Some heavy showers about with some thunder no far from B'ham.

Lashing it down here with some small hail mixed in, drop in temperature too only 14.7C, after a high of 18.6C.

12.5mm of rain so far today. Looks like much more to come later and tomorrow.

Dark here with heavy rain just stating.

Thundery looking sky's to.

TV forecasts (BBC and ITV) suggest it could be a noisy night in the SE in the early hours with thundery imports.

Yep, they are just starting develop over north France 

thundering and lightning at seaford east sussex

May get something out of that package of activity that's currently moving along towards the Strait of Dover in from the SSW. At the moment it's all quiet, calm and dry.

They're not imprts per se. They've developed in response to an upper trough caught in a field of raised theta-e wafting across the Channel ahead of the main trough. A few lines of storms will move into E Sussex and Kent early hours.

I did not have a clue about this.

Thunderstorm developing to my south at the moment with some decent discharges.

Completely surprised 

Kent clipper thunderstorm in progress...torrential rain. 

18c and calm 

A short thunderstorm here early this morning.

Torrential rain at the moment but no thunder. Rain rate of 64mm/hr

Are you Duane's lovedaddy?

We had a small overnighter pay us a short visit, but it wasn't particularly loud. Just more of an 'irristorm'

Right now, I'm looking at that mass skirting the coast - France as usual getting a good hammering.

Torrential rain and hail. Frequent lightning.

Originally Posted by: Matty H 

Are you Duane's lovedaddy? We had a small overnighter pay us a short visit, but it wasn't particularly loud. Just more of an 'irristorm' Right now, I'm looking at that mass skirting the coast - France as usual getting a good hammering.

Originally Posted by: Jive Buddy 

Good god what an awful thought 😮

Originally Posted by: Matty H 

I know, but with today's modern therapists, I'm sure he could seek help and consolation

Distant rumblings from The SW around to the NW mid/late afternoon and a few more earlier this evening. Impressive cloudscapes - nice to watch in the sunshine

How's this for a localised thing? Right now as I type this, Hythe and Sandgate (3 to 6 miles away to my west) are experiencing flash flooding and thunder thanks to a localised slow moving heavy shower - yet here at the Harbour end at Folkestone all I got to see was about ten minutes of spitty rain blowing about in the brisk wind, and now the sun is trying to come out again.
   Does look dark and threatening to my west - like it has been so for the past hour. 

EDIT: It is now raining moderately.

Still blowing that trumpet, or sucking on it now?

Reports of a funnel cloud off Ramsgate this morning, photo on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/Kent_999s/status/496251782499418112/photo/1

Oh and now reports from the places I just walked through! Missed them by minutes

https://twitter.com/Kent_999s/status/496380780936183808/photo/1

https://twitter.com/Kent_999s/status/496380913744621568/photo/1

Never blow your trumpet until after the event...  Infact rule 1 of forecasting..never blow the trumpet in the first place Ian. .

Another thunder day ticked off in the diary...thats 18 thunder days this year now. 

EDIT...30.0mm today from Hythe 5 miles down the road...5.2mm here in Folkestone