UK Weather Forecasts, Reports and Discussion, WC 11th July

So a little bit going on..hardly widespread Storms is it.
Just about had a gut full of it to be honest.

Extrelmepy loud thunder and bright lightning currently. Very heavy rain also.

Will poke you in the eye in a minute Mark
Not a bean here.

I have just been out again and same as before, just a wet mess.
Far too much low cloud all day and not enough heating been happening, well thats what i think anyway, its only 15C here now.

Loads of heavy showers UK wide with a few giving some Thunder is about it.
Guess the forecasts were right but im just glad i didnt travel too far because it really wouldnt have been worth the effort

Really fed up

Yep heres my next venture, the weather can go play marbles on the Motorway for all i care now

http://www.extremeknitting.co.uk/

KNIT BIG it says.....BIG KNIT will do

the day is only early yet julian! i think its passing now....only got a small video, you can just about hear the thunder on it...still very loud though here...cant make out any lightning though...all i do know is its knocked out my sky tv lol

uploading the video now

edit - its clearing right up now...bright skys to my south, dark clouds to my north!

this is what was over me (sorry everything was taken on my iphone)


here is a small video, thunder at about 5 seconds lol thats it

https://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e313/mark_hamilton/?action=view&current=015.mp4

Ive had it for today now, cant be bothered to look anymore, wasted all of today as it is. And if you look at the Lightning Trackers for today there is barely anything at all South of the M4 corridor, except over the channel of course.
Dunno why i bother.

But at least youve seen summat Mark and i wouldnt say JP needs to give up yet either. Not sure how anyone else is getting on ?

Im used to this anyway.

Well the suns out now so that was my excitement for the year!

Its been a rubbish day here but friends in Bridlington have haveing a good storm at the min.

I still have hope

im still hoping and wishing but getting close to giving up. got the stream running but what for is anyones guess??

looks like theres 2 lines of storms and im just missing out on the first one but the second one just south of york could be the one gonna pm del on FB to keep an eye open as the tail of the line from york could cross over hull.

since your here del read the above ^^ lol. theres still hope for ya yet boy

Thats looking promising jp ill let ya know if out happens mucker

Is this the best Lightning detector out there http://www.isleofwightweather.co.uk/live_storm_data2.htm please advise

Well I am just at the train station collecting my dad and I can see a huge storm cell passing about ten miles to my east. How gutted am I. It's bright here now. But watching the cloud movement this new cell isn't going to get close to me at all. I am looking at it over open felds pretty much and it looks a good un. Gutted!

Thundery type shower just passed through 30-ish mins ago.. brightening up again but im liking the look of the cell in the channel thats moved out from cherbourg - COME TO DADDEH

allot of activity to my north at the moment this site is showing

http://www.peterboroughvws.info/stormvue.html

i live in cambridge area so you can see im just missing out at the moment

having had the radio on while i was out, apparantly wigan is getting it bad at the moment...or were twenty mins ago

think thats the best one about del and which everyone on the forum uses. i had one miserable rumble and in all honesty i could have farted louder that it

still some activity out and about but all in all its just a pile of s***

Reports filtering in now of storms across Kent but nothing for my location... Yet?

Torrential downpours will continue over parts of Northern England this evening. Rainfall totals of over 15mm in less than 3 hours are expected locally.

The public are advised to take extra care and refer to the Highways Agency for further advice regarding traffic disruption on motorways and trunk roads.


Issued at: 1910 Wed 14 Jul

thank you very much met office!! think we cold have figured that out!!

i be one very unhappy camper! time for a beer me thinks

Aww man.. wish I wish in the middle of all these strikes. This looks awesome!!! I think this is the day we have been waiting for all season! Just a shame there's not more up my way!

All kent storms out to the sea now. tiny cell in channel now might be of interest as similar area as previous line of storms across S/E Kent

well today wasnt a total blow out i spose...but i thought it was going to be allot better...the last of the rain has just left me, and i got these couple of quick snaps as it left me...

had no thunder since the first lot...hopefully more over the weeks to come!

Reports on netweather suggesting the kent cell was possibly a supercell, and the one in the channel following a rather similar path!

Nice pics Mark!! As you say, not a total loss. It's really tipping it down here now. The weather station is currently showing 36mm of rain and counting. My previous daily record is 46.3mm. If the rain heading our way on the radar continues to arrive, that record could fall tonight, in the next 3 hours. At the very least, we'll get pretty close I reckon.

Certainly a lot of wetness up your way Graham indeed.

Nice pics Mark too. Couldn't get any today due to work reasons.

Talk of this Supercell clipping Kent, not sure myself. NetW forum have posted a video from somewhere of a gust front calling it a supercell but I'm not convinced.

I had a brief cell pass over this evening and it produced a couple of IC flashes but that was it. Heavy rain associated with it too.

I'm also fed up with these small time showers, need something a bit more exciting to follow now.

no i seen the video and posted its not supercellular.. too many gust front characteristics but damn impressive looking none the less

Cheers jp.

After a dismal day with the lack of storms in my area, this is the only bonus that was worth getting the camera out.





Is there a name for this bumpy looking underpart