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Can see a huge anvil over Norfolk covering 90 degs odd with towers going up all along the front of it. Also another smaller one further south. Can't believe there's so little lightning at the moment.

Met office and other models flagging up Wed night/Thurs for storms/thundery rain coming up from the south. Meteociel GFS convective precip for Thurs:

I'd be interested to see what people think of these shots - small funnel or not? They're of a cell that passed over this evening that appeared to show rotation - part of the base could be seen slowly spinning with swirls visible and protruding centre. A lowering then appeared from that region. After a while this shrunk and the spinning seemed to shift over. It had a very dark, low, scruffy cloud base and appeared to produce some intense rainfall from radar but not over me. No lightning. Initial rotation Cloud lowering Rotation centre shifts

Meteociel Arome model shows the storms moving towards the south coast while losing intensity - may be some night time lightning over the channel I guess. First strike in the channel just now.

French/Belgium storms heading north.....

Interesting afternoon. Had an imposing surface based storm cell move down to my east earlier, thundering as it went. Couldn't see any lightning but had a spectacular cloud structure at times. Then two cells grew very quickly just to the south stretching narrow anvils right over my location. They also started thundering, quite loud at times. However, both anvils were drawn into the eastern cell. One cell then had the life drained out of it, while the other kept rumbling but it also eventually went the same way. Really bizarre to watch an anvil rapidly growing and stretching over your head and then making contact with and joining another cell. Definitely in a sweet spot this afternoon. Anvil growing rapidly overhead Anvil stretching towards eastern cell Joining the eastern cell, anvil at top Eastern cell Cell growing upwards just to the south

Cap has gone. More thunder - it sounds angry. Huge cloud formed right next to me now.

The Sudbury cell is starting to look quite impressive from my back garden. Can hear thunder now and wind is really picking up.

Huge elevated anvils going up west of here - looks spectacular.

Wow. Storms from 3 different directions and a line passing right over with thunder that made the ground vibrate. Now reinvigorating again, and another cell to my east with constant strobing - looks very active.

FYI, Tony Gilbert over on ukww has extended his risk box to cover Eastern side of the UK also based on current obs. http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/119140-convective-outlook-sat-26th-may-2018/page__st__15