Yep just stepped outside and the large convective drops have managed to wet the car windscreens a bit but that's all, hopefully it won't die and it will spread out further across the NW. Seems to have stopped now though, I hope that's not it for us!

Just had some impressive lightning from a new cell going up just to the north of me!  No rain so far.

Distant lightning last night but too far away and nothing today,it might do something tonight if something comes up from accross the channel but i doubt it

The Peak District storm has weakened considerably but the Nottingham main cell is spreading much further West.  Might just clip us here in Sheffield. 

Wondering if the Gainsborough cell is what I can see to my East now as well.  It's South, West and East.  All around me!  No rain yet but plenty of fireworks! 

There's a lovely cluster boiling away over Northern France but doesn't want to cross over the Channel. A few years ago, it would have no trouble making that trip over the Channel and we'd be guaranteed a decent night, but nowadays, it just doesn't want to do anything.

Seems I may have to be prepared to be disappointed. Should be used to it by now as the Midlands becomes the new South East in terms of storm activity. 

Saw a flash ten minutes ago from the top of a cell to my South East. There is nothing remotely near me on the radar. Those cells must be high over the midlands!

Some cooler air now and a few big spots of rain.  Still plenty of electrical activity coming from all directions.  Rain coming heavier now as I type.  Big thunder too!  Going to watch from my bedroom window.  Look out you lot to the North of me, it's heading your way and it's not dying out.

Down here I'm waiting to see whether the swathe of cloud coming in from the west becomes the breeding ground for a lot of thundery activity within the next few hours. That's what the Met Office online forecast maps show, with some support from NAE, but none from WRF, which doesn't get things going until some 5 hours later.

Certainly looked ominous out there as the last of the daylight faded. The clouds actually looked a bit like mammatus but were a lot more subdued than the genuine article. It sure does feel clammy as well!

There's a small cell not far NW of here now, but it's not electrified... yet.

In the Channel, south of Penzance, a thin line of showers has materialised. According to those Met Office charts, that's what should develop into a large mass of convection that covers Central-Southern England by around midnight!

Our home grown cell is still producing some vivid lightning, but its well to the north of me now.   Hopefully will soon see some lightning from your storm Caz.

I should known it would end all end up over your house.

No problem - It's days like these we wait to forecast for.

ROFL! I refer you to my reply to a question of yours from last week (which I think you maybe missed), where I stated that your best chance of a storm was to "move in with Duane" in Loughborough as he always gets storms. Tonight proved no exception.

http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twocommunity/yaf_postsm515277_Model-Output-Discussion-18th-July-12-45.aspx#post515277

Yes LeedsLad, it's pink lightning and very pretty! 

Well, Dorset had storms last night and again tonight.

The Solent, namely Portsmouth's count: 0

I haven't really been following the forecasts or charts as I am a winter poster () but I presume from your post James that there is a renewed risk of storms overnight for our region?

Sounds as though you're in for a gay night

There is some stuff  forming rapidly just to the west   of here now.  I think the air mass is so unstable,   just about anywhere could get a storm tonight.