We've had some rain & I saw some distant flashes to my south, followed by low rumbles, accopanied by some strong squally gusts, which you just knew were going to happen by looking at the tuberlent cloud overhead, within the last hour. It's now very dark & orange outside so we may be getting more very soon as the cloud is now completely covering the sky, unlike a little while ago when it seemed it was just the edge clipping us along the east.

I'm right underneath it & took some pics!

Interesting   clump just bubbled up to the south east of the IoW - not electrified - yet,

Roughly on course for here  if it forms.

Just now from the rooftop. Pretty apocalyptic!

Full size: https://i.imgur.com/WkBT8uP.png

Crazy lightning show here in Suffolk right now!! 

Violent thunderstorms now heading towards Lowestoft.

Don't let the current soggy looking rain radar over East Kent fool you, it's hardly rained at all in the past hour since the initial heavy showery rain. Looks like high based stuff not making it to surface level.

I just posted mine on the gallery thingy, but yours looks much better 

Amazing burst just turned up here, lightning, thunder, driving rain and amazing gusts of wind, from nothing to 30mph gusts. Had to rush round house closing windows as it looked like something from a horror movie with curtains billowing and windows flapping. All that lasted 5 mins. Now just a ‘normal’ thunderstorm.

edit - just looked at radar and I’m not surprised amazing cluster heading our way!

Superb weather photo

Oh yeah, forgot about that one. Uploaded to the gallery now!

I do have a video (not the best quality) but its approx 460mb in size. Anywhere I can upload it and then I can post a link? Not uploaded a video to a forum before so not sure how to do it!

What an excellent light show! Was outside for an hour before I could even hear any thunder. The rain has just started 90 minutes after the lightning. Inter cloud, crawlers, cloud to ground. All of it. Thunder is incessant and really deep and rolling. Best storm since one I remember when my kids were little, must have been early 90s 😆

Edit: That was over 2 hours of lightning and thunder!

Sat in the garden (with wine 🙂 ) there seems to be a conveyor belt of showers running S to N with hotspots in them but no sign of cells forming.  Feels slightly cooler so energy levels may be declining,  but ya never know I've seen storms grow out of seemingly nothing before!

Rob

Marple 

SE Manchester 

Superb photo Rob.

Woken up by a thunderstorm about 10 mins ago. There was a huge CG which came down near Glossop centre. Lightning every minute or so. 

I'd gone to bed (wine finished!) and vaguely remember hearing heavy rain and thunder. Looking at last: night's lightning history I see strikes recorded around Marple and Glossop, so I didn't imagine it! So about 12.45 ish, how long did it last? I was a bit 'refreshed ' ..... :)

I think it was around 2am it woke me up. Main storm didn't  last long but there were occasional really bright flashes for another hour or so after that. 

Loads of storms coming out of France into the SE and EA by the looks of things. 

Thank you!