RaVeNStOrM

THUNDERSTORM T0033
Date: Saturday 29th July 2000
Time: 11:00 BST
Location:
Macclesfield, Cheshire UK
Path: 1 or 2 miles east

Synoptics:
Polar Maritime
Duration: 40 Minutes
Type: Open Cell Single/Multicell
Average lightning type: C-G
Average discharge rate: 221 seconds
Footage Quality:
VHS

 

I was out and about in town at the time when this started developing, but not for long. I noticed strong convection sparked off early as the daytime heating got going in the unstable polar maritime air. I thought given the fact it was only 11 o’clock with slack air flow, there was good potential for some electrical activity.

I got home and trained the camera on the cell, which was now skirting the west of Macclesfield. A pronounced rain curtain and arcus cloud developed, showing maturity. Then it started discharging less than a mile to the south west. I caught a decent C-G strike and thunder by aiming the camera in between the updraught and the downdraught, where I came to learn most lightning hotspots of cold-air storms reside.

As it proceeded into the distance south-eastwards it gave some strange-shaped C-C lightning which was elongated across the sky.

The anvil was clearly visible as it left the area, being feathery in nature on the rearward edge. I presume the forward edge was more spread-out in the direction of the upper flow.


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VISIBLE 29.07.2000 14:54

INFRARED 29.07.2000 14:54
COLOUR 29.07.2000 14:54


 


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