[Snowmaker]

Mad lloking gust front heading in from the North of me..

Steve

[Jason Smith]

Nice BIG cell passing overhead and a few bug cracks of thunder. Managed to video it approaching and the front rotation of cloud was quite dramatic. Somerset, Weston-super-mare.

[Jason Smith]

Reports on local news of a lot of reports and on twitter mentioning a Loud Boom in Swindon similar to a sonic Boom? v.Interesting.

[Tony Sales]

Reports from Southampton Airport, apparently the approach lights were billowing smoke?
Lightning strike perhaps?

Heres the story:
http://www.bbc.co.uk...pshire-17691766

[rosskesava]

Plenty of convection to the west and north of here with black skies. Looks like a biggy over the Portsmouth/Southampton area.

[Ben Taylor]

wow have been viewing distant anvils from my location in an otherwise cloudless sky. Just looked at the sferics map they must be 40-50 miles away.

[Coolcirrus_]

Tony Sales, on 12 April 2012 - 17:58, said:

Reports from Southampton Airport, apparently the approach lights were billowing smoke?
Lightning strike perhaps?

Heres the story:
http://www.bbc.co.uk...pshire-17691766

I walked up the hill overlooking the airport early in the afternoon to enjoy the convective panorama and the runway lights were fine at that point - they were clearly illuminated. The storm here passed directly over the airport in the late afternoon but from what I could see the strikes were mostly CC, not CG. I noticed there were no flights during the storm but they resumed soon afterwards. It would be interesting to hear what actually happened!

This post has been edited by Coolcirrus_: 12 April 2012 - 18:39

[st3althm4ster]

 hey guys new to this, im in southampton town centre i saw the storm come in from flat first of.. i saw a wall cloud or a shelf cloud (pic will be uploaded) and alot of lightning it lasted about 3 mins but it was long, pictures 2 mins are from each other, now the other thing is i think i had rotation at the back and above of me flat, there was no wind at all but the cloud were turning fast and about 3mins later of noticing it was windy and hammering it down with rain and hail. happned around 5:30pm - 5:45pm 

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[skanky]

Had some lovely evening's skies on the back end of a large shower that went through this evening. Been a good couple of days, visually. Shame there was no whizz bang, but there you go.

[Chris Alder]

Well a great day here, possibly the most electrically active day in five years. Outside chance of completing a hatrick for the week tomorrow as well.

[Lightning Hunter]

Chris Alder, on 12 April 2012 - 20:22, said:

Well a great day here, possibly the most electrically active day in five years. Outside chance of completing a hatrick for the week tomorrow as well.

I agree Chris - you couldn't have avoided thunder if you tried in S Hants/Dorset today

I've got hundreds of photos to sort through too! I'll have to post them at the weekend.

I reckon it's the most productive 'home-grown' thunder day here since June 2007, with the exception of those Spanish Plumes

[Bluebreezer54]

Absolutely bereft of anything other than an occasional light shower for the last 3 days here in this part of North West London

[P.K.]

Bluebreezer54, on 12 April 2012 - 20:39, said:

Absolutely bereft of anything other than an occasional light shower for the last 3 days here in this part of North West London

You might get something briefly. Just had a shower pass through which only appeared on the radar a few minutes ago. Other than that no real measured rain the last few days. 0.2mm Tuesday, 0.4mm today.

[Ed.]

Looks like a couple of birds in the sky (with after-burners..) have added to todays mele And perhaps increased some peoples dry cleaning bill..

[Floss the dog]

Might be something to watch......

The rain radar at the moment has a line of rain moving west to east immediately south of Snowdonia, and another line heading east to west immediately north of snowdonia. Distance between can be no more than 50 miles.

It might mean nothing at all, on the other hand............?

[Flatlander]

Hail shower just south of Doncaster - not really showing on the radar. Dry in town though (again).

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[RichC]

Line of convection now bubbling up over the Blackdowns, a focal point of yesterdays storms down here. They are pretty big already so it wouldn't surprise me if they started letting loose some RF soon. I see a load more approaching from the west.

[Tony Sales]

Towers going up here in Northumberland, not expecting much though

[RichC]

Coolcirrus_, on 12 April 2012 - 18:38, said:

I walked up the hill overlooking the airport early in the afternoon to enjoy the convective panorama and the runway lights were fine at that point - they were clearly illuminated. The storm here passed directly over the airport in the late afternoon but from what I could see the strikes were mostly CC, not CG. I noticed there were no flights during the storm but they resumed soon afterwards. It would be interesting to hear what actually happened!

Could the "smoke" be Steam? Wet lights, especially high powered lights would create steam when drying off.

[Tony Sales]

Small hail shower just passin overhead