StormLoser

I know! It's...unbelievable! And I am so happy!

Three or four good flashes (one forked, negative) over Reigate just now as a cell passed north. Looks like we may get a bit more by 9pm... At last. At lonnngg last.

I heard the rain around 6 this morning in Reigate. Now been around our garden and it was an absolute inundation. So much rain that it pulled the canvas awning down off our metal pergola! (Now that's a new one for me). The pond got filled up to overflowing and everything is awash with water. I thought I'd catch up with the Met Office's video forecast. That was a mistake. Out of date, inaccurate and overly jolly as always. (Off stage swearing, left) Thanks Dan for your forecast!

Glad you could meet him. I love his videos, his laid back approach and his wonderful music (as you know he composes it himself!). And his fascination with the wildlife is a bonus. Great guy. Tip him a nod from a fan when you next chat to him!

Gah! In Reigate we're on the southern limit of this weather again. We're catching an occasional heavy shower but that's all. Most of the time the sun is out. Enjoy your storms!

We've had some heavy rain on and off this morning. But the southern generation limit for showers looks like it is moving north away from us, and now it is drying up here. Sun trying to push through.

Three rumbles of thunder, then heavy rain. I started drowsing off in the patio doorway to the sound of the rain. Plenty of dark and impressive cloud going past. Funny, some of the scud looked exactly like a giant V sign as it marched past our house. So much for a storm! Oh well.

Loud thunder to Reigate north - here we go! (Computer explodes in sparks...)

I've been out in the garden trying to spot some lightning but no luck. Plenty of grumbling thunder. not even a flight from Gatwick could irritate the cell enough to trigger lightning. Low level winds are west to east under these cells, while the upper progression is north east to south west. I think there may be enough for a feeble funnel cloud but that's a guess.

Looking at the radar, and hearing frequent thunder, it would look like we will be under a storm here before long.

That would give me the willies, seeing that. Good photo and thanks for sharing. Keep away from metal structures!

Bah. I'm just a wee bit east of the Amber Zone. I can see the storms over Dorking way. Enjoy, @Bumpydogz!

We have thunder here in Reigate! Stuff passing to the west of me but too far away to see lightning. At least the humidity has dropped off. As usual, activity actively avoid Reigate. Sigh.

In Reigate I'm watching the progression of cells just to the south of me using the rain radar. I think we'll cop them in due course, later this afternoon. But the low pressure is keeping them just south of us at the moment. Naughty low. The sun is trying to get through and outside it's very humid, almost tropical-humid. As I don't drive I can't go south to view anything, so I rely on the weather to come to me. Fingers crossed!

There are some nice storm cell cloud structures on the Lagrune Sur Mer web cam looking out onto the Channel. No lightning. Vision-Environnement WWW.VISION-ENVIRONNEMENT.COM Visualisez en vidéo et en direct la webcam touristique de la ville de Langrune-sur-Mer, localisée dans la région Normandie, France. Moving off now...

Gah... the "Severe Drizzle" at Reigate has turned to steady rain. So much for gardening. So much for thunderstorms. Eyup, wet day in t'garden again. The seagull business makes me chuckle. The channel owner says they're seagulls, so that's that.

The cloudy murk over Reigate has intensified. I see no chance of any storm coming out of this stuff. More likely to be drizzling before long. Anyone for a Yellow Warning for severe drizzle?

You can join me in my Ball Lightning blooper video! I put the same sort of thing up here last night. I was told these are seagulls! And I think I can even see the wings flapping. They do look like meteors (or ball lightning ) don't they?

Morning all. It looks like the west got the feast last night! I watched the storm around Southampton on webcam before hitting the sack. I think my "ball lightning" video can join the bloopers lists. Damn seagulls. In Reigate here there's a thick cloud cover capping humid but not hugely warm air. The sun is trying to break through, but it's going to have to work a lot harder to gain any ground forcing here.

I'll get a second opinion from Pecos Hank! Meanwhile that Southampton cam is delivering some nice lightning viewing, free from all forms of ball lightning. (Which I have actually seen before, during a very electrical night in Dumfries and Galloway, in the 1970s. Now that did not go flying across the sky, just drifted slowly down. Weird sight.)

Bl**dy things. First they nick your chips, then they photobomb the webcams!

Oh....bum.

I was watching the Southampton web cam and look what happened! Watch from the top left. (Sorry for the delay getting this here - techie struggles). Is this ball lightning? It can't be a meteor because cloud covers the sky behind it. The path wavers, and it goes behind a cloud! All associated with a giant lightning outburst. I can't see anything in the foreground to cause the phenomenon, nor does it look like an insect. 515176340_FerryCam-SouthamptontoCowesIsleofWightEnglandUKRedFunnelFerry(LiveCamera24_74K)VTS-YouTube-GoogleChrome2021-07-2401-37-17.mp4

Hmm as I thought, most of this is in the west country. Our Yellow Warning of Rain ended up being a ten minute shower at 12:30am. I'm not sure how the rest of the night will turn out, but I think the South East will miss most of the forecast bad weather. I can't quite get my head around why the MO forecast heavy rain for 5-6am, here. There's nothing out there to head this way! There's not even a squall line to deliver it. Even their pressure charts don't forecast it. Mighty puzzled. But it is very gusty now.

Dom? Pity Me? I used to live around the corner from there in Dryburn Park! You wouldn't happen to know Cliff Richardson?