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

[SteveB]

That is insane, I have never seen lightning like what is showing on that mass heading towards Brighton

 

Stay safe everyone

 

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

[Cheese Rice]

I love watching storms exploding over mainland Europe on the cloud radar, they literally look like atomic bombs, really cool to see one pushing into SE England. 

[Mokidugway]

Atmosphere destabilising rapidly here , gone from hazy sunshine to stormy looking cumulus and altcas ,very rapid too!!...

Edited July 18, 2014 by Mokidugway

[Lincs Observation]

Cell showing up nicely on sat24

Just been looking at that sat sequence thats a monster cell, if you run the animation you can see how impressive it grows

 

LO

[Paul]

Just the odd 12,000 lightning strikes in the last hour coming through from the storms just making landfall on the south coast - it's going to get pretty wild..

 

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=lightning;sess=

[Sussex Jules]

This could be the understatement of the year but wow. Lightning is right over my head looks to be cloud based, so dark street lamps have come on and got very windy.

[nanu]

Hmm very dark just south of me.. no rumbles or anything but, just wondering if its drawing in the hot air from london that it may explode on the northern side and expand??

[toggerob]

Meto amber warning doesn't begin until Midnight, still ample time for that lot in the channel to start off the show and make the SE msc look like a firecracker.

[Paul R]

Sky is looking quite dark now to the south east of Basingstoke. Looking like something could potentially happen here soon.

Edited July 18, 2014 by Paul Roberts

[Harry]

Meto amber warning doesn't begin until Midnight, still ample time for that lot in the channel to start off the show and make the SE msc look like a firecracker.

Precisely...in many ways this is an aperitif! Expect much more widespread destabilisation later!!

[Daniel*]

The beast has breached our defences This may be newsworthy! I wouldn't discount an significant weather event.

Edit: I love how most go unaware of what is to come, this is what makes this forum such a special place.

Edited July 18, 2014 by Daniel*

[Guest]

Atmosphere destabilising rapidly here , gone from hazy sunshine to stormy looking cumulus and altcas ,very rapid too!!...

AcCas here as well, visible in the hazy evening sun

[TheToastPeople]

Holy "£%£$% RIP kent!!!!

[Neilsouth]

Going very dark in Canterbury!

 

WiN

[Matty M]

Wow that thing is exploding!

 

Really jealous guys. Enjoy it and be safe!

[Guest]

Meto amber warning doesn't begin until Midnight, still ample time for that lot in the channel to start off the show and make the SE msc look like a firecracker.

 It's going to be a long night

[Lewesdon]

Further cell development showing up nicely near Arcachon/Bordeaux on the Sat 24 imagery. Hope is it will move on up later. 

[Lincs Observation]

http://www.webviews.co.uk/network/camera/europe/england/other/brighton/seasidecam.html

 

Brighton Cam as this is the first part of England to get tonights action

 

LO

[magicpatch]

Dark clouds forming to the south of me, still bright to the north. Still extremely hot! 

[Neilsouth]

Finally, the instability

 

AC-CAS and Altocumulus skies, black stuff too

[Shell Rawcliffe]

http://www.itsfine.org/weather/wx_webcam_quick.php

 

EASTBOURNE live cam as storm moves in...

 

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

 

realtime lightning map... 

[Greeny]

The beast has breached our defences This may be newsworthy! I wouldn't discount an significant weather event. Edit: I love how most go unaware of what is to come, this is what makes this forum such a special place.

Last nights storms already were and so are tonight's. It has been said that these are going to be even more severe. Someone got struck last night it was on radio 1 however it wasn't direct and she was ok.

[ilsewin]

It is starting to look very black on my southern horizon. Very ominous!

[tempesta]

Amazing cloud structure south west of Epsom.  Really high base but intense..

[Lincs Observation]

http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en

 

This is a link to those who dont have a live storm tracker

 

Enjoy

 

LO