CarlLH44

One day in July where a weak storm rumbled about 6-7 miles to the east of my location for about 20 minutes.....and that was it for the whole summer storm wise. I cannot believe that Summer 2010 could have turned out to be so pathetically uneventful. Next spring/summer can only be an improvement....it certainly could not get any worse.

June scored a 9 for me...a super month in the main with plenty of sunshine and high temperature days. Would have scored a 10 had there been any decent thundery activity but nonetheless a great month. July only gets a 3...an absolutely turgid month of seemingly endless drab dull days...humid drizzly nothingness.....totally forgettable and uninspiring. Overall the summer scores a 6...now lets see what August brings.

No Storms Club members go berserk after missing out again

Thunderstorm has passed with 2-3 miles of my location...many rumbles heard and a few flashes seen....the thunder drought is over :unsure:

Well done to those who have got lucky today...but please spare a thought for those of us who are missing out.....YET AGAIN

Hoping everyone in the NSC gets their prayers answered today but for my part I have already resigned myself to today not delivering. There is just too much cloud which stubbornly refuses to break with even spots of drizzle now and then. Sorry I just dont see any chance today for me. July 14th and still no thunder heard all year.....incredible. :lol:

Grey skies and drizzle...expectations of seeing/hearing anything of interest today pretty much zero. Expectations of still being in the NSC at the end of today nearly 100%

I dont know what to think....what often happens when BBC forecasters predict "sharp showers" we get bangers...on the other hand when "humdingers" - yes Ms Kirkwood im referring to you - are predicted nothing significant happens. Time will tell.

From null : "Although a HIGH RISK is likely come Wednesday for some parts, I feel I've been a little too progressive in issuing a HIGH at this very early stage. I should of gone from SLIGHT to MODERATE and then updated to HIGH when confidence was higher. I'll keep it as it is right now and should it be necessary update again closer to the event. " I smell backtracking....I fear some of us are going to be disappointed again.

"north-east Midlands and eastern England would be the more favoured spots to see showers and storms". Hmm...where have I heard that before? Already sounds like the tiresome east gets everything of interest scenario is likely to pan out yet again. If that is indeed the case then an interesting day for people living there. Apologies if I sound begrudging....but not having heard a single rumble this year...the possibility of missing out again is infuriating.

So am I....I've got a bad feeling tomorrow might turn out to be overhyped...and that any actual storms will clip Kent (again! :unsure:) with the rest of us getting non-electrified showers.

Time for some reverse psychology on here me thinks. Nothing is going to happen for any of us. Nothing is going to happen...maybe the odd spot of drizzle while the Benelux countries somehow nick it all again.

I just hope that ALL of us can look back on July 14th 2010 as the day we left the No Storms club. It would be better still if we were all treated to absolute bangers on and off throughout that day to make up for the storm drought we have had to endure.

If we are all still members of this club by Friday then we might as well all pack up and go home. After what I have read on the null site regards Wednesday, it would be the mother of all let downs if nothing happens.

Fairly cloudy and quite windy...a rubbish day you'd think? Far from it...the aforementioned wind is pretty warm...its humid and out of the wind you realise just how very warm a day it actually is. Temp 25c dew point 16c

Today has been in the main cloudy with an odd spot of rain in the breeze, but every once in a while the sun will burst through making things feel very warm indeed. A clear demonstration of the fact that to suggest there a NW/SE split is simplifying things too much....to me its more like a three way split...hot humid dry South East...cool and wet North West and then us in the transistion zone...temperatures sort of in between what the coolest and hottest parts of the country are experiencing.

It must surely be unusual for so many areas in the UK to have not having had so much as a rumble of thunder up to the first week of July? Very strange....not to mention frustrating.

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Barring a few spots of rain this morning it has been a completely dry day...with sunshine now and then. Not exactly what I was expecting given the forecast for rain in western areas.

I'm actually struggling to recall the last time we went through the entire month of June without so much as a solitary rumble. Years gone by...it was pretty much a given that you'd see a storm in April and or May to whet the appetite for the summer ahead but this year...nothing. 2010 (so far) has been a complete joke storm wise....let us hope things change for the better for all of us, otherwise come the end of the year I will look back on the summer with a sigh and a hissed good riddance under my breath.

Seeing as this breakdown is going to be a total non event storm wise...the wait to hear thunder this year goes on. I am struggling to recall the last time we here in North East Wales went through the year to the end of June without a storm having occured...or even a solitary rumble for that matter. Quite extraordinary. Could 2010 be the year without a storm? Frankly right now I would not bet against it.

In all seriousness...if anyone has a genuinely plausible theory for the reason that there is now this Eastern bias with regard to where storms occur...and also why it is that Spanish Plume storms nowadays always seem to go North East across the Channel and hammer the Low Countries in contrast with days gone by when large parts of the UK would be treated to really good night storms (they did happen, I can remember them well) then I would be most interested to hear it.

Can't say I am overly surprised that things are now trending towards the Easterners....yet again! Like all things in life that have an air of predictability about them, this seemingly endlessly repeating scenario is proving to be annoying and frankly tedious.....Yep I am being an IMBY, Im guilty, but having not heard so much as a rumble this year, its getting increasingly difficult to feel anything other than frustrated when the same places get one after another after another ala 2009...and it looks at the moment like the pattern is repeating itself. There is nothing worse than enduring heat and humidity, only to experience nothing at the end of it. Of course things might still change and I could end up having to swallow a huge slice of humble pie, but I cant say I would put anyone else's money on it, never mind my own.

Don't worry....I doubt anyone west of a line from say the Wash to the Isle of Wight will get excited..we know the score. The Easterners will get to hog it all again while we make do with the odd spot of drizzle.:o:D

If I ever find the guy responsible for activating the storm shield over North East Wales (yet again).....