Storms and Convective discussion - 25th July 2021 onwards

[Atmogenic]

You don't often see almost the entire UK under rain 

[emmett garland]

28 minutes ago, Atmogenic said:

You don't often see almost the entire UK under rain 

[emmett garland]

You don't often see Ireland missing out on all that rain too ..that's a rare radar there right now 

[A Face like Thunder]

1 hour ago, Atmogenic said:

You don't often see almost the entire UK under rain 

I was reminded by this that this Saturday (3rd Oct) a year ago was (prov) he wettest day on record, UK-wide, with an average of 31.7mm falling across the entire UK. I don't think that we shall get near this figure today but the rainfall is obviously persistent and widespread 

[Gord]

Thunder just heard from a heavy shower to my east.

[Mr_ Nexus]

Thunder here as well 3 claps so far !

[Sparkiee storm]

Same here just to the South, 5 deep rumbles so far.

[LeeKay/]

Ditto, roughly 5 rumbles here. Some good cloud formations too.

Edited October 3, 2021 by LeeKay/
Added Photo

[matty40s]

Quite spectacular just NE of Leicester.

 

Along with this decaying one...

Edited October 3, 2021 by matty40s

[Thundery wintry showers]

I had a weird predictive dream last night, I dreamt about getting wet walking along a main street surrounded by historic buildings, then leaving and watching lightning from a Cb cell to the south-east. 

The real life version wasn't quite as spectacular, but I went shopping in M&S in Lincoln, came out and it was chucking it down with rain, so had to wait a while before going outside, and then when I was walking home, I definitely heard one clap of thunder from a Cb cell to the south-east.  It was just the one clap of thunder, and it wasn't picked up by the ATD system, and I saw no lightning, but it counts as another day of thunder heard, taking my 2021 total to 15 days.

[Weather-history]

Convective skies today

 

[Eagle Eye]

Some nice connectivity today

[matt111]

Just had a very loud rumble out of nowhere here. 

[Zak M]

Seeing a few distant flickers off to my SE.

[Jamie M]

 

Friend mentioned that this cell in Southampton had shotgun thunder and large hail that set off car alarms with it. 

[Atmogenic]

2 hours ago, Jamie M said:

 

Friend mentioned that this cell in Southampton had shotgun thunder and large hail that set off car alarms with it. 

looks lovely 

[Harry's House]

A couple of flashes of lightning and rumbles of thunder around 3.30 this morning after heavy rain.

[Summer8906]

On 04/09/2021 at 09:40, dr weather said:

There appear to be some sharp showers around the Isles of Scilly currently, with the Met Office's lightning radar having detected one or two strikes around 0700 in The Channel south of Devon.

Sorry for the late reply but I'd like to report on some convective activity close to the UK on Sat September 4th, observed from a flight from Luton to Thessaloniki.

On the ground this day was hazy, with some brightness in south Hampshire but increasingly cloudy or dull in the London area. Not thundery though warmer and hazier than it had been recently.

However, on clearing the low cloud after take off I noticed a cluster of fairly large Cbs visible to the south, perhaps over northern France but cannot be sure. Through much of the flight, right to the Alpine region, there were frequent Cbs visible to the southwest. The flight presumably took an unusual easterly path as the Alps covered only a limited north-south extent when it crossed over them, so I'm guessing it went well east over Austria/Slovenia not far from Vienna. I do remember it seemed to take an age to reach the Alps, which are normally reached within an hour of take-off. Perhaps this thundery activity forced the flight on its easterly path?

I do recall that there was a breakdown forecast originally for that weekend, which was then pushed back to later in the week so perhaps these Cbs were associated with the original breakdown?

Edited October 4, 2021 by Summer8906

[aaliyah]

sooo thunder in september that’s new

[Atmogenic]

Saw this bubbly cumulus cloud whilst on a walk due to the showers we’ve had here today.

There was another to the left of that one but didn’t have a good view to take a decent pic

[Allseasons-Si]

Thunderstorm to my SW,this could be a direct hit.

 

[Allseasons-Si]

It looks like the Pennine's have killed it.

 

[Storm_Sikher]

31 minutes ago, aaliyah said:

sooo thunder in september that’s new

Especially in October! 
This shot is from end of October 2004, not one of my best as it's mostly blown out.
28/10/2004 

[Rush2019]

22 minutes ago, Allseasons-si said:

It looks like the Pennine's have killed it.

 

About half 2 it looked like night time, had torrential rain, saw 3 bright flashes and had a few decent cracks of thunder before it headed out Buxton way.  I wasn't expecting that.

[Eagle Eye]

I took this at my school earlier