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This is a formidable chart. If we get to here all hell could break loose.

Was about to say the same. Nice to see the sun shining!

12z last frame: 18z penultimate frame: Chalk and cheese but no Atlantic onslaught. Positive going forwards.

Maybe another lock-in at the Tan Hill Inn?

There comes a point where Autumn has to start. I think it's here: GFS: ECM:

Filthy rain all day and plenty more this eve by the looks of it.

Can see green and pink flashing sky to my NE (but almost nothing on the radar) and constant rumbles. Edit: lol - scratch that - it's a fireworks display Firework Champions - Badminton Estate WWW.BADMINTONESTATE.COM On the 24th July, 2021, Badminton Estate will play host to the best firework display in the UK and the …

Must be the Russians attacking through the Channel again! /S

Not seen any shooters the last few nights (surprised not to see any sporadics!). Plenty of satellite action though including a few passes of ISS and a train of satellites (I guess starlink?) Weds night. I'll be looking out for Perseids in Aug. I see the Delta Aquariids are peaking in next few days, so yeah, would hope to see meteors at any time now with a clear sky.

Good catch!

Gonna go out for half an hour and regain my night vision. Be nice to just see some flashing skies to the south. Hated the heat this week but the skies at night were good and clear. It's a shame to not see Jupiter so bright in the East tonight.

Looks like the eye of this low is currently over Brittany. There's a good stream of moisture being pulled out of the relatively warm waters of Biscay to its S which I think can affect us tomorrow as it wraps and the low travels slightly NE, so I'm looking out for that, looks like heading towards Kent on the modelling so there's that! Intensification right now over the South coast but heading east quickly and dying inland. Just hope the garden gets a good dowsing.

Most sferics coming from south of paris MCS. Still plenty firing off coast of Dorset. Hope it can pick up some more energy.

Sad innit, when you're watching webcams for lightning

Just saw lightning on the Bournemouth webcam https://magicseaweed.com/Bournemouth-Surf-Report/12/

Wow that intense ppn died a quick death. Can the developments behind bring anything worthwhile further north in the West Country?

Looks like a nice wall of torrential rain heading north. Electric only on its Southern edge at the moment as far as I can see on the sferics sites.

This one's pretty good for anything approaching Bournemouth. Bournemouth Surf Report & Surf Forecast with Live Surf Webcams - Magicseaweed MAGICSEAWEED.COM Get the latest Bournemouth surf report including local surf height, swell period, wind and tide charts. Score access to long-range surf forecasts, and ad-free web cams with Magicseaweed Pro

Was watching the happenings over my old neck of the woods Wellingborough/Kettering and it was looking pretty intense (at least, on the radar)

Petrichor?

Please send some cooler coast weather 20/21C my way. Over 30C is overdoing it for me.

Yep - spot on - but they were too far away from me to see that they were planes. (And no noise at that distance). Mystery solved! ?️

I don't know if this is the same aero team, but the LEDs on these Aerosparx planes look exactly like they could have been the culprit when viewed from a distance

Thanks for the reply @offerman, Yes that father and son team does sound like it could feasibly be what we saw, although I'd have to say that the planes would have to be flying really quite slowly, for it to be that. I'll have a look into them and see if I can find any other corroborating evidence, for them being on that route at that time. Is this the footage that you refuted? Footage of ‘UFO’ over Somerset caught on camera ‘pulling off impossible manoeuvres’ - Somerset Live WWW.SOMERSETLIVE.CO.UK The Bath resident says he has never seen anything like it That is indeed a strange sighting, but what you have described does sound like it's the answer. I've always been into the subject but take a very sceptical view, looking for the answers in the more mundane explanations, a bit like yourself. There's usually an answer in 95% of cases, I suppose its the other 5% of unexplained sightings that keeps my interest in the subject. Sorry to hear you've had such tough time the last few years with your parents' health. You are a good man to be putting such effort into caring for them even though it can be awfully stressful. I lost my mum last year after she'd been constantly in and out of hospital with COPD for three or four years. It really can wear you down, when all you want is for them to have a better quality of life. Then my partner lost her Mum 6 months later with a stroke out of the blue so I understand how tough these times can be. Stay strong and enjoy life as much as you can when you get the chance.

Anybody around N/E Bristol/Bath notice a couple of "ufos" tonight? Moving Northwest to SouthEast on a line towards around Bath to my East from Winterbourne (about 10/15 degrees up from the horizon). About 10pm. I thought they were chinese lanterns how they moved from the distance with the naked eye but was surprised to see them definitely changing through colours of the rainbow when looking through bins. Same sort of direction where Jupiter and Saturn rose a bit later. Never seen anything quite like it. Was there a northwesterly wind tonight? Didn't seem to be much breeze at all, so I'm wondering if the objects were under power? (too far away to hear anything.) If I were to make something to look the same I can imagine microlights but with rainbow changing LED lights or even chinese lanterns if the wind aloft was strong enough and in that direction - although I didn't detect any of the usual orange glow of a flame, indeed - as I keep saying, perhaps with a strip of multicolour LEDs. Doubt they were drones as they were slow moving and seemed to continue in a straight line for miles. Any ideas? @offerman I think you're into ufos looking back at a convo in February?