Storms and Convective discussion- 7th August onwards

[JinxTheCat]

Just now, Hirudine said:

Can see blue sky and cloud tops through the split.

Fire is still going then!

[Mr_ Nexus]

The back of Dudley and all along the Rowley hills the sky is very dark and menacing .

Still only distant rumbles at the moment .

 

[Hirudine]

3 minutes ago, JinxTheCat said:

Fire is still going then!

Unfortunately so. It's a plastics factory on fire. Been going for hours now.

[Harry]

If a week today I have not had a storm I’m going to be peeved - check this out for the latest weekly forecast

[Bishop Brennan]

Sounds like the storm is finally moving away, to wreak havoc somewhere to the north of here.

Weirdly, I don't think I saw a single flash of lightning the whole time 

Bish

[Dan the Man]

24 minutes ago, Jamiee said:

What a hook!

Did anything drop out of this? Looks like a classic storm...

[davehsug]

Is it really down to 5-6 strikes a minute? Or is lightning maps up the spout again?

[DIS1970]

Best pic i can get :-  Constant distant rumbling, like bear with a hungry stomach. 

[Bristol Aviation]

Just now, davehsug said:

Is it really down to 5-6 strikes a minute? Or is lightning maps up the spout again?

Noticed that too, doesnt make sense why it would suddenly die so fast

[oliverek7]

Latest AROME pushing the channel storms further east into London for tomorrow morning

[Gord]

I think it could be weakening. Thunder has got a lot louder here though.

We shall see!

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

Just now, davehsug said:

Is it really down to 5-6 strikes a minute? Or is lightning maps up the spout again?

It really has just kind of stopped. Bizarre. Was expecting something more long-lived

[ChezWeather]

Everything seems to be dying down? What's killed that beast off so quick?

Edited August 10, 2020 by ChezWeather

[I remember Atlantic 252]

7 minutes ago, Hirudine said:

Can see blue sky and cloud tops through the split.

not sure if it will make it here, but what looks worrying, looks like a fire?

[Jamie M]

Cloud Tops are apparently at -57°C according to satellite.

 

[JinxTheCat]

3 minutes ago, Hirudine said:

Unfortunately so. It's a plastics factory on fire. Been going for hours now.

I know, I was watching earlier, thought it might have been the recycling place

[LightningLover]

13 minutes ago, Lance M said:

For any fellow southerners still desperately hanging on in there, the cell on the N Coast of France also appears at this this same point in time on the 12z Arome. It expands it into a cluster of cells that gets into Sussex late in the evening. Arome isn't the best model but one day it'll be right surely?

It seemed to do fairly well last night IIRC, with one particular run seeming to pick up on the elevated activity in the channel/NE France.

[Rush2019]

21 minutes ago, CreweCold said:

Things destabilising rapidly to my SE. A lot of crisp towering with a stream of ACas ahead of it.

Clear skies here a little while ago, ACas overhead and can just make out the build up behind it. Looks like it will skirt west of Macclesfield.

[Man With Beard]

Looking at ECM op + ensembles, I think the storm risk will, in the main, be in the west until Wednesday, then the east joins in Wednesday onwards?

[Darandio]

Just now, I remember Atlantic 252 said:

not sure if it will make it here, but what looks worrying, looks like a fire?

It's been going most of the day, plastics factory.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Oliver Wyndham-lewis said:

Latest AROME pushing the channel storms further east into London for tomorrow morning

Hope so, I want someone else to have our crappy convective crud...

[Gord]

Did the storm just die? Still incredibly dark to my south.

[Flash bang flash bang etc]

13 minutes ago, Ryukai said:

Could it be the hail core noise????? I'm sure I remember reading/hearing something about Storms with exceptionally large hail cores producing the noise itself.

 

Found a vid of it

 

It was definitely thunder, the crackles I could hear couldn’t have been hail. The other weird thing was I think the rain only stopped because I was under the core and the hail wasn’t making it down to me. That doesn’t make sense but there was a little hail but no rain for a while  

[Zak M]

Looks like some more CBs are trying to feed into that Brum cell...

[RobR]

5 minutes ago, Bishop Brennan said:

Sounds like the storm is finally moving away, to wreak havoc somewhere to the north of here.

Weirdly, I don't think I saw a single flash of lightning the whole time 

Bish

I saw no flashes either. It just rumbled away up in the clouds. Not as dramatic as it looked, the June storms were better