I am in hilsea, I could hear the storm rolling in about half hour before rain started. A good 25 min of nearby lightning and nearly an hour of audiable thunder... Rain lasted only 15 minutes but that's fine.

I think it was made a lot better simply because its night. I may not have been as impressed by this storm had it been daylight.

The rain has got here, gone a bit quiet on the lightning front.

Having just arrived its just announced its arrival rather nicely!!

Thunderstorm here now.

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just rain now....heavy at times.

We just had a little rain, just catching the edge of the storm that has gone up the A3 from Portsmouth to Guildford. No thunder heard here; the storm drought continues.

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lightning seen to my south from Hatfield.

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another overnight storm which is going to pass to the south of me here. not had  an over head storm in ages....

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lightning every 30 seconds or so lighting up the high clouds.looks amazing. can just make out the thunder now.

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Nice little storm passed to my east about an hour ago - high based with 5 sec lightning for a while.
Cells in Channel firing nicely moving towards Sussex coast now.

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Thunder here from the SW![thunder]

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Duane back lol.

That's the rain just arrived. Fork lightning now visible.

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Torrential downpour!

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First thunder storm of the summer 

not continuous lightening with about 10min of rain 0.3mm so far

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Duane's never away when there's storms Shazza! He is to storms like a honey pot is to bees. Good to see you back too.

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Rain here just steady now storm is passing to my east.

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These storms seam to be intensifying as they cross the channel and hit the mainland. Brighton looks like its just had a pasting.

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Big storm here. Howling wind, hail, the works. Torrential rain. Frequent lightning etc etc.

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Having bypassed the recent expected storms, now in middle of a decent less than expected storm - lots of cloud to cloud stuff, but the odd cloud to ground, and some torrential rain and blustery winds

Nice 20min storm just passed, big booms and flashes :-D

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Got in from the pub an hour ago to a storm flashing away to the North. That would have been amazing if it had come over head.

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^^ that's the one that I saw to the west. Very bright white flashes of lightning. Soon dissipated though. Looks like it affected Todmorden - the storm capital of the universe. 

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Shame its the early hours, would love known if that storn clipped Essex

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I was woken up around 2 AM by that storm - and there was some absolutely torrential rain (>54mm/hour rate). Unfortunately it's conked out my wireless thermometer / hyrgrometer in the back garden... nuts!

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