More like anaorop as it passed over here and nothing falling from the skies and also in Epsom area that was under the deep echoes also nothing too.

And stop. Well that was short and sweet!

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Certainly a thundery looking sky here. Some bright towers, dark bases, mammatus visible. But so far just a couple of rumbles to my east

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Coming over quite dark grey with occasional deep booming thunder being heard (we had a quick power shower from the "leading" shower cloud about half an hour ago). A shame it isn't night time, though.

UPDATE: Just seen a huge forked lightning flash by as I was typing this, off to spectate.

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You're too late! It was only there for a split second

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Looking at the radar tracks Ian, I think I'm going to get your cast-offs, about 30 mins after you've discarded them!

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http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/observations/city-of-london#?tab=map&map=Rainfall&fcTime=1375387200&zoom=9&lon=-0.08&lat=51.51

White echo heading to Ewell area and I am sure it passed but the Chessington and Epsom weather stations did not record any rain yet.  Anaorop?

 And it appears to be that one and only strike. Going by the radars I think that's my lot for now. But I didn't expect it to be a major thing anyway (which fits my thoughts of "perhaps a rumble in the air" in my Cloud Master page). Looks like North West Kent/East Surrey is copping it at the moment as the lot trundles towards London, though.

 

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The big mass of thunderstorms over the south east can't be more than a mile to my west. I can see the very angry looking storm clouds and hear thunder as well as a few flashes of ligntning. So close!

Earlier I noticed two thunderstorms pass either side of me. The gap between them was right over me.

Rochester is such a frustrating place to live weatherwise!

Woah. Big forked lightning that looked like it hit the ground in the distance.

Yep, it's all sliding past to my east.

As predictable, as death, taxes and corruption in high places.

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Me too (posted in the July thread).  Plenty of lightning and thunder, moving away to the nne now.  3.2mm rain.

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Rumbles of Thunder here

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So close! Ah well, at least I got to see some ligtning in the day time for once

Whats our chances today, up here I Leicester......? Just really overcast/dank sort of set-up... I suppose we need the sun to break through first and generate some heat/cum-nimb before theres even a chance of some action..? Yes / No ?
Cheers
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Approaching storm - one or two rumbles, flashes and bangs, all cloud to cloud.

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Great photo that John (if a bit big!)

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Yep, a classic high based storms.

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I've changed the size now 

All hell breaking loose round here - thunder and lightning all around but at a distance and not overhead.

John

 (and now suddenly quiet in bright sunshine - we appear to be in the gap between two of the three bands currently going across Suffolk)

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Thanks John, the level of sferics activity in your region is very impressive currently

http://meteocentre.com/lightning/ 

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Last time I saw that in Chicago in summer 2011 when it passed by and seeing dark downdraft as the picture above show the same thing.  Nothing happen here as some radar returns was faulty as it passed over here this morning.

There's near continuous thunder rumbling to our south and west but some miles away - the sferics as shown on the Meto pages seem to be fairly accurate. Nothing much near us now, so no more window-rattling bangs for the moment.  I'm not sure whether to be relieved or disappointed.

John

[edit] Higher res pics here and here

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Superb photo

So frustrating to see that line of storms driving up the M11 past Harlow and then turning off up the A11 into Norfolk.

Almost continuous but very distant rumbling and dark sky to my East this morning.

Here, a few drops of rain early on and that's been it.

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Quite amusing that the Met office covered parts of East Anglia and the south east in warnings for Thunderstorms only to remove those warnings yesterday yet those areas have been hit by thunderstorms.

As far as I can tell from reports, these storms appear to be high-based LP cells. The original warning concerned heavy rain, so perhaps the MetO removed the warning as no disruptive rainfall was anticipated?

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Narrow band of black clouds have developed here in the past hour, not much rain getting to the ground as yet despite strong radar returns.

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