Convective/Storm Discussion Thread - 1st June onwards

[ThundersnowDays]

Got a shower here with some rumbles going on in the distance. 

[tomdewey]

Some old lighting dots in Trowbridge Wiltshire on real lighting maps 

[A.J]

finally got some thunder and lightning here.....get in my son!

[tomdewey]

Are some Havey showers around

[Supacell]

A quick cut down video of the storm near Louth. I have around 8 hours of editing to do, I will be busy!

https://www.newsflare.com/video/225731/weather-nature/torrential-rain-and-winds-as-severe-storms-hit-lincolnshire

 

[Mr_Pessimistic]

Storm last night about half 9, eye, Suffolk...

One of the best I've seen, just couldn't see any cg lightning, but good anyway....

 

 

Edited July 28, 2018 by Mr_Pessimistic

[Blessed Weather]

Some rather large discrepancies in the number of UK lightning strikes over the last 24 hours. Can anybody shed some light on why that might be?

Netweather: 27,000
MeteoGroup: 50,000
Convective Weather: 215,000

[LightningLover]

11 minutes ago, Blessed Weather said:

Some rather large discrepancies in the number of UK lightning strikes over the last 24 hours. Can anybody shed some light on why that might be?

Netweather: 27,000
MeteoGroup: 50,000
Convective Weather: 215,000

Different time spans?

[Lauren]

29 minutes ago, Blessed Weather said:

Some rather large discrepancies in the number of UK lightning strikes over the last 24 hours. Can anybody shed some light on why that might be?

Netweather: 27,000
MeteoGroup: 50,000
Convective Weather: 215,000

Also huge discrepancy between Blitzortung and lightningmaps. Blitzortung was wildly over optimistic last night.

[ChezWeather]

39 minutes ago, Blessed Weather said:

Some rather large discrepancies in the number of UK lightning strikes over the last 24 hours. Can anybody shed some light on why that might be?

Netweather: 27,000
MeteoGroup: 50,000
Convective Weather: 215,000

 

Different detection networks I assume, I think, If anyone can confirm this, that Netweather uses lightning data from the Met Office?

The type of storm also seems to make a big difference, i.e elevated or not 

Edited July 28, 2018 by ChezWeather

[Chris.R]

Interesting this afternoon. Temperature is higher than forecast and steering wind looks backed enough to bring showers up here from Wales with a short sea track. Still have modest shear as well and flow is fast moving. Similar tomorrow also  if anything wind even more  backed.Usually do okay from this set up e.g. 10th of June 2014.

[Chris.R]

As I thought might happen Liverpool TAF gnow shows the possibility of thunderstorm hail this afternoon. 

The report was made 1 hour and 53 minutes ago, at 11:02 UTC

Forecast valid from 28 at 12 UTC to 29 at 12 UTC

Wind 15 kt from the South/Southwest

Visibility 10 km or more

Scattered clouds at a height of 2500 ft

Temporary
from 28 at 12 UTC to 28 at 19 UTC

Wind 18 kt from the South/Southwest with gusts up to 28 kt

Visibility: 6000 m

rain showers

Probability 30% :

Temporary
from 28 at 13 UTC to 28 at 18 UTC

Visibility: 4000 m

heavy rain showers, thunderstorm, hail

 

[mac_]

Very nasty storm here at the moment in Antrim, some of the heaviest rainfall I've ever seen and huge gusts of wind. 

Lots of thunder too with some hail too.

I'm situated directly under the white echos in the attached radar grab

 

 

Edited July 28, 2018 by mac_

[Joey.G]

Well for a lot of us the looooooong spell of heat did go with a bang finally. For those who didn't get anything over the past couple of days I can imagine it must be incredibly frustrating. And for regular people with no interest in the weather it must have been a surprise today to wake up to windy overcast cool conditions!

Props to the forecasters and congrats to the chasers too, strong work! I had to sit in a staff meeting in the morning with grumbles of thunder nearby from small cells but with gorgeous undulatus bases ( @Supacell these were the ones over Belper, couldnt tell you what the lightning was like since I was grinding my teeth at work) and then do my days work, for which mercifully there was a lull in activity, before I could head off out. I made it as far as Brigg in North Lincs by which time I was caught up in it all. Think I missed by mins the worst of the convective gusts but the darkness, hail, rain and frequent flashes were impressive. Roads flooded, everyone pulling up on to the kerb and tree branches everywhere. It moved over pretty fast though and thankfully the roads drained as fast as they flooded so I headed south towards Norfolk hoping to catch the MCS and nighttime lightning. Again made it as far as Kings Lynn before I was prematurely overtaken. Stood in a field getting soaked watching a whole lot of flashing but not much in the way of visible bolts. Hoped for crawlers on the back edge but think there was too much low cloud obscuring. Interestingly though there was the very occasional but massive discharge from the kind of rear anvil shield area which i had never seen before.

Too much rain for nighttime lightning photography attempts but ill have a look on the gopro and see if theres owt worth showing. Overall A good chase but kinda feel like I missed out still. Especially after the pics of the York storm! Major kudos @Gorky

[Chris.R]

Looks like a strike over ST Helens way. It’s so windy today, didn’t expect it to be this bad. 20.2°C currently. 

[toggerob]

Having a few rumbles of thunder here at the moment 

[mac_]

Amber T-storm warning issued by Met Office for N Ireland

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings#?date=2018-07-28

[Dangerous55019]

Sadly the heatwave didn’t end with a bang for me, all we got was one very gentle shower of rain. 

But on the bright side, today we’ve got strong sunshine, a very strong and gusty breeze, and some beautiful convective cloudscapes going on. 

Edited July 28, 2018 by Dangerous55019
Dyslexic fingers

[Chris.R]

Just now, Dangerous55019 said:

Sadly the heatwave didn’t end with a bang for me, all we got was one very gentle shower of rain. 

But on the bright side, today we’ve got strong sunshine, a very strong and gusty breeze, and some beautiful convection cloudscapes going on.  Same here. I’ll get whatever you have a bit later today so fingers crossed. 

 

[Allseasons-Si]

Thunderstorm heading this way,i didn't expect that

and thanks for all the footage and pics of the storms yesterday,i didn't get much here just a few passing rumbles from chains of storms in the morning.

just passing to my northwest

Edited July 28, 2018 by Allseasons-si

[The PIT]

And yet again miss out as storms break out to the north west of us. Can't make it up.

[Another Kent clipper]

Hahaha, I'm in a visible storm shield!

 

 

But took a few cloud pics earlier:

 

Edited July 28, 2018 by Another Kent clipper

[Chris.R]

Get in!!! Distant thunder. Think it’s over the  wirral.  Third thunder day of the year. 

[Allseasons-Si]

Didn't get the storm here but there was some nice cloud structure's to it

a pic of one of the storm cells from yesterday morning.

 

 

 

[Stormstalker]

Dark clouds moving north east over Stourbridge can hear rumbles in the distance