There was an upper low over southern UK at 1200z, and the location of the
storms in the south were probably associated with this.
Watch out for the line wrap
http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/uama...&TYPE=obs&TYPE
=an&LEVEL=400&TIME=2009062712

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Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

Satellite images at:
www.woksat.info/wwp.html

"James Brown" wrote in message
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In message
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Richard Dixon writes
On 27 June, 22:11, "Dave Cornwell"
wrote:
I see the flash warnings for most of central England have now shrunk to
the
blob on the radar around and just to the North of London. Certainly
appears
to have been where the height of the activity was today. My daughter
reported violent storms with torrential rain and pea sized hail from
around
the Finsbury Park area.

The warnings today were interesting - the absence of a warning for
Kent was soon rectified when the sea breeze convergence-induced storms
over Kent kicked in. Ditto the gap over London as the storms rumbled
around there this afternoon. Hopefully examples of this show a) how
horribly difficult convective warnings are to put out and b) the MO do
"look out of the window" during times of potential severe weather.

Great afternoon of weather though - from dozing on Blackheath watching
clouds bubble to trying to film some very odd cloud behaviour outside
my flat !

Richard

Looking at the Meteosat IR loop there did appear to be an almost
enclosed low around London looking at the circulation. Possible a heat
low?

James
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James Brown