Storm & Convective Discussion - 01/06/15 onwards

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

Personally I think the models, some people on here and especially the BBC did great forecasting these storms and now theyre firing off they seem pretty active! Hats off to everyone!

Thought the timings were a little off though - to be honest there were so many conflicting forecasts it was always going to be impossible to pin down when and where

[anything-but]

Constant thunder with some lightning....and now a decent hailstorm in Greenhithe. Going by the radar i`m in the sweet spot here.

Edited June 5, 2015 by anything-but

[Gordon Webb]

Thought the timings were a little off though - to be honest there were so many conflicting forecasts it was always going to be impossible to pin down when and where

 

to be fair the BBC didn't show much until 5am then starting E of IOW moving NE across SE England And East Anglia Clearing coast late morning the possibly more intense showers in SE this Afternoon

[Panayiotis]

Reasons to why its kicking off in the places of interest?

[Jason H]

This is the towering cumulonimbus over Greenhithe and Dartford earlier

[anything-but]

Another one from Greenhithe looking north as it shifts into Essex just now.

 

[Darren Bown]

Enjoy, those in the SE today. Lots of pictures and videos please, as I enjoy the sun, then drizzly mess that will come over this afternoon

Edited June 5, 2015 by Darren Bown

[Captain Shortwave]

Caught the edge of a small thunderstorm tracking over south Essex. Well at least this plume isn't a bust

[snowprincesspboro]

hiya all, hoping any of you lovely people on here can help me out, it may be a silly question but am trying to learn a bit more here, i do understand the way a storm brews up and some of the mechanisms of storms, but im wanting to know a bit more about the heating element, idealistically youd have pleanty of surface heating ie sun coming through and warming the ground for the heat to rise, but on a day like today does that really matter when the storms have already kicked off, does the sun build the top of the storms for them to rise further or does the heating need to come from the ground, basically if like me at the moment youve got full cloud cover, a few breaks which allows the sun to come through for a few short minutes here and there, is that enough for the storms to carry on building from above, or would the lack of surface heat rising help kill off the storms. what would the ideal weather be for storms to better build, can having a strong sun and heat above the cloud cover keep these little beautys going and for that matter keep them building or do you need idealistically more surface heat. yes info for today but also for future reference xx hope youre all well and enjoy any storms you do al get 

[sunnijim]

The picture storm wise would appear clearer this morning,and its hats off to the BBC forecast graphics for once.Storms readily developing in the hot,humid air over SE England so far,where as on the edge of the plume,IOW-Home counties-Norfolk we have just outbreaks of rain.

So the sweet spot later would be the extreme east of SE England/East Anglia as the plume gets shunted East.

[Harry]

I've only just woken up and all firing to my East...slept through earlier alarm...devastated! Don't know whether to jump in car and head east...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!

[Pursuer of Storms]

*sigh* Lots of promising convection around here at the moment but not a single flash or rumble. Hoping something might kick off later on this morning.

[Rain123]

The apocalypse seems to have come to Kent on Lightning Maps . Seems to be the biggest storm in Europe, that one.

[anything-but]

I've only just woken up and all firing to my East...slept through earlier alarm...devastated! Don't know whether to jump in car and head east...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!

 

Going by this http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=nl , Isle of Grain might be a good spot in the next hr or so.

 

You must have slept through the hailstorm then

[Buckster]

everything just skirting to east of here - Chelmsford atm - but lots of lightning and thunder

 

have interest in that next set to the S-West of London - if that can develop with some morning heat - might pass direct over Essex

 

that cell over Rochester looks quite potent

[Rain123]

Is lightning maps playing up tonight because I supposedly have had a strike very close to me, but I haven't seen or heard anything.

[Trance]

Canvey Island, Essex here - things seem to be about to go off with a bang. Sky has turned dark and a few rumbles!

[Harps]

Nothing in west London this morning, a couple of decent looking storms further east though it all seems to be very fast moving. Enjoy the show anyone who's in the firing line

[loopydreamer]

Thing went off with a bang here in Chatham. thunder , lightning and hail. ... went on for a good 25 minutes. Nice little storm

[Harry]

If I have any chance of seeing anything I have to race east I fear

[Harry]

Still not too late to go to work - what a quandary!!!

[scottyuk]

Not entirely sure how that missed us, storms to the north and storms to the south, now it all seems to be moving East

[tomp456]

I'm going to go ahead and call a bust for me already.

No rain overnight that the BBC predicted, all rain seems to have been west and North of me, and there just seems to be a lot of high cloud around.

Ipod weather app has even dropped showers for today, now showing partly cloudy all day, after having the thunderstorm symbol next to Friday all week.

Hope I'm wrong, and mother nature produces. lol.

Edited June 5, 2015 by tomp456

[NorthYorksWeather]

Wouldn't mind being in Ipswich over the next hour or so :O

Edited June 5, 2015 by vizzy2004

[Harry]

I'm going to work...will probably regret it!!