Nottingham weather centre 52mm innthe 12 hours to 18:00.

http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~brugge/pmextremes.html

Still only 2.5mm for the month here! LOL

Looking at the radar, it seems dificult to see signs of any French imports coming in overnight, with continental storm developments seemingly too far east to affect the UK.

However, it is interesting to see that the Met Office's forcast map for rainfall continues to suggest that things could once again pep up in the early hours: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/#?tab=map&map=Rainfall&fcTime=1374566400&zoom=6&lon=-4.00&lat=51.53

I'm not expecting a repeat of last night's intensity, it'll be interesting to see if and how these develop.

As one storm drifts away flashing to the NW of Edinburgh a new cell is flashing away to the SSW, lightning looks brighter now its going dark. Just look at the last few hours explosive development over Cumbria, southern and central Scotland!!

Its very still and humid with low lying mist over fields and wooded areas

We've had a full 24 hours of almost continous thunder storms, apart from a couple of hours early afternoon when the sun came out and it got very warm.  It's stopped raining for the moment but I can still hear distant thunder and the sky still looks threatening.  I'm pleased to say that despite all the rain, we have no flooding locally.  The roads have turned to rivers at times but it's all managed to drain away nicely.

We had lots of lightning and thunder here between 6pm & 8pm!,  albeit with very little rain.   Just had some more lightning recently.  

This has been one of the most thundery days in recent years here, although we've only had about 8mm of rain in total today.

As one storm drifts away flashing to the NW of Edinburgh a new cell is flashing away to the SSW, lightning looks brighter now its going dark. Just look at the last few hours explosive development over Cumbria, southern and central Scotland!!

Its very still and humid with low lying mist over fields and wooded areas

Originally Posted by: Caz 

Glad to hear you've got some activity across the border Jerry!  You've missed some really wild action here in Notts, as no doubt your family will tell you!  We've had something on a par with the best storms I've seen in Florida. 

Originally Posted by: Crepuscular Ray 

Thanks Caz, yes I've been reading your reports and I get texts from my daughters in Nottingham. Looks like Notts has seen a lot of action and rain in the last 24 hours!

I thought I'd miss out up here until this mornings fireworks and now there is lightning in all directions lighting up the Edinburgh night sky, there are small cells building within a larger area of thundery rain I think, could be a noisy night!

As one storm drifts away flashing to the NW of Edinburgh a new cell is flashing away to the SSW, lightning looks brighter now its going dark. Just look at the last few hours explosive development over Cumbria, southern and central Scotland!!

Its very still and humid with low lying mist over fields and wooded areas

Originally Posted by: Crepuscular Ray 

Glad to hear you've got some activity across the border Jerry!  You've missed some really wild action here in Notts, as no doubt your family will tell you!  We've had something on a par with the best storms I've seen in Florida. 

Originally Posted by: Caz 

Thanks Caz, yes I've been reading your reports and I get texts from my daughters in Nottingham. Looks like Notts has seen a lot of action and rain in the last 24 hours!

I thought I'd miss out up here until this mornings fireworks and now there is lightning in all directions lighting up the Edinburgh night sky, there are small cells building within a larger area of thundery rain I think, could be a noisy night!

Originally Posted by: Crepuscular Ray 

Good luck!  If you get something half as good as we've had, I'm sure you'll be happy!   

It's gone a little quiet here now but I don't think we've seen the last of the storms because the sky is by no means clear.

Avoided everything here.  Not a  drop of rain and just some distant thunder yesterday evening.  Quite amazing really considering the activity all around us.

Yes was little over Epsom, some dampness outside of our flat in Langley but cloudburst and brief thunder over Slough town when I went there for shopping this morning.  That was it and became sunny and hot with 30.9C in Iver near Langley, despite the ingredients of 30C, 20C dp and high humidity we managed to stay dry all afternoon and evening. In the 80's to early 00's we never miss any thunderstorms and we always get it guaranteed with all nighter storms was very frequent. 

The dew point is water vapour in the air - places like Chicago, New York, and in "Tornado alley" see dew points into the upper 20's! so as you can imagine this helps fuel those massive super cells over there and of course as well as other factors like the hot Gulf of Mexico air bumping into cold air from Canada also helps spawn the storms over there, of course the dew point is just one important factor, but it's by no means the only one.

Cracking storms here this evening. Had to help a neighbour clear the drains to limit the water running down the hill straight into his place. Unbelievable amounts of rain (wish I could give a measurement!), fork lightening and the loudest rumbles of thunder I've heard in the UK for years! Flash flooding in nearby Croglin and it is a very muggy 19.4c now. Started the day with thunder and lightening as well so all in all, lovely stuff! Not the flooding I hasten to add!! But no significant damage done I don't think...

Starting to see some lightning appearing in the eastern sky now.  Looks like another storm is moving N through the east of Lincs right now.

A bit late but i thought i would mention the storm we had here 7-8pm last night.

I was in Manchester at the time so missed it all  bloody typical, sat watching the rainfall totting up rapidly on my phone.

It in fact delivered 26mm of rain in that hour with a peak rate of 113mm/hr, bringing the days rain to 35.8mm.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/brack0a.gif

Tomorrow has the potential for heavy. thundery downpours and again over the weekend.

And I was afraid it might be father off

The BBC weather online always obsessed with wording thundery rain and time and time again I never see once in my life time as only rain available on Earth is Rain/Rain showers or Thunderstorms.  Why they are afraid to use thunderstorm due to health and safely? 

ingredients of 30C, 20C dp and high humidity we managed to stay dry all afternoon and evening. In the 80's to early 00's we never miss any thunderstorms and we always get it guaranteed with all nighter storms was very frequent. 

you know George you are absolutely spot on mate with that statement , i dunno if the internet has ruined the suprise element of storms as back in the day the radio gave me the clue the louder the crackles were on MW the nearer the storm. something has inherintely changed as i remember many summer storms which were all nighters and even the ones that were'nt one was often woke up by loud thunder circa 4am. in them days they did drift due North from France .something that is very rare thesdays . would love to do a case study on this but my 7 children keep me busy thesedays . maybe when im retired i will . regards .

A spelling error on my part.