Dale Hay

At 16:59 I was looking out (North-ish) of the field I was in. I noticed a cloud in the distance that had a 'curtain' of rain going directly vertical, but I then did notice something a bit thicker that wasn't vertical, it was at an angle. So, as much as I'd love it to've been some sort of vortex (FC or TOR) I'm the type that'd happily stick with it's a strong rain shaft (*giggety*) that is being blown by the wind, hence the angle. I tried to take a picture, I had to zoom in on my phone because of how far away it was. The camera doesn't seem to see anything. So, I decided to pop it in to Photoshop when I got back home to faff around with the 'levels' to change the way the image looks, and I *think* it's a bit more visible. Here's the region I'm looking at: Any thoughts? As I say, I think it may just be a wind-blown shaft. (*inserts 'Oh Matron' GIF*) Oh and just to throw in to the mix, totally off-topic, whilst on the benches atop the hill, I did get a very pretty fellow visitor too.

Nine massive deep long rumbles of thunder so far, I feel so happy with just that.

At my spot now, my forward view. Just waiting for those blobs to arrive from behind that view... hopefully they don't vanish.

I'm venturing out now for those two blobs that're on there way to me.

Bugger all here today (Saturday), which is a bit of a pooper, but the amount of awesome pictures and videos from all of you in this thread, it's made up for that. Thank you all for sharing. Thank you all for a wonderful day, NWC ('NetWeather Community'). Round 2 tomorrow (Sunday), hopefully.

Sunday: Convective Weather WWW.CONVECTIVEWEATHER.CO.UK Forecasting thunderstorms and severe convective weather across the British Isles and Ireland for up to the next 5 days.

Met Office have just the one weather warning for today.

Regarding the above, I found this from October 2019 - same place, similar forecast, so I guess it's just a crazy prediction?

High tide is at 18:44, so fingers crossed the clearing of people is because of that, and the helicopter was just a precaution to definitely make sure no one is in or around the water.

Found a nice frame from when I filmed the squall line coming over at 14:30, as I noticed a cell/white blob on the Rain Radar. Must say, I really enjoyed that line. Now the blue skies are showing.

Yeah, twas a false one, it's gone now.

Per Schafernaker's tweet, that darn English Channel. Am gonna stay up for another couple of hours, if nowt happens, then I'm going to bed.

Think I might grab a wee power-nap in the late-afternoon, looks to be a long night.

First three strikes (per Lightning Maps), just West of Snowdonia, appeared, then disappeared. Followed by two more showing then going, then another two about a minute ago - wonder how long they stay. [EDIT] They've stayed on screen. [EDIT 2] They've gone.

It seems Wetterzentrale's [website] certificate is invalid - all websites should be accessible through HTTPS (secure) only, not HTTP (not secure), as their website doesn't seem to have this correctly set up, it seems they'll be unavailable until they've sorted that issue.

Around 2pm, as I was venturing around Swindon playing Pokémon GO, I noticed that the humidity (well, that 'ugh, sticky') feeling dropped, wind/breeze picked up a tad and temperatures felt like they dropped quite a fair bit. The 'ugh, sticky' feeling is back now though. Was a nice relief for about 45 minutes.

The wind has been going up and down since around 4pm, getting a few more stronger gusts happening now, downside to this wind is that the cat refuses to go outside for the toilet and instead is marching around the house meowing - I really need to toilet train her. Anyway, back onto the topic of the weather, I did a timelapse from todays satellite imagery:

[13:35] Just had a grey-ish cloud go over then within a few seconds the wind really ramped up (like a downburst/updraft - don't know what the term is, if someone could educate me), then came loads of hail - tiny sized balls. The wind continued, then five minutes after, it all fell quiet again. Short and sharp.

Snow still lightly falling. It's been so lovely to watch all through the night.

Oh now I like that street light, proper bright.

Had a 'grandad nap' at around 8:30pm and woke back up just before 11pm and -finally- it snowed here in Highworth. The Mother said there wasn't anything when she popped her head out for a fag about an hour before that, so it's all fairly recent. Hopefully it all continues now through the night. Will look so beautiful at first light. (That's a big reason I like snow, everything around looks so picturesque)

NW Radar has had me on [green] sleet (with [red] snow) for 45 minutes, sadly no show, just rain, rain and more rain. (Slight tone to this in hope that it does change) Location: Highworth, Swindon EDIT (16:42) I think I can see a slight flake amongst the rain, that or my eyes are playing up today. EDIT (16:49) It's been transitioning over the past few minutes from rain to sleet and then now to snow. And yeah, we have snow falling.