Flash bang flash bang etc

We are literally in the eye of this thing. Calm

What storm?

I’m spying potential for some fairly active electrical storms. My only questions are where and when. CAPE is apparently low (about 100 > 300 J/KG) which isn’t too much of an issue as a lot of that is low to the ground (Eagle mentioned this as 3CAPE) which means there is more potential than one would initially expect. But this is the U.K. so the timings and placements could vary wildly and I’m not open to speculation. In essence: an exciting night to come, for some! That said please take care if venturing outside and be aware that things could get very blustery

Pls stop starting new threads so frequently, I have to update all my links

Nothing here. Heavy autumn rain. Nowt special about it, unless you are a plant

Times like these I like to reassure myself by thinking how stressed I would be if there was a storm forecast for this evening

Just to add that the reversing is me reversing the video lol

A curious bit of backend action on the storm as it moved north east towards london FullSizeRender.MOV

My guess as to the next pulse epsom?

Not the most electrically active but proper bolts in there! the sky beforehand was really striated as well - 7/10 thunderstorm in October!

Storms breaking our quite generally along the central coastal areas and inland

Naaa we’ve had so many this summer already. I couldn’t handle another

Monday looking to have low potential for storms on the south

Yeah it was all talk - the squall here was a grey cloud. Lol sums this year up really

Squall line setting up

I like this - but it did make me go on Twitter which I’m trying to avoid. But thanks for posting

Nick F storm forecast for tomo: Longwave upper trough extends south over the N Atlantic from Greenland and Iceland to the west of UK and Ireland on Tuesday. A surface low will be slow-moving to the south of Iceland, a cold front will move eastward across Ireland and UK through the day, lying across W Scotland, Wales and SW England at noon then N Sea and Low Countries at midnight. Ahead of the cold front, the nose of 14-16C theta-w plume will push in across SE England / E Anglia through the morning. An area of elevated instability looks to develop on the northern extent of the plume across S England and E Anglia during the morning, as a shortwave trough moving in from the Atlantic moves NE creating lift of the northern edge of the plume and steepening lapse rates. This will support the development of heavy showers and perhaps some elevated thunderstorms moving NE over these areas through the morning and into the early afternoon. Cold front across the west of mainland Britain at noon before moving east across the UK through the afternoon will also produce some convection, thanks to forced ascent of warm moist conveyor ahead of front, with a risk of isolated thunderstorms embedded in band of showery rain along front. Heavy showers and a few thunderstorms may also develop across Ireland, Irish Sea coastal areas and SW Scotland in post-frontal airmass characterised by colder upper air / steep lapse rates.

I tried something like this, fell over

Tomo looking to have potential in the south

Well looks like the U.K. storm season started and ended last week for the south

Tremendous rain here after it went very dark. No electrics as yet though

Flooding here - and we are on a hill Edit: taken about an hour ago IMG_8480.MOV

What’s going on … 26° possible next week?

Exactly the kind of photos I was hoping to get - but didn’t because I was stuck in mist in Hampshire watching lightning blasting out from the IOW!