Anvils in the Sky
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Afternoon all,
And, yep, what a stunner. The pessimist in me feared for the day around 11, when some ominous convective cumulus just developed within minutes, and blocked the sun out for half an hour. But then they moved off, and it has been blue skies and 'nice' cumulus ever since. Made the most of it by planting daffodil bulbs! Good time to do it. Not just because it's a lovely day today, but because the soil is nice and soft after the recent rain. So, anyway, hopefully a blaze of yellow come March.
Currently a very respectable 19.6°, with sunshine and a light breeze. And as a few others have said, I'd rather have THIS in October, than the cold rain we could be seeing towards the end of next week. No problem with it if it wants to be cold and sunny - but cold and wet is just depressing!
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Thanks Anvils for the link I really appreciate it!
You're welcome. Hope it's what you're looking for. (I have a bookmark for a Dutch site which shows an animation of the lightning over the whole of Europe for the last month. Was going to post that too.....except it now gives you "404 Not Found"
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Bit of a 'no weather' day here too so far. Some brightness first thing, but it was rapidly replaced by the greyness others are reporting. 16°. Yawn...
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Just done it;
Gravesend 20.1 °CHeathrow Sunny19.7 °CHerstmonceux 17.9 °Chttp://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/observations/
Ta. Good old Gravesend! (And here, just along the A2, it's currently 19.3°C. So we're not too far behind!)
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It's at a golf course, so there's bound to be a bar
Tomorrow is a birthday party in the pub up the road, so light and shade in everything I guess!Never known a club house on a golf course without one!
Does anyone know where I can find that data from the met that has lightning activity by month?
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/summaries/anomacts
Select 'lightning strikes' from the 'climate variable' drop-down. That what you mean?
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Wedding reception, I really don't like wedding receptions....
Not my fave events either, I'll be honest.
You may have to sneak out and find a pub!
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Well that must mean it's the weekend soon!
Indeed. And beers in the Big Smoke for me tonight.
Will report back on any thunderstorms, tornadoes etc in the capital this evening.
(So, yep, that means it's 99.9999% likely I'll have nothing to report back on!)
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Morning Lee,
Might just scrape it if the sun comes out, but a good chance of 18 or 19°C:
Just made it to 18.3° here, in a lengthy sunny spell. Clouding over again now....but it's all moving so quickly up there.
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Morning folks,
As I mentioned last night, we were just a little too far west - yet again! - for the main electrical activity. Nothing beats being right under the cell of course......but being a few miles from the edge does have its benefits. It means we got to see the sky to the south, and then east, being lit up by some incredible lightning. Two or three overhead flashes and booms here in the end, but on nothing like the scale being witnessed 15/20 miles away. East Kent trumps the western half once again!
Glad to see a few more commented on how mild it was last night. It was amazing for October. 16.5° when I hit the sack shortly after midnight. And the mild air is still with us; 17.2° at present. Sun poking through the fast-moving clouds too. 20° in the SE today?
Lee
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Watching to the east, rather than the south, for all the lightning now. Would say Sittingbourne/Faversham must be under a storm at the moment.
Just too far west here....again. But at least I've been seeing and hearing something!
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Certainly some closer T&L here now. Nothing major, and far from being right overhead, but better than nothing!
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Plenty of lightning now to my south. But too distant for me to hear much thunder. In fact, only one rumble heard so far.
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Thunder and lightning every 30 seconds or so here
Just seen a very impressive flash of lightning to my south. Must be what's over your part of the county.
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Thunder and lighting here : )
Enjoy it. (But don't use it all up before you send it to Kent!)
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Anyone been watching this one from the convective thread http://www.vision-environnement.com/web/saint-jouin-bruneval-la-plage/ ?
Some fantastic lightning at the moment. Fingers crossed it's heading towards us lot.
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Aside from all the storm talk, must just point out it's currently 17° here. Not bad going for past 8 on an October evening, I'd have thought.
Anyway, back to radar/strikes watching...
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I'm liking the look of the stuff just leaving the French coast
Me too. And Tamara has explained why it's looking as if it could make it to these shores this evening. But I'm still keeping my feet firmly on the ground. Too many let-downs in the past ensure I always do that these days!
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http://www.meteoradar.co.uk/Content/image.ashx?type=lightning-12&time=
It looks like it is fully destabilising as suspected. Spherics in the channel now and breaking out ahead of the main cluster
Yep. I also couldn't help but notice how the activity has started exploding into life over the Cherbourg peninsula.
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Speaking of the evening sky....
I do like where I live, but it's not great for sunsets as I'm in a slight dip, with houses higher up to my west. (And next door's washing line in the way too!) So these are the best I could do.
The sky as it currently looks to my WSW. All I can ask myself now is "Will I be seeing lightning there over the next few hours?"
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Yes Tomas, I'm not liking at all the way those storms are organising themselves ahead of crossing the channel. With evening now arriving the channel will assist those storms and not hinder them. CAPE and lift now present, plus increased lapse rates because of the relatively warm SST's creating a greater temp differential after dark, then it doesn't look good for those of us who don't want them.
Thank you for that succinct explanation of why the chances are high that the French storms may make it to the SE this evening. Easy to understand for someone like me who has forgotten all the A-level Geography he learnt over 20 years ago.
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Sun re-appearing here.
In terms or rain.......we had some.
In terms of thunder, lightning, tornadoes etc.....nowt, nuffink, rien, nada, niente. Grrr....
Last minute flight to Rome for the trombe d'aria on Saturday instead?!
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Anvils... Looks menacing... Mum saw a funnel cloud about half hour ago
Yes, just saw that you said your mum saw something out her way too. Maybe things ARE kicking off.
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Just seen this to my west. Probably nowt, but it certainly caught my eye.
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I'm in SE London, convective cloudscapes last seen on that hot evening of 23rd July!
Same out here in Kent. And I've just been thinking similar comparisons to you! It really is a mid-summer convective sky out there at the moment.
And just as I type this, the first rain starts falling. Now let's get those strikes to cross the Channel...
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Gathering together all the model/chart information, today's media weather forecasts, current radar, satellite and lightning detector I can be very confident this morning that I still haven't a clue exactly what's coming and when!
Uncertainty regarding thunderstorms in this country??? You jest, surely, Coast?!
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Tomorrow is a birthday party in the pub up the road, so light and shade in everything I guess!
South East & East Anglia Regional Weather Discussion 30/09/13 ------------>
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Morning all,
Fantabulous start to the day here. Unbroken sunshine since the word go. I've been reliably informed, however, that I'm perilously close to the fog! (It's just two miles away apparently.) Currently slap bang on 13°.
All that remains to be done is pray that the models have got their ideas for later this week - and over the weekend - wrong. The idea of all that cold rain, and north-easterlies, in October fills me with no joy whatsoever.
Have a great Monday, folks. And for those that haven't got the sun, hope it appears soon.
Lee