Storms and Convective discussion - 28th July 2019 onwards

[I'llsayithowitis]

2 hours ago, Zak M said:

Absolutely amazing cloudscapes here in the last couple of hours!!! 

Amazing pictures 

Edited February 17, 2020 by Supacell
Removed pictures to reduce size of post

[Thunder and Lightning]

1 hour ago, Zak M said:

Absolutely amazing cloudscapes here in the last couple of hours!!! 

 

Awesome footage! You are in a great location for storm spotting! I had a very similar looking shower move through earlier.

[Gray-Wolf]

Flash bangs here in mytholmroyd......didn't see that coming

Guess we've got hail inbound?

Edited February 17, 2020 by Gray-Wolf

[Zak M]

1 minute ago, Gray-Wolf said:

Flash bangs here in mytholmroyd......didn't see that coming

Gurs we've got hail inbound?

I saw that town name and I looked at the lightning map and saw nothing, then I went and searched the town up - I thought it was in Wales! 

[Thunder and Lightning]

Some segments of the squall/linear convection showing up on UKV look kind off tornadic. Not sure about this considering not mass amounts of shear, so probably a random coincidence.

[Gray-Wolf]

LOL!

You should hear some of the pronunciations of it! (miythe-home- Royd)

Ten flashes out above Cornholme (N. of Todmorden) and one over Midgeley Moor

Plenty of hail/graupel as well, put a coating down on roads/paths!

[Zak M]

4 minutes ago, Gray-Wolf said:

LOL!

You should hear some of the pronunciations of it! (miythe-home- Royd)

Ten flashes out above Cornholme (N. of Todmorden) and one over Midgeley Moor

Plenty of hail/graupel as well, put a coating down on roads/paths!

Meanwhile blitzortung/lightningmaps has only detected 4 strikes 

[cheese]

Got woken by thunder and hail.

[Gray-Wolf]

I'm using ;

Blitzortung.org - Live Lightning Map

MAP.BLITZORTUNG.ORG

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Blitzortung.org, lightning and thunderstorms in real time

Lightning maps.org show nowt !

EDIT: Zoom in to max....they are all pretty close to one another! Looks like they were all within the wind farm up at Clivenger?

Edited February 17, 2020 by Gray-Wolf

[snowrye]

Blitzortung is wicked

[Zak M]

 

4 minutes ago, Gray-Wolf said:

I'm using ;

Blitzortung.org - Live Lightning Map

MAP.BLITZORTUNG.ORG

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Blitzortung.org, lightning and thunderstorms in real time

Lightning maps.org show nowt !

How constant is the lightning where you are?

[Gray-Wolf]

It was my Mrs who saw the first flash but the rumble went on for an age so I'm sure there was a multiple strike?

Whether the turbines were the focus would be interesting to find out but they are the tallest things on top of the moor there?

[Zak M]

 

[Zak M]

Looked at some models and indeed they are showing a line of downpours tracking across central England during the afternoon hours as @Weather Child mentioned somewhere.

[Thunder and Lightning]

This is probably not supposed to be on here but It looks like there is an ongoing severe thunderstorm outbreak in NSW, Australia. I just watched a storm split.

128 km Canberra (Captains Flat) Radar Loop

WWW.BOM.GOV.AU

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Provides access to meteorological images of the 128 km Canberra (Captains Flat) Radar Loop radar of rainfall and wind.

There was a velocity couplet at one stage! A new strong Supercell looks to be developing in the North of the radar view.

[Thunder and Lightning]

I recently got Netweather Extra and on the UKV charts at the very bottom in the convective section there is a chart called 'TT'. I'm just wondering what this is?

[Zak M]

Lightning now being detected in SW Wales.

[wimblettben]

18 minutes ago, Zak M said:

Lightning now being detected in SW Wales.

Yeah, my mum and dad heard two rumbles of thunder in the house while I was having lunch in the kitchen with my headphones on.

Is there suppose to be lightning around our area today? I didn't think there was suppose to be any.

[Zak M]

1 minute ago, wimblettben said:

Yeah, my mum and dad heard two rumbles of thunder in the house while I was having lunch in the kitchen with my headphones on.

Is there suppose to be lightning around our area today? I didn't think there was suppose to be any.

A band of organised rain showers is currently moving through your area. The band is likely to produce more lightning as it travels across England.

[Zak M]

Has anyone been under that band of heavy rain yet? If so, what are the conditions like? Has it got some structure to it?

[Thunder and Lightning]

34 minutes ago, Zak M said:

Has anyone been under that band of heavy rain yet? If so, what are the conditions like? Has it got some structure to it?

To be honest it doesn't look that great on radar.  I think I will be (un)perfectly placed right in the gap! I can't complain - I have had 2 amazing proper squall lines recently.

[Zak M]

6 minutes ago, Thunder and Lightning said:

To be honest it doesn't look that great on radar.  I think I will be (un)perfectly placed right in the gap! I can't complain - I have had 2 amazing proper squall lines recently.

It is starting to split up now as it reaches me

It is starting to get dark to my north, however:

[Zak M]

Raining heavily now.

[Mapantz]

Barely moderate rain here.

[Mapantz]

10 hours ago, Thunder and Lightning said:

I recently got Netweather Extra and on the UKV charts at the very bottom in the convective section there is a chart called 'TT'. I'm just wondering what this is?

Total totals index. Thunderstorm potential.

It takes in to account several atmospheric parameters like 850 - 500hpa temperature lapse rates / moisture.

< 43 stable conditions

> 55 severe thunderstorms/tornadoes 

etc.

I should add that it doesn't simply mean that those conditions are possible if those numbers are showing - it's not as simple as that.

Edited February 18, 2020 by Mapantz