Absolutely tanking it down with rain now and some pretty nast flashes of lightning, all this from apparently nothing half an hour ago.

Last night around 10pm I thought I saw a couple of distant flashes to my West but nothing was showing on the lightning map.

I can see one or two very very distant flickers of lightning on the SSE horizon..feels kind of weird in the warm haze. Feels very summery at 18.7c. 

MIssed a cracking storm in Alton late this afternoon apparantly but I'm in Bath and we've had some thunder and lightning recently :)

I don't think thunder is unusual at any time of the year - I've witnessed thundersnow here in the depths of Winter. But for sure they are more likely to happen in hotter/humid weather.

There's a cell going mental to the East of here probably the Trowbridge area, flashes every couple of seconds and close enough to here the constant thunder.

One of the most electrically violent storms I've ever seen now in Bath

An absolute barnstormer of atmospheric pyrotechnics over the last hour with 17mm of rain in 20 mins. Power outages and many close cloud to ground strikes. This has really been an impressive summer for storms over this end of Somerset.

I need to move to Bath - This has been amazing

hi Gibby

wow that storm is amazing more like spanish  summer storm not uk at the end of summer , thx for the live cam . have you got sound like to hear the rumbles .

Sounds like some of you are having fun and games this evening! Does look impressive on the lightning radar, hope y'all stay safe.

Over here, there has been a couple of faint distant flashes in the haze over the Channel but it seems to be a very isolated feature, one that appeared to have died on the spot anyway.