Azazel

Looking at the rain today radar, general motion of any precip seems to be from west to east, thought it was meant to track more southerly than that? Fingers crossed for something beefy to develop down in the SW and move this way then please

So that's it then for the south?

I'm hoping to get out and have a look but won't be until at least 6pm. Hoping the activity hasn't died out by then. Normally in these circumstances, the low level cloud begins to break up in the evening revealing lovely sunset skies with distant convection

Definite rotation in a cell that just passed over tot hill services near Newbury with one very bright flash of lightning and deep, loud thunder

Lincolnshire

That's a beauty. A real candidate.Feel kinda bad for the rant earlier, I'm a bit spiteful when it comes to weather:pThe reason I'm so mad at the met office stems from a snow event a few years ago. Forecasters on here and on UKWW were warning of the possibilities of heavy snow for my region so I warned the girlfriend, who was driving to do some shopping in Basingstoke, to be vigilant and keep an eye on the weather. The BBC on the other hand seemed less bullish and simply said 'the south may see the odd snow flurry as the day goes on' alluding to my area. This reassured my girlfriend and she wouldn't ever believe the met office could get anything wrong.Well, it snowed heavy and solidly for 8 straight hours, turning the roads into gridlock and she was snowed into the car park. Took her 12 hours to get out, push the car, and make it back home (Basingstoke is 12 miles away). We had about 6 inches I think. I was furious about how blasé they were about 'the odd snow flurry' when infact it was a lot more serious than that.Just think if there is any potential for a severe weather threat, they shouldn't sit on the fence. There's lives at stake sometimes

I swear I'm never going to listen to the BBC weather forecast again. I know this sounds petulant and spiteful (and it probably is to some extent) they always, ALWAYS seem to get it wrong for down here. When storms are forecast why don't they just shift everything 200 miles North and East every time and then they would be bang on. I appreciate weather is an incredibly difficult thing to predict, but come on. I work in a finance office (yay) and if my performance was anything like theirs, I would be straight up fired. One storm this year (the most active i've seen in a good ten years) and it wasn't even forecast :/ sorry for the rant. I feel better now.

oooooh the south in the firing line for storms! A good place to be for today's action will be Lincolnshire then.

Absolutely gutted about last night, the one time I didn't have my camera with me because well, nothing was really forecast for down here at all, we get the most active storms I've seen for nearly ten years. No pics, guess that's the way it goes:(

Yes:) seriously it's actually quite intense. Lightning seems to be to my east but only by a few miles. Somewhere between here and Basingstoke. I'm suprised people in my area can't see it. Some of the flashes are brilliant. Estimate at least thirty strikes in the last half hour

Lightning every thirty seconds or so, some very close and house shaking rumbles. Probably the most active storm we've had here in ten years

Really quite active storm here seemingly out of nowhere

Storms across the channel seem almost a daily occurence during the summer months (admitedly not usually the size of today's UFO) Good thing I'm off to France in 5 weeks time for a two week holiday:D - driving back last time, we encountered an MCS just south of Paris. It too resembled a UFO with the most ridiculous shelf cloud I've ever seen. Im convinced I will NEVER anything like that here. I think me and my friends are going to pick a random saturday in July/August and drive over to the continent. If we see something, we see something, if we dont, it will be a lovely road trip and day out:)

For those too lazy to do the math, thats roughly 198 strikes PER MINUTE...and at least 3 PER SECOND. ...mental.

that munster cam is absolutely incredible. Never seen anything like it

its so humid here it hurts my face:/

seems to be darkening up a bit to the East. I live in hope that London may get something so I have a slim chance at being able to see the top of it from here. Thats how desperate I am:(

Potential Wall cloud from my amateur perspective, indicative of rotation/possible meso.

some very un-UKlike pics of these storms appearing everywhere. I thought I was looking at something taken in Birmingham Alabama, but then I realised it was Birmingham England. So very Jealous!

some interesting pictures coming out of that cell in the midlands - meso?

well, that was a crock of ****. Three rumbles at 9am and thats it, thats how plume destablisation goes round here since 2006. Thats me done with UK storms for a while I think, unless you live in peterborough these days there doesn't seem much point. See you guys around, hope you get to see something:)

well came back home after waiting it out for 8 hours. By the time anything reaches here now, it will be getting light and i dont care much about photographing, flat, elevated, gun-metal skies with the odd flash you can barely see because it's not dark anymore:( a bust for me i'm afraid

im gonna be honest, i'm pretty clueless haha. I've had a fascination with the weather since childhood, I'm 29 now and still dont quite understand the complex physics that come into play. Back when i was a young teenager I didnt have forums like this or access to data, I used to go by sight and smell etc

do we even need anything to happen over france? I thought we were looking at a pre-frontal trough coming in from the west?

right. Cameras charging, phone is charging etc. This might be my last post in here today - we get patchy internet in our location so i will be desperately trying to check the forum for updates as the evening progresses and I will post anything of note if I can. Good luck to everyone tonight and stay safe:)