Convective/Storm Discussion Thread - 8th July onwards

[Norfolk Sheep]

sitting just outside Wymondham enjoying a reasonable storm, lightning every 2 -5 mins, got some pics but rain stopped play.

[VillagePlank]

Absolutely amazing lightning and thunder here in Rochester. Most of it CC but some CGs mixed in.

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

Had a great show from a cell just east of Godalming. Literally filled up the sky!

The drive home from IOW area was fantastic too - if you ignore the rain!

[TJS1998Tom]

This lightning show reminds me of 2015, no thunder... no rain. Just perfection. But of course it would be great to have a proper bang of thunder lol

[Harry]

Same here @VillagePlank

Hopefully I've got a few good video clips to share tomorrow!

[Paul Sherman]

Holy crap not bad eh ? Am well chuffed with this

[toggerob]

1 minute ago, TJS1998Tom said:

This lightning show reminds me of 2015, no thunder... no rain. Just perfection. But of course it would be great to have a proper bang of thunder lol

Are you in Lincoln Tom? if so it'd make sense as to why I could see a few of those cloud-flashes earlier looking Eastwards.

[TJS1998Tom]

Just now, SNOW_JOKE said:

Are you in Lincoln Tom? if so it'd make sense as to why I could see a few of those cloud-flashes earlier looking Eastwards.

I'm in skellingthorpe which isnt far from Lincoln. we've had some nice flashes in just a few minutes. Hoping they edge closer

[sconetone]

Seeing a few if them flashes to the east from here now

[Mesoscale]

Aircraft are still flying from Heathrow

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

This sort of thing!

 

[VillagePlank]

Most of it seems to have passed to my north, now. Looking like it's still going strong, well worth it if you are downwind of me

[Robbie Garrett]

Few more cells just sprung up over South London, lots of Thunder.

[TJS1998Tom]

You can just about see the flash in the background

[Mr_ Nexus]

starting to look interesting south of Birmingham 

[Neilsouth]

[john mac]

Just seen a plane flying very low over my house going into stansted! 

[Paul R]

Most lightning here is now to the west and south west; exactly where I don't want it to be as I can't see a thing in that direction due to the damn trees at the back of the house. Anyhow, got this rather impressive beast a little earlier over to the east. And yes, before anyone says, the camera internals do need a good clean.

Edited July 19, 2017 by Paul Roberts
Meant to type south west not north west.

[TJS1998Tom]

The main storms keep moving east from peterborough so we're not getting the main action

[TJS1998Tom]

It's like theres a barrier at Peterborough stopping them going any further lol

[Paul Sherman]

Right overhead now in SE Essex

[Vikki Roche]

This has to be the best storm I've seen in years. Lots of lightning and really loud thunder!

[TJS1998Tom]

Which makes me wonder, why is it that most storms dont tend to go past peterborough towards Lincoln?

[Paul Sherman]

Like taking candy from a baby tonight!

[TJS1998Tom]

I think I might do an all nighter because why not lol, I dont want to sleep to wake up finding out that we had a good storm