Seems to me that central areas and the Midlands always do better for storms and always have done. Being directly to the north of a large stretch of water is never going to put you in prime position, surely you need surface heating downstream of you?

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Yep and looking at the latest WV and CVZ charts it wouldn't surprise me to see the Amber extended across into the NE of England and possibly S and SW Scotland too shortly

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He has a point though Neil.

Had literally 10 drops of rain an hour ago and that was our breakdown. No thunder. This typifies Portsmouth which I personally rank as the place which has the most boring, uneventful and most benign weather than any other place in the whole country.... and more than likely than any other place across Europe and quite possibly, across the whole world.

I left in 1999 and it hasn't changed. The city is jinxed when it comes to extreme weather. No snow of any note and now, even thunder evades this hole.  Only exception was the Oct 87 storm but apart from that, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

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Massive raindrops fell for about a minute. Soaked everything in seconds.

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Neil where is the plume axis positioned at the mo ?

Perhaps 'jinxed' may not be the right phrase Mike. I'd say rather 'unfortunately located', although I think this does Plymouth an injustice

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The 'plume' as charaterised by the 850hPa theta-Ws is roughly a line Essex to Merseyside (circa 18/19C) - but a fairly broad swathe it is. The triggers (surface wind convergence at the moment) is maximisd in teh W C Midlands but there's also a subtle coastal CVZ around Blackpool and another around Leeds area.
Complex but the likelihood of storms is highest from the N Midlands North now but don't rule out some across the South too.

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Indeed, and I think the point to remember is that being centrally located in the plume where the highest temperatures are is not indicative of having the highest chance of storms. 

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Dark here and thundering to the west.

Very sticky!

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Well Thanet finally got a decent bit weather...a decent thunderstorm mid morning . And where was I?.....bleedin' Canterbury!!

As the old English saying goes..."FFS!!"

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Torrential burst of rain here.

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And not only that, I was on a course to learn how to deal with people in a crisis, and to help calm them down...now I'm 'kin livid!

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Extreme weather to you Duance, must be "light rain" or "drizzle"

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What is it they say about seeing the wood for the trees? I should try and use the window more often instead of the radar. Very black down to the SW of here now.

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A new cell just to my SE here with thunder from both cells.

Major convection under way to.

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Sweet FA here, just humid as hell.

I tried to kill two birds with one stone, and watch the radar on my windows machine...

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According to the wife the lightning flashes kicked off at around 23.30 last night and said it was continual bright flashes mainly to the west and northwest with nothing overhead, as i reported in my earlier post the lightning at 04.00 was as she stated continual without gaps between flashes, again to the west and northwest with nothing overhead. I do find it strange though that no one on here in this area witnessed what must have been some pretty violent electrical storms.

Active area of storms moving into S Yorks now from Derbyshire.

Loughborough has seen 41mm of rain since midnight.

Just had some small hail rattle through with the latest cell.

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I've recorded 44mms here in the last 24hs.

Just south of Loughborugh a station is standing at 50mms.

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I seen it Jim and totally agree it was continual lightning and I was close enough to here the thunder continually rumbling out here at Radstock. My daughter who lives in West Bristol text me at 04:00am this morning petrified in what she described as the sharpest lightning and loudest thunder crashes for years in stair rod rain which amounted to 28mm in an hour. She was amazed that my area missed the storm just 10 mls to the South. Just shows how local these beasts can be.

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Dark all around here will shorts bursts of mega sized rain drops. Very sticky at 23c with bright spells at times. Really feels like it wants to kick off.

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According to Met Office, recent thunderstorm at Hucknall has dropped 35.6mm of rain. 

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Looking like another dud for here - that cell near Notts is moving east, even though it was moving N before. Skies are turbulent and it's still sultry, and also brightening up a bit..

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