Heavy showers underway.

Thinking was that tomorrow would be largely dry but Tomasz Shufflecrusher has indicated that it will be showery again. Focus on NE England this time

Yep, focus today should be SE Scotland, NE England, Yorks, parts of E. Mids and, errr... Lincolnshire.

You could be Prima Locii today, Ben, with a decent looking shortwave impulse enhancing instability aloft and lifting those parcels.
I also see the lowest 850/500 temps of just above freezing and -26 respectively are centred across the NE at 15Z.

Hot spot is always Lincolnshire Neil, you know that. 

Bit much in the way of crud left over from the earlier showers for my liking around here. In all seriousness, I would say NE of here into Teeside/Durham/Newcastle may be the best spot.

But the morning crud will clear by 11am in +30C temps, won't it? Ooops, wrong country LOL.

Looks quite active just to the NE of Leeds, heavy rain/hail and sferics - any Leeds dwellers seeing anything?

Had a couple of torrential downpours earlier, looks like more showers to come......

thunderstorm just passed to the north of here (near doncaster) frequent lightening (mostly c-c) and moderate gusts, torrential rain for a couple of minutes, sun now out showing off the blackness as it moves away.

Heavy showers.

Bit of a wicked storm here surprisingly!!!  Black outside, lights on and Sky has done a disappearing act!!

Had a sudden torrential burst of rain a few minutes ago.

Had a good thunder storm at teatime with some very heavy bursts of rain. 

Flashes and bangs towards the coast now - radar has really sparked up the last hour - dry so far.

Much lightning activity were seen just off the coast between 0.00 and 02.00 hrs last night. Also heard faint rumbles of thunder.

WHY are they always "freak" !

its a lightning strike striking something thats what they do FFS

if one strikes my house and tidys up my shed n paints the fence THEN it'll be a freak

jurno's muppets the lot of them.

Not really showing up on NAE but recent radar and latest WRF shows quite an active cold front element to the system as it moves SE this afternoon, especially further east on it's line.
Wouldn't be surprised to see some decent squall elements and deeper convection producing activity across EA and into the SE from 4pm.

Squall line about to go though here and very dark!

Torrential rain now!