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  • Location: Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland 20m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snow,Thunderstorms mix both for heaven THUNDERSNOW 😜😀🤤🥰
  • Location: Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland 20m ASL

Surely not another night of thunder looks like the instability will be increasing through the night in the North Sea / Firth of Forth, so don’t be surprised to be woken up by more bangs  image.thumb.gif.40fbb254fa492f12f913a32f35308f1f.gifimage.thumb.gif.92476d8e48e22ebe945077a4934caa59.gif 

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  • Location: Luncarty (4 miles north of Perth 19m ASL)
  • Weather Preferences: Hot Summers Snowy Winters Stormy Autumns
  • Location: Luncarty (4 miles north of Perth 19m ASL)

no thunder 

no lightening 

in the tumbleweed capital

nothing ever happens

nothing happens at all 

and the needle returns to the start of the song and we all sing along like before

rain been relentless, dog refused to go out there and then left a gift as soon as i vacated the kitchen, he is not a fan of cold or rain.

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  • Location: Currie, SW Edinburgh, 140m asl
  • Location: Currie, SW Edinburgh, 140m asl

Wow I have never experienced hail like that in my life! Torrential wouldn't begin to describe it! Place went white in seconds!!

Some serious thunder and lightning too!

Wow!

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  • Location: s.w. of Edinburgh (Currie - 145m / 475ft asl)
  • Location: s.w. of Edinburgh (Currie - 145m / 475ft asl)
9 minutes ago, 101_North said:

Wow I have never experienced hail like that in my life! Torrential wouldn't begin to describe it! Place went white in seconds!!

Some serious thunder and lightning too!

Wow!

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Crazy weather!

Thats 2 nights in a row I’ve been woken up by thunder and it’s December!

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  • Location: Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland 20m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snow,Thunderstorms mix both for heaven THUNDERSNOW 😜😀🤤🥰
  • Location: Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland 20m ASL
3 minutes ago, 101_North said:

It's really kicking off here tonight! Almost directly over the house!

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Can see it flashing and hear the booms from here

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  • Location: s.w. of Edinburgh (Currie - 145m / 475ft asl)
  • Location: s.w. of Edinburgh (Currie - 145m / 475ft asl)

OMG!

All car alarms in the street going off including mine after lightning/thunder over head. Never had a bigger fright before, that was so close.

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  • Location: Currie, SW Edinburgh, 140m asl
  • Location: Currie, SW Edinburgh, 140m asl
Just now, Polar Side said:

OMG!

All car alarms in the street going off including mine after lightning/thunder over head. Never had a bigger fright before, that was so close.

Yep! Same this end! Never seen as many house lights on at this hour

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  • Location: Currie, SW Edinburgh, 140m asl
  • Location: Currie, SW Edinburgh, 140m asl
1 hour ago, Kirkcaldy Weather said:

Surely not another night of thunder looks like the instability will be increasing through the night in the North Sea / Firth of Forth, so don’t be surprised to be woken up by more bangs   

I doff my hat to you! You nailed it

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  • Location: Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland 20m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snow,Thunderstorms mix both for heaven THUNDERSNOW 😜😀🤤🥰
  • Location: Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland 20m ASL

Nah cmon is someone taking the pi** shotgun thunder and monsoon rainfall 

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  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Location: Edinburgh

Didn’t post last night but that storm last night about 1.30 am was mental, woke the whole house up. Frequent lightning, booming thunder, serious hail that turned the street white, alarms going off .... second night in a row !

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  • Location: Banchory, Kincardineshire - 60m ASL
  • Location: Banchory, Kincardineshire - 60m ASL

Woken by rain hammering down and noisy gusts of wind through the trees around an hour ago.  Currently 3.1c, down from 5.5c at midnight and 9.91cm of rain recorded by my station since then.

Dogs enjoyed playing in the wet snow yesterday, at least there were no muddy paws to clean for the most part.

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  • Location: Kingdom of Fife: 56.2º N, 3.2º W
  • Location: Kingdom of Fife: 56.2º N, 3.2º W

'Mon the winter thunderstorms!

