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Sorry! Uploaded from iphone. Try this link to my twitter.https://twitter.com/trancenw/status/490238738845667328Canvey Island, Essex
great photo!
i love it when these storm systems develop wave-like curves in the air.. utterly beautiful. but darn scarey at the same time.
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skies are getting seriously weird to my south-east.. seeing the start of mamatus formations , and some really weird rotational elements ( at slow level..)
no wind , no thunder, no lightning..
but the cloud formations are definitely getting very odd - and it's streaming from the south-east of me ( in hampshire)
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no mamatus here yet in Basingstoke, central Hampshire, but the skies to the south-east are definitely getting ominous...
starting to see undulating "waves" in the cloud formations to the SE .. not sure what the technical term for them is.. - it's like a wave in the sky..
is there a technical term for that kind of formation?
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Commentators at the Cricket at Canterbury on Sky Sports 2 just mentioned a "tornado" nearby. They were broadcasting from a room somewhere instead the ground taking shelter. Match has been abandoned so they've now gone off air.
woah... so they abandoned coverage because of the "tornado" ?
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Wow again from twitter
wow indeed! that's one hell of a photo.
is there a meteorlogical term for those blue wavey bands above the clouds in that photo? and what exactly are they?
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Live lightning tracker , in case some folks don't have this in their bookmarks
http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en&page_0=12
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there's a mega-thread on Reddit devoted to yesterdays storm, with lots of links to pics and video
http://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/1xpto8/wild_wednesday_storm_mega_thread_post_your/
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just checked the radar on my weatherpro app. it's heading our way - going in the south-east direction, coming from the arctic. currently here in hampshire it's mightily cold, with a completely white sky. will be surprised if we DONT get a few flakes this evening
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Am in central London, where it has gone dark and overcast. No rain yet.
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Rumbles of thunder and heavy rain here in north London.
There has been bursts of intensely heavy rain all afternoon.
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It has greyed over here in Basingstoke. Fingers crossed for some thunderstorms this evening. The band of radar heading north from the channel looks ferocious
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to see the sun like this, STILL after 2 years is quite worrying! ...
as a kid growing up in the 70s/80s and with a big interest in astronomy, it was guaranteed that anytime you tried to project your telescopic image of the sun onto a white piece of paper, you would see sunspots. They were so common that this method of viewing them was in every kids book on astronomy. And I used to keep a daily sunspot diary , with my own sketches and observations.
I can confirm that no sunspots is extremely unusual.
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its started here in basingstoke. very heavy rain.
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sorry if this is in the wrong place - but worth pointing out:
"The extreme negative dip of the Arctic Oscillation Index in December 2009 was the lowest monthly value observed for the past six decades."
that's from NASA:
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Just seen the Sky forecast!!!!!!!
She has not got a clue what she is on about....lol
She said, and i quote "Sunny sunshine"
But she is FIT!
let me guess - that would be the Irish lass Lisa Burke
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You know what that sat shows dont you, 2 MCS FORMING!
correct me if i'm wrong, but it does look like that - a west MCS heading for hampshire/berkshire, and an east MCS for kent/london/essex
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An MCS of historic proportions may be developing and moving into a large part of southeast England. Neil's obs combined with a recent report of 1 cm hail in northern France and east wind gusting to 40 mph at Langdon Bay combine with continued pressure falls to 1013 mbs suggesting meso-scale low is forming and transferring energy from Thursday's meso-scale low that tracked east across northern France (and has recently filled).
Given the widespread nature of the lightning and the climatology of MCS systems, specific energy peak now to 0230 for this one, I would say it is all going to spiral in towards London and create a memorable if not monster storm for the southeast tonight.
This is capable of producing 75 mms of rain and near-continuous lightning, 2 cm hail and local wind gusts (most likely east except possibly SSE with the western flank) to 50 mph. Not too many people will see those wind gusts or get the hail, but don't be surprised if you do ... a lot more people will get the rain and the frequent and intense lightning.
Eventually I expect the two clusters to rotate around a fixed point in the southern North Sea and move back out to the northeast tomorrow morning. The main cold front will be sheared but one or two moderate cells could develop along that (being dragged along behind the MCS) but further north the front will not be dragged in and it may weaken and then redevelop in northern and eastern England tomorrow. Meanwhile that blob approaching Ireland from the southwest is yet another potentially heavy thunderstorm complex developing for Ireland tomorrow and the UK Friday night or Saturday.
Other than that, nothing much happening. (here)
thanks for the write up. appreciated.
sounds like a monster headling my way , hopefully.
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not related to the current storm - but interesting... look at the bay of biscay, west of france in this meteox loop
http://www.meteox.nl/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-3...;soort=satradar
woaah...
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Wow, some impressive noise on the radio (AM) really loud clear pops almost constantly!
Happy days!!!
do you need to tune to specific frequencies?
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I'm not far east of you in Leatherhead and I can see the same flashes. Nothing near enough to see yet but the moon is impressive: just took this to make sure the camera was still working!
why would the moon appear orange at this time of night? most unusual.
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No warning for us? So I guess it's just going to go due north now?
it might expand and intensify once it crosses the channel and encounters the warmer land.
(am i right?)
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Is that a hook I can see forming on that western most storm?
hmm.. you might be right
i might be wrong - but is that some sort of rotation developing in the western channel storm?
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zoomed channel view
http://www.meteox.co.uk/gmapstatic.aspx?zo...x=217&y=273
wow - that storm is a big one.
and is heading my way - hopefully!
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thanks for all the posts people - really enjoying the read and watching this develop via the various urls you have posted.
Spanish plume anyone? Storm and convective discussion 17th July Onwards
in Storms & Severe Weather
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yup .. looks like something is kicking off in that area
http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en&page_0=12