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


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  • Location: Ash Vale, Surrey/Hampshire border
  • Weather Preferences: Sunny Spells or thunderstorms.
  • Location: Ash Vale, Surrey/Hampshire border
11 minutes ago, Surrey said:

Its firing!! coming straight at me 

Yes, good luck! Stikes south of Basingstoke now, I doubt that will be the last lightning I see tonight.

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  • Location: Dorset
  • Weather Preferences: warehamwx.co.uk
  • Location: Dorset
5 minutes ago, SenlacJack said:

Apologies for being slightly off topic ( whilst still watching the distant lightning outside ), can anyone advise this technophobe how I can post photo's directly from my smartphone to this or any other NW forum please ?  

 

In the edit box you type in to reply, you should see a 'choose files'  hyperlink just below it. Click it, and it'll open up an action box, then just navigate to the folder where your pictures are. If you click one, it'll start uploading, when it has finished, click the + icon that shows in the uploaded picture, it will place it inline within the edit box.

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  • Location: Basingstoke, Hants
  • Weather Preferences: Unexpected gusts of wind, and cumulus clouds in rude and amusing shapes.
  • Location: Basingstoke, Hants

Rumbles of thunder to the east of Basingstoke at the moment.

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  • Location: Worcester
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms and tornadoes
  • Location: Worcester
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  • Location: Bexley (home), C London (work)
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms
  • Location: Bexley (home), C London (work)

Much more northerly component to those cells moving up from the south now!!

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  • Location: Worcester
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms and tornadoes
  • Location: Worcester
2 minutes ago, Andrew snow hope said:

Please someone else say they saw that fork lightning on the webcam in Rotterdam 

Think i saw the one your on about but oh my god there getting a real battering now....

https://www.maasvlakte2.com/nl/index/

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  • Location: Pontypridd, Wales 240m asl
  • Location: Pontypridd, Wales 240m asl
Just now, East_England_Stormchaser91 said:

That Dutch storm looks effing brutal :shok:

it's not their storm - it's one we lent them LOL

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  • Location: Ash Vale, Surrey/Hampshire border
  • Weather Preferences: Sunny Spells or thunderstorms.
  • Location: Ash Vale, Surrey/Hampshire border

Was that more thunder I heard, I don't know.

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  • Location: Bexley (home), C London (work)
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms
  • Location: Bexley (home), C London (work)
2 minutes ago, Rain123 said:

Was that more thunder I heard, I don't know.

Probably, activity really starting to ramp up now again 

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  • Location: Whaley Bridge - Peak District
  • Location: Whaley Bridge - Peak District

The maasvlakte2 cam has had more lightning-strikes in two minutes than we've had here in the Peaks for all this year to date.

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  • Location: NW LONDON
  • Weather Preferences: Sun, sleet, Snow
  • Location: NW LONDON

This storm has been mega, half a mm of rain no thunder and what I thought was lightning turned out to be my neighbour's faulty light blinking in his sunlounge :rofl:

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  • Location: Nr. Tunbridge Wells (150m/450ft asl)
  • Location: Nr. Tunbridge Wells (150m/450ft asl)

Storms following me around at the moment. A few minutes south east of Tunbridge Wells, where I am now, we've had major storm activity for pretty much 2 hours, although it has drifted away now. Prolonged, deafeningly torrential rain (check out that large, intense blob on radar), constant flashes, 5-10 a minute at times, constant rumbling for about 45 minutes, and I think 3 really good, shattering cracks of thunder (one accompanied by a visible fork as the storm was at its closest point to us).

Best year for storms I can remember. Everywhere I go, there are huge storms. Follow me, storm chasers.

 

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  • Location: Mill Corner East Sussex, 55m asl
  • Weather Preferences: snow,thunder,tornados
  • Location: Mill Corner East Sussex, 55m asl

Think the real action is still to come

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  • Location: Reading, Berkshire
  • Weather Preferences: Snow
  • Location: Reading, Berkshire
2 minutes ago, Harry said:

Probably, activity really starting to ramp up now again 

Chucking it down here now and all looks like it's going north bringing us into the party!

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  • Location: Ash Vale, Surrey/Hampshire border
  • Weather Preferences: Sunny Spells or thunderstorms.
  • Location: Ash Vale, Surrey/Hampshire border
2 minutes ago, Harry said:

Probably, activity really starting to ramp up now again 

Yes, it appears to be! Another strike near Petersfield just now.

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  • Location: Worcester
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms and tornadoes
  • Location: Worcester
1 minute ago, SNOW_JOKE said:

Looks like smoke on that webcam now?

I saw a couple of very bright flashes on the cam and your right there is loads of smoke now...

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  • Location: Ash Vale, Surrey/Hampshire border
  • Weather Preferences: Sunny Spells or thunderstorms.
  • Location: Ash Vale, Surrey/Hampshire border

Just wondering, what time is peak instability for the South East? Around 3am?

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  • Location: Guildford, Surrey.
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms & Snow
  • Location: Guildford, Surrey.

I am pleased to have something to report for once. Went up onto the Hogs Back, just south of Guildford and watched the IOW cell moving N.E. Although the main activity was to the S.E. (work colleague reported very heavy rain at Loxwood, West Sussex), get a couple of reasonable photos including the dual discharges at 10:21 pm. 

The first lightning was at 9:59 pm and first thunder was at 10:07 pm when approaching the Hogs Back. Much lightning to south and S.E. in next 20 minutes. Closer discharge at 10:30 pm with quite loud thunder (about a mile away). Spots of rain at 10:25 pm then moderate to heavy shower at 10:30 pm to 10:45 pm.

Lightning receding to N.E. with last distant thunder heard at 10;55 pm. There was clear sky to the north with red-hued contrails, altocumulus and 'chaotic sky' during this whole event.

On arriving home from the bike ride, about 2 mm rain had fallen.

Further thunder at 11:58 pm then 12:05 am, 12:11 am and 12:32 am. Periods of moderate rain after 11:45 pm with some very heavy rain just arrived around 12:37 am. Total stands at about 10 mm (12:45 am) 

014 Wed 22nd June '16 3.JPG

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