Looks like daytime heating has sufficed with the cap breaking now. Thunderstorms explosively developed south of Coventry and also just west of St Albans during the last half hour. The latter in its infancy with the Coventry cell now looking particularly strong on radar.

Looks like a lively evening/night in store for some!

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2nd thunderstorm has now appeared to the SW again. Heard a few rumbles, last one was the loudest

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Torrential rain now and another rumble way to the SW

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Torrential rain now and another rumble way to the SW

I heard that rumble of thunder here in the north of Edinburgh as well. In addition to that, I have a feeling that I might even have seen a very brief flash of lightning before then (although I can't actually confirm that), which was very bright but faint due to it being so far away in the distance.

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Some thundery outbreaks about to make landfall in East Kent.

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I think that was it John, unless we get any imports from Northern England later in the night

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It's now absolutely chucking it down with rain here, but that looks like being it for now, in terms of any more thunder or lightning.

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West Midlands seems to be copping thunderstorms now too

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Arome as usual bang on the money for storm formation. Its my go to model

Has modelled today really well.

Wales, as expected, getting into gear now.

Wales and NW england in the firing line for the next few hours at least

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A few flashes of high based lightning and rumbles of Thunder but storm fizzled out near Coventry .

Really kicking off over Snowdonia National Park. WW3!
https://www.lightningmaps.org/#d=2;dl=2;dc=0;m=oss;t=2;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;z=6;y=51.1793;x=-0.835; 

As well as two main clusters over Snowdonia and the Lake District, there appears to be a number of isolated storms breaking out in a number of areas.

Just sprang into life here in Liverpool from nowhere. Nothing ten minutese ago. Lots of sheet lightning, low rumbles of thunder.

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Near constant lightning here on wirral

Never seen that before

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Some nice noisy thunderstorms in West Cumbria. Lightning was almost constant for a while. Main cluster just cleared to the north of here but more firing up over the lakes.

Really kicking off over Snowdonia National Park. WW3!
https://www.lightningmaps.org/#d=2;dl=2;dc=0;m=oss;t=2;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;z=6;y=51.1793;x=-0.835;

 

Crazy video from Capel Curig here

 

https://twitter.com/stormchaserukeu/status/1292920560423505924?s=21

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Crazy here on wirral.... sky is flickering with sheet lightning... 2 or 3 flashes a second

Not much thunder


Occasional showers

Something is brewing big time

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Pretty much constant lightning to the east of Kendal towards the Lune Valley area, 20-30 flashes a minute, and four or five flashes a minute to the west where the first storm (that Bill mentioned) is petering out.  There have been a couple of cloud to ground strikes that have been visible.  We had one close enough that the power went out momentarily. 

Can't see me getting much sleep tonight as it's the first proper storm I've seen since I moved to a house with a fantastic view for skywatching.

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Just had another cell pop up nearby. May not get much sleep at this rate as it could well be going on to dawn looking at the Met Offices ppt predictions.

Wudnt like to be a boat on the irish sea tonight

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