Storms and Convective discussion- October 2023

[Thunders]

5 minutes ago, Southern Storm said:

So it looks like my area is done for the evening as far as lightning is concerned, but I wouldn't rule out one or two rumble's in the early hours as there'll be a few beefy showers knocking about out in the channel

This is the shot I took earlier 

Definitely a case of what could have been! 

And to anyone under, or to the east of the main band of rain, it's definitely worth keeping an eye out as I've seen quite a few flashes from various cells as they were passing, hopefully it will become more organised as it keeps pushing east 

Good luck folks!

 

Thanks and best of luck for you too, idk a random cell that pops up or something

[Eagle Eye]

Think that's a distant CB

[Eagle Eye]

Might have seen some lightning a few seconds ago.

[Thunders]

6 minutes ago, Eagle Eye said:

Might have seen some lightning a few seconds ago.

I thought I saw some too ngl

[ChannelThunder]

41 minutes ago, Southern Storm said:

So it looks like my area is done for the evening as far as lightning is concerned, but I wouldn't rule out one or two rumble's in the early hours as there'll be a few beefy showers knocking about out in the channel

This is the shot I took earlier 

Definitely a case of what could have been! 

And to anyone under, or to the east of the main band of rain, it's definitely worth keeping an eye out as I've seen quite a few flashes from various cells as they were passing, hopefully it will become more organised as it keeps pushing east 

Good luck folks!

 

What f/stop was that? Must have caught you out with its brightness/closeness?

[Eagle Eye]

Suspicious scud lowering going on (3rd one, though it's dark) and some mean looking clouds.

[alexisj9]

1 minute ago, Eagle Eye said:

Suspicious scud lowering going on (3rd one, though it's dark) and some mean looking clouds.

Are you chasing.

[Eagle Eye]

1 minute ago, alexisj9 said:

Are you chasing.

Can't, still only 16. Might to when I get my drivers licence though but for now it's stay in the village.

[Thunders]

5 minutes ago, Eagle Eye said:

Can't, still only 16. Might to when I get my drivers licence though but for now it's stay in the village.

I’ve still got a few more years to go yet before I can drive

[IanT]

Torrential rain, thunder and lightning here S of Woking in Surrey.

[Thunders]

Pretty decent storm looking to hit just before lydd. Only seen a flash but radar looks alright and structure on it is beautiful. It’s got the typical storm look to it.

[Mark wheeler]

3 minutes ago, IanT said:

Torrential rain, thunder and lightning here S of Woking in Surrey.

Keep approaching here in Chessington too, have heard a few rumbles already.

[Eagle Eye]

60 Second constant exposures, just in case.

[Reefseeker]

14 minutes ago, Mark wheeler said:

Keep approaching here in Chessington too, have heard a few rumbles already.

Loud rumbles here, lightning across the sky to our west and lights flickering. Some absolutely torrential pulses coming through. 

[*Stormforce~beka*]

1 hour ago, Azazel said:

Random blinding blue flash and huge peel of thunder in Andover 

1 had 1 crack. Just as I had walked out the kids room from putting htem to bed!! That got them up! Grrr!

[Eagle Eye]

The storm just turned night to NIGHT, I wish my camera had got a better capture of just how scary it suddenly was, then the helicopter flew right into it, spooky...

[Eagle Eye]

For some reason every image is darker than the originally were but here's there sequence of events that went from normal night to apocalyptic, the darkness is slightly too much because it's hard to get the shelf cloud detailing that is there.

[alexisj9]

Lol it's all gone through here now, and guess what, I'm watching lightning that's to my se.

[Eagle Eye]

10 minutes ago, alexisj9 said:

Lol it's all gone through here now, and guess what, I'm watching lightning that's to my se.

Went to try and see anything, realised that I'm looking through a mass of rain and gave up. Oh well, I think it's onto next year for me now.

[alexisj9]

5 minutes ago, Eagle Eye said:

Went to try and see anything, realised that I'm looking through a mass of rain and gave up. Oh well, I think it's onto next year for me now.

Can't see anything now either, was only two flashes about a minute apart. Storms have been weird in this spell lol, yesterday I had two storms that did exactly the same thing, two flashes about a minute apart, with thunder as I was in or just out of the heavy white rain, today, no thunder as the rain was already past.

[Southern Storm]

7 hours ago, ChannelThunder said:

What f/stop was that? Must have caught you out with its brightness/closeness?

F 7.1 which isn't too bad, I had the Iso a bit too high though 

To be fair I had only seen a couple of flashes towards Poole which weren't nearly as close or as bright as the one I captured but I wasn't set up in time for them

Edited October 29, 2023 by Southern Storm

[richie3846]

Anyone reckon we'll see Thursday's storm named today? I'm expecting a broad sweep yellow warning to drop down later this morning. It looks like we are going to see a direct hit from a powerful Atlantic storm, with the models showing central pressure ranging from about 948 to 955mb, approximately. 

[Frosty hollows]

32 minutes ago, richie3846 said:

Anyone reckon we'll see Thursday's storm named today? I'm expecting a broad sweep yellow warning to drop down later this morning. It looks like we are going to see a direct hit from a powerful Atlantic storm, with the models showing central pressure ranging from about 948 to 955mb, approximately. 

Yep. Currently modelling shades of 1987

[Thunders]

1 minute ago, Frosty hollows said:

Yep. Currently modelling shades of 1987

Just what we needed. Another storm set to remotely mimic 1987 and Eunice. Hopefully I get the day off if it’s gonna be that bad

[richie3846]

1 minute ago, Frosty hollows said:

Yep. Currently modelling shades of 1987

 

Just now, Thunders said:

Just what we needed. Another storm set to remotely mimic 1987 and Eunice. Hopefully I get the day off if it’s gonna be that bad

My company didn't give us the day off for Eunice, even though we drive high sided vehicles, and work where there are trees also. I was day off anyway, felt really bad for my colleagues working through it. I'll be day in this time round, of it hits Thursday, I can't say I'm looking forward to that.