Several rumbles of thunder here between 6 and 7pm BST. Yet again it moved by to the east. Like yesterday, an intense double rainbow formed Some moderate rain briefly, from the anvil top on this occasion.

There has been mention of a thundery element to the current rain system. There appears to be some decent activity in NW England currently

something a bit thundery looking approaching the weymouth area now

Yes a few local cells have developed on the brighter side of the rain area to the West. Not seen anything electrified yet but a small but intense downpour has just formed to my South and crossed through my little patch giving 2mm of rain in 10 minutes. Have the Met got a contingency plan to bale them out of an otherwise shambolic forecast for many today.

Lightning now reported close to Weston-Super-Mare.

Starting to look pretty active in that area suddenly. Also watching the stuff approaching SW Hampshire

Okay, I take my comment in the Model Output Discussion thread back; it's far from benign here with torrential rain ongoing for nearly 10 minutes now. This is the heart of the storm... but there's no lightning or thunder to be seen or heard.

This is probably the biggest single downpour I've seen this year so far

http://estofex.org/

Just had a read of this. The main bit of interest is:

"Additional storms are forecast over the southern British Isles along an approaching convergence line. Due to the strong vertical wind shear, bowing segments are forecast capable of producing severe wind gusts. Additionally, tornadoes are not ruled out."

The convergence line is the one currently crossing Bristol, so this torrential rain spell I've just had is surplus... slowly winding down now after turning all the local roads into rivers. Should be interesting effects over at the nearby mini-meadow, which often sees the neighbouring stream taking over at short notice.

The sky is turning black from the south here in Hook, Hampshire, and looking at the radar... surely this can't miss us now?

It looks like we're about to get a significant period of heavy rain, for the first time since May maybe? I don't know, I can't remember the last time we had heavy rain!

Heavy rain thunder and lightning

Another tropical downpour here... very warm rain.

At this rate I'll be at the August LTA rain total by the end of the day!

Its got very very dark in Camberley!

Chucking it down at the moment, not seen any lightning as yet, although the office light thats gone is constantly catching me out!

Mostly moderate rain here in Hook with some heavier bursts. Certainly no sign of any thunder or lightning. However, after weeks of storms and heavy showers missing us to the North, South, East and West, finally we've got some useful rain here and back at home as well; probably about 10mm or so when this has cleared.

It was noticeable how much greener everything was in Oxfordshire yesterday when we went to Blenheim Palace. Our lawn is still pretty dead in places after hardly any rain for over a month.

Pouring here at the moment.

No thunder though.

Very dark from the SW here with heavy/very heavy to locally torrential rain not far away.

Edit; Just starting to rain now!

Heavy rain here now!

Torrential now!

The intermittent rain refuses to let up fully, but it has brightened up a bit now.

So now it's time to wait and see if the convergence line produces anything noteworthy as it tracks across areas east of Wiltshire and south of the Midlands - that's the region covered by the Estofex Lvl1. Currently it seems to be entirely devoid of electrification so it's going to need to pep up soon, although severe wind gusts are theoretically possible even without thunder and lightning.

Torrential rain, rr/hr 103.9mm

Came over black as the ace of spades a few minutes ago, even a bit of rotation in the frontal edge, I thought it might give a bit of thunder or something but hardly a drop of rain fell  from it, weird weather.

Same here Jim. I think the front has weakened quickly and the wind change on the leading edge of the front has become dislodged ahead of the main precipitation band, so that has become weaker as the precipitation itself has. I must admit I thought there was a good chance of a big squall deluge from this with the odd clap of thunder but hey ho not to be. 

I thought roughly the same. Now here the sun is shining through a very thin veil of cloud and it's raining, getting stranger by the minute

Very dark the the S/SE of here and thunder has been heard.

Outbreaks of rain from the SW here some heavy continues.

Typically, the first wodge of rain clears this area and turns thundery further NE