The Weather Outlook

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ozoneaurora
15 April 2026 16:45:41
I've not seen or found such thread on convective activity lately, so I thought I'd set up this one. :)

Some quite active thunder at the moment along the cold front, especially over the Midlands and Lancashire (also isolated ones over N Ireland).

Bolty
15 April 2026 16:51:18
I've just been under that Lancashire storm. There were a few lightning flashes, some heavy rain and small hail for a time.
Scott

Blackrod, Lancashire (4 miles south of Chorley) at 156m asl.

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Essan
15 April 2026 16:52:47
Best thunder and lightning in Evesham for a long time - including one of the biggest, brightest, blue-white thunderbolts I've ever seen.   We normally miss the best frontal activity here so quite a surprise.
Andy

Evesham, Worcs, Albion - 35m asl

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Crepuscular Ray
15 April 2026 19:54:20
My daughters reported extremely loud and frequent thunder and torrential rain/hail in both south and north Nottingham late afternoon
Jerry

Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill

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Crepuscular Ray
27 April 2026 16:19:05
Thunderstorms have kicked off in a line from the Solway, SE to the SW of Sheffield. Gone quite dark in Nottingham apparently
Jerry

Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill

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Andy J
13 May 2026 12:30:14
Just recently had a heavy thundery shower. There was a hailstorm mixed in, some of the stones up to 1cm diameter. Some hail still lying on the lawn with a sudden temp drop down to 9C.
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.
Roger Parsons
13 May 2026 12:34:40
We had a good sharp hailstorm before noon - impressive, but I heard no thunder/saw no lightning. 

Addition - a cracking thunderstorm with lightning at 1.40pm. Then minor showers coming through on a strong wind.

RogerP

West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire

Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.

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fairweather
13 May 2026 13:03:11

We had a good sharp hailstorm before noon - impressive, but I heard no thunder/saw no lightning. 

Originally Posted by: Roger Parsons 

Thunderstorms all around me but for the second time today managed to thread my way through them with less than a mm of rain.

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S.Essex, 42m ASL
Mildly Disappointed
13 May 2026 14:47:39
Just had a couple of rumbles of thunder here after a very heavy shower earlier. The tough spring continues for the garden. Weeks without rain (although there is still plenty of moisture below the surface), baking sun, cool drying winds, late frosts and now a good bashing from heavy rain and hail
Jason

Salfords, Surrey

idj20
13 May 2026 22:00:53
Folkestone Rain Deflector was as effective as ever with just 0.6 mm today, only a light fleeting shower in morning and again in late afternoon but nowhere enough to bring on the grass seed on my partially dug up lawn. Hope to have better luck tomorrow. 
Home location: Folkestone Harbour.
Jiries
14 May 2026 08:35:59
Had some hail yestrerday but never match what I see in Nicosia or other areas hail storms that give you full covering and lasting longer that I want to experience once in here.
idj20
14 May 2026 11:39:52
Just had a fairly lengthy shower that has given me a useful 5 mm in the past hour. 
Home location: Folkestone Harbour.
Roger Parsons
14 May 2026 12:49:46
Some compact squally storms coming through - I would call it "tornado weather". I'm keeping an eye out for funnel clouds. 

[Lincolnshire is a good county for spotting these. I once saw one over Coningsby and later heard it had demolished someone's chicken shed!]

RogerP

West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire

Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.

William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830

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14 May 2026 13:02:09
There is a decent shower it seems around the Yeovil area perhaps heading this way. I'm hoping it has my name on it and arrives with no destructive hail mixed in. That's another bane of this kind of weather, ice-shredding/stripping foliage. If it does arrive, it will be cold rain not good growing precipitation. But any rain would be a blessing this Spring.
Vale of the Great Dairies

South Dorset

Elevation 60m 197ft

jeffbeanpole1
14 May 2026 13:28:37
Got caught in a very heavy hail shower as I got out the sea in the last hour, pea-sized hail stinging the hands. Couple of lightening strikes very close as others were still surfing. They quickly got out. 
Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan. Wales. 15m ASL.
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14 May 2026 13:34:18
The rain shower(s) I hoped were coming this way is running into Lyme Bay between Portland and Bridport. A lighter shower is going over Dorchester. Lucky them.

I'm just out of range. The dust storms continue from the building site. It sounds like tanks from WW1 driving around.

Vale of the Great Dairies

South Dorset

Elevation 60m 197ft

johncs2016
14 May 2026 13:51:55
Here in Edinburgh, it's suddenly gone very dark for the time with a sudden downpour of hailstones.
The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.

noodle doodle
14 May 2026 14:11:23
Absolutely hammered them down here in south edinburgh, gutters are full of hail

It would have physically hurt to be out in it, hearing some sirens locally (may not be related but wouldn't be surprised if it was)

Mildly Disappointed
14 May 2026 14:18:59
A few rumbles of thunder again this afternoon accompanied by some heavy rain and a brief spell of hail. Thunder was closer and louder today
Jason

Salfords, Surrey

Crepuscular Ray
14 May 2026 14:42:36
Yes that earlier shower here was torrential with hail. Heaviest rain for some time! Another downpour just approaching from the north
Jerry

Edinburgh, in the frost hollow below Blackford Hill

picturesareme
14 May 2026 17:49:27
Just had a direct hit from a wee beastie of a storm. Frequent lightning and thunder, and some hail for good measure.
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14 May 2026 17:50:48

Just had a direct hit from a wee beastie of a storm. Frequent lightning and thunder, and some hail for good measure.

Originally Posted by: picturesareme 

And only 15 miles along the coast it was just an average shower

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Chichester 12m asl

fairweather
14 May 2026 23:10:11
0.4mm from a couple of showers. Bit more substantial a mile either side. Appears to have not been "widespread" although lots of different areas had showers in that sense but not widespread in how many got torrential downpours. I mean did anybody actually get even 10mm?
S.Essex, 42m ASL
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15 May 2026 06:05:09
I had zero rainfall but as you say it would have been short, perhaps sharp downpours, meaning little in the farming and gardening scheme of things. Frontal rain from the southwest might do more.
Vale of the Great Dairies

South Dorset

Elevation 60m 197ft

Jim-55
15 May 2026 18:38:04
Nothing on Blitztortung lightning radar but our garden has just been hit by a bolt of lightning and it scared the crap out of me as I was looking out at the torrential rain at the time, too close for comfort as I'd taken the dogs out there a couple minutes before for a pee.
Previously JimC. joined back then in 2009. Frome, N/E Somerset, 125mtrs asl.

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