Heavy rain now .Looking at the latest radar the storm is heading up the A1m.

Got hail now quite intense.

Active storm over W Suffolk, plus of course, N of London. You can see it here (for those outside the storms),

http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en.

This is a pretty good storm here.Plenty of CG and we still have heavy rain here.Should have a impressive rainfall amount when it is finshed.

This is currently almost directly overhead our house. A few rumbles already.

A couple from half hour ago as storm moved off to my NW

Had a storm last night about 3am.  Pretty loud and loads of flashes.

Past rainfall radar worth a look to see the explosive development from a pinpoint at 1500 (London) or 1600 (Ipswich) to a major storm cell inside an hour.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/observation/map/gcp3nqsgd#?map=Rainfall&fcTime=1411106400&zoom=7&lon=-2.88&lat=50.84

'Ullo, what's this? A small but lively cell has just sprouted up over the Strait of Dover and can see lightning flashing away to my south.

It's being quite an impressive number with fast and frequent strobe lightning bolts stabbing away inside the cell at the rate of one a second, that's how fast it is being and all safely out of harms away over the sea. But I have to head down to the beach to get a better view of it as trees and buildings are in the way of it.

Looks like we might  be in for an interesting night in Guernsey...

Lightning getting more and more frequent. heavy rain now started. thunder is almost constant now.

watching positive strikes on  www.lightningmaps.org

Just had an amazingly bright lightning and power outage...