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January 2026
Another severe solar storm from a monster CME (possibly the strongest to hit Earth since 2003) surprised us in the depths of Solar Cycle 25, reaching Devon skies on the evening of 19th January giving us a low-latitude show for the 3rd time since May 2024. I was roaming the dirt tracks of Devon in my car trying to find clear skies, but no avail. Stubborn low cloud occluded the best of the show but then finally cleared at ~22:30 when I returned home, which allowed me to take these shots. ! Looked exactly like October 2024. The storm weakened shortly after as the CME's magnetic field rotated to deflect instead of attract.



 

April 2025
The early storm season continues for Devon with a strongly dynamic low centre and dry intrusion producing forced instability, and yet another awakening shotgun thunder from downtown.

 

January 2025
Storm season down here in Devon starts early with these two unseasonable belters.

 

May 2024
Vertical weather returns after a very horizontal winter.
6th May 2024 - Strong non-thundery convection and shelf cloud, Exeter.



 

June 2023
11th June... co-chased a rare UK severe thunderstorm outbreak from birth to death with my pal Sam from UK Weather Chase. The south midlands hasn't seen this amount of surface CAPE in a long while. Smooth-channel positive lightning and cannon-fire thunders, nuclear 40,000ft anvils, and the biggest whales mouth I've seen since being in the Midwest. We're not in Kansas anymore (Oxon in fact). Full chase video to come.

May 2023
Storm season 2023 just started off with a bang in the normally storm-starved homelands of Exeter. Two thunderstorms on 9th May, both dropping CGs like no tomorrow and the last giving 5-10mm hail, which then went on to torrentially flood parts of East Devon including Newton Poppleford. Collected some high definition 96KHz explosive thunders too. Subscribe to my Youtube Channel to stay tuned for the polished video.