Storms and Convective discussion - 16th June 2021 onwards

[Harry]

13 minutes ago, sunnijim said:

Great to see that the radar doesn't always paint a true reflection.

Just looks like a decaying mass of moderate rain as it nears London with hardly any strikes detected? I guess you are seeing CC lightning?

Just seen you have CG

Vast vast majority of the lightning was CC/IC but as the main core came through about 30 mins ago we had several CGs and a few awesome positive bolts (I think the positives were CC/IC) - ground and wall shaking peels.

[Norfolk Sheep]

The south has had a pretty good night/morning, looking forward to videos and pics!

Seems this July period is getting a reputation for storms, these are from 24th and 25th July in 2019. 

[Lauren]

Long loud distant rumbles but looks like it's dying off as it makes its way inland. Not sure if it will make it here.

[Eagle Eye]

15 minutes ago, Harry said:

Was just outside videoing the backside of the storms after 2 hours now the rains stopped, and another cell is now developing behind it! 

A lot developing near these storms. 

[Eagle Eye]

13 minutes ago, Harry said:

Vast vast majority of the lightning was CC/IC but as the main core came through about 30 mins ago we had several CGs and a few awesome positive bolts (I think the positives were CC/IC) - ground and wall shaking peels.

Yeah, saw lots of those cg's but was pointing my camera in the wrong direction 

Edited July 24, 2021 by Eagle Eye

[Jamie M]

Might be around round for Kent coming up if it can survive the tiny space from around Calais to Dover.

[Typhoon John]

32 minutes ago, Typhoon John said:

Absolutely nothing of note here. It's that calm I'm going to take the dog out.

To be fair I could hear some distant rumbles, either that or some planes heading to Heathrow.

What does everyone think about the chances for later today?

[Supacell]

Well what a busy night. Started filming distant lightning in the Channel at about 11pm, watched it pass over about 2 hours later and then finished up filming as a storm passed over me just Southeast of Andover. This storm had some particularly loud thunder and I have captured multiple IC's, CG's and bright CC flashes. Definitely worth the trip despite me having to now face the journey home. Already made it to Oxford, but still a way to go yet. Lots of footage to edit though

Speaking of footage, for those not subscribed to my channel with alerts set (who want to watch my storm videos) this is my video from Tuesday with the severe storm between Stamford and Corby. It's quite a longish video. 

 

[Liam Burge]

Looking at the rain radars from last night and it seems like most of the heavy rain was to my east and went up towards wales, I only got a dribble of rain. Far from what most models predicted would happen.

[Wivenswold]

8 minutes ago, Liam Burge said:

Looking at the rain radars from last night and it seems like most of the heavy rain was to my east and went up towards wales, I only got a dribble of rain. Far from what most models predicted would happen.

It depends which Model, as they were fairly consistent until Wednesday, then it was a case of "take yer pick". All of us would have naturally graduated to our favourite and ignored words and phrases like "a chance", "some of it thundery" and "hit and miss". 

[A.J]

9 hours ago, Kasim Awan said:

If this isn't a bust I don't know what a bust is.

This aged well

[Eagle Eye]

7 hours ago, StormLoser said:

 

I'm not sure how the rest of the night will turn out, but I think the South East will miss most of the forecast bad weather. I can't quite get my head around why the MO forecast heavy rain for 5-6am, here. There's nothing out there to head this way! There's not even a squall line to deliver it.

Even their pressure charts don't forecast it. Mighty puzzled.

Well, we did get some nice storms here around 6 so maybe the MO were onto something. 

[East_England_Stormchaser91]

24 minutes ago, Supacell said:

Well what a busy night. Started filming distant lightning in the Channel at about 11pm, watched it pass over about 2 hours later and then finished up filming as a storm passed over me just Southeast of Andover. This storm had some particularly loud thunder and I have captured multiple IC's, CG's and bright CC flashes. Definitely worth the trip despite me having to now face the journey home. Already made it to Oxford, but still a way to go yet. Lots of footage to edit though

Speaking of footage, for those not subscribed to my channel with alerts set (who want to watch my storm videos) this is my video from Tuesday with the severe storm between Stamford and Corby. It's quite a longish video. 

 

Great vid Supacell. Have great memories of cycling around Essendine, Ryhall and Stamford areas! Even chased a few storms out that way too. Very quiet and loads of backroads to stop and get some good pictures without any ambient traffic noise. 

Hopefully some more daytime events around the corner for this weekend and into next week now. Charts aren’t looking that bad for it! 

[Guest]

Into the post storm debris now. Low cloud, drizzle and extremely low light levels.

[Azazel]

Thunder woke me up a couple of times. Was too tired to get up and watch it sadly! Was nice to hear the old girl though, even in my groggy, half dead state.

[Harry]

Storms cleared through from here now. Have to say I wasn’t expecting that this morning. I was woken up by loud clicking noises just after 05:30 and could tell it was large convective raindrops landing on the roof. When I went outside, we were under a huge row of anvils lit up by the rising sun across the northern sky, with jet black skies and frequent rumbling from the south.

For the next 90 minutes the storms seemed to propagate from the SSE to the NNW, with new cells continually replacing the ones that’d moved off. Apart from a rogue CG, all of the lightning was well elevated with loads of anvil crawler type bursts and at times constant thunder.

Around 07:00 the parent cell moved through, bringing torrential rain, CGs (some very close) and some awesome ground shaking positive strikes.

Around 07:40 the storms moved off.

Was a really exciting couple of hours.

 

 

Edited July 24, 2021 by Harry

[Freeze]

So it seems a storm hit here around 4 in the morning when I was fast asleep. Typical! Why do all storms happen in the middle of the night here? Late afternoon into the evening would be perfect. 

[alexisj9]

Just had about an hour's worth of rumbles, althoughgh it went around Dover, staying off shore mostly. Cleared now. Suns coming out.

[Dreckly]

After all the warnings yesterday had absolutely nothing here not even any rain, living between two moors seems to split any storm activity to either side, like a microclimate here

[Frosty hollows]

Woke up to some lovely rumbles, but sadly that was it for me. Nice and cool but just drizzly and murky here 

[DeepSnow]

Got a few distant rumbles in Cowbridge where I am for work. Looked at the radar and theres nothing near here, the storms way out in the channel. Not sure if its from that or something else developing!

[Gonzolio Martinez]

Moan alert:

Looks like my area is gonna miss out again, whilst all the usual places get their 100th storm day of the year.

I have half a mind to write to my MP!

Who's bitter? I'm not bitter

[AWD]

I was in Westbury until 02:00am last night working and from about 22:00 onwards there were sporadic elevated flashes visible over the night sky from the Portland area.  These became a little more frequent after midnight.  Noticeable was the fact there was no wind at all, it felt very eerie.

Back home in Keynsham, I was awoken by thunder at around 05:00 this morning, along with a short, sharp burst of hail.  Didn't notice too much lightning though.

The standard power cut occured at around 07:00, which seems to happen every time I get a electrical storm (which is rarely)!

I wish I could have stayed at Westbury, and gone up to the White Horse.  No doubt some incredible views there.

[Newben76]

As expected, a total bust for 99.9%. Now we are left with the cloud and mizzle. 

[Jasper Foxx]

Had one cracking storm between 4am and 5:30 just outside of Frome. Didn't get any pics or videos as don't have a decent enough camera but the rain was quite heavy, the lightning really bright and proper booming thunder. First storm I've had since moving to Frome so happy I've finally seen something here.

Had one decent fork that went down somewhere in the vicinity of Warminster/Longleat area from what I could see.