The Weather Thread!

[Caribou]

Nice rainbow as well.

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Pissed it down here earlier and we had thunder but no lightening.

What I want is storm at night with loads of fork lightening.

Haven't seen any quality night time fork lightening in years, damn it.

[Mental Elf]

Originally Posted by Talbot

Nice rainbow as well.

“Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear.”

[Caribou]

^

Was awoken at about 7am this morning by a great thunderstorm. Opened my curtains and laid in bed watching the lightning

[Olly.]

Really big, ominous looking cloud heading this way, looks like a storm is brewing!

[Mental Elf]

Storms here at the moment, not a direct hit but lots of lightning and rumbling to my east and west.



them dots are lightning strikes forgot to add.

http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en

[Belinda]

Massive thunderstorm here in Brighton- wondering whether to hide under my bed or not

[Mental Elf]

Originally Posted by Gipsy Danger

Thunder loud enough to wake me is uncommon. Facebook awash with the 'zomgz storm posts'.

zomgz

[Mental Elf]

That is all.

[timmyb]

Only one clap here.
Saturday could be interesting so the weather people say.

[Pandapop]

All I'm seeing is lightening, no rain or thunder, scary

[Jason90]

Sodding thunder woke me up , it poured down for like 2 mins then stopped raining, at least the lightning was cool to watch.

[newbs16]

Originally Posted by Jason90

Sodding thunder woke me up , it poured down for like 2 mins then stopped raining, at least the lightning was cool to watch.

It's started here too

[anxiouslondoner]

That was crazy; lightning strikes every second or so for about half an hour it seems like. Woke me up at least.

[Olly.]

Seems like the whole country had thunderstorms at 3am then, not great when you want to get some sleep and its always a bit scary when the thunderclaps are getting steadily louder every time, but at least with the rain, the air temperature came down and I could get some cool air in!

Weird weather today though, its supposed to be 31 degrees and sunny today here, yet all we've had is torrential downpours and thunder again and its certainly not 31 degrees, was visiting my grandma in hospital and there was the most horrendous clap of thunder overhead, I'd hate to imagine what would happen if lightning hit a hospital.

Edit: Chucking it down again

[Olly.]

Look at this photo I found on twitter

[Azalea]

No thunder here, grey skies and wind this morning. It has rained in the night but not much, mainly blue sky with a bit of cloud. Still far too hot as well.

[Mental Elf]

More thunder and lightning tonight sit tight we are in for a rough couple of days.

[timmyb]

Oh no Can somebody sedate me please and wake me up when it's over.

[Olly.]

Sun is finally starting to break through the clouds now, looks like the 31 degrees promised is nearly upon us!

[luckie]

The morning was overcast, thank god, bit of relief from the heat. Sun breaking through though now, time to melt, really dont like the heat

So dreading the storms, especially at night. Hope we dont have one tomorrow evening, i got to go to work.

[luckie]

That's a frightening pic Olly ! Hope its not going to be that bad !

[Craig.]

I'll be spending tonight taking refuge under my duvet listening to the radio like last night

[Z.]

Originally Posted by Olly.

Look at this photo I found on twitter

Sigh.

Why can't it be like that where I am?

[Jason90]

Originally Posted by Olly.

Look at this photo I found on twitter

that pic looks like some cgi screenshot from a game , love lightning its beautiful to watch.

Originally Posted by Logic

More thunder and lightning tonight sit tight we are in for a rough couple of days.

Can't wait, im gonna try get some pictures this time, hope its as good as last night.


Last night i learnt my weather thingy on my phone shows an animation for the current weather so it had lightning flashes and bolts.


Its too bloody hot, im sat with my fan on in my boxers and im sweating like a pig , genuinely almost walked home without a top due to the heat (not something i've ever done as it'd make me feel uncomfortable and self conscious) and i cant drink water fast enough.

[girlinterrupted]

^Yep I`m sat in front of a fan too and still sweating like mad. I wish I was one of those people who glow or look a bit flushed but noooo have to go beet red and look like I`m melting (which I think I could be). This humidity might actually be the end of me,there are no words for how much I hate it. It`s so un-English,I wasn`t bred for this!

Also,eeeek at storms on the way again,me no likey The cruellest irony of all is that it`s too ruddy hot to even hide under anything!

[timmyb]

There's a very active storm in Northern France at the moment which is heading out into the Channel.

Edit. Heading towards Eastbourne now

[Mental Elf]

Yes starting to make Landfall now, 12,000 strikes in the last hour from it no doubt it's a MCS but could have Supercell characteristics looks like it will effect most of the South East as well as London, start pulling the TV aerials if I was in that area this looks a beast and a once in 20 year event maybe.

[Mental Elf]

Incoming!

[Mental Elf]

DISCUSSION

... England, BeNeLux, N France ...

Remnants of nocturnal convection will likely affect Western and Northern France and especially England in the morning hours. Since these storms will mostly be elevated, the severe weather risk should temporarily be low, though some heavy rainfall may still extend into the current forecast period. Activity will move northward into Scotland and onto the North Sea while it gradually decays.
Forecast models largely agree on clearing in the wake of these storms. With mostly sunny late morning and noon hours, a quick recovery of the air mass can be expected with CAPE values on the order of 1000 to 2000 J/kg (even higher per GFS) under deep-layer shear around 20 m/s. From the early afternoon onwards, more and more storms are forecast to initiate in the vicinity of the main frontal zone or along the mess of old outflow boundaries laid out by overnight's convection. They can quickly turn into multi- and supercells with a threat of large hail and severe wind gusts. Backbuilding and training activity may also easily produce a few flash floods, as the moisture content is exceptionally high (precipitable water around 40 mm).
Of particular concern are areas of reduced vertical mixing, which allow a moisture accumulation and the maintenance of enhanced low-level shear and helicity. This can be expected along the sea breeze front in Northern France and Belgium, and in general in Eastern England, where warm air advection re-intensifies on the forward flank of a weak surface low which is forecast to track from Northwestern France (06 UTC) into Northern England (18 UTC). If diurnal heating and/or the lift impulse by outflow boundaries suffice to break the capping inversion in these regions, particularly well-organized supercells could spawn a few tornadoes, possibly even including a strong one. However, mesoscale developments need to be awaited before the degree of this threat can further be specified.
Despite remaining uncertainties due to downstream effects of overnight's vigorous storms, a level 2 seems to be warranted.