South East and East Anglia weather discussion/Chat - 1st June onwards

[alexisj9]

Sun is now out in Ashford so I'm guessing the cloud has now dispersed over most of the SE corner. 

[Captain Shortwave]

1 hour ago, Norfolk Sheep said:

Certainly brighter but my washing is stubbornly refusing to dry properly *sigh*

Yeah not a good drying day, thick cloud, high humidity and light winds.

Somehow the temperature has hit 22C today despite the cloud.

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

Blue sky now visible.

[stainesbloke]

3 hours ago, lassie23 said:

Any chance that we end up with drizzle instead

I did suggest that on the storm thread but got some abuse lol. Forgot we were not allowed to post our thoughts freely lol...

Very muggy here, certainly feels like something is brewing but I'd be very (pleasantly!) surprised if my area sees much in the way of thunderstorms.

[crazysnowcatz4]

seem to be some beefy showers heading this way from the channel suspect they will clip in Brighton way in around 15 minutes, Hythe / Folkestone in around an hour, most of the SE corner by 8.00 ish

[Dami]

3 minutes ago, stainesbloke said:

I did suggest that on the storm thread but got some abuse lol. Forgot we were not allowed to post our thoughts freely lol...

Very muggy here, certainly feels like something is brewing but I'd be very (pleasantly!) surprised if my area sees much in the way of thunderstorms.

yeah i was going to say I didn't think Bedford would get anything but couldn't be bothered to back it up.

[Captain Shortwave]

The cloud is breaking up here now as well. Not holding much hope for these storms, to far north and too far west.

[tomp456]

is something trying to happen around Brighton area? Quite dark to south and east.

[Neilsouth]

Thunder heard towards south east! Towers going up

[crazysnowcatz4]

There is a massive storm just south of Brighton in  the channel, likewise just south of Dover, they mainly seem routed along the channel atm in 3 zones, I can't see the 3rd zone now south of Brighton not impacting on the coastal region soon

[snowrye]

That cell off the coast of france is going nuts on blitzortung,im in the firing line from the cell travelling off the coast of brighton,cant wait

[Milocation]

1 hour ago, Dami said:

yeah i was going to say I didn't think Bedford would get anything but couldn't be bothered to back it up.

hoping i don't miss anything, as @Dami put perfectly, the humidity is at a high and the chance of storms is also still high so, conditions look good! Good luck everybody!

[Milocation]

41 minutes ago, tomp456 said:

is something trying to happen around Brighton area? Quite dark to south and east.

yes, http://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en#y=50.6014;x=1.6304;z=7;t=4;m=sat;r=0;s=200;d=8;a=2;dc=0;o=0;n=0;b=0.00;dl=2;

[Neilsouth]

Towers trying to grow towards Margate way! So it's very unstable over heard now

[tinybill]

looking  at  the  radar  nice  cell forming  over kent  coast  things  looking  like  it will be a very  wet  night  for  some!!!

[crazysnowcatz4]

One particular forecast has 70mm of rain in 2 hours for Canterbury which is about a month and a half, think I might build an ark.

[Ben Lewis]

Love the fact that ppn over the channel is pushing NE rather than N.

Hopefully the worst of any rain will miss London and the northern Home Counties. Ground saturated here 

[PurpleButterfly]

5 minutes ago, Ben Lewis said:

Love the fact that ppn over the channel is pushing NE rather than N.

Hopefully the worst of any rain will miss London and the northern Home Counties. Ground saturated here 

I'm hoping the same. I feel nervous enough watching the action on the maps and cams! 

After a very cloudy day we have blue sky's. You can feel the heat in the air.

[tomp456]

Am about 13 miles west of Brighton

[Daniel*]

5 minutes ago, Ben Lewis said:

Love the fact that ppn over the channel is pushing NE rather than N.

Hopefully the worst of any rain will miss London and the northern Home Counties. Ground saturated here

The worst of the rain will coincide with the most interesting weather therefore I say bring it on! well if it's saturated it can't get more saturated  

[bybo1999]

Thunder heard in Deal , East Kent , Just off shore if im correct

 

[Neilsouth]

That bang heard towards folkestone sounded like a cannon

[k66yla]

Getting very dark to my south now...not long now I reckon

[Neilsouth]

OMG! :O 

[Storme]

Lots of cloud here near Gatwick. Seems current storms will miss us but we have a flood alert for the Mole. 

We could do with a few good storms. We have had storms all around us lately but not proper storms to clear the air.