Stormyking

Great too see others reporting thunder, what a start it is! Nothing much going on here but fingers crossed for the evening

I too can confirm Thunder and Lightning, I was out taking pictures of a dying cell to my East, then my friend picked me up to chase the cell to our North which was really close and double CG followed by Loud thunder! 3 Thunder days already this year :o

Ill go for 6.5 please, cold/ cool start but with a gradual warm up into the 2nd half of march

Thank you Sam Aha yes I know Jamie I go storm chasing with him in the summer, one of my very good friends I believe that Storm with the photo in the paper of his was actually June 25th 2009, was it a picture of Multiple lightning strikes with a light house in there too? If it's not it may of been, but this storm I saw, the lightning was very intense for a good couple of hours The Isle of Wight always used to be an excellent place for storms, but over the years it has been really disappointing In actual fact the night before the storm i writ up on the 25h July 2006 we had a good thunderstorm going off that night too, the lightning was intense for around a good half an hour then slowly decreased it might of been this one you was referring too, because there 2 big storms in 2 nights, I remember it very well indeed

There is 1 that sticks out in my mind which I will never forget. 26th July 2006: The day started off very warm and sticky, temperatures around 11am was alright up to 29/30c and they continued to rise. Around 1pm onwards a load of AcCas clouds was appearing all over the place and temperatures was up to 31c and it was becoming even more sticky and humid. My dad took me and my brother out to Ventnor around 3pm and when we got there, it was very dark out to sea and I kept hearing deep rumbling ever 30 seconds or so and I thought right that has to be thunder. I go to my dad that is thunder I can hear and he says no its not your just hearing things, but it was soooo dark out there. We walked around and then got back to the car, rumbling was still going on and my dad was hearing it, and goes hang on a minute that is thunder, so I go THANK YOU I said it was lol! Anyways this storm didn't hit us and I thought that was it and we wasn't going to get anything else which I felt gutted about. When we got back, we had to go to the carnival, and it started coming over really dark, and then was almost like night and I was thinking to myself, surely this has to it but nope only gave a couple of spots of rain and past, then brightened up again, I felt really disappointed inside. When the carnival finished about 10/15 minutes later we got home and my mum told me to put some stuff away in the garden. I opened the back door and got outside, put things away and then all of a sudden Thunder rumbling away and I literally went inside and upstairs to the bedroom window to be greeted to a very dark sky with sun shining on it, within 5 seconds a massive CG came down right in front of my eyes and was like WOOOO! 10/15 seconds lately streaks of lightning to my left which looked amazing and very nice thunder a couple of seconds after. I thought this storm I was watching was about to pass through, but the sky was flashing away to my South and SW coming directly my way and was merging into the storm that was already over us. I was thinking OH MY GOD this is going to be a long night and it was one amazing night. The storm went on for 4 hours and the lightning was every 2 seconds, for the first hour and a half of the storm, there was no thunder, just constant lightning. Then the Thunder arrived properly and it was very very loud, and was shaking the whole place, the sound was deflecting off all the buildings which made it sound even better. The Lightning was just going on and on and on and on, and was producing some of the most amazing looking lightning I ever seen. There was spider lightning, a lot of Forked lightning with multiple strikes at once and obviously CC lightning. The storm caused power cuts across a lot of parts on the Isle of Wight. This storm even got my mum and my brother to watch it, which is a rarity :L For me this storm will take some beating but my fingers are crossed for that to happen this year!!!!

Ahaa good bit of fun. I reckon 20c will be reached in the 1st week of April 25c I reckon will be reached around Mid May 30c I think around the 3rd week of June with a Thundery Breakdown

If I remember Last march I think around 25th, there was actually a plume type setup, I remember Thunderstorms moved up from the South around 4pm, and were quite lively for march!

Cheers Nick, will certainly be interesting tomorrow bring it on, good luck to all !! Late Afternoon will be best chance me thinks!

Thankyou Jane It felt so good to see it all again, missed it a lot and to think its only February as well

Thought Id share just a few pictures, hope they have worked. Hope Like them, the last one was the back of the Cell

I agree, been very surprised on how strong the convection has been today, though our little thunder and hail shower developed just out to sea about 20 miles south of the Island :o

Oh yeah thanks for reminding me Lol I will try and get the pictures up soon, it was only the one rumble and one flash but the cell looked a right little beauty and was well worth a few pictures

Hahaha brilliant we just had lightning and a crack of thunder, got some pics of the cloud it self, it looks amazing!!!

Ahaaa talking about showery looking clouds, we have our first shower of the day, falling moderately

Not bad today at all, was very sunny morning which looked very nice indeed, sun felt quite pleasant as the morning went on. The past hour or 2 a lot of convective type cloud has bubble up and some have a showery look to it. Doesn't feel that cold at all with a very slight breeze. Current Temperature 7.9c but 9.6c in Newport Max Temperature 9.4c Min Temperature 3.9c

Quite a bit of Convective activity about here at the moment, not bad for February! Quite a few showers about on the radar by the look of it, load in N France wander if they can hold strength and come up to us Potent shower activity too south Devon too by the look of as well

Hmmm was good to see some good convection about, first time in a long time to see big popcorn like cumulus clouds grow over land, was great to see

Only 8 days of thunder down here last year which is very poor on we normally get, was least thundery year I think ive ever seen Ah well better luck this year

We had light snow falling most of the morning here, was a nice suprise but didnt do anything really but it was continuous light snow at times too

That's good though, always good to stay positive, and being patient about them, one day you willg et your reward with biggest storm you will have ever seen in you life

Thankyou Jane Sadly I couldn't track as I was at bowls at the time, but I popped out side every now and then when the extremely heavy stuff came, and lucky caught the lightning and thunder . Good luck to you too and hope you will be out here quick

Wow some very impressive downpours this evening, also had a couple of rumbles of thunder and flashes of lightning but mostly out in the sea, thouht there were 2 flashes on the island too and 3 rumbles Im well happy wheyyyyyy.

And I am out of here , had couple Flashes of Lightning and rumbles of thunder, and some pretty good lightning just off the island too

Ah yes I remember that day, we had thunderstorms going off all morning and also during the middle of the night on that day we had 2 pretty good lightning displays I would love this to happen again and 2006 was a very a good storm year for here, so my fingers are crossed for a repeat

Can I join please? considering theres been no storms yet in 2011 But seriously I can't wait for the spring and summer, bring on them storms and summer plumes I have good feeling about this year