The most notable thunderstorm I had ever experienced occurred on the 12th July 1982 when I was at school in Yeovil in Somerset. There had been severe overnight thunderstorms early on that Monday morning but another one had rolled in and by 10: 30am and it was like the middle of the night and all the street lights have come on. I still remember that storm to this day because there were approximately 100 lightning strikes every minute which had gone for about two-and-a-half hours before the storm had cleared away. The heavy rain that had accompanied it was like standing under a waterfall but was reminiscent of a similar storm the year earlier on 6th August 1981 where one had struck the centre of London and had turn daylight into night. I also recall that same year that there was another really violent thunderstorm on 2nd June 1982 which had struck just to west of London where we had got caught up in after coming back from Spain via Luton airport. Having said that, a few days earlier when I was in Spain I had seen his violent thunderstorms but never thought that we would see them as vicious as they were in the United Kingdom have a few days later.
