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

[Polar Maritime]

Yep here to Nick. Fingers crossed for later, Moderate rain falling here now with low cloud.

[Summer Sun]

Still dry here in Darlington very cloudy and the radar is showing some rain moving to us very slowly not expecting it to be thundery as we haven't got the heat and humidity like the south

 

EDIT

 

Here comes the rain

Edited July 19, 2014 by Summer Sun

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

what a surpise for spalding, cloudy, cool and not very nice, fingers crossed the sunshine you have will find its way here.

That storm near Cambridge has Spaldings name on it by the looks of it Sparky and Steph.

[sparky1972]

sparky im in whaplode sunny is beaming down must already be in 20s

guess we are just unlucky today then, thick cloud and not feeling warm

That storm near Cambridge has Spaldings name on it by the looks of it Sparky and Steph.

knowing our luck it will die before it gets here, lol

[Mapantz]

Thunderstorms off and on several times through the night but what I've just had now was insane.. It was mainly the rain, biblical! 14.2mm fell in 9 minutes, flooding everywhere.

[Stephanie Starr]

lol where abouts are you in spaldig mate, lets hope that coming up from ely gets us will be first storm i think

[Nick L]

Yep here to Nick. Fingers crossed for later, Moderate rain falling here now with low cloud.

 

We need this to sod off fast. Get some sunlight beaming down. Unfortunately, going by the radar, there is plenty more drizzle where that came from!

[sparky1972]

lol where abouts are you in spaldig mate, lets hope that coming up from ely gets us will be first storm i think

hey steph, im just outside spalding, Moulton here

[Stephanie Starr]

bloody hell 3-4 miles up road lol quiet night hay but very muggy 

[Karl83]

Storm number 3 for Saturday breaking out to the east here. Faint rumbles heard.

Cant believe I've witnessed 4 storms in this period. Been the best stormy period I've witnessed since 2007.

[Dorset_Weather]

Just getting our 3rd storm of the day now, Very heavy convective rain and bright flashes every 15 seconds or so with almost constant thunder rumbling.

 

a good start and looking forward to todays prospects. 

[sparky1972]

bloody hell 3-4 miles up road lol quiet night hay but very muggy 

i saw a few flashes of lightening on the way home from pub last night and it was very warm about midnight

[Mark Griffin]

Not a sausage up here just a bit of drizzle and tonnes of cloud. Not disappointed as I wasn't expecting anything anyway. This was always an event for the south.

[dave48]

It was a very busy night here. Have had about 4 and a half hours of thunderstorms since midnight. Not had much sleep!

 

Storm ongoing now. Been rumbling away for an hour and ten minutes. Quite high based thunder, occasional lightning.

 

Didn't match the previous night for intensity but still impressive.

[Dorsetbred]

Thunderstorms off and on several times through the night but what I've just had now was insane.. It was mainly the rain, biblical! 14.2mm fell in 9 minutes, flooding everywhere.

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Nowt happening here. Seems to go around us, as Blandford reporting activity, here nothing.

[Shane Wheeldon]

Sun trying its hardest to burn through the clouds here.

[Nick F]

Have issued a storm forecast for today in the tech thread:

 

http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/80904-spanish-plumeconvective-technical-analysis-discussion-1772014-onwards/?p=3009162

[Biggin]

We need this to sod off fast. Get some sunlight beaming down. Unfortunately, going by the radar, there is plenty more drizzle where that came from!

Sun out here Nick

[Cakie]

Woken up in the early hours with thunder and torrential rain. Ended up watching it on the sea front as it rolled over to the west

Today is going to be hard to call, depending on where and when the cloud breaks to warm things up

[Lynxus]

Absolutely honking it down here..

 

No thunder though. It appears to of died.

Edited July 19, 2014 by Lynxus

[Dorset_Weather]

Looking like more storms kicking off in the Channel and heading our direction.

[Biggin]

http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en&page_0=12 3 storms over France having a race to see who can reach Blighty first ??

Edited July 19, 2014 by Biggin

[dave48]

Just had the closest lightning bolt I have experienced! I thought it had calmed down a bit then out of nowhere an extemely close strike. Just saw the flash and instant boom.

[Nick L]

Sun out here Nick

 

Send it this way please!

[Mapantz]

Nowt happening here. Seems to go around us, as Blandford reporting activity, here nothing.

I'm sure they'll be more to come. I've done a bit maths with the data I have, from each rain duration, 27mm has fallen in around 35 minutes. My pond was low yesterday, It has now flooded.