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Belgian storm has really ramped up in the last half hour. Phenomenal presentation on sat24.

Reporting live from Sleaford. Unfortunately a sudden dose of the trots meant I had to leave work early, at which point I suddenly recovered enough to go out and chase, and boy am I glad I did. Started off around Uttoxeter where I caught an active cell with visible rotation as it moved towards Ashbourne. Then intercepted a second cell near Derby. A very intense cell around Kirkby with amazing rainfall and small hail. This too was exhibiting strong rotation as it moved off north. A fourth cell hit just near Newark with a couple of good bolts before the main course near Sleaford up to Cranwell. Lots of high based flashes but some big hail the size of marbles and the heaviest rain I have witnessed in a long time.

amazing photo from germany today

Dusseldorf

This is taken near Lancaster today. https://www.facebook.com/bbcnorthwesttonight?fref=nf

at Dussledorf airport it's just 2 blokes....one shaking the camera and the other flicking a flash light on and off......and they're saying.. "Dis is good ja?...dat Netweather mob, they is easy to winden upem!"

storm chaser in germany amazing

This is frightening.

two visible light images of the German 'UFO' MCS taken at 15 minute intervals. The size beggars belief! and look at the explosive updraft development denoted by the overshooting tops....absolutely incredible

More Asperatus clouds again - this time over Belgium. We are getting spoiled this week... From severe weather eu, a stunning shot of Paris last night. Wow.

Most amusing warning map of the evening...

Cologne, earlier. http://vimeo.com/97752365

A new edition to the bottom of my garden! a river! Theres usually no water at all here, and it has now been flowing like this for nearly 2 hours! Around 2ft deep

Dutch KNMI recorderd over 100000! lightning strikes :O

my eyes widened... You ba$t4rd!!

The GFS is starting to look very July 2013(esque), high pressure slap bang over the UK. Warm to very warm with plenty of sunshine. UKMO also showing the UK high Some impressive maxima for the end of this week, mid to possibly high twenties across the south.

A very settled warm run so far from GFS UKMO also looking settled Still early-ish but the idea of the low to our east moving in later this week appears to have gone

Taken in Paris just now by a friend of a friend.

Hi@all Just fired up the computer, and a quick peek at the charts gave me wide eyes! In my post yesterday I mentioned a volatile situation developing over France, BeNeLux and nortern Germany. I would like to change that to highly explosive. The so called "loaded gun" is about to be fired by the current passage of a very pronounced short wave trough over the BeNeLux which in turn initiates the formation of a surface low that can quickly erode the CAP. The rapid formation of supercells and clustering into a massive MCS will be the result, with us maybe witnessing a rare phenomenon here in Europe, the "cold ring shape", visible on IR Satpic as a round area of very cold cloudtop surrounding the warmer dome shaped and pulsating updraft area. Massive hail expected, making the current action there harmless in comparison. Destabilisation further westwards is very probable, the SE UK can definitely expect some action later on. (see Estofex &co) Widespread conclusiveness.. What still gives me thought is that due to the public holiday in these places many peeps will be travelling or out in the open and get caught unawares Ralph

We've got some hail here... TAKE THAT GERMANY!

Anyone up for a little annexing?

Munster Munched

Belgian MCS top just broke - 70!! FASZINATION FLUGHAFEN

It never ceases to amaze me how at 10am so many people can write their chances off for a storm today, some of you guys must be so good at convective forecasting, maybe you could share with us exactly which postcodes will see a storm today.

More Undulatus Asperatus today - awesome pic. https://twitter.com/AGJMills/status/475918192846831616

Picture of storm "2" just near Kirton Lindsey, from Flatlander on UKWW,

OMG....what's happening over mid-wiltshire?....check the radar out NOW!......forget those active storms in Lincs/Yorks today!....and a big rasberry to those monsters in Germany as looking at the skies and the radar shows that THE development is taking place right here, right now, as we have MCS here!.... Mostly Cloudy Skies.....with more than a hint of convective drizzle...............

Hail from Loiret, France!

In the last two hours 23,772 strikes.... Mind blowing :bomb: :bomb: :bomb:

View from Eumetsat via Meteo EU - Spellbinding. Some of the strike count figures are also phenomenal.

The pain is too much, stonking storm on the mainland really close to the UK, goes to show how, you can be only 100 or so miles away and have no indication at all, of that beauty of a storm. One day that will happen to the UK, just wonder when

Somewhere in Germany, a 186mile wide storm is raging...

