Jamie M

NOAA expecting G4 conditions

Southern Storm Always find the alerts are way too slow here for seeing any kind of aurora - I've always got starvisor.ru open on another tab and briefly glance at it every so often on a night where -Bz is pretty sustained (<-10 generally). Gives a good idea of when the oval is building and about to burst, etc and enables me to dash to a window or outside to try and nab some rays if I see them pop up!

Flash bang flash bang etc Got to inspect the blurb thoroughly

Fascinating structure

Aurora timelapse from 22:41 - 23:49 BST last night 1_1.mp4

Aurora yesterday Very faint but there at 22:30 BST - had noticed some rays on Russian cams so snapped a shot to check 22:50 BST - could faintly see the red glow on the horizon from the garden although this faded pretty quickly but was visible on camera for a fair amount of time 23:35 BST - random burst that I didn't notice until looking at the camera after

Sprites I know @Eagle Eye wasn't best pleased when he had cloud overhead whilst I had the aurora. I'm sure the next G4 storm will be full cloud cover here anyway so not to worry! Anyway back on topic, the rain is definitely coming and ever hoping for something convective Southern Storm We will have to see how it goes, always up for something

Thunders I'm a bit confused too as I thought the rain bands currently wouldn't have anything thundery to them at all. Perhaps they're anticipating a bit more of a clearance than originally thought?

Thunderstorm warning in the SE is probably the place I'd least expect it today

Southern Storm I wish I was a connoisseur but yeah I did buy the Zoom H1n for thunderstorms although it's designed to being a desktop microphone for 99% of the year. There's definitely some settings I need to change as it still sounds a bit quieter than it could be but that's just me winging it without reading any instructions! I'd definitely recommend it though as I love me some crisp audio

Southern Storm Incredible, love the audio especially around 04:35

Flash bang flash bang etc You're pretty much spot on, was looking SW-W towards Canterbury where the cell was. Managing to avoid nearly all the rain certainly helped a nice clear slot into the cells that went by to my north and south lol

Storm video from the other day although the audio was the main goal

It's May and nearly time for NLCs to reappear once again. A few helpful links I've collated: IAP MLS temperature data at 54.1N - https://alomar.andoyaspace.no/rmrlidar/html/auramls/index.html Mesopause temperature over the UK - https://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/~hcp/meso_ts/ MAARSY Mesosphere radar - https://www.iap-kborn.de/en/research/department-radar-remote-sensing/current-radar-observations/maarsy-mesosphere/ OSWIN Mesophere radar - https://www.iap-kborn.de/en/research/department-radar-remote-sensing/current-radar-observations/oswin-mesosphere/ NLC Camera Map that I made - https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/edit?mid=1qhdX7mj7eciDYjZF61LU9zYDCNwdDzA&usp=sharing IAP NLC camera network - https://www.iap-kborn.de/en/research/department-optical-soundings-and-sounding-rockets/instruments-and-models/nlc-cameras/overview/ German NLC forum - https://forum.meteoros.de/viewforum.php?f=34 German NLC website with lots of information/links and previous sightings to 1885 - http://www.leuchtende-nachtwolken.info/ German website with information about previous NLC sightings in Rostock, Germany & links - https://3sky.de/ Czech website for monitoring NLCs with previous sightings - http://ukazy.astro.cz/nlc-monitor.php NLC visibility map, allows you to put in long/lat for possible altitudes of NLCs at certain times of day - http://www.theusner.eu/terra/nlc/nlc_vis.php

Lightning shots from yesterday

The best lightning shots I have taken ever

Me & angel fiance Can't remember the last time I dodged storms and got blinded by fork lightning and CGs!

Massively active storms here along the Estuary Seen CGs, fork lightning and had nearly continuous thunder for nearly an hour from half 11 to quarter past 12 One off the camera but there's many to sift through

Flash

Seen a few flashes on this camera from the Belgian cell

Elevated storm in the Theta-E plume, may be one to watch for Essex

From the storms in eastern France

Alderc 2.0 Can confirm it’s very muggy around here

lol AROME still going mad, 3.2k CAPE over the Estuary

AROME with a casual 2200 J/kg over Ramsgate