Storms and Convective discussion - 10th April 2020 onwards

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

Should be moving into an area of CIN so would expect it to weaken but will be interesting 

[Zak M]

Blimey that's certainly a hail core! Wow!

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

4 minutes ago, Zak M said:

Blimey that's certainly a hail core! Wow!

 

[chapmanslade]

If you look south you can see the anvil top from here (just south of Bath)!!!!

Cloud top to the tropopause at around 35000ft should be visible to about 200 miles and we are about 186 miles north of it here

Looked like a hook echo as well

 

Edited April 16, 2020 by chapmanslade

[oliverek7]

Wow! Look at the scenes in Cherbourg 

 

[matt111]

Had blue skies here all afternoon but now to the south it looks like this 

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

 

[Zak M]

Beauty!

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

If it’s got enough beef........ cmon storm

[Paul Sherman]

It wont make it guys, its rooted at the surface and once it leaves land and travels over the colder sea it will fizzle. Tops were at 35,000ft so impressive considering the temps were only 22c over there but Cape was around 1,400jkg

Tomorrow is a whole different animal though with thundery rain then thundery showers working off MUCape and the elevated nature of the storms means the Channel should not kill so many.

[Zak M]

 

[Zak M]

 

[Dbarb]

Kent clipper season is almost among us, cant wait

[Met4Cast]

This cell appears to be making a good attempt at crossing the channel at the moment! Current cloud top temperatures of -57c

[biddie]

Alot of activity tomorrow looks mainly south coast 

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

If you drew a line for the route of that main activity it goes straight over us 

[Josh Rubio]

So is tomorrow mainly a “Southern event” or is it too early to say? I don’t want to get my hopes up for nothing

[matt111]

Updated view to the south. The majority of it is just to the SE which fits in with where the radar has it over the channel

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

1 minute ago, matt111 said:

Updated view to the south. The majority of it is just to the SE which fits in with where the radar has it over the channel

Should brush past you, but to be honest I think it’s likely to expand into a larger band of thundery rain as the night progresses.

[StormLoser]

Good to know there is activity about. Cherbourg often seems to be the trigger for storms; it must be something about the landscape and city that fires them off so frequently. Perhaps it's time I moved there...  

Thanks for the pictures!

Edited April 16, 2020 by StormLoser

[Mapantz]

Could I request that tweets of the storms in France be posted in the European convective thread?! Cheers. 

[Mapantz]

I noticed I registered a strike of lightning about 50 mins ago! It looks as though I registered that lone pink cross..

[Zak M]

Some showers forming to the east of the big one crossing the channel

[Zak M]

10 minutes ago, Zak M said:

Some showers forming to the east of the big one crossing the channel

One of which has now electrified I think!

[Guest]

The Arome fine mesh model which did very well in picking out the Cherbourg storms today brings in some heavy storms into Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Hants tomorrow evening. Could be quite interesting. Guaranteed to be a direct hit as I’m stuck with my kids tomorrow night and even if wasn’t lockdown effectively prevents hanging around on the cliff tops at Bournemouth tomorrow.