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Scattered showers around Lowestoft area on May 21 from unstable medium/high clouds but rain never reaching the surface, just large virga.
Nr. Easingwold, North Yorkshire
30m asl
Tomorrow looks potentially lively dahn sarf with some good LI and SBCAPE (although as suspected moderated somewhat from the mega-values GFS was showing earlier in the week). Insolation I suspect will be key in how intense some of these storms become with the risk of crudvection hampering the sustained conversion of the available energy, but imports from the continent for the south and south-west are certainly on the cards.
Saturday PM (LI of -7 and circa 2,000 CAPE):
Sunday PM - risk slightly further northwest:
Monday PM - more widespread risk but concentrated in the SE:
goes that for development.
We've just had a couple of thunder showers pass right over us here in Frome, nothing to dramatic apart from one CG which was very close and made one hell of a bang, a real deep punchy boom, very nice but the storms were over and gone very quickly,
Thunderstorm just developed to my east and has now rumbled away to the north east. Some nice pink lightning for a while. Always looks best just after twilight.
Originally Posted by: Global Warming
I can hear (and see) them from here. Look to be over Beech Hill / Swallowfield.
Between Newbury and Basingstoke
"When they are giving you their all, some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy banging your heart against some mad buggers wall"
what's amazing is just how quick that storm fired up 😮
It went from nothing to 250mm p/hr rain rate in 15 minutes!!
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Originally Posted by: Bugglesgate
That's bang on accurate. I went outside and watched from Arborfield, about 3 miles east of Swallowfield. We had one flash of lightning every 15 seconds or so for about 20 minutes; towards the end of my time watching the lightning bolts seemed to get stronger and they were all coming from the same point in the sky about 5 miles west of here. so somewhere west of Swallowfield, probably Beech Hill and off towards Burghfield Common.
We had hardly any rain here, which made for good watching conditions.
Crowthorne, Berks (87m asl)
South Berks Winter Snow Depth Totals:
2023/24 0 cm; 2022/23 7 cm; 2021/22 1 cm; 2020/21 13 cm; 2019/20 0 cm; 2018/19 14 cm; 2017/18 23 cm; 2016/17 0 cm; 2015/16 0.5 cm; 2014/15 3.5 cm; 2013/14 0 cm; 2012/13 22 cm; 2011/12 7 cm; 2010/11 6 cm; 2009/10 51 cm
Blackrod, Lancashire (4 miles south of Chorley) at 156m asl.
My weather station
Incredible line of storms through the Channel and into the southern counties! The storm in Kent looks particularly active!
Originally Posted by: Bolty
frequent almost every second lightning to my south now.... distant rumbles to.
Strobing away quite nicely (and safely for now) to my south west, coming from that newly developing cell just moving NW onto Dungeness as I type this.
London getting a good display!
https://twitter.com/MPSonthewater/status/1000504896339304453
https://twitter.com/Schafernaker/status/1000504760171036672
Very frequent lighting was heading my way, actual fact lightning every few seconds then it just turned off, now there's nothing apart from light rain, seems weird how it stopped so suddenly.
Fabulous electrical storm over London. Just slid up to our east so we can see it all out our north facing bedroom window, but the kids haven’t been woken. Near continuous bright lightning!
Winter 22/23
Days snow falling: 4
Days snow on ground:8
Max snow depths: 6cm (December 19th ish)
Summer 2022 max 39C on July 19th
Summer 2021 max: 32C on July 18th
Summer 2020 max: 36C on July 31st
I’m waiting for Brian to wake up as I’m hoping he can confirm that he also had these intense storms in this area overnight
seemed to go on all night but certainly a few separate ones that bought monsoon rain and some stunning lightning .
Current conditions (personal WS)