Convective Storm/Discussion thread - 02/09/16 onwards

[Mr_ Nexus]

I'm looking towards Dudley and the sky behind it looks menacing !!

[Darren Bown]

I'm hoping I'm very well placed for the coming hours!

[Luke Best]

Puddletown, mid Dorset 

[weirpig]

1 minute ago, Mr_ Nexus said:

I'm looking towards Dudley and the sky behind it looks menacing !!

Yep turning very dark here  now.

[Mr_ Nexus]

THUNDER !!!

[Darren Bown]

How frequent is the lightning where people have it? The detectors seem to have decreased quite a bit in terms of lightning frequency.

[Costa Del Fal]

Great to see some thunderstorms across the West Country/west Midlands.

Another storm approaching Cornwall?  looking potentially good here tonight too.

[Shane Wheeldon]

2 minutes ago, Darren Bown said:

How frequent is the lightning where people have it? The detectors seem to have decreased quite a bit in terms of lightning frequency.

Completely died off?!

[Ian Ballinger]

Yeah just a couple of rumbles and now just rain.

[Chris.R]

The  Shrewsbury cell has dide.  Big spots of rain. Wait, was that the  Shrewsbury cell again then?

[Mapantz]

...just hit 20°C for the dew point. The temperature is only 22.1°C
The sky has mainly filled in,  but definitely convection taking place.

[Chris K]

Sun is back out here but actually feels rather fresh outside. Activity seems to be dwindling for now?

[Mr_ Nexus]

lightning and distant thunder now . Just watching a vintage 1930s large biplane fly over heading towards the storm , wings tipping from side to side .... good luck to them , not the best thing to experience in a modern plane let alone an old biplane !!

[alexisj9]

1 hour ago, Mapantz said:

My webcam timelapse caught this.. a devils tail?

I think they call it a beavers tail, in the states. In flow, must be a strong storm.

[SalopWatcher]

Gutted, the whole live Telford-Shrewsbury died right on us. 

Now a couple more strikes over Witchurch so it will probs start to kick off again... can see the strikes to my North though... 

[Hector the Convector]

21 minutes ago, Costa Del Fal said:

Great to see some thunderstorms across the West Country/west Midlands.

Another storm approaching Cornwall?  looking potentially good here tonight too.

Hi there! Are you able to chase that storm moving into Cornwall soon? Seems to have maintained intensity on the radar for hours now! Could be a good storm..

[Darren Bown]

Seems to be more strikes up to Chester, but lacking in those really intense echoes near Blackpool!

[Jan]

It has gone totally overcast here, temp has dropped to 18.5c since brief heavy rain, humidity up to 86%. Doesn't feel like a thundery type of day

[Chris.R]

 Very distant thunder, from 11 miles away. 

[A Frayed Knot]

Great Thunderstorms down here earlier with intense rain and very loud explosive thunder and great lightning strikes 'all calm now with the sun showing its face .

[Mr_ Nexus]

Todays grand total of 2 claps of distant thunder , 1 flash of lightning .

I think that just about sums up this year so far .

[Shane Wheeldon]

What a shock, the systems dies over Telford/Shrewsbury, then it decides to come back to life after it has passed!

[tomp456]

As per usual for this year the storm outbreaks are in Dorset east to the Portsmouth/Southampton area.

So near yet so far. 

[Harsh Climate]

4 minutes ago, Shane Wheeldon said:

What a shock, the systems dies over Telford/Shrewsbury, then it decides to come back to life after it has passed!

I wouldn't worry the storms are nothing special as of yet, once we start seeing 100+ strikes/min then I will be interested. Northwest england/west yorkshire/ south west scotland look prime areas for later.

[AWD]

Mass of cells have imploded over Southern Central England & West Country.