Well seeing as summer has pretty much set in now I think maybe it's time to get a thread rolling..

It's fairly humid feeling down here this afternoon with temps approaching the mid 20's (23.4C) and a light very intermittent wind..

Anyway this has led to some towers beginning to shoot up.

Here is current radar

Barely wet the ground but there is that nice smell in the air and has freshnened things up slightly.

Here in the city centre, it's happening now. Been lashing it down for the last 10 minutes. And I've no coat.

This is a seriously beefy downpour

Probably talking upwards of 20mm in 20 minutes

I'm in SE Gloucestershire at the moment and just experienced a couple of short-lived heavy showers and a few rumbles of thunder.

About two miles away the wife has had torrential rain, but not a drop here. Seems the storm moved west meaning we are back in the warm sun again now!

Heavy shower  through here , just the odd rumble of thunder

Nice convective skies here: towering cumulus and that coppery-look. Edged a shower earlier - just a few spit spots. A few strikes just to the south of Stoke a while ago - nothing heard here. No thunder recorded at this location this year so far ...

Really interesting how rainfall can vary over a short distance. I've had only a few drops (nothing remotely measureable) in Failsworth and a weather station in Chadderton (about 2 miles up the road) has had 5mm already.

Looks like Manchester city centre has also had quite a bit as well.

Showers getting more widespread here - a lot of tcu and coppery skies, recent brief downpour, no thunder.

Nothing here but it's pretty gloomy and has been for much of the time since mid afternoon. Were heavy showerrs forecast for this region today? I didn't see a forecast this morning but from yesterday I recall they were only forecast for the south.

Even with wipers on max it was almost impossible to see anything at its peak, and the main road was just like a river. Like something out of a storm chasing video!

 Yes we caught the edge of that one and it rained pretty heavy here. Watched it brewing from the downs west of Damerham

Only a few heavy drops in Chichester, about 3pm, but a seriously big cunimb has been hanging around east of here (Arundel?Worthing?)since about 6pm.

Rob's account of the Cadnam/Brockenhurst storm brings back memories of 1960, when I was working a gap year as a bus conductor. WE left Southampton in the dry, but Lyndhurst had had a cloudburst. The A337 a couple of hundred yards south of Lyndhurst High Street, in a shallow dip, not even a stream bed, had so much water in it that it came up and swashed over the platform of the bus.

We were having lunch outside the pub in Lymington and could see some hefty towers rising inland, and the rain started just as we left about 4. Perfect timing really as we jut had a very sunny weekend on the Isle of Wight. 

They were yeah, but very localised.

Belgium storms making a break for it toward Essex/Kent. Will they get there?

EDIT: Looks like a "no" in terms of thunderstorm activity just now.

Had some thunderstorm came here and died out once the rain fell, nothing so heavy but I think we could had got a major storm if wasn't the unexpected overcast skies came at 11am to 4pm keeping the temps cool. Once the sun came out, temps rose then it started to build up but timing at 6.30pm was too late as sun going down and temps dropping again.  

Some nice towers visible to the east of Bognor translated into a couple of v. brief heavy showers on the way back to Chichester

Witnessed some intense and rapid convection around 4pm at Kings Hill today. A thunderstorm developed and drifted NNE to SSW approx 5 miles to the east of my work location. Some very loud thunder too. Driving home evidence of the shower was limited to an area just half a mile wide in the Maidstone area.