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

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Chris K Rising Star

Chris K

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  • Location: South Gloucestershire BS35
  • Weather Preferences: Severe weather enthusiast
  • Location: South Gloucestershire BS35
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20 minutes ago, Raidan said:

Not far Jc I can see planes coming in but it's not that as it's clear here and it's not the flashes you see when a plane is coming through the clouds...These are bright flashes just like lightning yet there are no storms and its happening about every 5mins very weird. 

I had something similar back during the Summer - it probably is lightning to be honest, as at night time the flashes can be seen from a fair old distance. I was walking back from the pub one night (sober I may add) and I saw flashes wayyy in the distance to the NW. Checked the radar when I got in and there were storms over W/NW Wales. So I assume that is what was causing them.

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East_England_Stormchaser91

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  • Location: King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Hot and Thundery, Cold and Snowy
  • Location: King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
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Sure I heard a very deep rumble from that Milton Keynes storm. Must've been very loud, or conditions are right for the thunder to carry a long way!! 

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  • Location: Horsham, W. Sussex
  • Weather Preferences: Fog, Drizzle, Rain, Wind and Thunderstorms
  • Location: Horsham, W. Sussex
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Fairly potent cell off the IoW at the moment. Aircraft up to FL380 taking headings to avoid.

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Mapantz Maestro

Mapantz

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  • Location: Dorset
  • Weather Preferences: warehamwx.co.uk
  • Location: Dorset
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33 minutes ago, Raidan said:

Not far Jc I can see planes coming in but it's not that as it's clear here and it's not the flashes you see when a plane is coming through the clouds...These are bright flashes just like lightning yet there are no storms and its happening about every 5mins very weird. 

It's happening here as well. The moon is fully lit, with just the odd few Cumulus clouds floating by, very strange!

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  • Location: Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. 108.7m ASL
  • Location: Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. 108.7m ASL
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3 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

It's happening here as well. The moon is fully lit, with just the odd few Cumulus clouds floating by, very strange!

Could it be a military exercise going on at Salisbury plain area? Possible with all the heightened tensions between the west and Russia.

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  • Location: Dorset
  • Weather Preferences: warehamwx.co.uk
  • Location: Dorset
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1 minute ago, SnowJoke said:

Could it be a military exercise going on at Salisbury plain area? Possible with all the heightened tensions between the west and Russia.

My view is East though, i'm looking directly towards the shower East of the IoW. It is electrified, so it must be coming from that? That  is quite some distance though..

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  • Location: Newton Poppleford, Devon, UK
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, Thunderstorms, High Winds.
  • Location: Newton Poppleford, Devon, UK
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18 hours ago, Mapantz said:

My view is East though, i'm looking directly towards the shower East of the IoW. It is electrified, so it must be coming from that? That  is quite some distance though..

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I'm not surprised, I saw loads of lightning strikes from a thunderstorm over Poole on 03 July 2015.

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Flash bang flash bang etc

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  • Location: Godalming
  • Weather Preferences: Plumes and streamers
  • Location: Godalming
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Got one flash earlier on as we looked out to see the torrential rain. Was perfect timing - quite close too!

handy as I was showing the blitzortung app to my stepmum earlier this evening and I showed her that the strike we saw had registered, and I think she found it rather remarkable :-)

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Convective

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  • Location: Douglas, Isle of Man - 380ft/116m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Warm summers, cold winters.. How it should be!
  • Location: Douglas, Isle of Man - 380ft/116m ASL
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Good start to the afternoon with a extremely heavy hailstorm, around 3pm. So heavy that all the cars, including me, had to pull over with the hazard lights on as the marble sized hail made it impossible to see the road in front of you. The noise was unbelievable, too. Didn't take long for the roads to flood, ending up like rivers with the water a few inches deep in places.

This was followed by a very decent evening with thunder and lightning on and off from around 1830. Some very loud, and deep rumbles - a couple of positive strikes, too! Shaking the ground and making the windows rattle and creek.

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  • Location: Benson, Oxfordshire
  • Location: Benson, Oxfordshire
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1 hour ago, ThundersnowDays said:

I don't think it is Salisbury plain as I can normally hear the distant booms when they're practicing.

We can even hear them up here if the winds are right!

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Raidan Enthusiast

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  • Location: BRISTOL
  • Location: BRISTOL
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16 hours ago, Chris K said:

I had something similar back during the Summer - it probably is lightning to be honest, as at night time the flashes can be seen from a fair old distance. I was walking back from the pub one night (sober I may add) and I saw flashes wayyy in the distance to the NW. Checked the radar when I got in and there were storms over W/NW Wales. So I assume that is what was causing them.

Don't believe that Chris bet you were pssd as a fart lol...Glad to read others have seen this and it wasn't me going mad.

