In the 24 hours to 21z yesterday Westonbirt in Gloucestershire saw 78.8mm of rain

Reports of hail the size of tennis balls in the storm cells on the French side of the Channel yesterday evening

http://www.english.rfi.fr/environment/20140720-storms-cut-power-thousands-french-homes-scouts-struck-lighting

Some really dark clouds towering over Norwich, thunder and lightning has quietened down and rain finally picking up. It'had been remarkably quiet here when considering how threatening the skies looked.

A wild period down here but the main cells passed north and south - unusually, no power loss for us.

Some pics of the northern supercells which produced large hail here -

http://www.keraunos.org/actualites/fil-infos/2014/juillet/orage-19-juillet-ile-de-france-nord-aquitaine-limousin-auvergne-grele-rafales-de-vent-pluie-intense.html

The graph of lightning strikes from last 24 hours.

http://i.imgur.com/8aDIM38.png

Saw 1 lightning strike to WNW at approx 15.35 hrs. Didn't hear thunder; I think it must have been 15-20 miles away. 

Bloody hell! Flash flooding in Teynham (nr Sittingbourne, Kent) from this afternoon's storm:

A rumble of thunder here but nothing too close on radar returns.

Sittingbourne:

Sittingbourne-on-Sea ^^^

I can hear the odd rumble in the distance. The sky is dark to my west from that line of storms that tracked down the A1, and now a couple of cells have fired up to my east.  A little oasis of nothing here as usual, but I can smell rain on the breeze from the outflow.

Can hear thunder coming from a new storm to the north of me, seems to be edging this way.

And just now, a flash of lightning and loud rumble.

We have thunder here in Hatfield.

The near-stationary storms to the east are visible as ominous skies from Reading, but they're not stopping the sun from shining down and maintaining a very warm feel to things with an air temperature sitting nicely in the mid-20's.

On this occasion, I'm okay with no storms, as I'm putting in a days work after being too distracted from Thursday evening up to yesterday evening.

UPDATE. Sheet lightning observed here in Hatfield..

Only sheet lightning observed so far. Clouds are building still and the thunder is getting louder. Looking at raintoday it seems to have spawned from nothing and is moving SSE...

The crazy thing is Caz, this is nothing but rainwater from the storms this afternoon! Gravesend was also quite badly hit with flash flooding.

I should add for crediting purposes, the 2 photos I've posted are from the Twitter feed @Kent_999s

Good pic here on twittersphere, not a single rumble here though.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtF7ZmPCQAA85Kh.jpg

Paul Hudson‏@Hudsonweather

Lightning strikes Emley moor transmitter on saturday from Sarah Hargreaves pic.twitter.com/2E5rNv8d7e