[moolahula]

Bazmundo, on 20 April 2012 - 12:19, said:

I anyone is concerned by, or afraid of, thunderstorms; then why not try my new custom-made "Stormbuster" time-lapse services* (patent pending). Using the unaccountable power of fate, I'll come round to your house and clear a hole the size of Greater London in your convective potential, no matter how good the lapse rates and oncoming upper PV are! Just check out the results on the attached radar for near Stoke-on-Trent looking South.

* Prices are negotiable and dependent on the availability of coffee...

know the feeling!!! mind you not as bad as last week when i was trucking and literally dodging the action.....


Shawbury the coldest and least convective place anywhere!!!

[PK2]

Bazmundo, on 20 April 2012 - 13:43, said:

I'll give you coffee if you go away? That's not very nice!

Well I've got something developing nearby now, lots of congestus and dark bases.... timelapse stopped due to battery about an hour ago. *sigh*

Only on convective days when your stormbuster services are working... . Pleased to hear that the battery on your the stormbusting equipment is also running low , shame about the timelapse though hope you get to see something in person

[chrisips]

After a fortnight of watching radar and reading other peoples reports, at last my first decent storm of the year thunder every 30 seconds heavy rain with some hail mixed in.

Ooops i forgot the compulsory

This post has been edited by chrisips: 20 April 2012 - 14:56

[Bazmundo]

Congrats Chris!

Here's the T/L, though it seems to have issues when converted to .wmv (since the original .avi doesn't retain the aspect ratio on upload to youtube) - anyone with experience of samsung camcorders and Intellistudio, please help or recommend a better method?




Ooh! I think I got the embed thingy working!

[Andy Mayhew]

Dave W, on 20 April 2012 - 11:24, said:

A Brown out?!!

mrfizz, on 20 April 2012 - 11:47, said:

Not quite a black out, one would presume!?

Aye, some lights dimmed and flickered, some went out completely, some stayed on

http://en.wikipedia....8electricity%29

[PullenUK]

Big Dave, on 20 April 2012 - 13:18, said:

Load of action of the coast of Thanet at Margate, but naught nearer than that at the moment. We have some big dark clouds around here just to our west though.

Cheers, however, it feels pretty warm here today compared to the week so Far. Not seen any rain.

[stockynige]

Just driven home to Marlow with 2cm of ice on the car from a hailstorm near High Wycombe. I might as well have come from another planet judging by the expressions on people's faces.

[bensainsbury]

Any risk of thunderstorms tomorrow for south Bristol over the next couple of days?

[John Mason]

Some thoughts from Wales.

So far, this has been a non-photogenic convective spell here. In April and May, and often the first half of June, sea temperatures are playing catch-up, which means they do not aid and abet convection over the Irish sea, at least in its wider northern parts, as they increasingly do late summer into the autumn and early winter. Instead, the best possible scenario here involves a slack low centered over E England, which results in a gentle N airflow across Wales. Clear mornings followed by initiation and sea-breeze interaction then make for some interesting conditions. A southerly will do too, but is particularly good later in the year when cells that form inland over SW Wales are able to continue developing as they track N-wards across Cardigan Bay: such conditions associated with good deep-layer and low-level shear accounted for the two best wall-clouds I've seen, in summer 2010 and autumn 2011.

These rather moist SW to W airflows, on the other hand, generate a scattergun pattern of cells in these parts, heavy and thundery yes but often partly to wholly obscured by other low and midlevel cloud: with a marked lack of clustering along convergence lines, targeting is difficult and the cells are always heading away eastwards (C/S/E England always best in such scenarios as the better storms are obvious by the time they are heading into these areas). Hence I've not been out on the case with anything so far during this past few days. Here's hoping for a few slacker days in the coming weeks!

Cheers - John

[Lightning Hunter]

Next to nothing of interest here in Hampshire so far this afternoon, unlike previous days when I was stuck at work!

I was going to head out but have decided not to bother as there is little or nothing of interest, and the stuff in the SW seems to be slipping away into the Channel. Dry and mostly sunny here today.

[John Mason]

It's good when you realise you have enough experience under the belt to make these calls. Years ago, I did waste an awful lot of fuel/money on days that were like today. Like most things, learning the hard way's the best way!

Cheers - John

[sherrie]

we had another thunderstorm here about an hour ago, the last one we had was last Saturday and we had some thunder dureing the week before that. So far this year Iv heard more thunder than in the whole of the last 2 years

[rosskesava]

Nothing to note here in Brighton. In fact, it's quite a pleasant day out.

It was looking good this morning at about 8am but then the Brighton force field kicked in and a whole pile of decent looking storm clouds went up the Channel missing Brighton by a cats whisker.

This post has been edited by rosskesava: 21 April 2012 - 13:04

[sherrie]

just had another loud rumble of thunder from a cloud that only produced a very light rain shower, maybe its going to be a good summer after all

[weathergirl]

Looks like they might be getting the good stuff to the west of Kidderminster. Nothing here currently but sky dark in that direction, think its gonna pass us by grrr

[Lightning Hunter]

Can someone give me a quick link to the charts that show wind direction lines (and hence convergence) please? Not sure where people are getting them from.

[John Mason]

These can be useful: http://www.lightningwizard.com/maps/

However, during the seabreeze season they can be predicted with a bit of practise.

Cheers John

[Dave K]

First time for a few days (so far today) we have had loads of convective cloud around that haven't threatened to drop their load.

[Tony Sales]

i have just witnessed the most incredible shelf cloud! pics to follow!