Storms and Convective discussion - 10th April 2020 onwards

[Allseasons-Si]

1 minute ago, mikeofmacc said:

Counted around 50 or 60 thunders and 10 or so C-C bright white or blue lightning before it stopped. Pouring with rain now. The storm died like flicking a switch.

Lol,it's just kicked off again.

[PurpleLED]

now got a tower to my north with light rain on the radar but i think ive given up hope and knowing my luck it will get interesting when its just out of reach, gonna try a time lapse anyway.

[Dangerous55019]

Loads of grumblings coming from this storm over Llangollen. 

[Rush2019]

3 minutes ago, mikeofmacc said:

Counted around 50 or 60 thunders and 10 or so C-C bright white or blue lightning before it stopped. Pouring with rain now. The storm died like flicking a switch.

I managed to catch a couple of strikes, filming with my tablet.  Will get daughters help editing and then I'll post them.

[TheToastPeople]

15 minutes ago, Zak M said:

Well, I guess it's game over here. Just hoping for a distant lightning show at night tonight if that's possible.

Maybe something later on if we are lucky lol! Beautiful skies at least

[tooby]

5 mins of heavy rain and a bit of hail, but nothing else from this shower now. 

Edit... Loads of Hail now! 

Edited April 12, 2020 by tooby
Update

[Dami]

10 minutes ago, TheToastPeople said:

Maybe something later on if we are lucky lol! Beautiful skies at least

hey Toast! yet again we miss out.

[TheToastPeople]

1 minute ago, Dami said:

hey Toast! yet again we miss out.

Hey Dami!! hope you are well! Yep not our turn today... So close yet so far... Luton always does rather well, still not worth living there lol!

[Allseasons-Si]

Cell just popped off west of Oxford.

[PurpleLED]

1 minute ago, Allseasons-si said:

Cell just popped off west of Oxford.

i thought it was a false strike but nope, multiple more and its appeared on radar now.

 

i better not get too hopeful or it will fizzle out fast.

[viking_smb]

and its produced lightning

[Allseasons-Si]

1 hour ago, East_England_Stormchaser91 said:

That dreaded NE wind has just made itself present here. I doubt we will be able to brew anything around here now. It’s began to melt away all of the cumulus too. Over to everyone else now I think. I’m calling it game over here I reckon now. 

Hay!

what's the chances that south Derby cell hitting you,looks like it's done a right mover and heading your way.

[Dami]

9 minutes ago, TheToastPeople said:

Hey Dami!! hope you are well! Yep not our turn today... So close yet so far... Luton always does rather well, still not worth living there lol!

yeah. Oh well year is young. We get at least ONE decent display don't we?  

At least you have somewhere where close to watch anything

Edited April 12, 2020 by Dami

[toggerob]

All quiet again outside with another cell building up over Congleton but aside from the one rumble of thunder it's just light rain here for now, the atmosphere still feels heavy and oppressive though which for mid-April isn't too bad and we've needed the rain anyway.

[Josh Rubio]

First rumble of thunder heard here in Leicester. Not sure if its from the cell to the north of us but the sky is looking pretty dark and the wind is increasing. 

[PurpleLED]

I think the cell to the north west of me has already died, all the strikes bar one seem to have been false strikes on lightning maps. 

 

And My phone battery died and I lost the time lapse but oh well. 

 

edit: seems to have a hail on radar but not electric aside from the single strike.

Edited April 12, 2020 by PurpleLED

[Allseasons-Si]

That Cambridgeshire storm isn't half popping off,anyone near it?

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

1 minute ago, Allseasons-si said:

That Cambridgeshire storm isn't half popping off,anyone near it?

It’s veering ... likely there’s some rotation there. Shame it’s fing miles and miles and miles away as usual lol

[TheToastPeople]

17 minutes ago, Dami said:

yeah. Oh well year is young. We get at least ONE decent display don't we?  

At least you have somewhere where close to watch anything

We normaly do! Still in aw at the nighttime one we had last summer, some of the most frequent lightning ive seen in the uk!

[Zak M]

Lightning to my north apparently?

[chapmanslade]

31 minutes ago, tooby said:

5 mins of heavy rain and a bit of hail, but nothing else from this shower now. 

Edit... Loads of Hail now! 

That storm over Nottingham looks nasty and also seems to have turned right - surely some rotation going on there.

The other place that has had a pummelling today is Anger in France - constant back building for hours

 

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

11 minutes ago, Allseasons-si said:

That Cambridgeshire storm isn't half popping off,anyone near it?

Can just about make it out, even though the sky is hazy. 

If we wasn’t locked down, I’d be heading straight out to it. Typical! 

Lord above, it’s gone off the scale on the rainfall chart. 250mm/hr!! 

Edited April 12, 2020 by East_England_Stormchaser91

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

Looks like a big hail core in that cell to the NE of Cambridge anyone near it? 

[OddSpot]

Wonder if any lightning will be visible on the Manchester Airport webcam where the storm is just off left of the webcam

The cam stays on for about a minute and half at a time then goes off. Just scroll back up to the top and press play again

https://cam.airlive.net/man/

[Zak M]

I think I just saw lightning from the corner of my eye near Luton. Some strikes detected there too.