Stormyking

Absolutely fantastic day today! I waited all night for today and it payed off big time! Snow started around about 4:30amish but was like light and took a while to get going properly, the ground was very wet, but all of a sudden from about 6:15 onwards it was beginning to get heavier and started to settle on cars and houses, and then another 30 minutes later the flakes got a lot larger and heavier, and the ground was going whiter and whiter! Whilst my part didnt really settle as well as everywhere else on the IOW, but I walked like 200 yards up the road, and there was a good 2/3 inches , and the snow just carried on right until about 3pmish, and since then we have had the odd shower every now and then P.S it is snowing as I type this

Now the schools are shut here , snow is getting very heavy!

Starting to get really quite heavy now and beginning to settle!

Its coming down properly now, just tried to walk around in it and its impossible, its gradually getting heavy

SNOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG Oops got excited lol

Dewpoints around most of the Isle of Wight are now below -1, Temperatures hovering between 3.1 and 3.6c. Right now judging earlier on today we had snow falling at my place in Sandown with a temperature of 4.1c and a dew point of -0.8c, so that in mind what ever falls now should be snow....... I hope haha.

Well I am braving an all nighter, there is no way ill be able to settle down tonight!

Hey there fellow Isle of wighter The rain/sleet tonight has been expected according to the NAE, but dont panick about it as the temperatures is expected to drop rather quickly after midnight, and I am pretty confident even on the Isle of Wight coast we will get a decent covering of snow tomorrow before turning a bit sleety again in the evening. How ever further inland Isle of Wight shouldn't be affected much In my opinion especially higher ground, and believe it will remain as just snow. So don't worry yet fella

Woke up to a pleasant suprise this morning about 9ish, woke up to a lovely snow shower, which gave a ligh dusting on the ground, roofs and cars:D

Went to bed at 1 am after waiting for snow, then fell asleep, but then I woke up at 4 to see a text from my mate saying there was a light dusting where he was, so I checked the radar and had seen there was a load of precipitation over us. So I looked outside and was greeted to light snow falling , there was a slight dusting on the top of car roofs but that was it. It decided to get a little heavier with bigger flakes about half an hour later and it had made the roofs more white and most of the cars , But it had gone by 6am and everything was just really wet as the temperature shot up. Either way I was happy to see snow fall and put a smile on my face, yaaay

ECM is an absolute beauty, id take that any day and I am sure everyone else would that loves cold and snow Fingers crossed the Ensembles still show good later and hope the GFS 18 comes on board again!

Looking a lot better than the GFS! Come on ECM keep it going!

First time I have posted in a very long time, but I just had to come back! I dont want to get to carried away yet, because I know anything could happen, but these are basically some of the best model runs, if not the best I have ever seen, just fingers crossed it pulls off!

Tomorrow looking potentially nasty, especially with the winds for down this area :o, hope the channel can produce some more thundery good ness , fingers crossed!

Qualityy, Just had thunder and lightning, not alot but a good 7 cracks and a few flashes!

Its been a long long time since I posted on here, but bring on the winter! Im really looking forward to it all and to how it shapes up! Hope it is a cold and snowy one! Last winter was disappointing compared to the previous 2! But who knows hopefully it will be better! Fingers crossed!

Thought id uploaded some more pictures from the cell we had earlier

Dont know if these work, but check this little beauty out that clipped us just!

Have not posted for quite a long time now, but i am now back, and quite interested in tonight and early tomorrow, good luck to everyone!

See this is why i love being on the Isle of Wight, because i got views all around me and im practically in the english channel xD

Woww just had a proper thunderstorm, some incredible rumbles and Lightning strikes! And i can still her it going off!

Wow even though are not getting anything yet this week, all i can say is what a stunning start to 2012, this has to be thunderiest start to any year ive ever seen! Love itttttt! Well done to everyone who has had storms!

Hello all I haven't been able to post the past 2 days due to being very ill, but just I would say what a week it has been this past week! We have 5 days in a row of thunder, on Tuesday Evening we had a cell develop through the evening which produced a few flashes and rumbles of thunder and then was greeted to some very heavy hail quite big aswell! Wednesday, we had 2 storms pass through this day, the one that stands out was easily in the evening! The look of the storm looked like something you would get from the plains, the colours was just unbelievable which gave out some amazing looking CG's and all of this was directly at sunset time, and you could see the sun setting behind the storm! It was one of the most amazing looking storm structures, colours I have ever seen! It also gave some massive hail, crazy mammatus, a funnel cloud and a wall cloud aswell! I will post the rest of the pictures on later from this storm and from some of the other storms we have had this past week! Thursday, now this was a fun day and an excellant day! We had 5 storms past through, the first was one was very fun to track and watch, it first gave out a few cracks of thunder and flashes of lightning, but then the thunder died and instead we ended up having some of the most crazy rotation I even seen, the whole thing was literally stalled directly over our heads like rotating, which produced a decent funnel cloud, and then it decided to move on and gave us some nice hail! The 2nd storm was the best for the thunder and lightning, which I caught on video camera , it was rather bizare as the cell was really small and I was struggling to see how it would produce thunder and Lightning! Anyway the thunder was very frequent, it must of let out 15/20 rumbles with some very nice lightning and was very very loud! But then we found out a house had got struck by lightning by this storm, which was the downside . We had 3 more storms pass over throughout the rest of the day but they wasn't anything that special, but still fun . Friday, This day gave out 2 storms, the first one of which I was travelling to Newport to get something and when I got off the bus I was greeted to massive hail and a big crack of thunder, and then another one 5 minutes later . Later on we had another storm close by moving very very slowly towards us, but I dont remember much about this storm as I became very ill and couldn't move or anything, but later on when I was starting to feel a little better I had found out it had produced a big funnel cloud and a couple of thunder and lightning! And yesterday we had a cell develop right over the IOW near my house and that produced a nice crack of thunder too, but that was it Overall a very very good week, this is the best start to any year I remember, my thunderstorm count is now upto 10 already but 8 days where it has thundered if you get me Take care all!

Hi all, I haven't posted on here for a long time and for that I apologise I been too busy! But tonight I felt like was a good time to return to posting as we had one of the most incredible looking storm structures and colours of it was just beautiful! There was only 2 cg's and 2 cracks of thunder but also so much rain and hail! But here is a couple of pictures I took of the beautiful thing!

Wow already on my 2nd day of storms, what an evening we have had thunder, lightning, massive hail and snow on the hills :o