Storm risk - Monday 9th May onwards

[Hirudine]

Yeah, I think if we get any sunshine in London today it'll be a minor miracle! Very damp, humid air here. 

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

Rain seems much heavier than radar suggests. Nigh on flash flooding here. This rain and showers really are moving slower than a week in clink!! 

[alexisj9]

Got a shower over us now, not doing much though, we'll see if it builds more as it moves I think wnw.

[Frosty hollows]

Main rain band moved through now. Murky and very humid (RH95%) feeling very close despite uninspiring 16 C on sensor. Showers to the south looking quite intense but dufficult to ascertain any decent cloud structure in the urk

[NO LONGER POSTING]

Sunshine!!! Better late than never bit too late mind 

[Allezwasps.]

muggy with heavy rain here in maidenhead

[Frosty hollows]

Skies breaking to my north and sun coming out.To my south,however...

[MP-R]

Those heavy downpours are slowly but surely ambling towards here, but I think they'll be just that... heavy downpours. At least the sky is now white rather than dark grey as it was earlier.

[alexisj9]

First shower through here, just light rain, dark to the SE though. I wonder if the next one will have any more punch.

[Harry]

On the plus side, sferic activity appears to be increasing quite rapidly across N France. On the down side, it is not sustaining for any lengthy period of time (i.e in terms of considering potential imported action) and, far more crucially on a NIMBY point of view, it is still unbearably miserable in my neck of the woods.

[Greeny]

1 hour ago, knocker said:

Now with some surface heating.....................

Looks unlikely for surfaced based convection with that strong Cap forecast on that skew-T. Inversion meaning it gets warmer the higher you go, on the lower level anyway.

Edit: Having said that nothing is impossible but the sun has some work to do. Whats the 18Z say?

Strikes showing north France now..

Edited May 10, 2016 by Greenday

[knocker]

3 minutes ago, Greenday said:

Looks unlikely for surfaced based convection with that strong Cap forecast on that skew-T. Inversion meaning it gets warmer the higher you go, on the lower level anyway.

 

 

That's why I mentioned surface heating. Ergo no inversion and any low cloud gone.

Edited May 10, 2016 by knocker

[MattTarrant]

Getting very dark here but no thunder 

[Ben Sainsbury]

Thunder would be perfect right now, dark torrential rain beautiful!

Perfect for a funnel cloud opportunity too currently; however flooding seems an issue!

Edited May 10, 2016 by Ben Sainsbury

[Dale Hay]

Just now, Ben Sainsbury said:

Thunder would be perfect right now, dark torrential rain beautiful!

That would be ace... just had constant light greyness around today. :/

[AWD]

8 minutes ago, Ben Sainsbury said:

Thunder would be perfect right now, dark torrential rain beautiful!

Perfect for a funnel cloud opportunity too currently; however flooding seems an issue!

Lol.  Bone dry here.  Keynsham is divided.

[Ben Sainsbury]

4 minutes ago, AWD said:

Lol.  Bone dry here.  Keynsham is divided.

Very Strange aha!

On the other hand this must have such a potent hail core!

[AWD]

2 minutes ago, Ben Sainsbury said:

Very Strange aha!

On the other hand this must have such a potent hail core!

Just started as soon as I wrote that comment.

Very dark and humidity increasing again after what felt like a fresher day.

[Spikecollie]

Starting up again over northern.north western France. Looking good for you guys in the south of the UK...

[dragon falls]

Gone humid here and dark wounder if any thing will kick off later France is lighting up

[Ben Sainsbury]

I'm no expert in funnel clouds, scud etc, but can someone explain to me what this is? Occurred on SE of storm on back edge.

Edited May 10, 2016 by Ben Sainsbury

[Supacell]

I wonder if there will be any storms this far north. Cloudy, gloomy and very wet today but tomorrow looks more promising I think.

[NO LONGER POSTING]

Certainly beginning to try and go up over France...

Beefy shower gone up south of London too



[Raidan]

Torrential rain here now some hail in it to sky has that thundery look also, i have to go to the shop looks like i will be going by boat

[Carl46Wrexham]

Weather warnings for rain should have been issued for areas further north by the met office in my opinion. Several hours of persistent and heavy rain (not showers...persistent rain) has resulted in lots of surface water flooding on many roads with local fields beginning to assume the now all too familiar muddy waterlogged look.