Yep, severe amounts of lightning in that. Those in Dorset and Somerset at the moment are getting a right treat!

Reports I have read say it's mostly elevated. So maybe not as spectacular as the sferics suggest. 

Perhaps not so spectacular right now, but if it's still around when it starts to go dark then it certainly will be! Shame there isn't really much hope for anything up this end of the country.

Growing dark to the south of here as a line of heavy storms not far away now.

Edit sudden cloud burst here out of nowhere!!

Thunder!

Interesting how this system began life. I was up early this morning 3.00am and looked at the radar before leaving for a fishing beach near Weymouth. There were a number of what looked like tiny cells in the Channel between Jersey and Portland. I went as there were no thundery cells at the time so it would have been safe. Later in the morning about 9.00am the system began its rapid formation in a long elongated line of showers running south to north and I thought we would be in the firing line. Sadly we were about a mile out and the main developing storms passed to our west. So although we could hear thunder we were out of the firing line with just a little moderate rain. Like previous recent events it seems high level stuff, so the radar although it looks impressive might not be so spectacular on the ground. 

Nick

Well the shields managed to divert the cell away from Evesham itself, but we still copped for some heavy rain and a fair bit of thunder.

Don't think it's all over by any means yet, either.    Meanwhile, World Lightning Central is moving from Dorset to the east Cotswolds ....

Dark and breezy and thundering again.

Dark as hell here and still thundering!

The rain is coming though as I'm right on the edge of the mass.

Heavy rain now.

The worst of the rain is still yet to come to.

Thunder!

Thunder and lighting here proper this time.

We had a thunderstorm earlier this afternoon, plenty of lightning and thunder with a lot of fork lightning, (so I was told) working in a play school putting up shelves and a bit of concrete work all day so apart from hearing the thunder booming outside missed the whole bleeding shebang

I was up near Badminton in Gloucestershire in the Cotswolds and the lightning was proper forked lightning straight to the ground. I was exhibiting my crafts in an open field and was real glad the storm cell stayed just a mile to the East of me. Real ground shaking thunder though and was a real benefit watching it from about as short and safe a distance as possible with the vantage point I had.

A  few flashes and rumbles to the E & SE of here just now in Criccieth N. Wales 

Edit: 0102 BST = Heavy rain easing, activity moving northwards.

Umm .. torrential rain now!

0109 = all quiet now - rain ceased. Feels very warm and muggy out there 

Quite an interesting mass of torrential rain and thunderstorms across North Wales at the moment, all very gradually moving north-eastwards:

Caught some sheet lightning on my timelapse last night

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0-E26uMg5v4

There was a reasonable lightning display from that, here in Criccieth