Convective / Storm Discussion Thread - 27th Feb onwards

[stainesbloke]

Massive flash and shotgun thunder here, made me jump!

[PurpleButterfly]

Very very distant rumble and flash of lightning

[Allseasons-Si]

Just now, Mesoscale said:

Wow I just saw a really nice bit of lightning! filled the whole sky. 

Several sferics S of London.

[Buckster]

just woke up to Thunder after not nodding off waiting lol

[Ellozee]

Insanely good. Humdinger.

[TJS1998Tom]

Bunch of lightning strikes have shown up South of London now

[Nick F]

A few close flashes and bangs here in Croydon, woken me from my deep sleep.

[TJS1998Tom]

Does look like the storm is loosing intensity now with only 140 per minute compared to earlier in the evening

[Mesoscale]

i can see the odd flash from Essex way

[Buckster]

just had one of the longest "flashes" I've seen - it just kept going -and the thunder went on and on and on

almost sounded like a very loud plane went on so long - good stuff

[Mesoscale]

I can see the Lightning over the east of London it's so sparse and the thunder is barely audible. 

[JamieUK]

Just had a flash of lightning. Lit the whole sky and a faint grumble of thunder

[10 Days Away]

Just got back from Dungeness and Camber. I can honestly say I have never seen anything quite like that before. A mixture of CTG and intercloud lightning of varying colours from pink through to golden through to green. Booming thunder but sometimes almost throttled by comparison. Genuinely lightning every half a second as the main cell past up the channel. Roads flooded on the way back to Ashford. A memorable night for sure.

[Buckster]

can hear deep "thuds" in the distance from lightning I can't even see - very weird out there

[Buckster]

just had a VERY close lightning strike

[Mesoscale]

At least I can see lightning 

[Buckster]

I love it when you hear the first "gun-shot" crack then as its so close it takes ages for the "roll" to get back to you

radar is a right mess can't make head nor tail out of any individual cells

[Dimahop]

Well, shot one and missed one here in Crawley.

Sadly missed a type of lightning where it arc'rd horizontally, seemingly back and forth for about 1 second and the struck down.

The one I snapped had arc's coming in from both directions. I'll post it in the morning.

[Snowshine]

Cannot believe how badly the Midlands has done these past days. No thunder whatsoever, and now the rain has fragmented. Perhaps isolated thunderstorms tomorrow with higher CAPE values but overall one of the biggest disappointments I have ever seen thunderstorm-wise with only the far East getting all the action this evening. Oh well, enjoy it if you get the chance.

Edited May 29, 2017 by xSnow

[Buckster]

gone windy here in Essex - but no lightning for a while

[Buckster]

lol knew as I wrote that something would happen

what lightning there is is very sporadic but impressive - very long C-C crawlers lasting way over a second

[Daniel*]

Oh wow that was very nearby it sounded like a bomb went off! 

[Nick F]

Lightning's infrequent, but the last flash produced an almighty loud ground and house shaking rumble of thunder, I've recently come back from chasing violent supercells in USA, but it still impressed me just then.

Edited May 29, 2017 by Nick F

[cloudsabove]

Went to sleep and awoken by deep rumbles. Heavy rain, not seen any lightning as yet. Intermittent thunder. Not sure whether to sleep a bit more, stay up and radar watch or look out the window until 6am or something. If the rain wasn't so heavy I would be out photographing, but not enough lightning. It seems to have died off somewhat.

Edit: large rumble after catching a giant anvil crawler, a bolt behind trees and lovely bit of lightning illuminating the whole sky.

[Harry]

Mate texting me just now from Medway saying there's incredible thunder and lightning there