A Cruden Bay clipper or perhaps further inland...

Lots of medium level instability here coming from due south. Wonder if these storms may survive to Edinburgh?

Fairly frequent lightning now well to the east of Edinburgh

Relatives in Carlisle seeing quite a light show and a "monsoon", got sent a WhatsApp vid

Lightningmaps.org showing clusters at a time in the eden valley

Currently at eyemouth right under it. Epic. The best thunderstorm I've ever experienced. Got another hour or two to go yet too. Just constant. Will see if I can upload something 

 LLTNP 105m asl 

I can see the Eyemouth/Kelso flashes from Edinburgh!

How do you embed videos these days?

 LLTNP 105m asl 

Got home from a long afternoon of visiting friends and family in Kent, 20 minutes ago and we have a bit of a cracking thunder storm, break out pretty much on top of us. So far not a lot of rain but a good few lightning streaks going along the clouds and down, all at the same time, immediately followed by some hugely loud booms of thunder.

 https://youtu.be/fkBpwqRAhdE?si=qEZouJxmgr-2KSol

 LLTNP 105m asl 

Wow! That was close 😬

Last nights storms tracked NE exactly as forecast from Morecambe Bay, across Cumbria, Carlisle, The Scottish Borders, Eyemouth/Dunbar and up the coast of Aberdeenshire. They are still flashing away in The North. I observed the frequent lightning from Edinburgh but they were too far away to hear thunder.

Earlier, another batch formed over N. Yorkshire and tracked NE across Durham and Newcastle areas.

Another large storm area formed SW of The Wash and moved across south Lincs/West Norfolk (see posts and vid from glenogle above)

This morning a new batch of storms, not as intense, are moving into western Scotland

I did not notice anything here [SE of Lincoln]  last night - but saw that band of activity on the radar just now - must have just grazed us. I'll have a look in the water butt and see what we had, if anything...

...nothing more than a small trace of wet in an otherwise empty butt - 2 tablespoons maybe.

For those on facebook, some of these lightning videos from last night are great!

I was watching from Edinburgh!

Hi Jerry,

I live about 8 miles to the north-east of Glasgow and I don't remember any thundery activity where I am last night. I guess the storm you mention must have happened in a different direction.

There were lightning sferics on the maps about 20 miles due north of Glasgow, mid evening. On the rain radar a heavy shower formed and continued northwards into the Highlands losing it's strength

Some unexpected thundery activity early this morning along the coast here of east sussex from around 5am to 7am . Little rain but thunder rumbling around for a couple of hours . Storms evidently crept across the channel in the early hours 

Had a nice thunder storm in Cornwall last week with some loud booming thunder but nothing like what's going on over Trieste Italy right now, there's a good Earthcam for Trieste that looks over the bay if you're interested, continual lightning and quite a show.