Convective Storm/Discussion thread - 16/07/16 onwards

[Ben Sainsbury]

Here some people talking about this mass of storms, having formed an elevated MCS, that picture taken by you Freeman, is something which is likely to be seen on an MCS, and with the conditions in place I'm not surprised tbh.

[Mr_ Nexus]

The rain has stopped here but now we've got low level cloud moving (SW) in the complete opposite direction to the high level cloud (NE) ?

[Freeman]

Sainsbury - I traveled just north of Peterborough and had on and off lightning/thunder/torrential rain for over 2 hours, that shelf cloud picture was taken during on of the breaks where visibility improved just enough to allow an peek at the cloud structure!

[Eye to the sky]

Well we've got biblical rain and gusty winds,just give me one flash of lightning and one crack of thunder that's all I ask.Cant believe how I have missed out on all the action!!.So,So close!!!.

[Thunderstruck]

It seems a lot fresher outside now. It's almost as if the storms up North have cleared our air without us having rain here

[Bolt from the Blue]

A screenshot from a video on my phone as the storm approached 

[Harry]

2 minutes ago, Jcweather said:

It seems a lot fresher outside now. It's almost as if the storms up North have cleared our air without us having rain here

It's obviously cooler but still quite humid feeling to me. What's more I've just seen a moon jellyfish shaped cloud moving in from the south. In my experience, clouds shaped like jellyfish are good news!

[Harry]

Look at these bad boys appearing from the south and west.......

[Mesoscale]

3 minutes ago, Harry said:

Look at these bad boys appearing from the south and west.......

I think you are clutching at straws Harry lol, had a few showers pop up near here but they died off as quickly as they built up. 

Edited August 27, 2016 by Mesoscale

[TheToastPeople]

Great storm chase around the surounding northampton areas today, the sky looked like a painting at times. Got in front of the main cell and the skud was so low it looked just out of reach! Got so dark alot of street lights came on, blooming fantastic day

Forgot to take alot of pics but here are a few

[Harry]

4 minutes ago, Mesoscale said:

I think you are clutching at straws Harry lol, had a few showers pop up near here but they died off as quickly as they built up. 

Yeah I am a little bit to be fair but nevertheless they are agitated Ac which usually bodes well. John Hammonds 5pm broadcast still showing threat of isolated cells across these neck of the woods in the next few hours so, bearing in mind summer is fast going, I'll keep clutching

[Thunderstruck]

There is a shower near Le Havre but I'm not really expecting anything to come of it. Other than that, all quiet in the Channel for now

[Harry]

13 minutes ago, Mesoscale said:

I think you are clutching at straws Harry lol, had a few showers pop up near here but they died off as quickly as they built up. 

Oi @Mesoscale beginning to look a bit better lol  my next pic will be the inevitable mothership supercell

Edited August 27, 2016 by Harry

[Wilxy]

So overall its been a good day for storms but one thing that has surprised me is the lack of storms further SE across the home counties etc central areas was the place to be today!

[Dean E]

10 minutes ago, Harry said:

Oi @Mesoscale beginning to look a bit better lol  my next pic will be the inevitable mothership supercell

Had these skies an hour ago, but went back to haze! Probably the same area that moved over me!

after a brief gap they have reappeared again tho! 

[sparky1972]

WOW, thats all i can say about this afternoon, watching storms going around us, wonderful lightening show, loud thunder then BOOM, a direct hit, 20.4mm of rain, very loud thunder, very bright lightening, all in all a cracking afternoon on the storm front.

[Mapantz]

She certainly made up for the past few days worth of disappointments! Great pictures folks have posted.

12hr accumulative rain:

[Ben Sainsbury]

Must say very humid outside right now, quite a surprise after I finished work!

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

I hate to say it but I don't think there are any surprises in store for the SE :-(

[Buckster]

5 minutes ago, Flash bang flash bang etc said:

I hate to say it but I don't think there are any surprises in store for the SE :-(

well if you were expecting it - it would no longer be a surprise !

[Cableguy]

Just had some light drizzle from a decaying shower, that's an improvement on            Recent events, we sit in the oven to watch others enjoy the rewards........good luck to them though storms today looked awesome although if being picky would have been better after dark due to elevated nature.

[Summer Sun]

Day 2 Convective Outlook

VALID 06:00 UTC Sun 28 Aug 2016 - 05:59 UTC Mon 29 Aug 2016

ISSUED 19:27 UTC Sat 27 Aug 2016

ISSUED BY: Dan

Early rain, perhaps with some embedded lightning, will clear northern England during Sunday morning, leave a more standard day of sunny spells and a few scattered showers. Increasing instability as the upper trough slides eastwards with cool mid-levels atop diurnally-heated land may allow scattered showers and a few weakly-electrified thunderstorms to develop, especially during the afternoon across the W Country - Midlands - East Anglia. A low-end SLGT has been introduced to highlight this risk, but with the proviso that quite a large part of the SLGT will likely remain void of any lightning.

Showers across Scotland will be slower-moving and tending to be focussed along areas of low-level convergence, so overall will likely give higher rainfall totals but forecast profiles look quite dry aloft, limiting the true convective depth - and hence the chance of lightning here is considered below SLGT levels.

http://www.convectiveweather.co.uk/forecast.php?date=2016-08-28

[carl1980]

Showers poping up now, large raindrops 

[Chris.R]

3 minutes ago, carl1980 said:

Showers poping up now, large raindrops 

 Same here. Fingers crossed for tonight. 

[Cheese Rice]

Big stork in North Leeds several flashes of lightning and torrential rain