The 2018 summer and thunder thread

[toastybase]

Worthwhile buying a light/showerproof jacket?

[Pericoloso]

toastybase said:

Worthwhile buying a light/showerproof jacket?

If you live in Britain ,which your profile suggests you do ,you should have at least 3 of those already.

[steveT350C]

Big boys.....

[ST_Nuts]

T+L+HR here in Devon!!

[Pericoloso]

The forecast map I mentioned last night is still the same,the whole of the south east corner has lightning 9 pm and same map is shown at midnight.

Couldn't be more different currently.

[colin_p]

Thames Valley / M4 corridor here....... looking forward to the light show later on, hopefully.

Blitzortung.org is showing a truely massive storm about to hit the South Coast / Isle of White and looking at its trajectory, it should hit here 9-10pm, hopefully.

Looks like one of those once every 5 year or events at the moment.

My youngest Son is out camping doing the Duke of Edinburgh thing as well, hope their tents are waterproof!

[Puggit]

Our evening outside is going to end. A couple of huge storms crossing the channel.

[JakeT]

I washed three cars today! Finally mowed the lawn too. An absolute tonne came off.

[Hub]

Ooh... Very thundery on the south coast right now!

[S100HP]

Hub said:

Ooh... Very thundery on the south coast right now!

Yep, pretty cool.

[juice]

Gone v v dark and windy here (sw of Bristol)

[DocJock]

Pitch black and no satellite signal in Chandlers Ford...

[juice]

Oooh lightning O'Clock !

[JakeT]

I've put the car in the garage. Can't let my hard work washing it go to waste.

West Berks is missing it currently, but the sky has gone that ominous colour...

[Hub]

JakeT said:

I've put the car in the garage. Can't let my hard work washing it go to waste.

West Berks is missing it currently, but the sky has gone that ominous colour...

Washed mine this morning - the massive downpour has washed all the catkin things off a nearby tree onto the car!

[steve2]

What’s the best app for following live data?

[Puggit]

Met office weather warning for everything SE of Dorset to York. As pointed out above, some big boys (supercells) crossing the channel.

[Puggit]

steve2 said:

What’s the best app for following live data?

Netweather Radar.

Blitzortung is good for just thunder

[djc206]

Puggit said:

Met office weather warning for everything SE of Dorset to York. As pointed out above, some big boys (supercells) crossing the channel.

I find a good indicator to be weather avoidance by aircraft. If you look on flight radar just now you’ll see a load of Heathrow and Gatwick inbounds heading NW from the Cherbourg peninsula when they would normally head NNE over the Isle of Wight. That’s fairly big weather avoidance for the UK, probably only happens to that extent less than a dozen times per year.

[The Brummie]

Just spent the last 40 minutes with the house in darkness watching a spectacular lightning show.

Very little thunder, sky as black as coal, torrential rain & muggy as hell.

Cleared up now & barely a cloud in the sky.