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Zip again.

Thanks Crewe.Shower mass is approaching now. No thunder though.

The sky is black to my south.

That cell is heading towards my area but going off what has happened recently, the pattern would be for it to weaken as it approaches here.By the look of the charts, today and tomorrow could be the last chance for a while to see anything thundery around here.There's the rest of the summer to go but that was said about last winter about snow prospects and we know what happened there!

This year is starting to climb up the forgettable weatherwise list at least at the local level. Hardly any snow, frost, ice, sleet, hail, thunder and fog and we are closing in on the halfway point of this year. It has been a combination of rain, dry, sunny, cloudy and mild largely. Spring for me was boring, zero variety, the winter towards the end was tedious. National rainfall totals were outstanding but locally nothing particularly special. Have to see what the rest of the year brings but it is on a par with 2002 thus far.

Thinking about this year thus far and we are coming up to halfway through it already, it has been a very boring and lack in variety at least around here, IMO. Hardly any frost, snow, thunder, fog, sleet, hail. It's either been dry, cloudy, sunny or wet or combination of.

Virtually no luck around this part of the region. The last fortnight or so has been a kick in the goolies for storm lovers around here. You see the Irish Sea getting storms but nothing around here. You see cells popping up over Merseyside but nothing here. Cells that are active heading towards this area die out and yet cells are popping up further west. For instance, another cell has popped up around Skelmersdale now with sferics.That storm yesterday morning was a real kick in the teeth. Heading this way, active and just completely discharged itself just as it got here.I'm sure our luck will change.

Having said that we don't suffer from hurricanes, typhoons etc, killer tornadoes etc.We moan but we are lucky than some areas.

Some virga falling from altocumulus clouds.

I do. We had thunder and lightning in the early afternoon.

Time lapse of those cells

Must be Liverpool's year for thunderstorms. Looks like another one underway now.

Merseyside has done pretty well recently for thunder. 20 miles or so east, by contrast, Greater Manchester has done pretty poorly.

Sferics from those cells to the west of my location.

The sun is out and it feels very warm and clammy.

I can't go along with that. That is the cynics and never possessed response.I think thunderstorm prediction is tricky.

Hard to believe that its 18 years this evening that a plume did deliver and did give notable hailstorms!

Here's the lightning strike map for last month by the met office http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/summaries/anomacts Notice how central spine of Northern England did poorly for lightning. East of the M6 for northwest England is often used as a marker for snow prospects, interestingly it was west of the M6 for thunder and lightning last month.

Maybe rain but if we couldn't get anything much from an existing storm that was tracking towards our region and large altocumulus castellanus was developing ahead of it, you do wonder what circumstances are needed for this region to get a storm at least the eastern parts of it.

I think this is unlikely now to be honest.

A deep rumble again. Rain sporadically at the moment.

A couple of low rumbles of thunder

Timelapse of altocumulus castellanus