Stormy Weather II

[BBMmk2]

SA, Zola, Weill wait and see!

[DracoM]

[DracoM]

Early heavy rain, but then a near perfect June day................erm....so far!

..................and now even BETTER!!

[zola]

Impressive photos of last night's storms over the channel.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-48688194

[Serial_Apologist]

Impressive photos of last night's storms over the channel.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-48688194

That storm system just skirted us to the south-east; I watched the lightning display over Kent from the top of the hill here: very impressive, just too far away to be able to hear the thunder, so I cam in and watched the progress on lightningmaps, where each atmospheric, or lightning strike, immediately shows up resembling a tomato seed, before turning yellow after about a minute, and then brown, before fading away after about half an hour. As can be imagined, the maps were covered in what looked like squashed tomatoes! As can be seen here on this link:

http://www.lightningmaps.org/

It now looks as if it is going to warm up dramatically by Tuesday of next week, followed by more thunderstorms on Wednesday and Thursday, especially in the south.

[vinteuil]

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... depressing in London at the moment.

But on Monday - we had iridescent clouds :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/48665914?ns_campaign=bbc_weather&ns_mchannel=social&ns_linkname=news_central&ns_source=twitter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_iridescence

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[Serial_Apologist]

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... depressing in London at the moment.

But on Monday - we had iridescent clouds :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/48665914?ns_campaign=bbc_weather&ns_mchannel=social&ns_linkname=news_central&ns_source=twitter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_iridescence

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Sitting on a park bench I saw just this phenomenon a few weeks ago. My friend turned to me and said "That must be pretty good stuff you're on"!

[BBMmk2]

Tried to rain today. MrsBBM said we had a thunderstorm last night.

[Serial_Apologist]

Turned out disappointing today - sort of pre-thundery sky not managing to develop into anything. It will be interesting to find out if the forecast thunderstorms do break out tomorrow, as there are no preliminary signs, like storms occurring over the Pyrenees, acting as a Spanish Plume precipitant.

[DracoM]

Dry, but increasingly windy from NE, and cold - erm.............where's this 'heat wave'?

[BBMmk2]

A great day Saturday but yesterday was overcast unfortunately. Had a great chat with a neighbour as well. Today, I think more like yesterday, grr!!! Sun, oh sun, where fore art thou?

[Pulcinella]

The Yr site is predicting 2.2 mm of rain today and 5.8 mm tomorrow for York!

[DracoM]

Well, oop 'ere, like, we had a veritable monsoon late last night - NE winds that rattled the tiles and driving thick rain.

[Serial_Apologist]

Stifling feel out there today -similar sky to yesterday but much warmer; so I'm keeping the cool air inside with windows shut. Every forecast is predicting a long night of severe thunderstorms tonight for most of East Anglia and the south east, with some dispute over how far west the MSC will reach, then another hot and close day tomorrow for uncomfortable mopping up operations! Then it cools off a bit as a ridge of high pressure moves down from the NW, bringing in cooler air off the North Sea to this neck of the woods on Wednesday through to Friday, before hotting up again for a real southern scorchio on Saturday.

[Joseph K]

Tipping it down.