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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
Just now, Hampshire Weather said:

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Best storm I've ever experienced in my life, I live right in the center of the red zone and we've been getting back to back flashes, with full forks. The wind was pretty strong as well! Two storms in one day, the first was just a taste and then this one came along and left me speechless. 

The first one was just the appetiser. The main course was worth the wait, up there with the storm in July last year here. 

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  • Location: Benfleet, South Essex
  • Weather Preferences: Sunny and breezy with a bit of cloud, about 20C
  • Location: Benfleet, South Essex

I’ve been trying to work out for a little while if this storm approaching Gatwick will hit me or just miss to the West, but I can’t make up my mind, so I’d be interested to hear your thoughts. 

For reference, I’m below the letter ‘t’ in Southend as you see it on the map 

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  • Location: Earley, Reading
  • Location: Earley, Reading

We are getting the rain here but very little energy compared to an hour ago down south, it's a shame.

Also I think Gatwick will just miss out, it's passing close by but to the west of the airport.

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  • Location: Bristol
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms and Snowstorms
  • Location: Bristol
6 minutes ago, Nick F said:

Yes, the vertical shear is not particularly strong, 20-30 knots, but the mid-upper flow is fairly strong and, combined with forcing from a shortwave trough, enough to organise storms into clusters forming a few convective systems IMO.

Interesting, so effectively the the upper level winds have prevented the storm from "suffocating itself" but displacing the updrafts and downdraft, prolonging it's intensity and growth in size?

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  • Location: Kent,Ashford
  • Weather Preferences: Love heat & thunderstorms, but hate the cold
  • Location: Kent,Ashford

Doesn't look like I'm going to get that much lightning activity only heavy rain, oh well I don't mind missing any storms as I'll just get them in Florida during the summer :D

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  • Location: Benfleet, South Essex
  • Weather Preferences: Sunny and breezy with a bit of cloud, about 20C
  • Location: Benfleet, South Essex

That cell near Gatwick now has a more Northerly trajectory, which is bad for my chances tonight. Not calling bust yet, but having doubts now. 

Still, only April

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  • Location: Drayton, Portsmouth
  • Location: Drayton, Portsmouth
20 minutes ago, matt111 said:

The first one was just the appetiser. The main course was worth the wait, up there with the storm in July last year here. 

Agreed. One of the best I've seen tonight.

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  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
16 minutes ago, Ben Sainsbury said:

Interesting, so effectively the the upper level winds have prevented the storm from "suffocating itself" but displacing the updrafts and downdraft, prolonging it's intensity and growth in size?

Effectively, yes, strong upper winds are important in sustaining and organising storms, not just deep layer shear, strong DLS is required for bowing-line segments and supercell structures that produce large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes though.

At least I have a stronger pulse heading towards me in Croydon, flashing away to my southwest though can't hear the thunder quite yet.

 

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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

SW of the IOW this

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to this 

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in 20 minutes 

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  • Location: Liphook
  • Location: Liphook
26 minutes ago, Hampshire Weather said:

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Best storm I've ever experienced in my life, I live right in the center of the red zone and we've been getting back to back flashes, with full forks. The wind was pretty strong as well! Two storms in one day, the first was just a taste and then this one came along and left me speechless. 

That cell was intense, drove right through the core on the A3.constant lightning and very heavy rain. At its worst visibility was down to about 25m, so very dangerous driving conditions but a cool experience all the same.

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  • Location: Southampton
  • Weather Preferences: Heat and thunderstorms, snow in winter
  • Location: Southampton

Wow, been out chasing the last few hours and just got back, honestly haven't seen anything like that before.

After catching the original storm here at around 7ish, I then headed to Hayling Island to the sea front to see the storms that were a bit further east heading towards the mainland. Had a great light show out to sea with a few close strikes virtually overhead too. 

Then started heading back to Southampton after seeing there was more lightning activity headed for here. Plan was to get to Weston Shore but on getting into Southampton the heavens just opened and I've never seen such torrential rain, even in Florida.  The roads were literally becoming rivers and several cars had got stranded in the floodwater, fire engines racing to the rescue, alarms going off, all while the lightning was flickering away overhead. Did get some video on my phone which I will try and upload at some point.

Best storm for years even beating the overnight plume in July last year. Can't believe it's only April, tonight was a real treat but I hope everyone has stayed safe.

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  • Location: Godalming
  • Weather Preferences: Plumes and streamers
  • Location: Godalming
1 minute ago, kold weather said:

That cell was intense, drove right through the core on the A3.constant lightning and very heavy rain. At its worst visibility was down to about 25m, so very dangerous driving conditions but a cool experience all the same.

Left Butser cos it went eerily silent and there was just constant lightning, so drove home up the A3 - didn’t get the rain but the storm kept up! Was then in an intense electrical downpour in Godalming and now watching it flashing over Epsom.

Amazing storms. Can’t believe it’s April!

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  • Location: Earley, Reading
  • Location: Earley, Reading

Two things are fascinating me tonight as a bit of a novice, how something with so much energy over Southampton has gone pretty much flat the moment it reached Basingstoke, also the activity that was by horsham seemed to be moving northwest at Gatwick, north once at guildford and now moving quite nicely north east towards London. That seems to have kept the intensity far better too. 

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  • Location: Dorset
  • Weather Preferences: warehamwx.co.uk
  • Location: Dorset

Didn't get much luck here, just views from passing storms. Not bad for early on in the season though.

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  • Location: Walsall, West Midlands 135m/442ft ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Heatwaves, thunderstorms, cold/snowy spells.
  • Location: Walsall, West Midlands 135m/442ft ASL

Some awesome lightning on this live London cam, CGs in there too :).

 

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  • Location: London, UK
  • Weather Preferences: MCC/MCS Thunderstorms
  • Location: London, UK
12 minutes ago, Nick F said:

Effectively, yes, strong upper winds are important in sustaining and organising storms, not just deep layer shear, strong DLS is required for bowing-line segments and supercell structures that produce large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes though.

At least I have a stronger pulse heading towards me in Croydon, flashing away to my southwest though can't hear the thunder quite yet.

 

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The late running BA455 from Malaga found a gap between those cells somehow.  This isn't the usual routing from that direction.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ba455#111eaa46

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  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire
  • Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Seems to be more organised now and becoming slightly more intense. Not sure if there's any elevated lightning with this as not much is being picked up on real time lightning 

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  • Location: Condorrat, Cumbernauld G67
  • Location: Condorrat, Cumbernauld G67

The mayhem might be over now here in Pagham but lordy what a incredible 5 hours that was 

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  • Location: Earley, Reading
  • Location: Earley, Reading
5 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

Didn't get much luck here, just views from passing storms. Not bad for early on in the season though.

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Looks like some more activity is heading your way as we speak?

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  • Location: South East UK, Reigate
  • Weather Preferences: Wake me up when the storms arrive
  • Location: South East UK, Reigate

At last, here in storm-deprived Reigate, I got to watch a very nice cell chug north through Dorking (lucky lot). Plenty of cloud-to-cloud and quite frequent. Missed us (as usual). But at least a good start to 2018.

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