ChannelThunder

Thunderspotter yep, suddenly the cells are looking more intense on radar too

A repeat of these exact synoptics later in the year when there's more warm air to be sucked into the mid levels from Europe would go down a treat. It's so unusual for the whole lot to be tracking to the NWW like this is doing, and in the summer it'd no doubt give a long lasting show to many as it crawls across.

Cells have entered the east side of the island. Window open hoping for that sweet sound. Edit: the only sweet sounds so far are our garden Robin and Blackbirds. Not a bad alternative, but we get them every day

It's all gone a bit....quiet

Stormhog I would've been two at the time, so sadly, can't remember that! Things getting very interesting in the channel now. Time to scoff a roast dinner and see about getting out with the camera for nightfall.

Thunderspotter I think Mother Nature is confused. This is all more akin to 31st May than 31st March!

Reality running a little behind Arome 12z. (Gotta remember we're in BST now, so the below is 19.00!)

I know we're not in Arizona, and we don't have radar capable of showing outflow boundaries, but it'd be great if these Hampshire storms could kick some out to then set off something further south nearer to the front for me. Very wishful thinking

New channel developments about right where I'd need them to be.

Winchester cell developing a pileus as it chucks out lightning below

*Stormforce~beka* Right on cue

Radar's perking up mid-Channel and I can see towers to the SE too now. I've seen enough to be interested in this evening.

Sferics off of the eastern channel cells - they developed so quickly!

Thunders They're genuine - they show on satellite too. Not anaprop on this occasion

Eagle Eye I can see the towers over to the east of Winchester. It's bubbling up pretty nicely in that direction.

I know if I go and stick a camera battery on charge I'll put the nail in the coffin, so holding off for now! I'd never expect elevated storms off the channel in March...

Thunders You need long exposure times (somewhere in the range of 10 - 30 seconds, depending on the storm's movement etc), quite an open aperture for distant storms to allow light into the camera (5.6 should be fine), and an ISO of either 100 or 200 to lessen noise.

Mapantz ACCUR8 DWS7100. Ah, that's a bugger, but glad I wasn't just missing the setting. Your post led me to realise you can change it within the Wundermap, rather than the dashboard, and then those changes get applied to the DB. A little annoying that you can only change those settings in groups but I guess I'll live with it! Thank you for the reply

Metwatch Gorgeous shot with the rainbow!

Hi! For Christmas, I finally got a weather station, and I set it up ready to record from the New Year, so I'm quite new to this whole game. I've spotted something quite disappointing on both WU and Weathercloud; the strongest gusts you see on screen get missed in the data uploaded. I understand that the uploads are periodic, but it seems such a shame, and I feel a bit ripped off to not see the strongest gusts recorded in my data. For example, yesterday afternoon when the winds peaked, I watched the console for a while and saw a gust of 56.6mph come up at one point. However, if you look just at the data on the two sites, you see a max gust of 45.2mph on WC, and 54.4mph on WU (much better, but still clearly missing the strongest gusts!). I noticed this in January too, with the strongest gust shown on WU being 49mph. I recall that day being windier than yesterday, too! It seems a real shame you can't record data on the console itself and not have to miss extremes due to the nature of these uploads. I take it there's no way around this? While I'm here, is there a way to change WU's dashboard to mph? The site seems very lacking in settings and I'm not keen on the km/h it's stuck on.

Love that radar. Screw the rain haters all over social media - this is an interesting little period of weather if you ask me - the sun can wait a little longer

Very juicy radar returns for so early in the year. This lot is headed for my doorstep, too, although I imagine it'll lose intensity by the time it gets near.

Wool area (Dorset) lighting up AGAIN today! Storm magnet

JFF of course, and we've got a hell of a lot of weather to get through first, but ECM is throwing up a record(?)-early plume at the end of its 12z.

So begins another year of near misses