Wow, do you have a link?

It could have been Jonesy, but it passed through very quickly. Still lots of lightning around, but its North of the Thames now. Only 2.3mm of rain, that said its the best storm in ages for these parts.

Welcome to TWO Snoozymoon.

Yes, could be in for part 2 later on.

Caught the storm that rolled in on the coast at Brighton about 1am.

I'm about 12 miles north and heard it before I saw it. Quite a lot of booming thunder and when I went to the front of the house the whole sky was lit up with dozens and dozens CC & CG.

Best storm I've seen here for many a year. Lasted about 1½ hrs with lots of frequent flashes. Eerily no rain until about 40 mins in, so was nice watching it roll in sitting in a refreshing breeze. To my west there was a decent storm at a distance which was heavily affecting Gatwick as I watched a number of planes go-around.

I'd suggest flashes every 5 to 10 seconds. Rain was extremely hard so had to retreat indoors. Not sure of rainfall p/h but it dropped 12.8mm in the 15 to 20 mins it was raining for.

Wasn't particularly expecting storms tonight, so wasn't set up photography wise but grabbed a few. (mostly out of focus or over exposed)

Still haven't worked out how to upload or add pictures to the post, so you can find them here.

You can see the aircraft landing at Gatwick getting pretty close to it all. And then in one of the shots, you will see the moon emerging from behind the cloud, whilst massive forked lighting is going off to the left hand side. (never seen that before)

*Edit. Bizarrely whilst typing this, things have kicked off again to my North (but never heard anything go overhead)

So frustrating here close to Birmingham. You could see the lightning from the south and some impressive displays and then BAM, it fizzled out right close to here. Such a shame as the initial lightning was spectacular. Very pink in nature.

Just had another short sharp shower, and I can hear thunder in the distance. Plenty of activity around still, at least in the SE.

Estofex now showing severe storm Level 2 forecast for the South East with the potential for an upgrade to Level 3 threat between midnight tonight and 06z Saturday 

As expected, the Folkestone Rain Deflector is being at its maximum efficiency as it all passes by to my west but that was forecast by the models anyway. Looks like my next chance saloon for this location is Saturday afternoon but even I'm not feeling that one. We shall see.

Surely tonight Ian ? 

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/map/u10fde5dd#?map=Rainfall&fcTime=1405620000&zoom=8&lon=-0.19&lat=51.08

Lucky you as now you would see very high maxes temps under the dry ground but unlikely in here as it very wet.   I was very shocked how this heatwave operated strangely, normally we get thunderstorms after the peak high temperatures not before hand which it common in the US with thunderstorms striking anytime regardless if heatwave or not.  I think that would skewed today temps due to wet ground, high dp, humidity and clouds around.  Usually should be clear skies and bone dry on prior to a hottest day.

Felt like in Oak Lawn, Chicago normal humid morning after overnight storms with high dewpoints and humidity.

Spectacular light display last night from 02:00 to 03:00, although from my vantage point most appeared to be C-C. 6mm of rain too. Really could do with some sleep before tonight though  

A good 5 hours of storms here in Ashington last night, the lightning display over the downs was amazing, had 3 small power cuts as well.

Hardly any rain though and even at 4am this morning it was still 20 degrees, so the storms havnt cleared the air

I undeerstand more are expected this afteroon and could be even worse than last nights !!