Seems like no chance of anything here which is good as it extends the drought to 20 days. On the other hand there is a two day 'music' concert at the local park. The moronic thumping noise drove me mad until 11pm yesterday so it would be brilliant if that could take a direct hit from a storm tonight. Sadly not looking at all likely.

The storms haven't gone away- they're biding their time just across the Channel

https://watchers.news/2018/06/04/a-month-s-worth-of-rain-in-less-than-an-hour-floods-parts-of-brittany-france/

A few distant rumbles and a couple of flickers of lightning approaching from the SE just now. 

Yes, interesting radar echoes. I wonder if these are high level storms initiated by the outflow front from the main storms over France.

That was fun !

3.8mm in 6 minutes with a peak rain rate of 59mm/hr at 23:12hrs.

There are still a few flashes and bangs and a few deep boomers a long way away somewhere to the SE again.

Unusual to be standing outside watching a summer thunderstorm roll in from the SE while shivering with a temperature of just 12.8c 

Sorry to be OT.

Can't find a Space News thread on TWO, so thought I'd post this interesting article here!

https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/news/juno-solves-39-year-old-mystery.

Now back on Earth!

Saw those towering clouds top as far from my work when i came out at 9pm in Langley, Slough so that many miles from you but well visible to see those clouds.

The clouds were very high Jiries. Even at 10.45pm (90 minutes after sunset) the tops were orange and being illuminated from the sun below the horizon. Another impressive high based lightning display in keeping with the thundery late Spring / early Summer season so far. 

For as long as I can remember now, every single morning always starts off on a dull note these days and even when the Sun does break through, it is never all that warm thanks to a cool wind coming in from off the North Sea. That to me, is not exactly something which is going to be promoting the sort of convection currents which would be producing those thunderstorms which have been mention in that official warning. If such an unlikely event did happen, it would at least make today more interesting later on but then, I live in what is probably one of the boring parts of the country when it comes to weather, where there is hardly ever anything interesting which actually happens these days.

There's nothing expected here but showers were forecast to break out inland. However with the North Sea muck currently covering pretty much the entire North East of Scotland it's not looking likely.

Seems that forecasters are constantly underestimating just how extensive this vile cloud can be.

The actual weather here just now is bearing out just how ridiculous, that yellow warning actually is because apart from the odd scattered convective clouds which I can see in the distance, there isn't a single cloud to be seen anywhere. Furthermore, there are no signs of anything showing up anywhere near here on the latest radar maps, other than an odd shower in the southern part of the Borders.

The warning for today was issued yesterday by the Met Office. However, the BBC's latest forecasts suggest that our biggest risk of showers might actually come tomorrow rather than today, as that shower risk area is then expected to be a bit further to the east. Yet, there are no warnings for tomorrow as yet, which have been given out by the Met Office and so, you have to ask where the consistency is there.

Seems to be thunder on the French side of the channel in Normandy but not in England. Not sure it was forecast - bit of a plume shape. I hope it steers clear of the SE.

Certainly raining here now in this part of southern Hampshire, barely enough to cover ground so far, but enough to ruin day as it's been cloudy all day so far .

Just watched early forecast from TV, no mention of rain spreading from france...in fact totally opposite .

According to Netweather's radar maps, some very torrential downpours have now developed to the SW of Edinburgh with some further not quite so heavy showers to the east of here. This is also causing more in the cloud to be seen to my south although at the moment, this hasn't yet spoilt the unbroken sunshine which we are continuing to see with a total of 7.6 hours of sunshine having now been recorded for today so far at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 3pm this afternoon.

EDIT:

As I write, it has started to cloud over from the south which suggests that at the very least, some of those showers could be heading in this direction if not, the really torrential downpours which I was looking at on those radar maps which show that there are quite a number of lightning strikes within the heaviest downpour with even a few within the not so heavy stuff.

House in Lenzie after being struck by lightning