Spanish plume anyone? Storm and convective discussion 17th July Onwards

[Severe Blizzard]

Bring it on !!

I think I will go out on my bike ride early and go up some local high ground and watch for activity. IOW is only 30~40 miles south and surely flashes will be visible from the Hogs Back. I'm NOT going to miss this one.

Hope the Saturday (and even Sunday) potential continues for this area - I will be VERY happy if we get several hours of severe thunderstorm activity.

[Chris K]

The trough must be engaging more unstable air suddenly the lightning detectors have picked up big time!

Edited July 17, 2014 by Chris K

[stevofunnelcl]

The old lightning detector is going nuts !!

 

South-east of Salisbury, and the eastern side of the Isle of Wight

[paul m]

_{Nice cam of the storm in Cowes IOW http://www.cowes.co.uk/Spinlock-Cowes-webcam.aspx}

[Bluebreezer54]

Sandown, Isle of Wight webcam:

 

 

http://driftwoodbeachbar.com/webcam/

 

It's insane there now

[liambailey09]

http://driftwoodbeachbar.com/webcam/ frequent lightning on this webcam 

[Costa Del Fal]

Could be looking good for the Midlands near Dawn, especially Southern and Western parts!

[Karl83]

Yep seen 3 forks in 3 mins. seems to be heading this way.

[Cyclonic]

its gone absolutly totally insane here, unbelievble

I am videoing it

 

oh and hello guys, not been around, have had major knee surgery, which was not successful, and awaiting further surgery, pretty much house bound....huggsss to you all, miss forum like crazy, but health comes 1st 

 

 

back to the back yard to watch this, although my eyesight gone a bit frazzled, lightning sooo bright lol

Edited July 17, 2014 by Cyclonic

[lfcdude]

I can hear distant rumbles of thunder and sky flashing, please come this way

[Ǝssex Ǝasterly]

IOW lighting up light a christmas tree

 

http://www.mycampage.com/sandownisleofwightcam

 

[Duane S.]

I think sometimes it's a case of too much information being available etc. It would appear now that anything under about 2k J/KG CAPE is some sort of major downgrade? A) it's a forecast B) It is not the 'be all end all' and C) we can and will still witness very impressive storms with much lower values than that.

[smiles]

Kicking off here, frequent flashes and rumbles looking over towards the south over mendips. But still what is more more elusive is my welcome to netweather from the mods ha ha ha :-)

Edited July 17, 2014 by smiles

[TimMB]

Distant flashes here in Clevedon.

[Sainsbo]

I can hear distant rumbles of thunder and sky flashing, please come this way

 

I can hear the odd rumble too. What do you think of our chances tomorrow?

[Andy Pepler]

Its awesome out here strobe lightning v powerfully strong cg

[Cyclonic]

Wind has increase immensley last 3 mins, heading back out to watch this insane storm, grabs earplugs on ma way to back yard

[TimMB]

Wind has suddenly picked up...hoping

[Marcus_surfer]

One or two flashes from that thunderstorm cell just to the southwest of Wales out at sea and i can hear the thunder

[Wilxy]

Its grumbling away out there now getting closer

[stevofunnelcl]

I've still got occasional flashes of lightning in my window, from those strikes that are close to lundy island

[Costa Del Fal]

Tony Gilbert on UKWW for tonight:

 

'The theta in general looks initially blunt and really doesn't resemble a plume at all. Though by early Friday morning a more visually spiked theta plume looks to become apparent and GFS currently introduces some very strong thunderstorm activity (possible MCS) primarily Dorset through to central regions overnight. '

 

So looks like those that are kicking off now are related to this and could stay quite strong and active into the Midlands.

[paul m]

Kicking off here, frequent flashes and rumbles looking over towards the south over mendips. But still what is more more elusive is my welcome to netweather from the mods ha ha ha :-)

Welcome to the Madhouse....Lol

[Lightning Ed]

Interesting. I knew I should have gone down to the south coast... Oh well!!

[Climate_Eyes]

Frequent, almost constant lightning and distant thunder here presently, slowly increasing in intensity.