Storms and Convective discussion - 16th June 2021 onwards

[Ceejay]

Almost clear sky and temps increasing here in Torquay.

[Guest]

Showers struggling a bit more than I thought they would to be honest, CZ is well inland now and pretty nice day here.  

[sunnijim]

Baking hot sunshine and humidity has arrived on the Sussex coast in the last half hour.

Someone,somewhere will get clobbered in the next couple of hours.Towers shooting up just inland of here...

[Mapantz]

23.4°C at the moment.

These to the NE.

  

[ChannelThunder]

Stacks of Congestus going up on the mainland. This is the closest one. You'll have to take my word for it that it looks far more impressive in real life!

[matt111]

Blue skies here but a different story to the north 

Edited June 28, 2021 by matt111

[Harry]

25 minutes ago, sunnijim said:

Baking hot sunshine and humidity has arrived on the Sussex coast in the last half hour.

Someone,somewhere will get clobbered in the next couple of hours.Towers shooting up just inland of here...

Still grim murky and damp here

[Sam jackson88]

The atmosphere feels down right oppressive right now above Southampton, just seen this monster growing up

[Mapantz]

Unless something bubbles up from the South, the steering flow is taking things away from here.

[Purplepixii]

2 minutes ago, Sam jackson88 said:

The atmosphere feels down right oppressive right now above Southampton, just seen this monster growing up

Yeah same here down the road in Fareham. Get the horrible feeling though that we're just growing the storms for the lucky wotsits north of us 

[matt111]

12 minutes ago, Purplepixii said:

Yeah same here down the road in Fareham. Get the horrible feeling though that we're just growing the storms for the lucky wotsits north of us 

Certainly seems that way here. Blue skies overhead and feeling very warm in the sun while it’s looked good to the north for a few hours now. 

[ChannelThunder]

Hints of what's being modeled later now beginning in France west of Amiens. The latest UKV is still keen to take this through the channel, skimming the IOW area after midnight.

[Guest]

Sky has exploded inland of over central and west Dorset in the last 10mins. The cleanest convection I’ve seen in a couple of years! 

[*Stormforce~beka*]

On way to school run here was the skies under this puppy ... Finally cleared to get some blue sky and then this lot came up lol

[mike5900]

lightning detector just gone off.

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, mike5900 said:

lightning detector just gone off.

Yup, Sferic to the SW of Yeovil.

[Sam jackson88]

Just got the first rumble today in Southampton

Edited June 28, 2021 by Sam jackson88
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[amybonnie98]

Just heard a rumble of thunder in Southampton

[Harry's House]

Sunny here and very impressive Congestus inland, much more than the photo suggests. 

[Sam jackson88]

3 minutes ago, amybonnie98 said:

Just heard a rumble of thunder in Southampton

Now the heavens have opened the floodgates

[Harry]

Stratus has FINALLY melted away and the temperature is soaring - 21C and expectedly humid with all the rain over the past 36 hours. 

Interesting that the reports of thunder in Yeovil and Southampton haven’t been detected on NetW radar or Blizortung - might suggest these detectors are not the most reliable today.

Models not keen on any overnight activity reaching here so expectations are low. Weather app is keen however on overnight rain so interesting to see what happens.

[Guest]

An extremely heavy shower now over the Hedge End part of Southampton 150-250mm ph RF rates.

[Mapantz]

4 minutes ago, Harry said:

Interesting that the reports of thunder in Yeovil and Southampton haven’t been detected on NetW radar or Blizortung - might suggest these detectors are not the most reliable today.

Edited June 28, 2021 by Mapantz

[Hector the Convector]

10 minutes ago, Sam jackson88 said:

Just got the first rumble today in Southampton

Yeah I just heard them too. Although I am to the north of the cell. I'm looking east now

[Sam jackson88]

1 minute ago, Hector the Convector said:

Yeah I just heard them too. Although I am to the north of the cell. I'm looking east now

Hopefully this is just the starter for later, what we need is the main course just when it starts getting darker