Looks as though Eastbourne is about to get hit, signs of popcorn showers developing too.

thunder overhead but no rain yet and no lightning that I can see. Just the rumble

radar says it should be raining, but nothing. scary looking cloud formations 

Those storms that are springing up around London are elevated - so much of the ppn will be evaporating before it reaches the ground.

Just spotted a cloud to ground flash and a distant rumble to the nw and another from the ne.

Still no rain here.

Didn't you used to be in Caterham?

Lovely cloud overhead. looks almost like a funnel cloud reaching down

Still no rain reaching the ground

I did, moved Jan 2016.

Just had some heavy pulses of rain with rumbles of thunder and gusty winds but the sun was still shining into my hobby room.

Despite the heavy ploppy rain, it's only 1.6 mm at the moment and all it's done was to make the current 29 c feel so much more humid.

Thunderstorm over stevenage with a temperature of 33 feeling tropical.

Cycled through a little storm on ride back from work earlier, just outside of Groombridge. Some entertainingly overhead flashes with instant thunder and a brief pulse of heavy rain which gave way to scattered large raindrops.

Back to sunny and crazy hot after that - there's a fair bit of black cloud to my East/South East but largely clear looking west (at home in Twells).

Edit: another storm now, heavy rain, thunder and breeze picked up fair bit.

Distant booming now audible from those storms heading up towards me. Some very interesting cloud formations lit up by the low sun.

Edit: first flash of lightning just seen to my south followed by very deep boom. Very portentous

Suddenly huge blobby rain and a vivid orange sky with lightning streaking across

Edit: rain stopped after 5 minutes as suddenly as it started. Short but very dramatic!

Edit2: Curiously on studying the radar returns the rain rate dropped off dramatically at the it reached Cambridge which is par for the course. I expect it to reinvigorate over Norfolk. It should have got some lift off my patio as this was too hot to walk on barefoot earlier

This is just so frustrating now!!

There was an area of rain not too long ago which affected parts of the east of Edinburgh but missed here altogether.

Now, there is a whole line of storms with some intense echoes which stretched from just to the west of here down towards Dumfriesshire. That flash of lightning which I saw a while ago came from that line of storms, but this has missed us as well and headed further west.

For now, I am now relying on a couple of showers just to the south of Edinburgh but I wouldn't exactly be expecting them do do anything or even head over us where I live.

Given that we have just come to end of what has been our hottest day on record here in Edinburgh, this is showing that getting two "interesting" in the same day, is probably asking for too much here in what is normally the most boring part of the UK on average in terms of our weather.

EDIT:

Those showers are breaking up and losing their intensity as they head towards us, so they're not likely to do anything either.

Quite impressive mammatus clouds over east London at the moment, lit up by the setting sun.