My afternoon adventure!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AmFwtkuqLY

Love the rattle and splat of those spring showers, with the low hanging shafts clearing almost instantly to blue. Marvellous

I was cycling to town in bright sunshine when all of a sudden... towering clouds and hail.

It wasn't very dramatic to be honest, pea sized at best, but I did have to stop moving for a bit 

Sunny all day in Edinburgh apart from a rogue, brief but heavy soft hail shower at 1pm. White shafts lit by sun speeding towards me, I just knew it was soft hail!

Yes - it all came together nicely!

I might of known you would be in the think of it Dave!

Wait til summer!

I'm armed with a Galaxy S3 now which takes good video clips so watch out

Thanks

Seen a lot of hail this year as well. Kind of makes up for the lack of snow!

Already seeing some sferics off the Dutch coast this morning.

A showery set-up for the south-east today and into the evening with some heavy stuff possible, even wintry over high ground

Hi Dave! I'm sure people are waiting for someone to say this, so I might as well say it anyway.
  If it is mid-Janaury right now, we'd probably be dealing with a Channel snow streamer getting ready to move inland to give us snow later on in the day. But, as things stand, it is all too little and too late for it since there are no real surface continental or upper deep cold to tap into.
  That said, though, we may JUST about get to see some wintriness should any of the showery stuff peppering the South East today does get heavy enough later on in the day (late afternoon/early evening?).
 

Yep some lively showers are possible later today and though Tomorrow and Friday and the risk of thunder.

Showers now developing well inland, away from those that are already in the east. Just had some hail

Heavy showers here in South Cambs alternating rain and hail.

Plenty of sharp showers to my N/NE of here and looking angry to!

Dark with heavy hail and sleet!

Sleet on and off for the past hour, pity we get winds from the east 2 months to late 

 Had a real heavy hail/sleet shower accompanied with thunder, lasted about 5mins and gave a covering, mile and half down road had nothing.

Very dark looking to the NE of here sort of thundery look to it to.

2nd round of thunder here, along with some heavy rain

Some nice bright forks here, really getting going now 

Had a CG strike not far from my building... almost immediate crash of thunder 

Some pea-sized hail fell with the rain, but it was sporadic, and the rain not that impressive - must have caught only the edge of the cell.

It's a funny old day really, with storms tracking NW and temperatures in the high single figures... like a summer setup without the heat, although it does feel a bit muggy out there.

Very dark and thundery looking sky's here with heavy rain to my south with the odd lighting strike mixed in.

As I said in the current conditions thread earlier, I saw a plane coming into Heathrow being struck by lightning. Quite a sight.