Still a fair bit of thunder and lightning nearby here, looks like Great Yarmouth area was in the most active part of the storm.

Surprised nothing is coming up on the lightning radar round here because it's quite frequent.

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The chance of thunderstorms continues today, chiefly for eastern areas, in response to daytime heating. Showers should die away by dusk.

The Met Office highlights the risk of torrential downpours, gusty winds and large hail. 

The 0Z GFS suggests there could be in excess of 1000J/kg of CAPE and LI of -4 in places early this evening: http://modeles.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfs/runs/2014072000/gfs-11-18.png?0

Apart from some very distant flickering from storms over Bedfordshire on Thursday night, and two rumbles from a feeble cell that passed by to my east on Friday morning, this much discussed stormy spell has yet to deliver something of real interest IMBY. South Cambs must be one of the worst locations in the world for interesting weather.

The map below does show that eastern Norfolk, eastern Suffolk and eastern Kent are the thunder HQ in July.  This 30 year average is derived from plume events amongst other thunder spawning events; which over a 30 year period, tend to play out in the way the current spell has, as the mapped average suggests.  In this context, the events of the past few days should be seen as "normal".

Heavy showers breaking out to the north of here and up into northern England on net radar.

Very humid here again after a slightly fresher evening yesterday.

Pretty active thunderstorms have developed in the Ipswich area, again convergence showing in wind field maps.

Some pretty dark clouds to the south here and very distant rumbles of thunder.

In Kent: Some sudden explosive developments around Ashford, towards Hastings too!

It seems that humid, sultry air remains firmly in place today, with the dewpoint here at 17*C and the air temperature 23*C.

In sunny spells, there remains the feeling of being pressure cooked.

The high moisture content in the air is also in evidence; a bottle of cold water becomes dripping wet on the outside within the space of half an hour!

There's a lot of cumulus about at the moment, and some cumulus congestus, but nothing really kicking off at this time. Interesting that there's a surface flow from the NW but an upper flow from the SE - how's that for directional wind shear? 

For the last twenty minutes, there has been continuous distant thunder to the east of here. And I mean continuous!

Some rumbles from the south east as well.

[edit] Having posted this, it's just quietened down quite a bit.

I think the storms in EA/Kent are feeding/persisting in a more favourable sheared environment, hence they have rapidly grown into T-storms and are longer lived. Those further north are more pulse-type cells in a less favourable environment, so they are generating/fading quite quickly without becoming persistent lightning producers.

Freeze fram the 14:30 radar! Look how the heavy returns echo the main rain pulses coming from the SE!

Almost constant Thunder has died a little, Very large rain drops briefly with clouds moving in opposite directions and a stiff breeze picking up. Reports of 38mm of rain falling in parts of Suffolk in just a few minutes.

I bet Southen Pier is a good place to be right now! Look at that beauty in the Thames Estuary!