Woodboss

Saw a few flashes from this a short while ago from here!

Some sporadic and unexpected lightning tonight. Very elevated and a little mid level instability. Currently 20 degrees here in Hassocks and up from 18 degrees just an hour ago. Very tropical feeling sitting here in the playing field!

These are some great shots Paul! The structure on that looks very robust and the tornado itself looks a pretty decent size too!

Evening all bit of a late post,hope everyone is well! Saturday evening proved to be pretty good for a decent part of the south east with some rather complex conditions at play. Very hot in here in the morning but certainly chilly in the evening with a huge temperature drop and very gusty winds at the surface blowing low cloud from the north. I've watched storm's for a long time and I always thought there was a chance in this situation and as soon as I saw the development near Cherbourg and the low cloud kindly disappeared the skies looked primed. The development of the storms was pretty impressive over a short period and I was lucky enough to not have to drive for the second time this summer! Saw some really good lightning and it it was my 8 year old sons first chase and we only had to walk 50 yards to the park! He was absolutely buzzing. Us guys and girls here in Sussex were treated to a pretty decent hour or so as this unfolded. Well done to all that saw some fairly big skies and to those who chased. There's some really committed people in this thread who chase long distances along with some very knowledgeable people who know what they are talking about and that's what helps people understand storm scenarios and newer members learn about how storms form etc. This is what keeps this group alive and kicking!!!

Lovely part of Surrey on the downs, watched a really good storm a few years back at newlands corner near Guildford and was one of the best viewpoints I've been too and I've been to plenty!

There's some nasty storm's over there right now.One in particular near the Belgium and Luxembourg border look's very nasty right now with very prolific lighting and likely a supercell looking at sat and radar!

Could be borderline around the solent but worthing eastwards along the Sussex coast could be a good shout.

Development around the best peninsula is looking very encouraging now indeed,looking increasingly likely to be a direct hit for me now as long as they stay on the same track and hold intensity. My 8 year old son is desperate to see a good storm and this could be his lucky night!!

I remember that one very well! I watched that unfold from beachy head and Eastbourne was lit up like the national grid! Had a very close cg just a few hundred yards away which was seriously loud. Not seen a storm like that one since that night was a good one!!

Evening all,hope everyone is well! As others have mentioned on here already,here in West Sussex we have lots of low level cloud moving nne and the radar and ppn moving from the ssw. An interesting situation in my opinion and just a few signs of some instability now in the vicinity of the channel islands. Its a case of radar watching now and hopefully some storms can start to form ahead of the front! Best of luck to everyone and hopefully some of us will be in for a treat. It's become very gusty here in the last hour or so!

That's a great strike and was definitely close too! Awesome video mate!

I was at Birling gap near Eastbourne that night after watching it roll in from Hove seafront and it was absolutely insane there! Eastbourne took a direct hit!

Great shots there Lance. The cg is an awesome photo!!

I can vouch for this and it's definitely not fake! I was on the top of the downs just north of Hove watching this come in off the channel and some of the lightning was phenomenal! Some great shots you got there bud,nice one!!

That looks like a pretty decent size tornado! Perhaps a good few hundred metres wide,certainly in the first video! Possibly a medium/high end f2 looking at it and looking at the radar velocities!

I'm hoping to get a new camera soon,trying to film storm's off my grainy phone camera doesn't quite cut it. Much better getting good lightning footage on a decent camera.

I had one similar last night here in Sussex just a few hundred yards away,unfortunately didn't get it on film as I was running back to my house from the rain but was one of the best strikes I've seen and gunshot thunder!

Sorry to hear that flash,don't give up on the chasing! I wouldn't have slammed on my breaks either and risked hitting something or even worse someone by aquaplaning. The law ought to focus on the people I see every day looking down at their phones while driving and not paying attention to the roads instead of hiding their camera vans behind big roadsigns and trees and getting easy hits in the middle of the night when there's no one about!

That's monstrous mate what a brilliant shot!

Morning all hope everyone is good and those who were out enjoyed the show last night! Apologies for the long post but I have to say that last night was pretty special here in Sussex,I was up on the top of the downs just north of Hove and saw hundreds of lightning strikes moving in from the channel,I knew it was going to be a direct hit and would have been pretty dodgy exposed up there so I drove back to where I live and walked up to the park 50 yards up the road and the strongest part of the storm came right over. As it came on to the coast it seemed to take on a bowing segment on radar and we had some fierce wind gusts and horizontal rain. Saw probably one of the best CGs I've ever seen as I was retreating back to my workshop the thunder was explosive and shook the ground! Unfortunately I didn't get it on film as it was lashing it down with rain but was certainly a monster strike! Had a tiny little elevated storm an hour after the main event which passed right overhead and threw out about 20 or 30 strikes in a few minutes so a nice little bonus too! I've watched storms closely for a long time now and it was probably the best storm here since July 2017 which is the best I've ever seen here by far and on both occasions I only had to cover 12miles in the car so I'll Bank that definitely! To those who travelled to Sussex last night,well done we hit the jackpot here!!

That's absolutely unbelievable,great footage mate!!

The view from up here at devil's dyke is phenomenal!! Almost constant lightning in the distance and heading straight in my direction!

I'm starting off just North of Brighton at devil's dyke, could see lightning from the Bournemouth supercell from up here in 2015!!

That looks like a wall cloud was trying to form with all that scuddy stuff hanging underneath! Great shot!

Happy birthday bud, your in a good spot for visuals, I'm heading up to my view point at devil's dyke soon can see for miles up there so can plan my evening nicely over a cheeky pint and a bite to eat in the pub!