Storm about to hit Aachen in Germany....awesome moving webcam http://drehturm-aachen.de/livecam-eurogio/

Difficult to forecast todays potential since there is still some differences in model output. Looking at the Satelite pictures you can see a ribbon of vorticity (red) over the continent with warm air moving up from the south (green). There is also a small area of vorticity moving into the south of the UK which I think might destabilise things from the south west across to the north east this morning. Further south is a vorticity lobe creating a marked cold front and low pressure, which may start to pull that ribbon over the continent more northwards and westward. This afternoon models somewhat disagree about where low level wind convergence will take place. Moisture pooling along the convergence zones could spark some storms. GFS would suggest from London up to Manchester with storms travelling north from this line. NMM has a convergence zone todays the central south of the UK with storms which will travel north into the midlands during the evening. I think NMM is possibkly the odd one out today. Mid level lapse rates are marginal across the UK with cloud tops not being as high as on the continent. Storms across the UK today are likely to be limited in strength. Overnight lightning wizard charts initialized with GFS data suggest the possibility of an import with an over shooting top. This I think will be what the estofex forecaster will be looking at. Not every model agrees and a storm could just clip kent or trundle rigth across the south east. GFS looks keen to bring that ribbon of vorticity ove the continent towards the SE of the UK. With the jet over the UK there is potential for any large storm (limited by lapse rates) to develop super cell characteristics. Low level convergence zones would pose a slight risk of a very weak funnel developing. So there is a slight risk of storms across the UK today with limited potential for a lively import into the evening and overnight.

Yesterdays captures but the rain made it tricky to get into position so i shot from inside the car, looks like ill be out again judging by the radar Good luck all.

I finally had enough time to test out a roof cam and then sit down and edit a video - which I still need some practice at...It could do with a soundtrack, and there's a slightly dodgy bit in the middle, but check out the movement, rotation and sheer size of this cell, plus the short lived tornado at the end - an awesome days chasing!

Jawoll, vee take zat, but only 0.5 points for our UK players, to make 1 point you need bigger hail, ja? Ok, enough off topic, there is something I wanted to point out a while ago already: for those living on the south and east shores there might be a possibility of spotting sprites or blue jets in the troposphere above these cells over the continent. Night vision binocs would be excellent aid. Here more: http://www.sky-fire.tv/index.cgi/lookforsprites.html Ralph

Beautiful rainfall radar on that storm, and looks like there could be some serious straight line SW winds on that SE end: Textbook bow/comma echo as well:

Not much to add really,jaw dropping stuff! Paris looks to be in the firing line again soon.

Ha, everyone must have been screen capping this! What an incredible sight. https://forum.netweather.tv/gallery/image/19942-/

Think the super storm over Germany is destabilising the air here Incredible display of altocumulus now!

im right in the shadow of that thing, i can clearly see the anvil! Cam nearby my location pointing north http://www.wetterpool.de/wetterwebcam-mutterstadt-wetterstation-pfalz-id1202

Lets all head down to Ajpoolsharks location wait till it gets dark bang some wheelie bins around and set off a strobe light..That'll teach him lol

Look at the size of that thing!

Big improvements on the models so far this evening!!high pressure seems to be pushing further and further east on each run!!weekend is starting to look warm aswell!!

This cell has just brewed up and passed to my east before firing into action around Birstall, Loughborough I think, now showing several strikes now gone past the City of Leicester... Anyone underneath? Pics taken on my HTC one M7 phone..

I'm holding you personally responsible that as I was trying to sleep last night 'altocumulus castellanus' kept going round in my head keeping me awake.

Heres the back end of the first storm to hit, taken from just outside Thorne, Doncaster, with some wind turbines in the mid distance..

Small clip of what i shot earlier, not edited well and my camera work is abit dodgy so please excuse that! Just wondering what sort of thing i was seeing on the right hand edge of the cloud. Best seen if the video is sped up, cheers Dont worry the video is the rotated the correct way when opened! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOujf4eK04M

I sat and watched the right hand edge of this lowering as it approached me, it was rapidly developing right infront of me. Then the rain bands moved closer could see them on the fields, incredible! Not really sure what i was watching but i managed to get into a perfect place and i was loving it haha! Anyway, its thundering again here now from a smaller cell, i will edit and upload a video later today! Thanks