Big storm in mid-Sussex, between Petworth and Haywards Heath yesterday with several reports of flooding deep enough to trap cars on various roads. Local though, only a brief heavy shower 25 miles away in Chichester.

They are very local as you say. This morning when I awoke there was a lightish cluster of rainshowers that showed on the radar and enough to wet the ground here but no mention on the BBC weather 0615hrs as it would be of no consequence to the majority of course.

Still waiting for the first thunderstorm of the spring/summer here in S Dorset.

Tomorrow's storms will be moving north so a better chance of Edinburgh catching one

It actually looks as though the worst of this weather is missing us to the east. The rain itself isn't missing us in my part of the world, but what is heading in this direction although still quite heavy, is actually nothing out of the ordinary compared to what we would normally see for example, from a typical cold front at is moving though from the west and nowhere compared to what I am now seeing just to the east of here.

That then leaves today as being nothing different from a typical summer's day here in Scotland with the usual grey skies and rain thus proving yet again, that nothing ever really happens here in Edinburgh as regards to the weather and that most of the action is usually always elsewhere.

I think that we are just going to even more out of luck with that one since that seems to have broken up in two with one part of it being even further to the south and looking set to miss us even further to the east whilst the other part of it is even further to the west and looking set to miss us to our west. That then just leaves those of us here in Edinburgh right in the middle of that gap where there is virtually nothing at all in the way of precipitation.

Do I spot an ESE - WSW convergence line running up the spine of the county. Hopefully this will deliver for me this evening.

The sky became ominously grey here around 2pm today and we had a heavy shower (not torrential though) around 2:30pm with one flask and one rumble. Never became sustained enough to be described as a proper storm though.

It was so intense that there was nothing to do but to crawl along in second gear (on an NSL road) with the road surface covered in water even though it was generally on a gradient. As is typically the case, 3 miles along the road was bone dry!

The radar shows a cell of between 76 and 96mm/hour rainfall rate at the time I was passing through.

Currently heavy rain, lighting and thunder here in the NE Cairngorms after a humid max of 26.6C- certainly need the rain!

I remember getting out of work in Leatherhead and to drive back home to Epsom in a most heaviest rain I driven through, it was a very hot humid day in summer 1997 with temps in the low 30's then suddenly the clouds build up and give us 78mm of rain while nearby areas escaped dry.  So loud in the car and drove very slowly as I see lot of water shooting out from the drains and man hole covers.  That why you have to drive slowly incase of the man hole cover blow open in front of you. 

Been at Blackpool pleasure beach today - beautiful weather, wall to wall sunshine. 

Within 10 minutes of setting out for home, it was absolutely lashing down, proper torrential stuff. The M55 was like a river, and one little Fiat was facing backwards and smashed into to barrier. Must admit I had a hairy second when i aquaplaned a bit.

The storms of late have been slow-moving - rapidly building then collapsing in a relatively small area - leading to copious rainfall, whilst just down the road it remains bone dry! Have missed the storm cores here but watched them rapidly build then decay almost in-situ. Have occasionally seen this set-up in my 60yrs - recall a few events where stationary storms formed, died then re-formed in the same place!  Not a drop of rain here today but some great cloudscapes for a time once again!  

Quite possible! The warmer it is, the more moisture the atmosphere can hold and the more powerful the updrafts! Plus maybe as the air is cleaner these days, there's less particles for moisture to form on, so those thunder clouds grow higher before gravity wins out! Indeed nature is fascinating in it's beauty and it's cruelty!