Just a quick guess of lightning maps - maybe about 40-50 strikes !

Lightning activity seems to have suddenly died off, trough about to pass through my area so we'll see what happens.

Just had a crack of thunder. Moderate sleet shower at the moment. Can see the snowflakes higher up in the sky.

Edit: had a short blast of hail and it tried to turn to snow just then. Mad weather. 

Ended up with a few purple lightning strikes right above, flash bang! Lots of graupel followed by snow leaving a slushy covering. 

Yep, as you said it lost it's oomph as it came over. CF still producing some activity, but the shower activity starting to show over NI and in the Irish Sea will be the story over N. England later I suspect.

Yes, lots of shower activity brewing. Hard to tell exactly what will happen but anywhere stuck under a train of showers with a bit of elevation should get a decent snowfall I'd guess.

Big crash of thunder here, followed by a tremendous hail storm . Very very heavy and sccumslted hail in piles on the windowsills 

Hail shower with a rainbow

Just 2 days with thunder here so far, that was on 26th April and 27th March. Last year only saw 5 thunder days here - July 1st was the first properly thundery day with some large cells close by, tho' there were some distant rumbles on March 1st.

2014 saw 19 thunder days here - between January 25th and December 25th! 

Certainly some potential for storms today, with the showery activity out to the west having the potential to produce the odd storm and the low risk of more intense storms firing further east as temperatures rise during the afternoon. These storms further east are likely to be very hit and miss , if they get going at all. Orographic factors likely to come into play, so Peak District, Pennines etc. are favoured. If I were to stick a pin in the map, then the snow capital of England, Sheffield, would be the sweet spot for me, but wouldn't rule out storms firing in the Midlands before tracking north.

MetO warnings:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/#?tab=map&map=Warnings&zoom=5&lon=-3.50&lat=55.50

Cells have developed and are developing around Northamptonshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire.

A small cell has been forming over the house for the last hour or so and now slowly moved off to the north west and has kicked off with quite a lot of thunder heard from my garden.

Heavy showers here with some hail and increasingly dark to the south of here.

Very humid to.

Thunder!

Rapid developments to the S/SE of here with rainfall up to 200mms per hour.

Very dark and thundering.

Just missed out here.

The  cells seemed to initiate  over the downs to the north of Newbury and  develop as they drifted North  and West.  Nothing much to the south of us - although there appear to be some developments over France.

Just got my internet connection back at last.

Wow, that was one hell of a severe thunderstorm/s with frequent lighting and continuous thunder/bangs/crashes with torrential/tropical rain.

22mms from that storm.

Oh, to be back home in the East Mids!  Starting to get some deep distant rumbles over here in E. Cheshire 

It was the best storm here for 2 years John.

Very dark here again from the south.

It's going to miss here but I've got a good viewpoint to the S/SW where it will skirt past us. If it can keep it's intensity it might be a good one to view from a few miles away 

Nice to see you posting about storms again - the true beginning of the stormy season is here 

All quiet here now - a cell did pass by between Leek and Buxton - just in ear-shot lol! The year after we left East Leake there was a massive storm with golf ball-sized hail that wrote a few cars off - so we escaped that! It can be quite thundery over here but often it's the one crack wonders that move through the Cheshire Gap!

WRF have zero convection tonight for the South, but E4 do. Cells now leaving the French coast could deliver from Hampshire west around midnight.