Storm & Convective Discussion 12z 21/7/14 ------>

[Biggin]

On its way 

 

[Nick F]

Rather black with c-g lightning seen and thunder rumbling just to the northwest of my office in Hounslow.

 

Now here comes the torrential rain!

Edited July 25, 2014 by Nick F

[Jason H]

All about the rain. Torrential stuff!

[Moore1]

Big thunderstorm in the City of London. 

[Buzzard]

Christ that was LOUD!! Must be overhead in Camden now....

 

Much laughing in the office!!!!

[weathertoski]

Lots of thunder here too and seriously dark!

[lassie23]

Torrential rain, thunder and lightning and very windy here in NW London! Looks like flooding is possible!

[andymusic]

Looks like London has Exploded

[Nick F]

Huge cg over Hounslow looking out from my 10th floor office!

[Mustang]

After a brief break in the clouds the sky to the east of here has darkened again and i'm hearing thunder as i type.

[lassie23]

Hailstones now, tiny ones though!

[Jason H]

Monster CB to my East. Going to be a good afternoon.

[Paul]

Speedy development on today's storms - from zero to big storms in quick time!

 

[Biggin]

Just realised my car windows were open ... Soaked .

[nicklon1]

Wow, massive strike and crack of thunder just half a mile from here, listening to Heathrow and they're talking about it on the ATC freqs.

[Robbie Garrett]

I just left work at Heathrow. Constant lightning from different cells. Thunders here and there and oh torrential rainfall. I'm drenched...

[Harry]

So refreshing for the SE (or more generally speaking the South) to be bagging the glory for once

[lassie23]

The storm has cleared through, but for here, it was better than anything I got from last weeks plume!

[Hirudine]

It's finished here, though there's another bank of dark clouds to my NE.

 

Of course it's Sod's Law that my new desk fan to keep me cool whilst I work arrived only a couple of hours before the storm! 

Edited July 25, 2014 by Hirudine

[A.J]

wow, can see the anvil tops from my garden and I'm a good 50 miles west of the nearest of those storms

So refreshing for the SE (or more generally speaking the South) to be bagging the glory for once

indeed H!....just need to few more to fire westwards along the outflow boundaries and I might end up a happy man! 

[NUT]

My other half in bramley, guildford about to get absolutely clobbered me thinks!

[A.J]

That's it, I've had enough!...I'm writing an expletive laced complaint to the met office, I mean, they forecast storms for the south east, and indeed there are storms, how dare they get it right, it's just not good enough!   

[sunnijim]

Violent thunderstorm here in SE13 in the last hour,towering cumulonimbus over blue skies and then black as night.Torrential rain,streets flooded.Loud booming thunder,several cg forks.Baking hot again now! Perfect summer weather,and unexpected.

[A.J]

Violent thunderstorm here in SE13 in the last hour,towering cumulonimbus over blue skies and then black as night.Torrential rain,streets flooded.Loud booming thunder,several cg forks.Baking hot again now! Perfect summer weather,and unexpected.

you're in for more by the looks of things and more discrete cells/storms are starting to fire over Essex & Suffolk (not sure on my geography!).....plenty more chance for members in the south east to see more storms, and indeed for those who've so far missed out......initial area of showers/storms now tracking south westwards towards the Dorset, Hants & West Sussex coasts

[tcc]

Classic early stages of building storms. Looked about half an hour to miss us here in Crawley to our North, tantalisingly close. However in the last 10 min it's got darker and now bursts of heavy rain.