Some weather stations around the East Midlands are over 30mms of rain sine midnight!

New cells to the south of Leicestershire now moving north with back building down towards Oxford.

Valid from/until: 07:50 - 03:00GMT on Tuesday 23rd July/Wednesday 24th July 2013, for the following regions of the United Kingdom & Eire:

Parts of (see map)

Much of central and northern England

E Anglia

Much of Scotland

THREATS

Hail to 3-4cms diameter; wind gusts to 60mph; cloud-ground lightning; isolated tornadoes

SYNOPSIS

Moisture plume characterised by high dewpoints/precipitable water values is across the watch area. Numerous showers and thunderstorms, associated with an upper trough, are ongoing across parts of the area, with frequent lightning, heavy rain, gusty winds, and isolated large hail possible. Through the morning, these should continue to drift generally northwards.

Some additional development is likely across northern parts of England and Scotland through today, with a continuing risk of hail/wind - storm organisation into lines is possible, with a low but non-zero risk of storm rotation. An isolated tornado cannot be ruled out with any surface-based storms.

Some clearing in the wake of this activity may allow surface heating to develop across portions of the Midlands and into E Anglia later this morning and into this afternoon, allowing CAPEs to reach around 2000 J/Kg. With 0-6km shear of around 30 knots, well-organised multicells with large hail and damaging winds are possible. A tornado cannot be ruled out, especially where any cell-mergers allow favourable low-level vorticity to be ingested.

Forecaster: RPK

Apparently I brought my shield with me to work. Just on the phone to my wife who is at a car garage between Finchampstead and Wokingham, and she said they have a storm in progress, and it is pouring with rain. Here in Hook, Hants, we just had one rumble of thunder a few minutes ago, presumably from the same storm which is developing rapidly as it heads north.

This afternoon and evening might provide some surface-based storms, as well as a possible supercell or multicelluar storm as a) a weather front moves from W to E, and b) a zone of convergence sets up across the Pennines. One to watch, especially when the sun comes out. The Met Office rainfall projections have been showing this consistently.

And I would class myself in the 'missed out' category. Very disappointing, but I expect it now.

Nothing here. Storms to my east and west overnight but we missed out.
Maybe time yet but I'm not in a good position here.

I've not even heard thunder either yet. Maybe this afternoon...?

From the Boltek detector on isleofwightweather.co.uk

This only covers S UK so not representative of all of UK but a decent indication.

Neil , what happened to the storms due to drift north from france ? very intrigued at the mo

Cheers. I found some newspaper articles which said 12th June 2012 saw over 110,000 lightning strikes.

I must have slept through that one