Looks to be slipping by to the west of Aberdeen.  Normal service resumed...

The day is still young and if I'm reading the models correctly the potential is still there until this evening.

Even though the main risk has passed for North West England, there's quite a lot of sunshine and instability at the moment, so the chance of the odd isolated storm later this afternoon can't be completely ruled out:

Storm seems to have fired NE of Liverpool, so yes.

Similar skies here but it's all shunting away NEwards now with clear skies moving in from the west - I think it's game over for this neck of the woods! Not a drop of rain out of this system! The sky, looking west at noon - now clear in that direction.

We had the thunder here between 7am and 10am this morning with some torrential rain and very dark with it. Much better day now though!

Frequent rumbles from the south .. unexpected!!

Edit: 16.01 - Thunder is now constant and just to the S and SE - mostly cc activity.

Still not a drop of rain here and the activity has now moved off to the East. Quite a bit of activity now between Leek and Bakewell.

Some locally intense cells have developed in the West Midlands and way off to the SW of here!!

Hot and humid, 29c.

Come to me storms please.

Yes as Weatherfan and Duane have reported, a pretty big cell moving eastwards across South Cheshire at the moment. Looks like there's some pretty frequent lightning in it too:

I'm not sure why every image I post gets crushed up..?

Radar is looking good to the SW of here!

Growing darker to the SW to.

The sun now going behind the huge thunderhead right now as it turns very hazy.

Looking like that activity around Congerstone and surrounding areas should reach you, Duane 

Dark and very humid but no thunder yet.

Giant spots of rain starting to come down.

Still not thunder yet.

Thunder!

Edit; constant thunder now.

Tropical rain now!

Edit; strong gusty winds to.

Hail stones now!!!

The sun is out and the rain is easing but with hail mixed in.

Nasty little storm that was.

Almost continuous distant rumbling from my north now. The line of cells managed to squeeze past just to my west with only one short lived shower here. Very dramatic sky looking west. Nothing to my east.

Impressive anvil just creeping towards us now, quite a bit of mammatus can be seen too.  In the far southern sky I can also see the top of the storm much further south towards Nottingham.

EDIT:  And very suddenly the clouds disintegrate, with virtually no trace of the storm that was approaching!

That was a nasty little storms with large hail mixed in with that tropical rain.

Sun is now out and feeling a little fresher than it did.