A larger area of heavy rain with embedded thunderstorms is currently over the Channel Islands and is forecast to move up and come ashore between Brighton and Chichester at about 5 am Sat while the previous area slides off to affect the E Kent and Essex coasts. The second area is forecast to consolidate and move northwards - current forecast puts it from London to Nottingham mid-morning Sat and N England/Scottish borders mid-afternoon

Bit of a damp squib with occasional flashing and 2.4 mm of rain so far. Nothing like what I had a few weeks ago. Don't think it's worth staying up to spectate any further. 😁

First batch of heavy rain has missed me by 5 miles to my East ! Now hoping for a direct hit in the early hours - is this the promised 100mm in 4 hours. I do hope so - we're supposed to like extremes if they don't affect us personally apparently and I am not in a flood risk area.

I think you will miss most of it. Perhaps Monday you might get something. 

Looks like I am in direct firing line of the next batch coming up but hopefully it will swing west a bit but my brown grass of course needs it.  

Not a great deal of electrical activity showing on radar at the moment, however still some torrential downpours about.

I was woken up by some heavy rain drumming on the roof around midnight... sleepily I removed the air-con hose from the bedroom across the hallway... and then I had a lovely dream about my roof being blown off by a freak gust and neither the roofer who relaid it a couple of years ago nor the insurance company would help. I woke up in a sweat and that was it - I'm zonked!

Anyway, light rain continues with some heavy stuff just to the south on the radar, followed by not much else at the moment - the next thrust is much further west.

There's been 12mm so far, with a fair bit more to come *if* that heavy stuff makes it here intact.

Quite disappointed this morning here in Nottingham. No storms overnight and no lightning this morning, even in the Amber area 🤔 

I suppose the rain is needed but no drama so far

In the end the really heavy stuff (rates >32mm/hour) fizzled before getting here, despite only being a few miles away.

And the MetO forecast has downgraded the rain for the rest of the day as of its 5 AM update - it was still showing several more hours of heavy rain as of half four. 

Still, there's been 19mm of rain so far from this event and - as a bonus - it's gloomy and overcast. That will help cool things down indoors, as it's still a sweltering 27C in here!

The current rain rate is 6.6mm/hr and so far we've had 3.4mm. No thundery activity at all.

Apparently there hadn't been any further lightning activity over Kent during the rest of the night but my back yard weather station's rain gauge is showing 19.6 mm had fallen in the early hours, much to the delight of my parched lawn as well as having done a good job in washing away the nearby nightclub 3 am closing time drunks.

I was anticipating something more dramatic.

Only light to moderate rain here - good for the garden but not the stuff of which warnings are made.

BBC News (not weather) still running with the idea of probable flash flooding but although there's some heavy rain around, the Meto rain radar is predicting a smaller area and less intense than it was last night

The rain rate history on TWO uses a thinned grid. Nonetheless, the rates don't seem that impressive TBH. A few examples at the higher end:

Yawn, bog standard general rain, yawn.  This pointless unsettled weather had outstayed it welcome far too long now.

Had my fix with thunderstorms and heavy rain in the Philippines, reminding me past storms we used to get here.

Its a similarly depressing story 7 or 8 miles south of you. When we left Eridge Park around 11pm last night the skies to our south were visibly electric, but ultimately it seemed to split and pass mostly to our SE (Tenterden) and SW (Brighton). The local rain shield perseveres. 

Looking at Met Office Sferics , Zero lightning atm🤔

Looks like the first new storm of today is breaking out over the western Borders?

No activity south of that or even in northern France. Wonder what went wrong this time 🤔

Well, whatever went wrong, it fooled every forecaster and pretty much all the computer models.

Beginning to look like a damp squib. And not very damp at that.

Given the recent curious reluctance of any passing clouds to deliver any actual rainfall IMBY I did have a feeling that this was not going to be as billed.

Monday's event looks more significant and longer lasting. 

Gutted - I mentioned in the precipitation thread that it looked like you'd got lucky this time. Just 6mm here 25 miles away and not a puddle in sight. Did anybody get the severe storms and 100mm of life threatening flash floods or was this just more click bait for the UKMO You Tube Channels?

Probably. My hard working daughter who's had a bad time recently is having a deserved 3 day break in Christchurch  to soak up sun as she thought. Leaves tomorrow comes back Wednesday morning!