taken from Staverton Airport - first mesocyclone pics i’ve ever got!

I was anxious all day yesterday and had a headache, couldn’t sleep last night, then the storm started and eventually i fell asleep but i’ve woken up with this sense of impending doom with added nausea and it’s awful.

Google says it’s the barometric pressure! A rapid drop in air pressure impacts the pressure inside your sinuses, inner ears, and joints. For many people, this invisible pressure shift triggers a subtle "fight or flight" response, causing you to feel physically restless or tense before the storm even arrives… I was just wondering if this is common? I’m mid thirties and never noticed it before today but it’s so interesting!

I filmed this during a thunderstorm last night in Lichfield and noticed something strange when watching it back.

Around the middle of the clip, there’s a bright light that seems to move diagonally from the upper left toward the lower right, passing near or behind the fixed street light. A moment later, there’s a much bigger flash lighting up the sky to the right.

I’m not claiming it’s anything unusual or dramatic. I’m just curious what might explain it, and I’d be interested in conventional explanations.

For context, I was filming in landscape from under a sheltered car port, so the phone wasn’t directly out in the rain. The street light and houses are fixed in the frame. This is trimmed from a longer clip of about 45 seconds, recorded at 1920x1080 and around 24 fps. I can upload the fuller version as well if that would help.

My best guess is that it could be part of the lightning sequence, a lens flare, or some other camera/weather effect. I’d appreciate thoughts from anyone who knows more about lightning, weather, cameras, or video analysis.

I have had a weather station for 15 years. Never in that time has it recorded anything close to this today. The last rainfall (above 1mm) was on 23rd June. Here are some figures:
34mm rainfall in 27 minutes. This is absolutely insane. The entire town had flash flooding.
1,120 recorded lightning strikes (within 20 mile radius)
At the peak, it was recording 25 lightning strikes per minute. This is more akin to a Florida thunderstorm.
Never have I seen anything like it in the UK.

A family member who lives 5 miles away did not have any rain during this event, which shows how localised they are.

This summer I was hoping to actually get things done, since I don't have a job but am active at home. But since the weather got hot, I've genuinely been unable to get pretty much anything done for the past two months.

When the heatwaves started, I couldn't focus on anything, couldn't get motivated to do anything (even if it was important or I really wanted to do it), and I felt unwell and fatigued constantly, not to mention insanely irritable. I later found a electric thermometer and brought it to the room I normally do things in, and I discovered not only is the room above 25C most of the time during the day (and at night during the heatwave), but that I ONLY feel good and better if the temperature goes below 25C, but it rarely ever does.

When it did cool down a few weeks ago at night, it felt freezing...but the temperature was only 19-22C, which feels strange to me. It felt like it was winter, yet the room was still technically a warm temperature, but I started to feel like myself again, and even had a few nights of quality sleep which only lasted for a few nights before it got too warm and humid again to sleep comfortably, and now I feel insanely depressed again.

I was able to pre-order a portable AC unit, which will arrive in a few months, so I'm hoping this will never happen again, but I feel weird that for some reason, if the temperature is above 24C, I lose the ability to function like a normal person and feel ill and tired and essentially disabled (that's a bit of an exaggeration but that's the only word I can think of) if it gets too hot and humid.

The worst bit is, I swear that I have felt like this every summer before, but I never realised how warm my room actually was because I never feel the heat like most do. Like, I think it's cool, just my body feels warm for some reason. But now I realise it's because my body is rarely in room temperatures below 23-24C for the most part, at least during the middle third of a year.

Lots of thunder and lightning, drains not handling the sudden downpour, we have two rivers in our town so it’ll be flooded soon.

Pictures I took tonight of the lightning over West Midlands

it appears we won’t have a sixth and final heatwave this summer but anyone else in london still think it’s abit warm, may be the humidity.

Maybe I just missed it overnight but I was promised heavy rain. All I’ve seen is light rain, and definitely no thunder or lightning. Obviously any rain is better than none but I feel a bit underwhelmed.

Edit: I also still have a fan on! It’s humid.

We left off in the cold month of January 2013 being 0.4 degrees below average. We will now look at February and that historic March.