Woken with a loud bang again last night the went back to sleep. Hersel' said it went on for over an hour. 

What's driving this though? Are we looking at classic temperature gradients or is it a product of wind sheer? Can't get my head round where the energy is coming from in cold weather. 

 

 

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  • Location: Ayr
  • Location: Ayr
39 minutes ago, frogesque said:

'Mon the winter thunderstorms!

Woken with a loud bang again last night the went back to sleep. Hersel' said it went on for over an hour. 

What's driving this though? Are we looking at classic temperature gradients or is it a product of wind sheer? Can't get my head round where the energy is coming from in cold weather. 

 

 

It is a bit odd, usually thundersnow usually happens with a proper BFTE or a long fetch NW polar maritime flow. Considering the large lack of snow from my 21years of life I have seen thundersnow at least 4 or 5 times from polar maritime NW. Think it may be the only benefit of being on the west coast in winter

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  • Location: s.w. of Edinburgh (Currie - 145m / 475ft asl)
  • Location: s.w. of Edinburgh (Currie - 145m / 475ft asl)

That storm last night must have caused a power surge. My tv is broken along with house alarm and virgin box .

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  • Location: s.w. of Edinburgh (Currie - 145m / 475ft asl)
  • Location: s.w. of Edinburgh (Currie - 145m / 475ft asl)

That storm last night must have caused a power surge. My tv is broken along with house alarm and virgin box .

apparently a tree in a neighbours garden also got struck and split.

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  • Location: Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland 20m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snow,Thunderstorms mix both for heaven THUNDERSNOW 😜😀🤤🥰
  • Location: Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland 20m ASL
1 hour ago, frogesque said:

'Mon the winter thunderstorms!

Woken with a loud bang again last night the went back to sleep. Hersel' said it went on for over an hour. 

What's driving this though? Are we looking at classic temperature gradients or is it a product of wind sheer? Can't get my head round where the energy is coming from in cold weather. 

 

 

The CAPE charts that I posted last night that’s one ingredient and I posted this in the model thread yesterday but the SST also will help the convection develop current sea temps here 8D80C270-0C33-47CE-803B-094F42843A4C.thumb.jpeg.959b2ac1a00ae44f27a10de4f9f237c5.jpeg 850hpa temps last night were -2 so that’s around an 11 degree temp difference, as I’ve said more than once now I’m positive there’s something going on with the Firth of Forth there has to be with the amount of convection / storms over the last few years topped off by those supercells in August, I’m not exactly sure what but definitely it is increasing the storm development, I’m just really interested to see if we can get the proper cold 850s from the east surely it will be

Monday / Tuesday to give another snow chance hmm looks pretty similar to a few nights ago again probably quite marginal but maybe some surprises 378D8BCC-2304-42F9-985C-AC644AD42C46.thumb.png.2842dbea30da46a11b271d0b3151f27e.png680BC201-D493-44C2-91DD-065ACA3B1054.thumb.png.02df80a373569a5aa2ef08cb3c07a2b0.png3E704F05-E4C3-4339-AE67-8A2E427370E6.thumb.png.d4338cf858cb1dba8cdfb513762ff4b9.pngB6CF1CC5-06B4-4C58-B491-F427CDD007F0.thumb.png.008b4c36d6b899e0adc7af91bba5890f.png548F75C6-86B4-4C69-BE7E-45014E543E24.thumb.png.04ca53c713a3ca5750d02a3d71aa4983.png

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  • Location: Condorrat, Cumbernauld G67
  • Location: Condorrat, Cumbernauld G67

Lot calmer compared to yesterday (that wouldn't be hard) should be a quiet weekend relatively speaking ableit chilly

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  • Location: Currie, SW Edinburgh, 140m asl
  • Location: Currie, SW Edinburgh, 140m asl
1 hour ago, Polar Side said:

That storm last night must have caused a power surge. My tv is broken along with house alarm and virgin box .

Sorry to hear that  It was quite the storm! I saw reports on line of a house in Craigentinny taking a direct hit - whole roof on fire! Also reports, but not confirmed, of a house in Currie taking a hit too. 

 

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