wallopweather

perhaps the mods should post the link to the moaning thread before the model output images hit this forum

Am I missing something? these are just computer generated models, they don't actually control the weather and nothing they predict is actually cast in stone. I'm amazed at the number of people who seem to be taking these outputs as gospel. We still have a long way to go when it comes to correctly predicting the weather beyond a few days and it is still only wednesday and the constant moaning on the model forums when we miss a bit of a chilly period is one of the reasons I stopped visiting and interacting with the forums.

Just saw Boscombe Down, just a few minutes drive from me showing in the data charts as currently at -5.1 thats cold enough for me to call it a night and throw an extra chair on the fire. Camera charged ready for a few foggy frosty snapshots tomorrow morning

To help put things in perspective, here's an uncropped image of the cloud, the funnel is in the middle of the shot, this was full zoom on an 18-55mm lens with a uv filter fitted.

That's interesting as I would have been facing towards Marlborough when this was taken and Marlborough would be about 17 miles from where I was located.

Thanks for the feedback, I was sure I was looking at a funnel cloud too. Only the second time I have ever seen one and as Paul says it's a funnel then there's no way I'm going to argue with that opinion

Spotted this on the horizon on the drive home, unfortunately I only had a standard lens with me. At first glance this appears to be a funnel cloud. Pictures were taken from a slip road beside the A303 Hampshire Wiltshire border Cholderton / Parkhouse Cross looking towards Tidworth, taken this evening around 5.45pm. I am aware of a fire at Wooton Bassett which would be about 30 miles away from where these were taken so I'm unsure if these pictures are a funnel cloud or smoke from that fire but the colour blends too well with the cloud base. The images have been cropped but have not been edited in any other way and are in sequence 1 - 5. All thoughts appreciated.

Thanks for the link Coast, I can see again!

Sad to see that the IOW live storm data has been taken off line by last night's server overload. Hope you guys get it sorted. Woke this morning to long low rumbles and heavy rain, currently dark, grey and wet here but looks like clearing in the next couple of hours.

IOW back up http://www.isleofwightweather.co.uk/live_storm_data.htm edit: and back down again LOL

I'm about 10 miles east of Salisbury and not seen a thing here but a lot of activity south of the IOW. There's a couple of NW members in Winchester and Andover area who may post earlier reports of any activity than me

Great! just as I was looking at the lightning strikes south of the IOW the IOW weather live storm site goes down. Direct hit? http://www.isleofwightweather.co.uk/live_storm_data.htm

Nothing, Absolutely dead calm after a brief windy period about an hour ago.

Working fine, nice!

great idea, save trying to get 3rd party sites to load

Just get a sign up page, so can't comment on stream, sorry. Currently very dark and windy with some rain here, no thunder or lightning

anyone think the heavy radar echo currently out in the channel just south of Weymouth might make it into our area tonight to produce more snow or are they just going to skirt along the coast and perhaps affect Kent

what a day! drove from Amesbury to Southampton via Salisbury and back through Romsey, Stockbridge and Grateley and think it is probably the most mixed and difficult conditions I've ever driven in. Amesbury to Salisbury wasn't too bad, wet snow, heavy in places with some settling but no real travel issues, it was only as I left Salisbury and headed down the A36 that the snow became a real issue and I considered turning back, but traffic was nose to tail and crawling. Langford was the worst area on this road with deep slush and snow on the road, a car had managed to flip and land in a hedge near here too. Almost at the M27 and it was clearly raining heavily instead of snowing, surface water became the issue and the B&Q car park was a mix of slush over ice, difficult to drive on and even harder to stand up on. As the A36 had been so bad I came back via Romsey / Stockbridge. Not the best idea, these roads were quieter and also the temps were lower on this route so snow was sticking to the roads and becoming compacted. Stockbridge to Grateley and on out the the A303 was a slow crawl on packed ice and snow and the slippest driving of the whole journey, at one point gravity took hold while stationary and the car went sideways without me having any say in it. Thankfully an oncoming motorist spotted me slowly sliding sideways and waited until I managed to move forward and rejoin my side of the road. All in all one heck of a day and to top it all I need to make a similar journey tomorrow, only Westward instead.

conditions changed here in Amesbury. Gone from light rain to steady heavy rain but no thunder

Here's the current rate of rainfall that's causing traffic problems round here.

localised flooding causing a few travel issues in Salisbury

people would only complain if they got there to find it raining

I think that's the direction it came from, be fairly certain it's heading your way

Currently in Amesbury. Can hear thunder. Very dark towards Boscombe Down and Tidworth direction. Light rain here

I've just re-tweeted this you've got to give it a serious go otherwise there's no point in visiting a steakhouse