Wales, The Midlands and Southwest England - Regional Weather Chat

[phil nw.]

What a storm at coventry!

Indeed and here too in Nuneaton.

I was at the Nuneaton town v Coventry City preseason friendly when it broke over the ground.Terrific show of lightening thunder,torrential rain and hail accompanied by swirling winds and almost night time darkness.

Pitch flooded  and match called off after 8mins of second half.

Sun out again now.

[Frosty_wsm]

Anyone else agree that bbc/met office done very poorly over the latest storms

Nope, they got it spot on, they said not all areas would see the storms, oh look, not everywhere did lol Edited July 19, 2014 by Smartie

[sherrie]

Wouldnt say its fresher in this part of the SW, suns out and its a lot warmer and stickier than yesterday this time, too warm for me :-/

[STORMGUY]

sorry to the south west of ludlow

Edited July 19, 2014 by STORMGUY

[TonyH]

Indeed and here too in Nuneaton.

I was at the Nuneaton town v Coventry City preseason friendly when it broke over the ground.Terrific show of lightening thunder,torrential rain and hail accompanied by swirling winds and almost night time darkness.

Pitch flooded  and match called off after 8mins of second half.

Sun out again now.

Did it look like this:

http://t.co/DUhfWtg2tn

[TonyH]

Oxfordshire storm coming into view here:

http://bws.users.netlink.co.uk/webcam.htm

 

Should be able to track it as it heads to Northants over the next hour or so.

Actually it is the over shooting anvil which has spread 20 miles north of the storm!

Shows quite well on the latest visible satellite:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/images/ukvis_sat_201407191600.jpg

 

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/satpics/latest_uk_vis.html

Edited July 19, 2014 by TonyH

[I remember Atlantic 252]

decent little storm earlier, but mostly missed me to the east, 3 storm days now this year, 25th Jan, 7th June, 19th July (twice in a way)

 

Will not see any more now, expecting a sunny evening

[A.J]

repost from me in the convective thread...

 

ok folks, just got back in from chasing that Swindon cell.....checked the radar and looks like a right moving supercell. I chased up to Barbury Hill (about 8 miles SE of Swindon, constant thunder and I'm interested to hear members thoughts on the photo's below as there was a definite lowering and spin up, possible fully fledged wall cloud....taken looking east

 

 

 

[Costa Del Fal]

Yeah not really fresher here yet either. A few more small storms to our west or SW to my surprise but probably won't reach here.

[ncikos]

Yeah not really fresher here yet either. A few more small storms to our west or SW to my surprise but probably won't reach here.

I notice those not sure which direction there going.Lots of storms over france would be nice if they came NW

[tornadomanuk]

Cells really gathering pace and organising into a line from West Somerset down across Exmoor and into Exeter. In fact some of the cells really are intensifying very quickly on radar.

[Snowyowl9]

Anyone else agree that bbc/met office done very poorly over the latest storms

It`s a bit of a guessing game when it comes to thunderstorms.

[andymusic]

Cells really gathering pace and organising into a line from West Somerset down across Exmoor and into Exeter. In fact some of the cells really are intensifying very quickly on radar.

if you look on sat24 - it's developing nicely into something possibly rather bigger

 

edit:- Huge Tower now just to the south of me - if that really gets going - gonna be good

Edited July 19, 2014 by andymusic

[tornadomanuk]

if you look on sat24 - it's developing nicely into something possibly rather bigger

Looks really nice on sat24, although not very electrically active now

[jessandjon]

Send some to plymouth please!!! This feels like winter all over again!!

[spanish_plume]

I'm finding this link to be a wonderful tool to track these storms - virtually real-time with the strikes and also illustrates the travel of the soundwaves from the strikes when you zoom in close on the map. brilliant on fullscreen mode!

 

http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en

[Bonjangle]

if you look on sat24 - it's developing nicely into something possibly rather bigger

Is it heading our way Andy boyo .

[Snowyowl9]

Distant thunder heard 3/4 rumbles SW that's along way off too.

Also huge TCU NW and anvil west.

Edited July 19, 2014 by Snowyowl9

[andymusic]

Is it heading our way Andy boyo .

lovely sexy tower on it un all - come on - I'm hoping this'll develop into a corker - did an alll nighter last night - only had 3 hours kip this morning - can't believe I'm still awake really - about 6.45am this morning - it's tamping down with rain outside - i got window open - thought thunder and lightning had passed when all of a sudden - the loudest bang i've ever heard - nearly ended up on the ceiling with the shock - that storm this morning was a bit lazy - but those booming thunder claps were amazing!

[Snowyowl9]

Just heard thunder from here hmmm.

[Mapantz]

I forgot to mention, that rain this morning broke my rain rate record. 217.4mm/hr. :O

[MP-R]

Nice big anvil to the southwest of here, looking to march this way.

[Reefseeker]

I have put a radstock postcode in for you, think it's been fairly damp there..

 

radstock.png

Thanks Mullender, looks pretty wet!

A glorious sunny afternoon SW of London after nothing over-night (got plenty of storm activity Thursday night). Not sure the French stuff will reach here tonight. Looks like some of you chaps have done very well:)

[stewfox]

I'm finding this link to be a wonderful tool to track these storms - virtually real-time with the strikes and also illustrates the travel of the soundwaves from the strikes when you zoom in close on the map. brilliant on fullscreen mode!

 

http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en

 

Heavy rain lighting hail and loud thunder claps just passed over spot !

[phil nw.]

Did it look like this:

http://t.co/DUhfWtg2tn

Hi,Tony,

I take it you are a Sky Blues fan?

Yes we could see the storm clouds approaching as the first half worn on and then the sheet lightning -some storm that was.

I was looking forward to seeing how we would go against the SBlues after HT with us 1-0 up.

They looked more up for it in the 7or 8mins of the 2nd half before they all came off -shame because i wanted to see some more of our new players and potential signings that were on display.

Anyway it flooded the ground and i hear parts of Nuneaton/Coventry in the fairly short time it lasted-the power of nature never ceases to amaze me.