Storms and Convective discussion - 28th July 2019 onwards

[Summer Sun]

Day 2 Convective Outlook

VALID 06:00 UTC Wed 28 Aug 2019 - 05:59 UTC Thu 29 Aug 2019

ISSUED 20:22 UTC Tue 27 Aug 2019

ISSUED BY: Dan

Residual pockets of elevated instability across SE England, and more especially East Anglia, may produce a few isolated lightning strikes on Wednesday morning. Otherwise the main focus for any lightning will be over Ireland, and to a lesser extent western Scotland, as an upper trough and associated cold pool migrate across the area, generating a few hundred J/kg CAPE. Despite strong shear, marginal instability and limited convective depth suggests lightning will be rather isolated overall.

http://convectiveweather.co.uk/forecast.php?date=2019-08-28

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

Even without the lightning (which probably accounts for 95% of my evening ) the skyscapes we’re pretty amazing with the sun setting behind them. Must have been under the convergence zone.

Best moment was at Shingay-Cum-Wendy (which is worth mentioning regardless ) where one of the developing cells electrified almost directly overhead, but so elevated I was able to (relatively) safely stand and observe.

Heres another shot from that location:

Edited August 27, 2019 by Flash bang flash bang etc

[The PIT]

Too really jaffa cakes me off some cells have gone up to the west of me. Clear exits north and south of em and guess the movement.

[OddSpot]

Distant flash to the SW from here

[StormLoser]

Anyone got any live webcams of this stuff? I had a look at the Redcar one stored aside, just cars driving past.

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

Just now, StormLoser said:

Anyone got any live webcams of this stuff? I had a look at the Redcar one stored aside, just cars driving past.

Are they red?

[GlennP2]

Hi all, short clip from Grimsby Town Football Ground. Not mine but was sent it.

Storms gone out to sea now yet it's so eerily quiet outside now and so humid still.

Cheers.

[Derecho]

Somebody turn off the Hull storm shield....quick!!!

[Allseasons-Si]

2 minutes ago, OddSpot said:

Distant flash to the SW from here

Nothing on lightningmaps or Blitzortung but there is a cell down that way.

[StormLoser]

1 minute ago, Flash bang flash bang etc said:

Are they red?

Grooaaannnnn! Took me a few seconds to get that!  

[Derecho]

someone must have switched the shield off as lightning has started flashing every second to my west...

[OddSpot]

15 minutes ago, Allseasons-si said:

Nothing on lightningmaps or Blitzortung but there is a cell down that way.

Yeah noticed that.

Seems to also have been showing a few false strikes as well not far from here when in fact there was nothing.

All that electricity up there is making lightningmaps and Blitzortung play up lol

 

Another cell popped up south of Derby

Edited August 27, 2019 by OddSpot

[TJS1998Tom]

Sadly the photo is blurry but this was the best still I could get

[Allseasons-Si]

Cell just popped up south of Derby.

[Zak M]

6 minutes ago, Allseasons-si said:

Cell just popped up south of Derby.

Has it electrified?

[sparky1972]

what an evening, thunder started around 4.30 this afternoon and the last flashes of a fantastic lightening show are just heading off in the distance, so unexpected, tomorrow i will be in the garden taking down whats left of our mangled gazebo, plenty of scrap metal to get rid of

[TJS1998Tom]

1 minute ago, zmstorm said:

Has it electrified?

I imagine most electrical activity now will be up North

[Allseasons-Si]

2 minutes ago, zmstorm said:

Has it electrified?

Not yet,on the latest returns,it is showing a hail core and on it's own.

[TJS1998Tom]

I think one time as the storm here was approaching real time lightning was picking up 70 strikes a minute. Never expected it to get as big as it did in a short space of time

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

Well. Lincolnshire has been utterly spoilt today. Several hailcores and microbursts along with an amazing silent lightning show to my north for a whole hour on the most recent storm. Intra cloud superbolts and even a few small crawlers as it headed between bourne and Lincoln. 

A reminder that it’s definitely the storm capital especially when it comes to homegrown storms. 

[reef]

As expected it has  all completely missed us but we're having a very impressive show from the cells to the west/north-west. Constant thunder and lightning.

[TJS1998Tom]

2 minutes ago, East_England_Stormchaser91 said:

Well. Lincolnshire has been utterly spoilt today. Several hailcores and microbursts along with an amazing silent lightning show to my north for a whole hour on the most recent storm. Intra cloud superbolts and even a few small crawlers as it headed between bourne and Lincoln. 

A reminder that it’s definitely the storm capital especially when it comes to homegrown storms. 

Think it's safe to say our storm shield has defiantly broken here in Lincoln lol, usually they tend to be a few miles West or East but we got a direct hit with some unbelievable bright flashes. I can now see why Lincolnshire tends to be a hot spot for storms 

[sparky1972]

3 minutes ago, East_England_Stormchaser91 said:

Well. Lincolnshire has been utterly spoilt today. Several hailcores and microbursts along with an amazing silent lightning show to my north for a whole hour on the most recent storm. Intra cloud superbolts and even a few small crawlers as it headed between bourne and Lincoln. 

A reminder that it’s definitely the storm capital especially when it comes to homegrown storms. 

it has been amazing, i have not seen lightening like that for years

[Derecho]

11 minutes ago, reef said:

As expected it has  all completely missed us but we're having a very impressive show from the cells to the west/north-west. Constant thunder and lightning.

Yup they are very close to me, must be just to the west of Cottingham and gave a good light show.

[Muffelchen]

Still flashing away to the north but, for a while, we had strobe lightning. Not seen that in nearly 30 years!