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

[Sainsbo]

Beautiful wall cloud, will upload pics soon!

[SnowJoke]

I think that Wiltshire Lightning system will go north to the north-west. I hope it will grow further and gets here in the north-west. I think Birmingham urban heat will help it to grow further and stay in the game.

 

If it's developing super cellular characteristics it will move in a NE or NNE direction, no where near Lancashire.

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

Clear view of the storm just west of here, and it's definitely rotating. Never seen anything like it!

Be careful my friend, you're about to get imminent destruction in Swindon !

[The PIT]

Looks like an active cell building round Retord heading towards Bawtry.

[Shane Wheeldon]

Ha ha Shane well its about time us Bristol lot got our share we've had to wait months for something.Must admit it does feel good that we're getting storms and peeps who have had there fair share of storms already this year are not.Not meant in a horrible way but you know where I'm coming from.Hopefully the ones who have missed out so far do get something eventually.Good luck.

Yeah I know what you mean it is about time you saw some storms Some places can be a sweet spot and they get storm after storm (Lincolnshire I mean you haha!!) and others places its like a void. I am hoping to catch a storm later just 1 would be plenty for now

[toggerob]

Definitely got a defined NE movement to it now

[Stephanie Starr]

sun is now beaming down temp must be up to 25c roads drying quickly nice afternoon

looks like possible 50mm/hour

[geg1992]

27C in Ipswich, still a lot of high cloud but hoping things pick up soon.

[jimi86]

Sun definitely trying its best to poke through here. Given the apparent NE direction of the Swindon storm, is there a reasonable chance it will reach us lot in the Derbyshire/South Yorks area in a few hours time?

[AndyFromDonny]

Visiting family in

Doncaster and the heavens have been open a while now. Only slight rumbles but very dark and torrential rain.

Hopefully some heads leeds way later today.

[A.J]

lots of video to upload...the storm motion has been remarkable, so much shear and rotation evident.....I'm on my new phone so can't guarentee quality but will upload in due course

[Man With Beard]

I think there'll be a new area of action in Hampshire/Surrey very soon. Some cracking cloud formations just passed over Portsmouth, didn't drop anything but looked like they're developing. Moving at some speed to, NNE.

[Guest]

Sun definitely trying its best to poke through here. Given the apparent NE direction of the Swindon storm, is there a reasonable chance it will reach us lot in the Derbyshire/South Yorks area in a few hours time?

One can hope, although it's got an awfully long way to travel. I might pop across Buxton way later if it still looks intact.

[Eye to the sky]

Thankfully the sun is trying to break through now after a pretty dire morning of heavy rain.Only got 3 very distant flashes and rumbles last night so pretty disappointed to be honest.Doesnt look that promising for this afternoon either.

[Generalelectrix]

Hi all

That swindon storm has the potential for supercell classification soon, and I dont think its going to lose strength in the close future, its journeying along along what seems to be a line of convergence or a dryline...  EL BRUMO II in the making perhaps?

 

Ralph

[pip22]

Gloucester is soon gonna get hit by the mother of all Thunderstorms!!

[Craigers]

Not impressed with today so far. Cell in Doncaster struggling to get going

[Nick L]

If the Swindon cell is indeed a supercell (I'm not entirely sure it is, could do with some footage), then it will probably have a good lifespan and long track. Supercells are totally different beasts to single cell, pop-up storms which die out within an hour or two.

[SnowJoke]

New storm cells forming over in France south of Le Havre could possibly impact Sussex & Kent late afternoon early evening if they hold strength and make it across the channel.

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

Could this be the UK version of that German beast !! I wonder !

[The PIT]

Here comes a dry muggy afternoon. :rolleyes: Rain now moving away.

[Nick F]

Damn high cloud spilling up from the south here in London, from the remnants of French morning storms that have crossed the channel and died, just when the sun was getting to work and cu was trying to bubble upwards!

[pip22]

Could this be the UK version of that German beast !! I wonder !

It could be possible. It has potential to become that way.

[Generalelectrix]

@ Nick: If spotters further along its path up north can confirm a rotating meso in 30 minutes from now it can definitively be classified as such.

 

Ralph

[BenJamminJ]

This storm is angry!  Fantastic storm in Cirencester.I'd just been in the garden and noticed the clouds all racing in different directions?  Looked like they were being sucked up above me?  Then all hell broke loose!