AUTUMN 2003 - PART 2: STORMS AT LAST!

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Well my prayers must have been answered! After a final late bout of coastal sunset photography (below), zonality at last re-established itself in early November and the chase of November 2nd was a great one for Cb photography. That night a trough ran through and the enhanced Cbs gave a good display of lightning, promptly frying several people's modems in the process.



On November 2nd, then, reasonable instability values over the Irish Sea suggested a coastal visit, and the chosen first target was a big layby high over the sea between Llwyngwiril and Llanegryn, with superb views out over Cardigan Bay.

On arriving it seemed as though luck was in - there was a large Cb and torrential precipitation out to the SW - and heading to an estimated landfall a mile or three to my south.
On it came, always keeping the two well-defined cores with a clearer spot in between...
2 things of note here - firstly mammatus-cloud in profile on the anvil and secondly a funny little tail-cloud like structure on the RHS of the precipitation.
As it started getting much closer, with part of the anvil overhead, other Cbs became visible out to the west...
Now very close, still with the tail-like structure R of the precipitation...
Precipitation now over land just to the south, sun blasting in from the west - making for a very contrasty image. Time to head into the tail-end of the precip to get a shot of the back of the anvil and the next approaching Cb so I shot off to Tonfannau.....
Again very contrasty, with the black wall of precipitation L and the bright sky R with the next Cb sat within...
Going back NE with the rear of the cell mammatus clouds were visible as it cleared Cadair Idris....
Mammatus hangs over low-level clag on the summit of Cadair...
Heading back towards Tywyn a very neat if distant large Cb dominated the western horizon..
This was the same cloud from Tywyn seafront. Its landfall would have been too far to my north to reach before daylight faded so I called it a day: the trough and lighning show were in the early hours and I slept through the lot!!
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