Convective / Storm Discussion Thread - 31st May 2017 onwards

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

 I think in Boston in Lincolnshire it is a case of premature electrification lol

[Delka]

Shame theres a small shower of rain blocking the view because when Boston normally get storms i can watch them out the window across The Wash 

[Summer Sun]

Parts of Lincolnshire are under a storm

Almost quite a rude shape as well

 

[Hodgheg]

The sky here in London is looking more unstable than it has all week. Sod's law would have it in heading to Yorkshire today. Hopefully tomorrow will be good though. 

I've been made photographer at my own mums wedding so I may be torn between wedding and storm pics if anything does happen. 

[Delka]

Radar shows rain over my location but not a drop at all yet, another cell to my south starting up between Lynn and Fakenham?

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

On sat 24 I'm seeing a blob of cloudy pushing across surrey. Looks to equal that little cell over Lincs - but according to the rain radar it's just cloud 

[Delka]

Still not a drop from the shower over my head, i think the only place actually getting rain is under the main part of the cells 

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

Think this mid-level cloud is gonna hold back temps over woking area and possibly limit potential

[Ben Sainsbury]

Just now, Delka said:

Still not a drop from the shower over my head, i think the only place actually getting rain is under the main part of the cells 

Most of it probably being evaporated. "Dry Thunderstorm"

[Frosty hollows]

2 minutes ago, Flash bang flash bang etc said:

Think this mid-level cloud is gonna hold back temps over woking area and possibly limit potential

I was just thinking that. It's murky here. The skies look drizzly rather than convective and it's quite dull. That said I'm making the most of the relatively cool temperature!

[Rob Walker]

1 hour ago, Andy Bown said:

Yes very encouraging mid level instability this morning with plenty of virga and altcas.

Must be somewhat localised not a cloud in the sky here; beautiful blue skies and not a breath of wind... and it's feeling fairly hot already!

[Another Kent clipper]

You's all beat me to it!

Bring on the heat today I say, 19° so far here. It's a bit of a hazy soupy blue in Manchester

 

 

Edited June 20, 2017 by Another Kent clipper
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[Summer Sun]

More cloud than we've seen in recent days in the east

 

Edited June 20, 2017 by Summer Sun

[Rob Walker]

5 minutes ago, Frosty hollows said:

I was just thinking that. It's murky here. The skies look drizzly rather than convective and it's quite dull. That said I'm making the most of the relatively cool temperature!

Doh - forgot to multi quote!.... Seems it could be quite localised  (as some clouds in warminster and bournemouth too and they're not too far from me) but for me not a cloud in the sky here; beautiful blue skies and not a breath of wind... and it's feeling fairly hot already!

Edited June 20, 2017 by Rob Walker

[Delka]

:O possible very distant rumble of thunder from the wash?

[Justin123]

The cloud is looking to slowly move off to the eastern coast, aplowing western, south - westerm and maybe central england to become hot and sunny by around 11am. The surface heating during the day may ignite some beastly looking Thuderstorms. I thinl the whole eastern UK is out of the equation completely as there it alot of cloud cover although, this hints towards instability, which was proven this morning by the small short lived cell that managed ignite. 

 

It is more instable than past days by far, but is the cap finally going to break today. We will have to wait and see.

 

[A.J]

16 minutes ago, Summer Sun said:

More cloud than we've seen in recent days in the east

 

it was forecasted, and is likely to suppress the temperatures by up to 10C along or near the east coast

[Nick L]

5 minutes ago, ajpoolshark said:

it was forecasted, and is likely to suppress the temperatures by up to 10C along or near the east coast

Lucky sods!

[Nick L]

The EC tries to break out some thunderstorms across the Midlands this afternoon, interesting...

[A.J]

2 minutes ago, Nick L said:

Lucky sods!

aye, I normally enjoy the heat, but last night was especially hard work trying to get some sleep......all the fans did was blowtorch me! 

[Delka]

5 minutes ago, Nick L said:

Lucky sods!

I'm very happy to have the cloud keeping temperatures down, just sad about the nearly non existing risk of storms later

[Nick L]

3 minutes ago, ajpoolshark said:

aye, I normally enjoy the heat, but last night was especially hard work trying to get some sleep......all the fans did was blowtorch me! 

No real improvement until at least the end of the week sadly. Wouldn't mind it if there was a chance of storms, but down here? Fat chance.

[Delka]

Large drops of rain falling now, went outside and it feels great just wish it was less humid because it feels a bit sticky still, feels closer to 24c or higher

Edited June 20, 2017 by Delka

[Delka]

Take back my last comment, just got chilly very suddenly and the rain turned from light to moderate, drops quite big looked a bit like hail for a second! 

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

It was cool(ish) earlier in woking with a nice breeze. Some very interested elevated cloud though, dark and menacing but still not quite convective-looking enough.

Left the van at woking so I can drop my the office in Chobham later on. I'm hoping to be free by 4 so if something is brewing within a 50 mile zone to the west I'll take a punt and head over that way.

Is there a chance any storms in the west would travel eastwards and maintain their strength to reach London?