We started to grow one or two cauliflowers here in Leicester this afternoon, unfortunately, before they got really going properly, somebody went and pickek um!!
So no thunder for us today....
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I am trying to date a storm in Leicester......
It was in the eighties, and it was a Friday night, around 18:30 - 22:00, now, I was and still am really scared of thunder..... as far back as I can remember, and even now, although they fascinate
me, they terrify me.... suppose "the better the devil you know" thats why I am interested in them as well.

Anyway, back to this storm, I was doing a football pools round, that is why it was a Friday, I remember it was a scorcher, and I heard it building in the far distance; and also remember running the last 10 houses to get home before it arrived, thunder was occuring almost without any breaks between the claps, also loads of straight down lightning and what I now know are anvil crawlers!! I also did not stay in the house either, I hate most of all being alone in a storm, so I literally dropped the coupons home, and ran up to the pub where I felt safer.. The storm/s as I think there were a few rolling around lasted a good couple of hours; but I cannot pinpoint the date!
I know its a long shot, but a Friday in the 80's, cannot recall another storm in Leicester, of that intensity, on a Friday evening....
Any chance on finding the date??
Cheers
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Be careful of a whirlwind romance, and the clap

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Very good Jive Buddy!!!

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_forecast_warnings.html

Watches out for Thunderstorms for Tuesday and Wednesday.

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Utilising my rather clumsy forecasting skills, I've calculated that it does look like the high risk time zone for thunderstorms to break out at this end of the woods is Tuesday night through to Wednesday morning.

Think I'll make sure that the camera battery is fully recharged and there is a fully formatted memory card in the camera itself, not to mention scouting around for an ideal outdoors location (with a shelter to hand should I need it). Looks like being a long night, though.

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Apparently we had lots of lightning and distant thunder, I didn't hear or see anything. Looks like that cell will affect the far SW of Cornwall.

Seems that this thundery event projected for Tuesday night/Wednesday morning has been downgraded somewhat to as a few scattered storms over the South West and Southern England. Might still get something out of it, though.
  Hopefully I'll have a better idea of it all by the end of today as it all slips into the far end forecasting range of the NAE output.

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The latest BBC forecast has the storms kicking off tonight across central southern England as they drift north from France. Likely to be very isolated though (Links below are to the 0z run and so will change by 11am this morning)

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rmgfs276.gif
http://modeles.meteociel.fr/modeles/wrfnmm/runs/2013072100/nmm-28-28-1.png?21-07
http://modeles.meteociel.fr/modeles/wrfnmm/runs/2013072100/nmm-1-28-1.png?21-07

Monday afternoon looks "interesting". The area at risk of storms drifts north into the Midlands during the evening

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rmgfs396.gif
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http://modeles.meteociel.fr/modeles/wrfnmm/runs/2013072100/nmm-28-43-1.png?21-07
http://modeles.meteociel.fr/modeles/wrfnmm/runs/2013072100/nmm-7-37-1.png?21-07
http://modeles.meteociel.fr/modeles/wrfnmm/runs/2013072100/nmm-7-40-1.png?21-07

On Tuesday the focus is more on Eastern areas

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http://modeles.meteociel.fr/modeles/wrfnmm/runs/2013072100/nmm-28-65-1.png?21-08
http://modeles.meteociel.fr/modeles/wrfnmm/runs/2013072100/nmm-7-64-1.png?21-08

I expect there will be plenty of activity in this thread over the next few days

That MCS to the SW of Ireland is certainly chucking out the lightning strikes.

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Yeah I can just see it on net radar it looks big and very active.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/brack0a.gif

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Its gona be one of those classics folks.

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http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_forecast_warnings.html

Updated watches.

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Truly amazed by that - if only we could get one over the British Isles rather than offshore.

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Some nasty storms across NW France at the moment.

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Channel Islands look south, they only need to drift north, and it'll be game on

Looking impressive to my SSE.

NAE and to an extent GFS want to drift the current MCS over Brest NNE across CS areas overnight, but WRF not so keen.
The fun and games begin Mon evening into Tuesday with some intense activity likely in many areas as the main trough moves in.
Tues looks to be hot, sultry and thundery.

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Obviously the main focus in terms of thunderstorms is over the next few days but the ensemble for the Manchester area is interesting in terms of the precipitation signature. It looks very convective in nature so plenty of potential for heavy thundery downpours over the next 10 days or so. 

 

http://www.meteociel.fr/cartes_obs/gens_display.php?ext=1&x=242&y=48

Gone very still here, sky showing instability. Most will pass to my East but quite a big system. 

Jersey enjoying a good storm, reports of heavy rain as well.

EGJJ 211850Z 10006KT 100V180 9999 TSRA BKN045CB 22/17 Q1016 TEMPO      3000 +TSRA=

We've imported the heat & humidity from France

Now, we just need to import their bleedin storms as well

C'mon English Channel, let 'em through for a change, i need a good nights sleep sometime soon

Could you put your location in your signature please? Ta. 😄

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Thunder here.

I want some good storms here too but will i get any? Yeovil

Impressive cloudscapes and can see the lightning hitting the sea.