Luke Best

CG. And booooooooom! Cat comes running indoors!

Yes, at home in North Bournemouth.

Woah! Very close under cloud crawler and rolling thunder. Niiiiice!

Which direction was it?

Yes - confirmed! Just as I was about to wave the white flag!

In Bournemouth but itching to get in the car. Probably wouldn't want to go any further than Portdown Hill, behind Portsmouth. My worry is this will still be too far west. May stay put. Any thoughts?

The main action here in Bournemouth was 3pm - 4pm - we had almost constant overhead lightning (all intra cloud and very high level) but it was completely dry. Really, really surreal. (We did get some rain afterwards as the electrical activity had mostly passed through). I went to bed at 4pm but at 5pm the house was shaken to its foundations by what was pretty much a rogue strike - I'm certain a +CG. As you say Cliffy, you sure know about it when it happens!

Not sure about that, but Fan-Y-Big might...

That band of snow hit the A303 and simply disappeared... I'd be gutted if it wasn't so bloody predictable! Oh well, I saw the cloud that gave that nice snow shower over Ringwood / New Forest our of my bedroom window first thing this morning. The snow missed Bournemouth, obviously, but at least I saw the cloud...

That's the windchill, but minama temperatures not far behind in N Russia.

Well, wow! Last night was like a storm off of the old days. Lots of big, powerful CGs (overhead too!!!), booming thunder and rain of biblical proportions. I love the elevated stuff we usually get here in Bournemouth but that was a reminder of how much fun a monster surface-based storm can be! One happy boy this morning! http://m.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/14747214.Level_crossings_and_thousands_of_homes_without_power_after_heavy_thunderstorms/

Especially a little inland i.e Ringwood way.

Puddletown, mid Dorset

Chasing the back of this thing and it's throwing down forks all over the place!

Well, that was fun!!!! Loads of lightning (a lot of which was intra-cloud), booming thunder and some BIG forks. Stopped filming moments before a giant positive CG almost wiped me out LOL! All preceded by a field of ACs and the most beautiful thundery sky you could hope to see.

@Mapantz OMFG On top of Constitution Hill, giant forks - insanio!!!!!

Incoming!

Thanks Harry!

Sorry Harry, what's a CZ?

I remember when I used to live in London, there was a terrific thunderstorm one afternoon in 1997 pretty much in the middle of a high pressure cell. Intense daytime heating caused your standard low level convection, but after several hours the cap unexpectedly broke and the sky went from blue sky with small fluffy cumulus to BLACK within a very, very short space of time. Different conditions today but the principal is the same, if those convective parcels can break the cap things can change very, very quickly.

This is interesting: the track taken by MCSs in the UK between 1981 and 1997. Source: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.1477-8696.1998.tb06352.x/pdf

Shy to my NW.

God I love evenings like this. It's warm, still and I've just seen a 180 degree rainbow to my SE against a dark sky and one very long, very low, deep rumble of thunder. Love it!

Hmmmm... Just had a heavy and unexpected shower with big convective drops from a thick AC layer with a very high base. Interesting!