[Astromadhatter]

Hi everyone, i have been lurking a while and decided to join the forums, i love the weather and track storms (though the last 3 years have been awfuly quiet!) im in bournemouth dorset.


I made a timelapse video of the thunderstorm today, I dont own a DSLR so this is 1 hour of video recording sped up by 16x , the second video is non sped up footage of lighting that i caught. and a couple of photos for good measure. i hope you enjoy these:).














And one last bonus video of some large hail that fell yesterday, they lost size quickly, but some were falling about an inch big! i heard the hail coming for a good 30 seconds and had time to get my camera lol.

This post has been edited by Astromadhatter: 12 April 2012 - 20:41

[Dave W]

Welcome there- good to have you posting and joining the increasingly large Bournemouth posse!

[Tony Sales]

nice timelapse and lightning video too im very jealous!
Welcome to the forum btw you'll love it!

[Astromadhatter]

Thanks for the welcome Dave, thats great to hear there is lots of bournemouth members here too! its been so tame thunder wise here for years i am really hoping this year is going to be a good one!. Thank you Tony im glad you enjoyed the video`s.

This post has been edited by Astromadhatter: 12 April 2012 - 20:29

[Chris Alder]

Hey Paul thanks for posting I was out at Hurn and your time lapse show exactly what I saw with undulating, turbulent skies that at times looking very menacing. All in a very satisfactory day for April.

 Dave W, on 12 April 2012 - 20:24, said:

Welcome there- good to have you posting and joining the increasingly large Bournemouth posse!

Well it's the place to be Dave We now even get thunderstorms!

[Dave Hancox]

Enjoyed those vids. Especially the lightning and actually hearing some thunder nice one.

[Astromadhatter]

Your welcome Chris im glad you enjoyed them how frequent were the lighting strikes at hurn? over here (winton) they were quite in-frequent at mabey one every ten mins..but they were very nice when they did happen!. Glad you enjoyed the vids Dave.

I had to laugh at the "Well it's the place to be Dave We now even get thunderstorms!" heheh..Its been so long !!.

[Chris Alder]

IC lightning was giving almost continuous crackly thunder between 5.45-6.45 which was interrupted every 5 or so minutes by louder CGs.

[Astromadhatter]

 Chris Alder, on 12 April 2012 - 20:54, said:

IC lightning was giving almost continuous crackly thunder between 5.45-6.45 which was interrupted every 5 or so minutes by louder CGs.

I think you had it better than over here, I think we just caught the edge of the storm Was still great to watch though..my friends and family all think im crazy going and standing in the pouring rain to watch it, but its way better than watching from inside i think.

[Chris Alder]

I live near the uni however was over at Hurn for cricket training, watched the storm instead:)

[Chris CW (aka Seedubs)]

Welcome, nice vids. That hail sounded a little intense, any damage?

[Astromadhatter]

Awesome! getting "rained off" must be annoying but not when its because of a thunderstorm!.


Im supprized theres locals on these forums, i dont know why i just didn`t exspect it, but its great! Do you guys have weather monitoring equipment that you post your information with? i just have a couple of barometers but i have been considering buying a weather station, but i really dont know where to start.



Hi Chris CW , no damage from the hail but its the largest i have ever seen here! Any idea what causes large hail? until now i have seen nothing larger than pea size but these were quite a bit bigger and bouncing all over the place. If you pause the video at 27 secs in and view full screen you can see a 10p peice i was using to test my new metal detector, next to it is some hail that are almost as big!.

Large hail on weds, thunder and lighting on thursday, lets hope for some more tommorow

This post has been edited by Astromadhatter: 12 April 2012 - 21:34

[Ian Williams]

WOW! Nice work astro, that is some maiden post

[Astromadhatter]

Thanks Ian! i have been lurking around for a while but after the last couple of days weather i thought it would be good to get talking to some enthusiasts and share some of my videos and photos:)



PS. you`re photos are amazing ! did you rent the TIV??

[Ian Williams]

 Astromadhatter, on 12 April 2012 - 22:21, said:

Thanks Ian! i have been lurking around for a while but after the last couple of days weather i thought it would be good to get talking to some enthusiasts and share some of my videos and photos:)



PS. you`re photos are amazing ! did you rent the TIV??

LOL, No they were in the hotel next to us Glad you liked the pics

[Bazmundo]

Superb video, really enjoyed that thanks.

Hail size is a good indicator of updraft strength and dry air high up for it to fall through (wetter air and it melts before reaching the ground).

[Astromadhatter]

 Ian Williams, on 12 April 2012 - 22:30, said:

LOL, No they were in the hotel next to us Glad you liked the pics

Ah no wonder lol!! i watch the show all the time

Im glad you enjoyed the video Bazmundo and thank you for explaining that it does make scence acctualy as i also love astronomy, and in the evening when the skys cleared the views were very nice indeed!.