Potentially exciting weather tonight!

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

TORRO have issued a tornado watch for central and southern England and Wales.

Which is quite a large area really. Tornado watches mean that the expected weather in conducive to tornadogenisis rather than they are expected but nevertheless, it could be interesting :) hail,thunder and severe gusts are also possible.

Officelady - you are very near me.

Amazing lightening tonight. Keeping the kids up though. They are very excited by it.

In Gosport and LOVING this storm we're having!!!!!!

It's three storms :) one has gone through the Hampshire/Berkshire Oxfordshire region. There's one to the north of that and one in southern hampshire moving NE.

Keep an eye on that last storm. That's where trouble often lies (tail end Charlie)

Some lightning here, but only a couple of flashes.

A house down the road was struck on Sunday, blew a hole in the roof and brought a couple of ceilings down.

Heavy showers and lightning in South Wilts from 6.30 till about 8.30. Couple of very bright and loud ground strikes within a mile early on then it reatreated beyond earshot. Showers brought a bit of wind but pretty calm otherwise. Mildly exciting for 15 mins but otherwise only 3 or 4 outta 10.

Nasty RB. I hope they were ok. :(

Just had loud rumbly thunder near Heathrow.

Luckily no-one was in at the time - my friend lives close by and said they all lost phone & electricity; not sure if they've got it back yet.

That's interesting that it's three storms, Kitten Witch. There still seems to be a lot of intensity in the rainfall radar over southern Hampshire around the Portsmouth/Isle of Wight area.

It felt much warmer than the temperature indicated. The breeze was so 'balmy' but we had no sun. How come?

Interesting there's lots of us Fareham and gosport gals here!!!!

And we're hogging 3 storms!!! That makes sense as to why it appeared to keep coming from all directions!!!

High humidity digerd :)

Sheet lightening and thunder may have just disturbed the Queen's viewing of the Great British bakery thingy ( west of LHR) just now. All quiet now

Excellent!

Really interested in the storm around Portsmouth. Reports very welcome!

I am in northants, we have rain, lots of lightning, and few rumbles. The lightning is so bright
were we due any storms.

Yes pink you were :)

Hope it doesnt last all night its starting to freak me out
what do you know ohyou.

tornado watch issued again.

Wondering if the southern edge of the box should be moved a little further south though.

It looks like there will be a break for a couple of hours or so before the next round (after this one has gone through)

Torro map has been corrected

Is Basingstoke going to get walloped by that last north heading storm then?

pinkkoala I'm in Northants too, but we only had a couple of flashes and haven't seen or heard anything since

Superior we are northampton south, it was my dd that noticed it first during eastenders, then we had a big flash during gbbo and some thunder, since then some lightening. Just hoping dh is in before the next batch, he is driving, hgv driver.

Meglet, that one seems to have lost a lot of activity but there's loads to come after midnight.