Thunderstorms
in Autumn 2002
(Photographs
copyright Eye On The Sky)
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September 2002 Location:
Hope, Flintshire, NE Wales. During a brief but intense thunderstorm over NE Wales, this lowering formed from the base of the storm. Whilst it wasn't rotating, there were certainly characteristics of a ragged wall-cloud. . |
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September 2002 Location:
Hope, Flintshire, NE Wales. As the back edge of another thunderstorm clears in late September over North Wales, a series of huge mammatus forms on the underside of the back-sheared anvil. . |
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September 2002 Location:
Hope Mountain, Flintshire, NE Wales. The UK, as a rule, does not see Derecho activity. However, this squall line stretched from Cumbria down to the Midlands, and moved slowly westwards (not eastwards) on a narrow trough. Ahead of the main precipitation, was a very elongated line of cloud, resembling the US derechos. As this line hit, wind speeds topped 50mph with driving rain. . |
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Autumn 2002 Location:
Hope Mountain, Flintshire, NE Wales. Temperatures over north Wales reach the mid-twenties Celsius. However, to the east over Cheshire, trouble was brewing. Vast thunderstorms began appearing on the horizon, marked by this staggered line of tall cumulonimbus anvils. . |
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Autumn 2002 Location:
Hope Mountain, Flintshire, NE Wales. |
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Autumn 2002 Location:
Hope Mountain, Flintshire, NE Wales. It took the storms several hours to reach my location, but all hell let loose when they did! . |
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October, 2002 Location:
Cefn-y-bedd,
Wrexham, NE Wales. Early October 2002, and I was engaging in a bit of North Wales storm chasing. From a distance, I could see a large updraft which appeared to be rotating. As I drove towards it, this lowering appeared from the base of the updraft..... . |
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October, 2002 Location:
Cefn-y-bedd,
Wrexham, NE Wales. The same lowering a short time later. Scud cloud was gradually rotating around the lowering, signalling a meso signature. However, the wall cloud didn't become very well formed, before it completely dissipated. . |
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Mid November, 2002 Location:
City Of Portsmouth, Hampshire. A violent thunderstorm over Portsmouth drifts away, as the back edge of the thunderstorm anvil releases huge mammatus over the city. It looked like a scene from Armageddon! . |
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Mid November, 2002 Location:
City Of Portsmouth, Hampshire. A close up view of the village-sized mammatus buldges over Portsmouth City. . |