Heard frequent rumbles of thunder during a heavy shower around noon in Lowestoft yesterday.

Thunderstorms are a feature here during Pm airmass, often with multiple lightning strikes rather than an odd or 2 rumbles of thunder. E Anglia is often the warmest part of the country in this airmass so convection tends to be very vigorous.

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something big coming of the Brest peninsular past the channel islands this morning.. Could be interesting if it makes south Devon this morning...

I know that this doesn't necessarily mean that we will actually get any thunderstorms here, and we have seen plenty of examples during this summer where this has been the case. However, there has also been plenty of other occasions during this summer when these thunderstorms have occurred here and this has actually been quite a decent summer here overall on that front.

With that in mind, it will be interesting to see what happens this time.

Originally Posted by: four

Menacing dark amorphous cloud looming from the south, radar is not unduly alarming but things are developing unpredictably.
Can hear distant thunder to the west. apparently from cells close to the A1

I wish that I could say the same here and although it has now started raining here in Edinburgh, it still isn't doing so with any great conviction just now. According to the latest rain radar maps, there are no lightning strokes at all on this side of the Border (looks like the English are hogging all of the storms for themselves this time) which suggests that this area of storms has probably just decayed into a weakening area of rain by the time that it has got here which is very disappointing indeed.

This means that whilst that should be enough to end what will now go down as our longest dry spell of this month in its fifth day, this seems unlikely to do anything else here other than that.

Powering down the pc now. Bye. Roger

Some places could get a train of heavy ones for an hour or more.

Originally Posted by: Andy J

Looks like you've hit it lucky today for storms Roger.  I could see your earlier storm to the east of me earlier this evening, a very impressive looking CB with a huge, classic anvil structure.   We've just had a brief thundery downpour around 9pm, but still hearing some rumbles just now.

Hi Andy -

We've had a seriously good thunderstorm in the Witham valley looking towards Nocton and Potterhanworth.

Seems to be north of Lincoln now. Still going. You look to be on the south western edge of it, north of Saxilby.

See:http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php?map=12

Roger at 21.25hrs

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