Yes, it looks like a few hours of Excitement ahead!

There's been plenty of Flash, bang, wallop here in Daartrford since about 3 am this morn, the most intense part at 5am that gave a huge Bang, sent the dogs nuts! We had brief hail then too, which wasn't exactly small.till cracshing & banging here as I type! Lovely cool 20c too.

Very localised. I'm less that 10 miles from you and we got a few brief (less than 1 min) showers of large-blob rain and heard some distant rumbles, but I could see the mass of very dark cloud stayed mostly to our west.

Yes, had a severe storm early last night, with continuous lightning and rumbles, although no real close-up bangs and crashes. This gradually eased by midnight, with only sporadic rumbles but almost continuous lightning continued out over the sea, lasting for next 2 hours. Did not notice any further storms during the rest of the night.

That storm was tracking to the west of me up the A1. I could hear distant rumbling which seems to have stopped now as it seems to have died electrically. Impressive dark sky to my west though and getting a nice cool outflow from it.

Not just the UK, the final part of Stage 19 of Tour De France had to be cancelled due to severe hailstorm;

https://twitter.com/letour_uk/status/1154766634072125440.

https://twitter.com/deceuninck_qst/status/1154767466565947392.

Signs of some convective elements behind the advancing warm front (N. Yorks, NE Eng & C. Scotland), these could turn thundery later. Also revised warnings from MetO highlight risk of isolated storms N. England and SW. Scotland tomorrow.

We don't have any thunder or lightning here in Edinburgh as I write, but torrential rain is currently falling here and it has also got rather dark for this time of the day at this time of the year. That in turn has resulted in 4.4 mm of rain being recorded in just a single hour at both Edinburgh Gogarbank and the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

Normally, such downpours would be very localised, so it is very rare for both of these stations to be recording these high levels of rainfall from the same downpour even though they are fairly close to each other although this shows how much this particular area of very heavy rain is spread out over quite a large area as is shown in the latest rain radar map.

Furthermore, we are taught in our earliest most basic lessons on meteorology that the rain along a warm front isn't on average, as heavy as the rain along a cold front due to the much shallower slope which a warm front forms compared to the much steeper slope which we see with a cold front. This therefore means that the fact that these downpours are falling along what is actually a warm front which is in the process of slowly retreating south-westwards has be seen a very rare occurrence indeed, as is the direction in which this weather front is moving since we would normally expect most of our weather to be coming in from the west in this country.

I see that the Met Office have issued yet another yellow warning for thunderstorms for Wednesday stretching for the entire day from midnight until 11:59pm.

Been unbroken sunshine in central Manchester all day so far!!

Been sunny all morning here but some black clouds gathering now. Just had a sharp shower of giant raindrops that stopped as suddenly as it started.  No thunder heard yet but some not far away showing up on lightning map. 

On its way but no signs here yet, Caz.

My other half has gone bowling - I have instructions to collect her at 3.55 if it's pouring by then!

R