Convective/Storm Discussion for 06/0614 - 07-06-14

[ancientsolar]

Small time lapse video of the last half hour up until 6pm.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSuXp9ZcDmk&feature=youtu.be

[MartinD]

It sucks being an island sometimes... would of been awesome to have chased that storm!!! The lightning must be absolutely stunning.

[William Grimsley]

Showers to my S look like going E. I knew it.

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

Reckon those showers will get as far as Oxford?

[Sandri13]

I just got a message from a chaser in Belgium that there is 1.3 inch hail in that storm.

[Greeny]

I would have thought it was the wind convergences in that area that's the trigger rather than heating. Temps at 850hpa are higher there than here if capping is an issue here.

Edited June 7, 2014 by Greenday

[Gary Alan Cowee]

Lots of peaople running for their lives on that webcam lol

[Liam J]

Not to shabby 8856 strike so far today! Ireland appears the place to be atm. 

 

Edit - Now 8921 strike and rising! 

 

Edited June 7, 2014 by Liam J

[Sandri13]

[IanR]

where?

[Sandri13]

Belgium, Lichtervelde

[Greeny]

 

I have been a few times on a tobacco run with a friend I know just inside the Belgium border, we go there and back in a day! That's not that far away but makes all the difference hehe

[Greeny]

Is that more precip cropping up near the channel now?

[William Grimsley]

Interesting development Plymouth way. This is getting very familiar.

[robt]

Can see some cap cloud to my SW, over the Sheffield way. Some Cu bubbling beneath it, but not getting near.

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

I'd give a right arm to Be in Belgium right now. How many times have I said that in the last decade now... !

Edited June 7, 2014 by East_England_Stormchaser91

[Nimbus Nix]

Well although the cold front's passed through, it still felt very warm standing in the sun taking these pictures:

 

Pics 1 & 2 are of a few nice towers building to the west, lovely cloud base on the second one as well:

 

 

 

Pics 3 & 4 are of the thundery shower looking WNW towards Telford/Newport, of which I heard 2 or 3 faint rumbles of thunder:

 

 

 

Those two pics actually correlate nicely to the satellite pic below, I've marked where I'm standing as a red 'x'. You can see the clouds in the foreground to the south east of the cell quite well.

 

 

 

I've slotted the radar image in alongside as well as the sferics

 

(Pics taken next to Wolves' training ground in Wolverhampton)

[Gary Alan Cowee]

Two seperate storms now in Belgium

[Gael_Force]

Very bright radar return on the Belgian storm.

 

[Sandri13]

That storm in Belgium was really strong.

[Jax]

Lovely evening here now, slipped into lazy mode, sod it! have all day tomorrow to do the rest of the jobs, going to enjoy having a weekend off work and relax.

[Mokidugway]

Lovely evening here now, slipped into lazy mode, sod it! have all day tomorrow to do the rest of the jobs, going to enjoy having a weekend off work and relax.

lazy bugger !!!....

[Panayiotis]

Got some cool videos of convection around my area, I will upload them later, but it does seem today that there was a cap which has limited potential, hopefully tomorrow bodes well...

 

Looking at the EURO4, I wonder if tonight will see something similar to last night?

Definitely keeping my eye on this!

Edited June 7, 2014 by Panayiotis

[William Grimsley]

Things taking off to the SW of here now.

[Chris K]

Got some cool videos of convection around my area, I will upload them later, but it does seem today that there was a cap which has limited potential, hopefully tomorrow bodes well...

 

Looking at the EURO4, I wonder if tonight will see something similar to last night?

Definitely keeping my eye on this!

 

The possibility of some overnight sharp showers is certainly there, but I think thundery activity will be minimal. We had high values of MLCAPE to sustain the storms last night...tonight both SB and ML CAPE is low to non-existent.

 

Saying that though, the Met Office rainfall forecast has updated to show more extensive showers pushing in...

 

 

Don't think I will be up that late again though

 

These features will likely be the focus of thundery showers during Sunday across Ireland, Wales C/N England and Scotland as the day wears on.

Edited June 7, 2014 by Chris K