Many of us would like a good storm! The nature of plume related instability is that storms that develop will be hard to predict with respect location so much like snow showers on a freezing easterly it's a case of watch the radar and the skies.
For Somerset I would think late Monday into Tues is the prime period with a trough moving in from the WSW.

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Eyes up Weymouth/Bournemouth and locality. Lower storm motion may be NNE, but the instability vector is due N.

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Thanks for that,im new so trying to understand charts etc is a learning curve,but it looks like the channel islands are getting a show,might move towards us or not,will watch the skies.

Looks like the fireworks has started earlier than I thought. However, I think this one is too far to my west so I may have to carry on waiting for a little while longer.
  Enjoy it to those who are getting it anyway.

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It feels like the day before a holiday you saved hard for and waited for all year.

Some places are going to get smashed in the next few days..who, where and when is anyones guess.

Good luck all..let the fun begin. .

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Keep watching the skis

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It looks like things are exploding into life in the Channel South of Weymouth and Torquay area. I noticed here the rapid formation of the Altocumulus Castellatus Clouds usually indicative of thunder coming soon. I think tonight could become quite lively in Southern England and maybe here before morning. Still 22.0C outside at 22:00.

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Yup, some cracking cloudscapes here at sunset, but, of course, we never get storms anymore...

That bridge of warm and humid air pumping up through the Channel makes all the difference. Instead of storms leaving the French coast and withering, they are generating in La Manche before tracking onto English shores.

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Yep, some beefy storms heading towards the south coast now Ben, should be a lot of radar watching tomorrow for most of us

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Twilight ACu to my West.
Temps holding at an impressive 23.5 now and very little breeze.

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Could be a good night for you down there Neil. Stay Lucky. 

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Yep the warm, moist air is feeding then and growing in size as they move north towards the coast.

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Lots of flashes lighting up the sky currently looking South out to sea here at Bournemouth.

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Peter Gibbs just now said 'the remnants of storms may affect some Southern areas before fading'. Obviously not been looking at the last hour's echos. Quite the opposite with storms developing readily in the western Channel and about to smash Dorset.

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Looks like a nasty cell heading for Weymouth, might be an alarm clock for people who've gone bed early down there 

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Aye, but to paraphrase the good Mr. Gibbs in his outlook over the next few days: "In terms of where Storms might develop, we don't have a Scooby Doo".

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Nwe shows storms now smashing into Dorset

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Storms just south of Exeter to.

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Kudos to NAE which was fairly isolated earlier with an area of storms from Dorset to Surrey from 23Z to 03Z.
The activity looks increasingly elevated but is putting on a good show with 10-15 strikes per minute south of Bournemouth.

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Looks like fab storm in the channel now. Well done NAE

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So far one, admittedly fairly impressive, lightning but not a drop of rain.

I'm in Seaton (East Devon) - Been on the beach watching cunims to the east in the Channel and now a whole area coming ashore here with loud thunder and torrential rain. Impressive shelf clous as well but too dark to film!

Yet another botched forecast. Way more activity than MetO forecasts predicted this evening.

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Monsoon conditions here. Overhead thunder (Seaton, East Devon)