It seems to go on and on this wet season.

We had around an inch of rain overnight and a couple of hours of frequent thunder & lightning.  What was of note was just how much of it was overhead or within a mile or so. 

Although frequent the lightning certainly wasn't the intense frequency that we see sometimes from channel Storms.  More of a flash with a loud bang every couple of minutes or so with occasional clusters, and going on for several hours. 

We were on the northern edge of the storms last night (with a couple of crackers at around 4:30-5am). Although lightning was visible from 3am from strikes over Essex/London, it was an added bonus to have some overhead action tonight.

Portent of a warm thundery summer ahead or the equivalent of a November snowfall to be followed by 3 months of mild guff?

Don't know if everyone can see this link to Facebook. A great image of a funnel cloud/tornado near Bradford this afternoon. There's a huge storm with hail ongoing

http://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=0.00; 

Moving from Otley towards Harrogate

Another centre south of Birmingham, near Redditch, looking intense but very local.

Was definitely the heaviest rain I have experienced in many years here.  Decent thunderstorm too. There were clumps of hail floating through the garden in a ferocious torrent.  Loads of problems on the roads in areas where it dips or water collects,  stranding cars, water exploding out of drains and bits of road washed away. 

My mum's garden in Pudsey was underwater, apparently it happened once before in the 70's or 80's causing my Dad to a dig a big hole and fill it with rocks to improve drainage.  Didn't work for this time though. 

Appears to have been 60mm in my gauge , lighter rain now. 

😵😵😵

Amazing.👍

Bradford 17.0 mm and Astwood (Worcs) 14mm from the two storms noted on here yesterday, though this says nothing about the rate of rainfall, and the centre of the storm may have missed the recording station. 

Meanwhile Charlwood (Surrey) recorded 30.4 mm - do we have any local observations for there? There was a warning out for southern counties as well as the Pennines but 50 miles from Charlwood, in Chichester, it didn't feel in the least thundery.

This here in the 60-70mm zone. 

 https://twitter.com/carotomes/status/1787566872524702190?t=Hl51Dx_Sm_eVSu52WnFWlw&s=19

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