presume Sam will be getting some cracking shots

Holy crap that's insane 

[TwisterGirl81]

Gutted, still no thunderstorms here in Exeter and so humid….we desperately need the rain and would rather the thunderstorm kind 

[Metwatch]

Just came back from a short but rather intense chase. Drove from it being dry to straight into a near white out with complete torrential rain and flash flooding within minutes (Stopped shortly after that clip on the road.) 

Once at the spot there was overhead, near constant sheet lightning and rolling loud thunder, difficult to capture that on the phone.

Once the core of the storm system moved away, there were a few more in the way of CG's and cloud to cloud strikes, with the closest one maybe 900m away, but didn't catch that specific one. An unforgettable evening, with the temperature dropping from 30°C to 17°C in an hour. 

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Unreal, looks frightening on radar, near constant thunder, monsoon like too, not many lightning flashes though

[camturbo]

7 minutes ago, TwisterGirl81 said:

Gutted, still no thunderstorms here in Exeter and so humid….we desperately need the rain and would rather the thunderstorm kind 

Same here but think they may have a few drops towards Birmingham way lol

[Atmogenic]

looks like those showers that are heading north from Belgium are dying off 

[weatherobsuk]

It's all gone quiet here despite the constant rumbles and occasional lightning strikes seen 1hr ago, on the plus side I managed somewhat of a timelapse showing the cell towards Sheffield at 6pm from it's infancy to full-blown anvil stage.

 

 

[Chris K]

4 minutes ago, Harry said:

I have seen some models on and off hinting at the potential for some convective rainfall to spread up from France across the south. I think the chances are very low, but more than happy to keep my fingers crossed

Ye most of them hinted at developments starting on S coast around/near IOW area 2300-0000hrs moving W/NW from there (rather than spreading in from N France). This is similar to the MetO rain warning overnight. But the same outputs have been quite wrong for me today with everything quite a bit further N/NE to what was shown. If nothing is developing by then I think I'll call it a night and just see if tomorrow brings anything. 

Edited June 11, 2023 by Chris K

[Coops241180]

I'll be amazed if it gets this far west. That said. I'm sat here in my front room and I can see it to the east. Just feels to cool here for it not to thin out as it slowly drifts across. 

[Turquoise]

5 minutes ago, Coops241180 said:

I'll be amazed if it gets this far west. That said. I'm sat here in my front room and I can see it to the east. Just feels to cool here for it not to thin out as it slowly drifts across. 

Needs to break the Stoke shield before it has a chance, it's been hovering for 40 mins outside it

Edited June 11, 2023 by Azuremoon2

[Weather-history]

1 minute ago, Coops241180 said:

I'll be amazed if it gets this far west. That said. I'm sat here in my front room and I can see it to the east. Just feels to cool here for it not to thin out as it slowly drifts across. 

It is too far south if anything to get up here.  Needs development over the Peaks and that's is not happening

[Row w]

Rumbling nicely over here, not sure if it's passing to the east though 

[Arnie Pie]

Epic got a feeling im going to be looking through my Data for the rest of the evening

Just dark enough  to do a bit of' Bulb release' on my big camera

[Marcus_surfer]

Anything for south Wales later or has that gone?

[Row w]

Sky is phenomenal 

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

15 minutes ago, Thunders said:

Just to my south east, heading north west

 
if it’s anything, I will get a direct hit

The maths work

[I remember Atlantic 252]

2 minutes ago, Row w said:

Sky is phenomenal 

on its way to you from the east, a beast this one, never seen such red colours on radar like this

[Andy Bown]

17 minutes ago, yozza1987 said:

We haven't had any hail (yet) i think it was just the amount of rain, the roof gutters are overflowing, garden is flooding and the street is getting a bit waterlogged now

Hail roar is the noise of hail from within the storm cloud. 

[markw2680]

10 min video and lots of good shots but I do like this one

[Jayne Bullock]

2minutes from our house. Thought it was powerful storm and we had a strike in garden. Thankfully folks are ok 

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

13 minutes ago, Chris K said:

Ye most of them hinted at developments starting on S coast around/near IOW area 2300-0000hrs moving W/NW from there (rather than spreading in from N France). This is similar to the MetO rain warning overnight. But the same outputs have been quite wrong for me today with everything quite a bit further N/NE to what was shown. If nothing is developing by then I think I'll call it a night and just see if tomorrow brings anything. 

I’ve also heard that this was a glitch, but doesn’t explain away that several models have aligned to the possibility.

 

works for me

[Row w]

1 minute ago, I remember Atlantic 252 said:

on its way to you from the east, a beast this one, never seen such red colours on radar like this

Sounds a lot beefier than the one we had yesterday

[DIS1970]

Thunder less frequent now, a few flashes, rain not too heavy, starting to die.

[yozza1987]

2 minutes ago, Andy Bown said:

Hail roar is the noise of hail from within the storm cloud. 

Ahhh I see, yes it could well of been hail roar then

[WeatherArc]

Core seems to of past me now, still some flashes from CC strikes but looks like they are moving further away rain has also decreased.

Apologies for the awful photography skills here but look it's my first time  Managed to capture some of a CC fork, Anyone got advice for trying to capture lightning?