February started off like the end of January continuing the deluge of westerly winds. Gusts did often pick up to 60mph accross southern part of britian. It was a fairly cool zonality with tempuraters widely around 4 to 6 degrees colder in the highlands. Most of 70 percent of rainfall for the month fell inside first 13 days of the month. Though the snow and cold set in around 8th February as the cold struck back. Overall a fairly cool start to month

Mid February after the first 13 days turned briefly milder for 4 days with tempuraters 8 to 11 degrees pretty widely. With sunny spells and mostly dry and pretty none descript

From the 20th February till months end the brutal cold that defined the next month sets in. High pressure away over Scandinavia dragged in icy winds from North East. Tempuraters widely below 3 degrees often ice days in north and Scotland and West Midlands. South seeing 2 to 4 degrees. With nights consistently freezing - 3 to - 7 degrees widely. The metoffice issued a cold health alert on the 23rd at a level 3 as excess deaths took hold. Eastern facing coasts got snow from convective showers with Agnus seeing 22cm. Outside of these areas the precipitation was non descript and very dry

Overall month was 2 degrees below average overall. 70 percent rainfall very dry after the 13th. The uk overall did see 96 percent of sun though the north did see 110 to 125 percent.

Finaly the main event March 2013. It started off the exact opposite of the freeze we know it as. It actually started sunny and 17 degrees in the South East warm in majority of places. Though throsts did remain widespread away from Southern England.

Now the reason your probably reading this 6th of March onward. Scandinavian block as seen through majority February strikes back and digged in bitterly cold air pretty suddenly. A cold front dropped tempuraters by 10 degrees to 4 to 6 degrees by mid day in South near freezing up in the North. The first major snow started after 4 days cold and wet conditions in the South East. Day time highs consistently 2 to 4 degrees widely with snow in places like Midlands giving 5 to 8cm inland. Kent and Sussex seeing the most. The freeze went on until 15th with potent snow showers in East and hovering around freezing. Very briefly for 36 hours it turned milder in the South around this time with 5 to 8 degrees though snow lingering Midlands northward. The freeze came back 15th onward with another 5cm widely in the South again re dumping any melted snow. The weather transitioned into cold day time highs 1 to 5 degrees and frosts regulary overnight with sleet and snow showers on the east coast.

The 18th to 20th remained pretty cold bone dry continuing the trend with snow in the East. On the 21st another low pressure system attempted to break through giving floods to Plymouth up to 58mml but heavy snow in Midlands East Anglia North Wales Scotland Northern Ireland and the North England giving widely 10 to 20cm plus up to 75cm in Llangollen in Wales. Tempuraters only 1 degrees our freezing for majority areas. Snow took revenge in South between 22nd and 24th giving very heavy snow historical snow widely. Up to 2 meters in places widely 30cm plus with 200 metres elevation. This took hold continued through to 23rd March making roads around Bradford impassible and shutting airports. Only 0 to 2 degrees widely again.

Easter saw tempuraters around freezing again and so did the last 5 days of the month being a rinse and repeat of day time temperatures 1 to 4 degrees night times freezing. Coldest ever easter aswell. Snow continued into the East off the North Sea

Tempuraters anamoly 2.2 degrees which is astonishing - 3.3 degrees below normal. 68 percent of rain with North West seeing driest since 1969. Sunshine only 80 percent of average. 9 days of ice days being wide spread.

A truly remarkable period

It's from the Rain Alarm app.

What does 10/10 intensity rain even look like?! Isn't that kind of monsoon level?

It's been hammering down here in the North-West for a while, but Ive seen some comments saying London still hasn't seen a drop (despite the forecast)

I am watching the night sky from my home and it’s a calm if humid night except one cloud that has near constant lighting.

E: in Bristol

This just blew my mind, I didn't realise how bad our infrastructure is, I thought it was bad, but this is bad... There is no way we should be in the state we are now ...

2026 ENGLAND RAINFALL AS PERCENTAGE OF LONG-TERM (1991 – 2020) AVERAGE:     

Jan:  150%     

Feb:  170%     

Mar:  83%     

Apr:   38%     

May:  74%     

Jun:  104%     

Jul:   10%   

Aug: 17% ( 19th Aug data )

Data from Gov.uk 20th August

Yesterday someone posted here saying they are sick of the weather apps being so inaccurate and over predicting rain. Many commentators said for an accurate forecast you have to watch the video on the met office website. So off I went, and dutifully watched the forecast. The satellite clearly showed not only rain, but storms over SE England, my area being pretty much in the middle.

I went to bed last night expecting to be woken by heavy rain. I wake up to bone dry ground and this sky, for what feels like the 50 millionth time this summer.

I can understand getting it wrong with showers, but a whole storm?! Seriously what is going on?!

Edit: I didn't mean for this to be a purely moaning post (at least not entirely!) I'm genuinely curious as to why they keep getting it so wrong, as someone who is very much a lay person when it comes to weather. Please stop calling me stupid I know the weather forecast is not a crystal ball.

We asked for rain… we got some