Convective Storm/Discussion thread - 11/06/16 onwards

[MP-R]

The center of the low must be over Bristol at the moment seeing as stuff is forming all around it except over it haha!

[Windblade]

Couple of fresh strikes to my south, just north west of crawley.

[Chris.R]

A shower  developing here

[andymusic]

Looks like Swansea and Llanelli are in the firing line right now

edit:- some lovely blackness surrounding me here too - so it may kick off here too soon lol

Edited June 15, 2016 by andymusic

[William Grimsley]

I don't know what to do, do I go NE or not? :/

[Ben Sainsbury]

Just now, William Grimsley said:

I don't know what to do, do I go NE or not? :/

That will be your best bet when seeing any storms!

[dragon falls]

Rain getting very heavy here here been a while its been this heavy radar  looks impressive.

 

 

Edited June 15, 2016 by dragon falls

[NO LONGER POSTING]

Yay.... Pulse storms, bring on the proper storms, working at royal Ascot all week so the showers can steer clear 

[andymusic]

1 minute ago, dragon falls said:

Rain getting very heavy here here been a while its been this heavy radar .

 

 

Can see the heavy Blackness over Cardiff from here - looks like a pressure cooker about to go off on one lol

[Staffordshire]

That band of light/showery rain looks to be ruining my chances for today... Will see if anything has changed in a couple of hours

[dragon falls]

Yes seems to gone muggy aswell 

[Spikecollie]

Been back to my doctor this afternoon. Sneezing has been ridiculous. Couldn't do my phone work! Double strength anti histamine and a sleep bullet foe tonight!!!

[stainesbloke]

A much nicer morning here with some decent sunny spells, sudden and rapid convection had led to a torrential downpour, no thunder yet though the sky looks very angry. The raindrops are massive! Soaked in seconds lol.

Edited June 15, 2016 by stainesbloke

[Chris.R]

Sun's back out again now. Was a moderate shower. At least cells are moving a bit so it's sunshine and showers rather than just showers. 

[A.J]

1 hour ago, William Grimsley said:

May be an opinion, but factually parameters today are not evident for extreme instability.

Anyway, looking better over Exmoor and Somerset once again, but my thinking is that will move south through today.

hang on a minute.....you posted earlier that you and I quote...."However, I feel tomorrow will be better and I mean better, possibly even historical." which is about as OTT as one get get....In the interests of keeping this thread sensible, please don't critique other members posts when you do the exact same thing......no replies in this thread please, contact me via pm for any clarification, thanks 

[80sWeather]

1 hour ago, SnowJoke said:

Cells going up rapidly to the south and south west of Milton Keynes. Sky is full of towering cumulus and cumulonimbus. Temp sitting at 18.4'c with a DP of 14'c. Gonna go bang soon.

I've been working here for six weeks and have already seen three thunderstorms, MK the storm capital lol 

[Frosty hollows]

1 hour ago, ancientsolar said:

extreme is a perception of my point of view.. 
we've had no thunderstorms across the valleys this year.. whilst other parts of the country have.
I don't think the weather is right for Supercells... but the way things look I wouldn't rule out a funnel cloud or small tornado. 

We've winds going all over the place, huge towers even with some scud. No precitpitation as yet, but I think any area where they get a moderate amount of heating could see some pretty nice storms including funnels. ( Won't be here, tho. Might be brewing, but they'll go elsewhere to fire!!)

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

10 minutes ago, Frosty hollows said:

We've winds going all over the place, huge towers even with some scud. No precitpitation as yet, but I think any area where they get a moderate amount of heating could see some pretty nice storms including funnels. ( Won't be here, tho. Might be brewing, but they'll go elsewhere to fire!!)

Yep! Glorious sun here. Can see the vapour rising too from the heating of the last heavy shower, which is now giving nice distant booms over Lincolnshire. 

Gonna go bang again shortly I reckon as I can see rapidly rising cumulus in the distance. 

Edited June 15, 2016 by East_England_Stormchaser91

[Chris.R]

 Massive raindrops with this next shower.  This means business 

[Frosty hollows]

Watching the radar. Beefy showers approach my location, then veer off to the NE as if somethings physically pushing them! We've had beautiful convective skies all morning, but I don't think we're getting enough heat to fire anything. That said the sun pops out from time to time.

[Vestan]

1 minute ago, Frosty hollows said:

Watching the radar. Beefy showers approach my location, then veer off to the NE as if somethings physically pushing them! We've had beautiful convective skies all morning, but I don't think we're getting enough heat to fire anything. That said the sun pops out from time to time.

Once again there is a patch of nothingness extending from Bristol, through Swindon to North of Oxford.  Seems to be the case on many of these convective days. The skys are very dark in Oxford though and the sun keeps popping out, so I still have some hope for today

[MP-R]

Just now, Vestan said:

Once again there is a patch of nothingness extending from Bristol, through Swindon to North of Oxford.  Seems to be the case on many of these convective days. The skys are very dark in Oxford though and the sun keeps popping out, so I still have some hope for today

You could almost draw a 50 mile radius around Bristol and find sferics along that boundary, close enough to taunt but far enough away that there's no chance in hell of getting any here lol. 

[andymusic]

peeing it down here - but someone's forgot to put 50p (or with inflation a £1) in the meter, as there's no electrics yet!!!!!!!!!

[ancientsolar]

Just now, andymusic said:

peeing it down here - but someone's forgot to put 50p (or with inflation a £1) in the meter, as there's no electrics yet!!!!!!!!!

dry here.. it's that unstable though.. you can't even rely on the radar.. it changes so quick!

[MP-R]

That mass approaching Bristol and N Somerset seems to be weakening drastically while everything around it strengthens. Frustrating to say the least!