looks like the south coast is taking a right pasting tonight.

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 Elevated storms are funny beasts - the dispersion of sound can travel long distances, or get completely muffled. I've seen intense lightning and heard no thunder at all in these situations.

They are indeed. I'm still seeing the occasional flicker from +100 miles away, which is fairly standard for here. 

My curious query regarding the audibility of thunder has been answered. I've noticed a cell has popped up 24 miles away near Tenterden.

Google tells me that thunder can normally be heard up to 15 miles away, possibly as much as 30 miles in special circumstances. 

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Constant (every 1 to 2 seconds) lightning to the south. Switching to lightning.org for some midnight fun !!

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Looking at the sferics in the channel it could be south Devon next in the firing line.

 

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So busy looking down south, just been out to see some flashes from those innocuous Leicester cells that have sprung to life up here.

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Beautiful lightning display, mostly cloud to cloud and about 2 per second! Honestly, amazing!

Add: still 24C and I just can't go to bed!

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The last 20 mins or so has seen a massive increase in lightning satalite and radar action... very sudden.... incredible to watch

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Just got home and noticed the very frequent flashes to the south. Nothing audible yet but it’s coming this way

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Game On virtually anywhere now. Cells firing in N. Wales, off coast of NW England, NE England....

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Great view south in Portsmouth harbour towards the IOW

http://www.hmswarrior.org/webcam

 

Wow that's a proper storm right now!

Looking at the radar I should be in the firing line in about 10 mins....

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non stop lightening , cant here any thunder i reckon 30 miles away

I can hear it coming now, and the sky is lit up almost constantly to the south. Not surprising looking at this lot!

 

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The cell near Bath is a prolific lightning producer now and has a rather nice discrete structure.

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Wow! A proper old time storm! Woken by constant flashes and a distant rumbling. Sat up and watched the storm approach and it's now overhead. Torrential rain and constant lightning (mostly cloud to cloud) that is so persistent you can almost read by it.
The pressure drop even made you ears pop as the storm arrived.
I'm 41 and I don't remember a storm like this in my lifetime.
Just phenomenal to watch an experience.

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Wow its all gone bang. Didn’t even get an hour’s sleep.

Heavy rain, frequent lightning and thunder. Radar looks very impressive.

Lightning pulsing across the sky in waves from east to west along the storm front.

That was a cracker of a storm. As it approached it was just constant thunder like a freight train. Then some decent C-Gs as it passed nearby and then some loud cracks of thunder on the other side. Moving off now although it looks like there is more to follow if it stays intact!

 

This was what passed overhead... 

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Its really exoloded to down here...

I was down at gunwarf when it started and foolishly stood to close to the spinnaker when it was hit - the bang was incredible. Sh$t myself almost haha.

Kicked of again about 20 mins ago with a cell that had flashes every other second.

Just had one large cell pass, masses of non stop lightning and thunder but all high based no fork or CGs so disappointing, the only real excitement was a scary few minutes during the peak of the storm when the wind went passed like a freight train which made me and my boy hang on to the nearest post on our gazebo and a few minutes of torrential rain. still, there's more on the radar so hopefully will see something a bit nearer the ground.

 

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After garage got flooded Friday night, could do without a repeat

Seems to be mostly to my west but now raining a bit

 

 

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I'm seeing distant lightning flashes from thunderstorms over Cheshire and Merseyside now.

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