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Summer Sun Maestro

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  • Location: Darlington
  • Weather Preferences: Warm dry summers
  • Location: Darlington
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Day 2 Convective Outlook

VALID 06:00 UTC Wed 19 Oct 2016 - 05:59 UTC Thu 20 Oct 2016

ISSUED 18:24 UTC Tue 18 Oct 2016

ISSUED BY: Dan

Upper vortex will become quasi-stationary over the German Bight on Wednesday, with cold mid-levels atop relatively warm SSTs creating ideal conditions for deep convection. Steering winds will advect the subsequent showers towards eastern England, more especially later in the day and through Wednesday night as the winds gradually veer a little. Instability, albeit marginal, is sufficient for some sporadic/isolated lightning, especially over the North Sea and perhaps affecting some adjacent coasts. The most intense cells may produce some small hail and gusty winds, with perhaps even a waterspout/brief funnel possible.

http://www.convectiveweather.co.uk/forecast.php?date=2016-10-19

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Spikecollie Accomplished

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  • Location: Haute Vienne, Limousin, France (404m ASL)
  • Weather Preferences: Warm and sunny with night time t-storms
  • Location: Haute Vienne, Limousin, France (404m ASL)
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Anyone seen this?

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-37694399

Did Manchester have a storm?

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Costa Del Fal

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  • Location: Truro, Cornwall
  • Weather Preferences: Winter - Heavy Snow Summer - Hot with Night time Thunderstorms
  • Location: Truro, Cornwall
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Very quiet in here but a good risk of thunderstorms/thundery showers for Cornwall tomorrow. Risk looks to be in place for much of the day. I would say Truro and Westwards and The Isles of Scilly looking to have the greatest risk. Euro4 even has some heavy ppn/something thundery over west Cornwall as early as 6am tomorrow.

Certainly heavy showers about though and this will include much of Devon, especially south Devon. Thunder risk here too but the real instability looks to be reserved for west Cornwall. Southern coasts especially prone to thundery activity. The Lizard could be a good spot tomorrow. Also worth noting winds falling a fair bit lighter than what they have been today so any downpours would bring the risk of flash flooding especially road flooding, particularly as lots of leaves are now beginning to fall and inevitably start blocking drains.

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  • Location: Haute Vienne, Limousin, France (404m ASL)
  • Weather Preferences: Warm and sunny with night time t-storms
  • Location: Haute Vienne, Limousin, France (404m ASL)
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58 minutes ago, Costa Del Fal said:

Very quiet in here but a good risk of thunderstorms/thundery showers for Cornwall tomorrow. Risk looks to be in place for much of the day. I would say Truro and Westwards and The Isles of Scilly looking to have the greatest risk. Euro4 even has some heavy ppn/something thundery over west Cornwall as early as 6am tomorrow.

Certainly heavy showers about though and this will include much of Devon, especially south Devon. Thunder risk here too but the real instability looks to be reserved for west Cornwall. Southern coasts especially prone to thundery activity. The Lizard could be a good spot tomorrow. Also worth noting winds falling a fair bit lighter than what they have been today so any downpours would bring the risk of flash flooding especially road flooding, particularly as lots of leaves are now beginning to fall and inevitably start blocking drains.

Where's William?

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  • Location: Newton Poppleford, Devon, UK
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, Thunderstorms, High Winds.
  • Location: Newton Poppleford, Devon, UK
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17 hours ago, Spikecollie said:

Where's William?

I'm here! There were quite a few lightning strikes to the south of here in Exeter but unfortunately they were too far away to hear the thunder from them. However, there was torrential rain at times!

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  • Location: Haute Vienne, Limousin, France (404m ASL)
  • Weather Preferences: Warm and sunny with night time t-storms
  • Location: Haute Vienne, Limousin, France (404m ASL)
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5 hours ago, Grimers said:

I'm here! There were quite a few lightning strikes to the south of here in Exeter but unfortunately they were too far away to hear the thunder from them. However, there was torrential rain at times!

That's a pity! We've had the torrents here last night and today and there were some distant IC flashes round about 03/04h00 which woke me up. The main thing was the noise of the rain on the roof and the porch. 30mm since the middle of the night.

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  • Location: South Devon
  • Location: South Devon
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Well looks like I missed a bit of storm action this morning down in the South Hams as have been away for the past couple of days visiting family in the Midlands. Was a little further to the east from here but seems likely I would have seen/heard it :)

Seems to be getting its act together again down this part of the world. Absolutely chucking it down here and I note a couple more strikes in and around the South Devon area.

 

 

 

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  • Location: Barton on Sea, Hampshire
  • Weather Preferences: Snowy winter, warm/hot summer with the odd storm thrown in
  • Location: Barton on Sea, Hampshire
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Just went outside and can hear fairly loud deep rumbles.

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