Convective/Storm Discussion Thread - 1st August onwards

[LightningLover]

deep rumble, and sferics near eastbourne!

[The Wee Norn Iron Woman]

49 minutes ago, PerfectStorm said:

Northern Ireland should have had an amber warning, a lot of severe flooding in parts there. Eglinton looks dreadful. 

Has been mental tonight. Last time I seen this much night time lightning I was still at school! Really bad flooding in some areas though, bridge out near Omagh, landslides, people stranded, trees down, power outages all over the place. 

[TJS1998Tom]

Small cell picking up near Leicster? 

[LightningLover]

I'm gonna leave the curtains and the windows I open, so I will wake up if there is a good thunderstorm. Good luck to everyone staying up, and everyone further north, stay safe! 

[TJS1998Tom]

Think I might also head off and wake up around 6am as that shows the best chance for me, rather than staying up another 2-3 hours

[toggerob]

MetO has the storms breaking out in the NW from 6am onwards, building southwards but moving NE throughout the morning.

[TJS1998Tom]

6 minutes ago, SNOW_JOKE said:

MetO has the storms breaking out in the NW from 6am onwards, building southwards but moving NE throughout the morning.

I noticed that to, it shows heavy rain from around 5-7am in places which may be out better bets on getting something

[mac_]

3 hours ago, PerfectStorm said:

Northern Ireland should have had an amber warning, a lot of severe flooding in parts there. Eglinton looks dreadful. 

Yep pretty severe weather today here in N Ireland. Numerous rounds of storms from mid-afternoon. Thunder just kept on going for most of the day.

Then the the really big storms hit just after it got dark - perfect timing really!

And what a show - frequent vivid lightning and explosive thunder. Power was out here for a couple of hours and there are widespread reports of flooding.

Amazing stuff.

[TJS1998Tom]

Just witnessed 3 amazing fork lightning strikes, very big as well. Its all calm with no thunder

[TJS1998Tom]

Was about to go to sleep as well lol

[TJS1998Tom]

Sbad wordhorpe just got woken up no doubt 

Edited August 23, 2017 by TJS1998Tom

[TJS1998Tom]

Its all starting to pick up in Lincolnshire now just when I was planning on going to sleep. Not sure if theres much point sleeping as of yet. Even though the main activity is at Hull area. But this website shows possibly 400 cape... if its right https://www.windy.com/?cape,53.092,-0.645,9,m:e7Raf76

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

seeing some epic lightning off to the SE! 

[Weather-history]

3 hours ago, SNOW_JOKE said:

MetO has the storms breaking out in the NW from 6am onwards, building southwards but moving NE throughout the morning.

Looks more like yet another thundery breakdown failure around here. I don't think any of the "thundery" breakdowns this year have come off in this part of the world.

[Ross B]

Just been woken up by thunder and lightning  in Glasgow. I can't remember the last time we had a night time storm 

[Summer Sun]

Loudest thunder ever here in Darlington sounded like a bomb had gone off

Edited August 23, 2017 by Summer Sun

[The PIT]

Nothing here but a little rain earlier on. Some showers building to the south west which I guess is the weak cold front.

[NUT]

Not sure if there was thunder here slept through it but one thing's for sure it's pretty wet currently!

[mike57]

One huge crash of Thunder which woke us at about 4.45 it also tripped power for a few minutes. Then nothing else, not even a distant rumble.

[Fiona Robertson]

Got thunder and torrential rain in central belt of Scotland.

[Beverley Lass]

Best T & L storm for yonks here around 4am ..

Several flashes and loud rolling thunder.

Poor dog was terrified though.

B.  
 

[Hodgheg]

Last night I was in bed thinking about how thundery the sky looked on my way home from work and how it was a shame nothing was going to come of it. 

Then boom! Literally a min later. 

We had about 4 close strikes with loud thunder. Better than a kick in the teeth. 

[Woollymummy]

Camping in Dunwich in Suffolk, couldn't see horizon for all the trees but long period of super

bright lightning flashes around 4:30, thunder was faint and a long time after the flashes, over a minute maybe? Very warm south wind blowing all night, only a tiny bit of rain. Does anyone know if Oxfordshire got heavy rain?

[NorthYorksWeather]

42 minutes ago, Beverley Lass said:

Best T & L storm for yonks here around 4am ..

Several flashes and loud rolling thunder.

Poor dog was terrified though.

B.  
 

Heavy rain woke me up around 3.30am and Im glad it did as I then had a fantastic light show of the Beverley/Hull storm to my SE. Constant IC flashes which I could watch without leaving my bed .

[Mokidugway]

Load of rubbish here ,as you would expect