Woodboss

Cheers buddy,just heading up to my veiwpoint shortly

Some serious activity developing in the channel now,over 5000 strikes in the last 90mins! Time to get ready for the chase! Good luck to anyone that's heading out to see this.

Some nice activity starting to pick up this evening,had a half decent storm an hour or so ago in hickstead when at work but was slightly further west of my locale at the time. Eyes on the skies and the radar now and best of luck for people wanting storms. Brilliant shot mate hopefully we'll see some more later on.

This is absolutely unreal, great shot mate! I was in Shoreham and got under a direct hit and the lightning there went berserk very quickly. Could see the shelf heading towards the seaford area from where I was!

It should be with you shortly, been sat at the top of ditchling beacon for the last 30mins watching it move inland, it's been pretty memorable here tonight.

Currently under a beast of a storm just east of Shoreham, absolutely a direct hit with some serious thunder and lightning!

On Shoreham beach now and getting treated to some nice lightning and booming thunder. Will be heading east towards seaford fairly soon I think.

Just got to my veiwpoint up at devil's dyke and seen some big cgs just to the west of the wind farm off the Sussex coast. Will make a move down to Hove seafront shortly. This is game on.

Thing's are really starting to kick off now around the Cherbourg peninsula and the channel Islands, looking very promising now. Time to start getting ready to head up to devil's dyke for a visual I think. The chase is on!

As someone else has said earlier ashdown forest between crowborough and nutley is good viewing, good elevation and good visuals.

Excellent choice there Ben,birling gap just to the east is a good spot too.

Devil's dyke just north of Hove is a great spot if you can get there buddy, always my first port of call with these situations as visuals are awesome.

Thing's look like they are starting to get going around the channel Islands and a line of showers developing in the channel. Some promising looking clouds starting to drift in here now too. The alarm is still set for 2 just in case I nod off.

South coast would be your best bet I would say, could go anti clock round the m25 if you can and then you'll have the a3 down to Portsmouth,m23 down to Brighton,a22 down to Eastbourne or a21 down to Hastings but the latter 2 increases the miles a fair bit if you don't go over the bridge.

The Warren for one night and wild camp for 2 night's potentially capel le ferne cliffs. If we leave tonight then likely a night in the car as its far safer on high ground than the tent! Thanks for letting me know both have good visuals for storms and good luck with getting a storm in your neck of the woods !

Good luck tonight supacell, the miles and dedication you put in are second to none and I hope you hit the jackpot mate!

Good luck and great dedication, Southend could be a pretty good shout indeed!

Worthing might not be a bad shout to be fair Lu, I'm thinking of starting out at Shoreham just east of there or my usual spot at devil's dyke on top of the downs just inland. Visuals up there are very good out to sea and also inland too! Good luck.

Evening all hope everyone is well. As we are all aware there is a potentially interesting night now upon us with most models hinting at quite a lively night for some of us in the south east. I will certainly be out for a chase tonight as I'm heading to Folkstone for a camping trip with my 9 year old son and we are packed and ready to go and should it kick off tonight we can be on the road and attempt to get underneath the best areas if it decides to turn up! Good luck to all who are chasing tonight and let's hope we get some pyrotechnics in the skies! Currently 21 degrees here in Hassocks with some accas starting to move in, it's certainly feeling pretty ripe and my confidence is increasing so all eyes on the skies and the radar for me now. Good luck everyone.

Just had a pretty decent thunderstorm here in peacehaven. Some decent lightning and thunder and a huge cg just over the edge of the cliffs which produced gunshot thunder. Only a second or so between lightning and thunder so perhaps only 300-400 yards away and one of the loudest I've heard for quite a while.

Some development in the channel underway.Currently sitting at the top of the cliffs in peacehaven before I start work and the skies are darkening out over the channel with a few distant flashes now.

This could pose in interesting scenario for a lot of the south.Im quite liking the look of this fax myself and will be watching the skies closely!

This is a great post Brick and many thanks for taking the time to share this with the group. I'm still learning more about the science of it all so it's benefits me too. I have a lot of experience in the field and generally pick up situations quickly and I've been lucky enough to get under some absolutely monstrous storms over the years and had some very close calls which I have learnt from. There's a good few people in here with a lot of the technical knowledge and that's vital for the less experienced and betters the thread for all of us. Thanks again and keep the posts coming matey! Cheers.Neil.

I remember this one very well,not forecast at all yet I watched this steam up the adur valley from Shoreham when I was living in Henfield. Very strong gust front and prolific lightning with a CG strike just a few hundred yards away in the next field down. Was a fair amount of tree damage the following morning in the area!

36 degrees here in Hassocks now, hottest I've ever seen here is 34.5 in 2019.