It's a bit like a back building exercise here as no sooner one shower/storm passed another heads in. They seem to be developing around Bruton and Shepton Mallet then following the A367 North towards Bath.

Outside of my zone it looks like the area between Pembrokeshire and the Brecons is having a lively early evening too.

Anyone between Wells and Shepton Mallet at the moment must be getting hammered by rain and lightning. I'm a little away to the NE but constant rumbling thunder and steadily darkening light levels looks very ominous.

This is rapidly becoming one of the most noteworthy if local thunder events of recent years around here. From 16:00 hrs thunder began and has continued more on than off until now and it's still going. Mendip area has been clobbered by torrential rain and lightning and after a brief lull it's back building yet again.

I've heard loads of thunder Gibby but as you have said in the direction of Shepton Mallet way for sure, we had one good rumble overhead but nothing more than that.

11 July 2012 

Stuck for 3-4 hours or so under the central line of a local convergence zone that brought one after another of violent thunderstorms. The line spawned approx from just west of stokes bay to Selsey, and sign waved a little allowing the storms to occasionally clip the IOW and towns such Horndean, and Cowplain to the north of Portsmouth. This left my location being either clipped from the north, south, or hit directly.

My location at the time was near southsea seafront and I was several floors up with a good view of the surrounding area. My location was under continuess rain for the whole time, but some of the storm cores where severely intense with rain. The local gosport station was recording rain rates over 160mm and hour at times!!! 

I witnessed the cores come in one after another and the best way to describe them was a wall of dense fog obscuring everything under it as it approached, I watched a building some 400-500 meters away vaninsh in some of the cores... These cores were pure rain!!! And lasted 5-10 minutes a time.

That afternoon locally 4-6 inches of rain fell.. The common was ankle deep in water, and the council mobile pump units were in action none stop clearing the roads that had become lagoons and rivers. 

The thunder lightning was notable but not that memorable as we get worse, however quite a few properties got struck. It was the very localised intense rain that went on for quite a few hours that was memorable.

Cells  are bubbling up around here.  Distant thunder heard - Looks to be to my  North East   (to the east of Newbury, around Beenham and Woolhampton.

likewise I have a downpour just to my west that's developed in last hour. No lightning detected yet.

Storms also developing over Dover Strait.

There was a couple of real house shaking crashes of thunder in the night between midnight and 2am. 11.8mm fell. 

Thundery showers from warmish plumes have become quite common this Spring. Lets hope the pattern continues into real Summer. 

We had two flashes but no crashes  early yesterday evening, with a few scattered heavy raindrops in the garden. 

Hi Alan - yes, I was in Salisbury last night and it remained largely dry until after 11pm although thunder was rumbling at times.

Then there was an absolute cloudburst which went on for 15 to 20 minutes. The rain was deafening in our accommodation and drowned out any thunder. Rain rates of 100mm ph or more were being picked up from these localised cells and I can quite believe it! 

Arome picked yesterday's showers very well. Here's the view for later today:

http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twodata/arome.aspx

intense downpour lasting some 40 minutes or so in Polegate between 10am and 11 am no thunder  but there were a few rumbles last night

Brighton way looks to be getting an absolute pasting so far today 💦⚡️

it was torrential in polegate just north of eastbourne but local stations at ratton and willingdon recording nothing so very localised but intense

Not UK I know, but friends stuck at Amsterdam airport, no flights leaving , seen some amazing lightning on Twitter

Anyone living a few miles North and South of Great Yarmouth should have a good view of an approaching storm.

That's put my mind at ease a little, my new Vue says around 45mm has fallen thus far, which is after another 3hrs of rainfall since your post. Max rain rate around 3:30 with 92.2mm HR. 

We have avoided the worst of it so far, though rain rates were up to 50mm/hour just a while ago, only 9mm of rain has fallen, which is welcome for topping up the pool and watering the  garden.

The rain has continued in various levels of intensity since my last post. Total now 61.6mm. I'll need to see some official local readings before deciding whether to believe it or not!