We’ve just had the mother of thunderstorms!

[Sheknowsaboutme]

bloodyhell, haven’t experienced one that ferocious for years! Terribly loud thunder, the type that shakes your home. Flash flooding too in some areas.

But now we’ve got sunshine and warmth again🙂

Have you had a thunderstorm?

[SistemaAddict]

NM here too and it's a very weird sky. The street lights have come on already and the north west sky is very pink. I am eagerly awaiting the excitement.

[PimlicoJo]

Nothing here in south east London. I'm sitting in my garden with a glass of wine and it's a beautiful evening.

[Purpleice]

North East Wales. We had a tango orange sky, thunder and rain. Looked really weird

[Kindlethefourth]

Wolverhampton. Torrential rain, pitch black at 8pm. Electrical storm lightning. Thunder so loud the house shakes. Second night on the run. It's fabulous.

[TroysMammy]

Bit of thunder and lightning which is moving rapidly away but no rain at the moment.

[WingBingo]

Thunder, lightning and pouring with rain in Brecon Beacons.

It’s fantastic.

[LadyArse]

[quote WhereDoesThisToiletGo]www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en[/quote]
I love this. It's so addictive.
Come to me, little flashy dots. Please?!

[PickAChew]

The little flashy dots are even better when you activate the sound tracker.

[Piggywaspushed]

Well, I am glad now that it hasn't rained as I juts found my phone outside...

[LadyArse]

@PickAChew

The little flashy dots are even better when you activate the sound tracker.

There's sound? Omg. I'm going to be up all night now.

[ILiveInSalemsLot]

Still no sign of rain but also cloudy skies so no meteor watching either.
At least it’s cooled down now.

[MitziK]

It sounds like a Geiger-Muller tube.

I switched it off.

[SistemaAddict]

Dd has just reported flashes but from the map they appear to be over Macclesfield way again.

[MitziK]

@ILiveInSalemsLot

Still no sign of rain but also cloudy skies so no meteor watching either.
At least it’s cooled down now.

What? It's cooled down? Where?

Still fucking 34 Celsius upstairs and 30 downstairs.

I really, really, REALLY miss my old flat. Poxy flat, poxy area, but right up the top of a hill with nothing stopping the air coming over from the Rother estuary and blowing through the balcony door. Never got over 27 in there.

[ILiveInSalemsLot]

It’s still hot inside but cooled down outside. I want to put my bed in the garden. Don’t care if I get rained on.

[SistemaAddict]

Ah, here's the thunder!

[homecomingcabbie]

We have the lightning again but no rain or thunder, we've also got a power cut

[homecomingcabbie]

And it's not cooled down either, we can't use the cooling fan either of course

[RedToothBrush]

Dh has just driven back from North Wales on the M56. Said worst driving conditions hes ever seen. At one point before he got on the motorway he had to stop (with friends travelling in convoy), and they weren't sure they were going to be able get home.

I hadn't wanted him to go tbh, and of course the amber warning only was announced 30 mins after he left.

So its BAD out there in places. A lot of people are going to have a very bad night.

[homecomingcabbie]

Storms over Wales and west England

[40somethingJBJ]

I’m currently in a very small caravan in Cheshire and it’s fucking horrible here! We’ve had a biblical kind of storm - enough rain to create a river effect through the campsite, plus a good few hours of thunder and lightning. My vans leaked, we’re all soaked and I’m bloody fed up! At least it’s cooled gown a tiny bit though!

[ErrolTheDragon]

Thunder and rain in Lancashire at the moment - the rain is hard but not as torrential and the thunder not quite as bad as the Monday night storms.

[Devlesko]

This is the fourth we've had.
I started a thread for one of them as it was amazing and weird. Deadly silence, no thunder.
Then one with freak hailstones, then hours of rain.
And the one tonight when the thunder was so loud.
I love a good storm and Greater Manc has had lots, it's a lot cooler now.

[KatherineJaneway]

Still no rain or storms in London They (Met office) keep promising rain then consistently move the goal posts. Temp is only due to be 27 today.

[MitziK]

Up at 5, was suspicious of a light misting at 6.40am.

Come 7am, it rained properly for about 20 minutes and is now raining lightly.

I feel great for the first time in weeks. All that's left is some lovely thunder and lightning to clear the air properly and enough rain to soak the garden fully and I'll be over the moon.

(more like Singin' in the Rain, but you know what I mean).