European Convective Weather Discussion

[knocker]

There is currently (1700z) a large number of storms clustered in the Tyrrhenian Sea associated with the trough lying across same at midday.

Edited April 15, 2011 by weather ship

[knocker]

fairly quiet at the moment but perhaps some interesting convective activity developing in S. Spain. Earlier there was quite alot of activity west of Morocco which appears to be moving NE.

Edited April 18, 2011 by weather ship

[knocker]

There are currently quite a few storms in N. Spain.

[knocker]

Interesting line of storms across Europe.

[knocker]

A number of storms in central and southern France at the moment associated with the trough and low pressure area. We appear to have lost the weak front moving SE down the UK,.

[knocker]

Very annoying the conditions are interfering with the rugby league sat. transmissions from Perpignan.

http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-3&soort=lightning

[knocker]

Quite a bit of activity during the night in western France, Holland, and northern Germany. Storms at Cologne and Volkel air force base at 00z. Initiated by the low pressure in Germany and associated fronts stretching across Europe.

Image courtesy EUMETSAT

Edited May 11, 2011 by weather ship

[knocker]

Heavy activity in N. Spain at the moment. Shows up well on the latest EUMETSAT image.

[NorthNorfolkWeather]

Gosh, I'd forgotten what a storm was like.....

About 35km from Stuttgart and it's belting down with lots of rumbles in the distance....

Still in the "No Storms Club" at home though

[knocker]

Quite a few storms in NE France this morning. There was a trough lying across the area at midnight giving a fair amout of lightning activity.

Edited May 22, 2011 by weather ship

[Coast]

Spain, Italy and some of Southern France/Switzerland Austria looking good again today:

[Evening thunder]

I think the place to be at the moment may be sat just NW of the erupting volcano in Iceland! You basically have a very powerful up draught and it's very easy to watch for hours because it doesn't move. http://nwstatic.co.uk/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif Plenty of lightning activity has been produced from it. http://andvari.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/vikan_is.html?

[richep]

Flew back from Turkey this morning and passed some very high cloud tops at around 5am/ 5:30. I think we were over france at the time. Very turbulent too. Had some nice storms while we were in Turkey also, but many of them were North of our Location.

[slb97]

Got back from the Algarve in Portugal yesterday and we were treated to a fabulous storm last Wednesday, the thunder made the windows vibrate and closed the airport for about 4 hours! Thankfully the other days were lovely and warm! Great timing catching that whilst holidaying!

[knocker]

Much of the storm activity has been in Germany this PM. A quick at the chart and a number of stations are reporting thunderstorms. The Kummersbruck midday ascent is quite interesting. The temps in southern Germany were in the 80s.

[knocker]

Be interesting to see whether there is much convective activity in southern Sweden and maybe Poland today. Although looking at the GFS Cape maybe further south.

[knocker]

Some very concentrated storm activity over Germany and France at the moment. See Idar-Oderstein midday ascent.

[knocker]

Some very concentrated storms in N. Italy at the moment (see above), associated with an area of low pressure in the area.

[Lancashire Lass]

Anything on the horizon for Nothern Italy? Off to Venice for a week tomorrow. Have seen some great storms there previously.

[Neilsouth]

http://www.camvista.com/watch-live-video/europe/germany_berlin_capital_city_streaming_webcam.html

Big storms heading towards Berlin!

[davehsug]

Anyone know what the general chance for North east Spain is like in early October? Off to Salou for a week on 30th September & it would be nice to see a thunderstorm. Was in Benidorm about 2 weeks later last year, obviously a lot further south & whilst it was very wet all around, we largely escaped & there were some night time lightning shows in the distance.

[knocker]

Many storms in Italy and the Adriatic today associated with a low pressure area over souhern Italy.

[knocker]

Might be a few storms around the Cyprus area later today.

[Coast]

Might as well use this thread as it's the nearest I can get to anything stormy it seems....

Now who would have thought it, ESTOFEX have an area just the other side of the Channel highlighted today:

Storm Forecast

Valid: Mon 26 Sep 2011 06:00 to Tue 27 Sep 2011 06:00 UTC

Issued: Sun 25 Sep 2011 17:27

Forecaster: TUSCHY

SYNOPSIS

A progressive pattern continues over N-Europe as a strengthening upper wave crosses Norway and Sweden during the forecast. Further to the south, temporarily weakening ridging is in place over central Europe and keeps thunderstorm probabilities limited. Main focus for an isolated, short-lived storm will be an eastward moving cold front over Benelux/W-Germany, accompanied by a thermal trough at 500 hPa. Also, postfrontal onshore flow may allow a sporadic storm or two to form over N-France. Over the central Mediterranean, a slow moving/quasi-stationary upper low sparks scattered to widespread thunderstorms with an excessive rainfall risk.

21st OWS don't go with that:

Although their UKMO map does show the wrong side of the Channel as a possible!

http://www.meteoalarm.info/

Meteoalarm has nothing specific so a low threat I guess, lightning Wizard's GFS charts are down currently.

[Coast]

I'm hoping to take advantage of this possibility Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday