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Noctilucid

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  1. Quite a bit of distant thunder coming from that direction. I think some people need to be reminded that weather forecasts are not written personally for them or the air directly above their house.
  2. Evening all... Very heavy thundery downpours across the London Borough of Havering within the last hour, roads were getting over a foot deep in water in places I would estimate. Made for some quite interesting driving conditions combined with torrential rain and awful visibility. I'd definitely say these conditions warranted a weather risk warning. Can also confirm I saw at least two flashes of lightning while in Romford, and we've just had another distant growl of thunder as I type this with heavy rain continuing although not on the torrential scale of earlier. Saw some very turbulent cloud structures to the East for a time earlier as well, no doubt associated with downdrafts out of the storm system into the clear air to the East. EDIT: Another fairly close bolt of lightning as I submit this too. 17:01 ...and another bolt within a mile.
  3. Went out for a bit of a walk around to watch 2 or 3 new storms rapidly build into the line over EA and head off North, currently there's a gorgeous storm with well developed anvil off to the North East, oh if I had a car so i could get to the hill tops.
  4. Indeed it is Harry! Fully fledged storm now over Chelmsford according to my eyes and radar, its starting to push out an impressively thick anvil. There's further explosive development to its South which no doubt will become a storm within the next 10 minutes, looks like the convergence zone driving these storms may extend into Southern Essex and maybe down to the Thames. I'd be up the A12 in a shot for want of a car.
  5. Evening all Got some lovely developing updrafts to the North East, must be around Chelmsford way. Really quite strong with pileus too. They're pulsing but never quite getting around to pushing out an anvil, at least not yet. Clear as a bell from the East through South around to the West however. You can see quite clearly where the edge of the instability lies.
  6. Afternoon! Heavy convective development around Romford, most notably from the East around the the North, some cloud bases are getting very dark.
  7. Afternoon all Impressive high based downpour early this morning, currently there is towering cumulus rather getting its act together to my North East, most likely around the Brentwood/Chelmsford area.
  8. Afternoon all Weak thunderstorm passing just North of Romford with two rumbles heard so far, had a couple of quite lively storms yesterday including a very nasty line with a very dark and turbulent gust front and fairly frequent lightning which chased me home.
  9. Thunder has become almost constant again and is getting nearer. This is the first time I have seen forecasters wrong footed on this scale in several years, perhaps if you understood the difficulties of storm forecasting and how a minor adjustment to the atmosphere can create a bust you wouldn't be so quick to critisice. Unfortunately because this forum is now so full of precious and uneducated ranting, the useful and educational posts quickly dissapear well down the page list before many get to read them.
  10. Lightning getting pretty frequent to the South now, at least twice a minute. On a side note, its about time certain forum members grew up, I hardly remember that kind of behavior when I joined here, but now its rife.
  11. I can imagine, it had a very impressive top on it with a large anvil. Convection has filled the clear air to my south really fast and its now going dark with further rumbles in that direction. Fully blown storm has appeared in under half an hour.
  12. The clearing has revealed the back end of the Southend storm, mighty impressive, for a good 5 minutes there was continuous rumbling eminating from the Estuary area.
  13. There is rapid updraft growth in the clear area behind the Chatham storm, towers really shooting up to my South. 'Ground strokes' of the non-tennis variety occuring to my East. EDIT: Storm to my East is now rumbling continously without any breaks!
  14. Storm number 3 really powering up to the South, almost constant deep rumbling.
  15. Storm number 2 in Romford, extremely torrential rain and occasional deep rolls of thunder.
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