Had 3 audible thundedlaps here in Leicester....... between 16:50 & 17:05 accompanied by very heavy, borderline tropical! !!
All qiiet again (18:45)
Cheers
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Just had some heavy rain with occasional rumbles of thunder.

My lawn has a few greenish areas now after being strawlike for weeks. We got 15mm from yesterday afternoon's downpour, which coincided with me having to walk to the garage to pick the car up! Drains overwhelmed with the volume of rain in a short space of time, leading to a bit of surface water flooding.

 

Nothing like what my parents reported though - Chivenor in N Devon had 40mm+ in a fairly short period and there was quite a bit of flooding in the usual suspects, eg Braunton and Ilfracombe. Lidl in Ilfracombe flooded causing £2.99 of damage. 

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Not quite on our home patch, but its certainly kicking off over Southern France at the moment. Of course, none of that are expected to come our way anyway.

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A few showers and storms across N.France at present, evening the odd sferic in the English Channel.  Limited risk of showers in the SE today with soundings showing restricted instability for this area. Cloudscape shows some instability this morning though with castellated cloudbases around

Looks like some serious weather has just started over Northwest England according to the Met Office radar !

Gone now - I expect Duane drifted into that area briefly

Lol, if a monster storm had developed you can be sure I'll be somewhere under it.

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Just seen my first pileus clouds of the year. Nothing perticulary photogenic but a first of the season none the less.

Where can I see some good photos of Pileus clouds?
Cheers
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Google it - theres loads on it out there.

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Oh yea, spelt it wrong in original search!! All I got was rice!
Haha!!

Risk of thunder on the CF as it meanders across the SE today. There appears to be a post frontal trough immediately behind the feature which could spark activity this afternoon as well

Cheers for  the heads up Dave. 

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Further to Dave's analysis. there appears to be a post-CF vort max which is capable of generating isolated cells later this afternoon after the main front passes through.
One to watch with half an eye.

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Indeed, that hadn't gone by unnoticed by me as well. In my case, I have been saying it in rather low confidence but I couldn't rule out a "heavy burst of rain somewhere over the South East this afternoon".

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Is this purely a south-east threat? Much chance of east mids getting any action.....?

Seeing as most of the south east sees no thundery activity at all I wouldn't say this is a south east thread

I think you misread "threat" as "thread", I think VSC was asking if today's storm risk-type is going to be a South East feature more than anything. 
  My own thought is that Hampshire, Suffolk, London and Essex may catch something today but it's all tenuous stuff the way I see it. I can't imagine my end seeing anything, which is a pity as my lawn could use a drink and I don't want to run up the water meter.

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Do'h!

serious rod-like tropical rain here in camb for last 20 minutes. some very intense bursts, sounding more like hail, even though it isn't. No thunder though - more a rainstorm than anything else, but very impressive and very windy too. 

Yes, threat not thread!
Anyhow, Emma Jesson (central news weather) has just said, Cov and below for this afternoons thundery activity on the tv weather forecast at 15:00
Think she meant this evening!
Afternoons nearly done at 15:00 imo.
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Did exactly what it said on the tin. Active area across West Suffolk with sferics for some time now. Some impressive congestus in the largely clear sky north of Basingstoke currently

Some hefty showers around this afternoon. A heavy downpour here a short time ago, probably as it developed over Alton. Tested the new guttering on the summer house which is useful

v. heavy showers here . very localised . one side of a 20 acre field dry , the other pouring down. met office got it spot on for here today.