Southeast England & East Anglia, Weather Chat...July 1st 2015...

[VillagePlank]

Loooool! Look at the strikes in Belgium!

Suddenly gone very humid too.

http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime

 

The boys and girls at Estofex look to have got this spot on

 

[tinybill]

THUNDER  OVER IPSWICH

[Spikey M]

2 storms today. A fantastic one earlier, went eerily dark around lunch time and had torrential rain and t&l more or less over head.

Another is going on right now. Lightning a bit too far to the west to be exciting, but a storm is a storm.

[Captain Shortwave]

A crack of thunder here too

[DAVID SNOW]

2 storms today. A fantastic one earlier, went eerily dark around lunch time and had torrential rain and t&l more or less over head.

Another is going on right now. Lightning a bit too far to the west to be exciting, but a storm is a storm.

 

Are you to the east of the region Spike? Not easy to tell

[tinybill]

very heavy  rain  now coming down  with distant thunder

[nicol@]

Dami, a small storm on the way. Think it will pass over you, not me. I have heard a distant rumble.

[Methuselah]

Very convective-type cloud moving up from the SSE...

[Harps]

Cloudy day in Cambridge with about an hour of moderately heavy rain around 4pm, not a very nice day.

4th of July still the only time I've observed thunder or lightning in the past year...

[snowy weather]

very menacing dark/grey clouds and it is so still

[Spikey M]

Are you to the east of the region Spike? Not easy to tell

I'm near Southend. I'll update my location in my bio!

[VillagePlank]

The fall of night killing off the storms in Belgium?

 

Edited August 13, 2015 by VillagePlank

[Wet'n'Dry]

 and it is so still

 

Same here, I've had my South facing kitchen door open since 1pm and not a single drop of rain has touched the floor!!

[VillagePlank]

Maybe, but just had a burst of frenetic activity, there.

 

http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en&page_0=12

[Blessed Weather]

The fall of night killing off the storms in Belgium?

 

night_time.png

 

Hopefully it's just the fact that as the sun sets to the west, the clouds on the eastern side of the satellite image start to disappear. This function of the website doesn't work at night, so very soon there'll be no clouds to view!! 

[Essexgooner]

Few distant rumbles about 30mins ago, since then just very heavy rain, gardens need it  

[loopydreamer]

Argghh I'm gutted. No thunder in Medway tonight... bummer

[VillagePlank]

Hopefully it's just the fact that as the sun sets to the west, the clouds on the eastern side of the satellite image start to disappear. This function of the website doesn't work at night, so very soon there'll be no clouds to view!! 

 

Aah, didn't know that, thanks!

Current UK hotspot looks to be somewhere around Bedford

[Dami]

Dami, a small storm on the way. Think it will pass over you, not me. I have heard a distant rumble.

ah i thought i heard something

[frozencanals]

Still raining here in Southend but no more thunder in the last half hour...

 

FC

[Jimmyh]

So where does the welling shield stand tonite

[VillagePlank]

Heavy rain arrived here in Medway

[VillagePlank]

Heavy Rain stopped here in Medway, lol

[nicol@]

I see a dogs head.

[Blessed Weather]

I really hope the homegrown storms deliver for chosen locations tonight, because I suspect the East coast "runner" of storms that the Met Office talked about this morning is over in Belgium/Holland and won't be troubling the UK. And looking at the Meteo-France rainfall radar in combination with the Real-Time Lightning Radar, that's largely it with regard French imports. 

 

French radar 20.30  Lightning 20.35