Things are definately becoming more frontal now.

There are two defined areas of precipatation, the one in Ireland is a warm front, and the one on the south coast is a weakning cold front. Still some convective activity, but its clear that they are not just blundering thunderstorms anymore.

WOW just caught some lightning on that Gibby

Wow, that was brilliant, what a show, a few flashes amongst the many a nice hue of green and blues, scary for a moment or two but brilliant, people going out now to turn there alarms off, even our door bell rang.

 Ours does that sometimes when we turn the tv over or someone rings next doors bell

So hope to see a storm this weekend after being teased last Saturday with one that was in the distance.

Frequent flashes visible to the S and SW with some faint rumbles.

The night-outers are going mental over it. Howling like bloomin' wolves! Can't wait until the rain sends them packing

Probably a silly question but can I ask you folk that are having the storms...was these forecast for you tonight?

Yes, for the last few days our local forcasters have mentioned the posibility of thundery showers tonight.

Best lightning display in years and bang on for my thoughts on the matter for once

Flash rates reached 30 per minute so getting into the strobe category.

Rain sporadic and torrential but the event promised to be fairly brief and so it proved.

Proper old school heat storms

Around 1:15 I'm seeing more than a dozen flashes per minute towards the Newbury area, largely hidden behind a veil of cloud, with no precipitation overhead but an ever increasing outflow wind.

1:25-1:40, it's monsoonal outside and lightning seems to be occuring on all sides - truly memorable.

Now, I'm sat at my laptop watching an excellent display of crawling, orange-tinted lightning in the direction of Bracknell. Occasionally there are entire chains of lightning spanning several seconds... all of which are occuring whenever I'm not filming 

As the storms gradually drift away over the horizon, a very hazy moon has materialised.

That's a good sign that the air is clearing readily behind the storms.

The main potential spanner in the works now is the possible formation of some low cloud in response to the air aloft becoming relatively warmer than that near the surface due to the effects of evaporation. This is something that the high-res models started making a lot of on the past few runs, with a notable restricting effect on tomorrow's temperatures across the central swathe of the UK - held back in the low to mid 20's as opposed to soaring into the high 20's to near 30*C.

Hopefully that won't come to pass, or that any low cloud melts away very quickly tomorrow morning.

Westminster seems to be recieving one of the greatest storms of them all at the moment - I can still see very frequent lightning lighting up extremely tall cloud tops! 

It's also the most orange I can ever recall having the fortune to witness.

Its quite noisy out there at the moment, but looking at the lightning maps there is not anything particularly close right now. However, provided it keeps going, the cell that came ashore around Brighton/Worthing could give me some excitement a little later.

Storm has gone through now, frequent lightning and thunder, gusty winds and heavy rain.

temp 17.2c, down 1.4c in past hour.

wind gusting 22mph

rain 2.8mm

Yeah yeah, love it