Colin_P

Same here, although it has now stopped and is melting.

I'm a little South of Chesterfield and have been watching the lightning that is currently over or near to Thorn / Crowle / Belton and skirting Scunthorpe. Just under 40 miles away according to Google Earth. Amazing. @ChezWeather

Have you looked out the window and seen what is coming our way from a Mansfieldy direction. Hope it delivers.

Here it is, apologies for possibly spamming the thread, but I thought this was quite exciting.

Found it on the I-player, it wasn't a figment of my imagination. BBC iPlayer - BBC News at Six - 13/04/2023 WWW.BBC.CO.UK The latest national and international news from the BBC. Fast forward to 30:22

Sorry, for tomorrow afternoon( i think, I only caught a bit of that bit)

I know nothing but have just watched the 6 o'clock BBC1 national forecast. They showed a strong convergence line, and highlighted it spanning a lot of England with potential heavy rain and thunder storms. They also mentioned that the odd funnel cloud might be seen. Calling out to the boffins on here... Any truth to this? (The BBC website forecast as of now 18:50 is 2hrs old and doesn't mention this)

It is coming down quite hard here near Chesterfield, must be mayhem up in the proper hills!

A lot of the Peak District roads / passes are closed due to snow, have a look here... (link below) Gritting activity and snow related road closures APPS.DERBYSHIRE.GOV.UK Find out if your road is on a gritting route and when it was last gritted.

Where are you sat? I'm not far away from Chez in North Wingfield. I've been watching it roll in for about forty minutes out Matlock direction and South over Derby direction. I'm not sure that we will score a direct overpass, but the light show is fantastic along with the distant rumbles and booming.

Proper raining as well.

Indeed, I seem to be right in line. It has gone very dark and I am waiting for the heavens to open. Looks like it could be a proper weather event (in this day and age where nothing seems to happen)

The heat continues and I continue to hate it !

Feels a bit cooler in here. Absolutely disgustingly stinking hot elsewhere.

Just down the hill from you. This is the storm that just keeps on giving, lightning is far less frequent than round 1 though. Round 2 here but I'd say rather than overhead it is probably 1/2 way between Maidenhead and Wycombe.

Your wording was fine. I could have taken some footage but being new to the site don't know to post it.

No, too late now, but would ask (new to this site) if you have to use an image / video hosting site or can you directly upload here?

I would say so, not seen a single CG.

Maidenhead here, I've never known anything like it. Multiple flashes, sometimes 3+ per second. Constant and I mean constant thunder now for about 30 minutes.

Maidenhead, now. Proper proper storm overhead, insane rain, lovely and cool !

That came over the top of us here in Maidenhead about an hour ago. Moderate thunder which oddly didn't show up on blitzorg. But it did deliver a gutter overwhelming quantity of rain, it was lovely. Sadly looks like it is fading now.

Farnborough / Camberly area now on the radar. Looking South from here it is certainly bubbling up.

Hello all, I'm brand new here and had no idea where to post my first post, so I chose this thread! Thank you for letting me join. I have a lot to learn about the science but have always been an avid observer of the weather and this recent spell has led me here and compelled me to join. I am located in Maidenhead in the Thames Valley, which is about 12 miles West of Heathrow and I swear if there was an official weather station here it would up there! It has been obscenely hot here for the last week or so with no respite, hardly any cloud, little to no rain and certainly no thunder. An important question; The 'cone of silence' and the triangle (or something, something of something) where no storms happen, where are they and what areas do they cover? I don't think I'm located in it/them as I've heard some thunder this year. I've currently only got a basic digital max/min (shaded) thermometer so will be reading up on possibly getting some better kit. The very basic weather stats for me so far this year are: Max 38.8c Min -1.2c And sat here now typing this 29.9c (at 10:19am on 11/08/20) Probably a bit of a micro climate thing going on in the garden! When will the furnace be switched off.......