Today's thunderstorm potential

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

Plenty of potential for some rather juicy thunderstorms today. As always, just because they are forecast, it doesn't mean that everyone in an area will get one - its quite possible for one town to be hit badly and the other stay dry.

So we have a low pressure interacting with a trough, to destabilise the atmosphere. High values of CAPE (convective available potential energy) However, the risk is still fairly marginal at present.

I think the strongest risk is to the west of the IOW this afternoon, evening, then developing further north in the west as we go through the night, where storms could become severe. Potential for large hail, frequent lightning and flash flooding. A low potential at present for funnel clouds.

You, across in Worthing too. Just checked the Met office lightning map and it crashed! Too much lightning to handle

Mooey89 and IGot, watching it with you in Pompey.
Lightning is constant, and that rain is torrential!

Yep it's amazing here! Just outside of Pompey! The rain was just crashing down and about an inch deep on roads. Hope everyone is safe and sound

SE London, magnificent flashes, sheet as well, about four miles away. No rain, no howling dog.. ( is it too scared?).

absolutely bonkers in Surrey now, whole house awake watching, as it's so loud and light.

Pompey was good. There's car alarms going off lol

It's raining now in sw london. A bit of lightning and thunder in the distance. Lightning maps shows it's about to go bonkers and the website keeps crashing with all the lightning strikes in the south.

South east now alive with non stop thunder, lightening flashes every now and again and the rain has just arrived

Just woken up by distant rumbling and faint flashes (left the curtains partially open for this reason ). Looked at the lightning map - holy moly that's a very big storm heading this way! Im just outside of Chelmsford, the storm isn't even past Southend yet and it's already very noisy.

And my house is currently surrounded by scaffolding....

en.blitzortung.org/live_dynamic_maps.php?map=12
This lightning map site is still up (so far!) ⚡️⚡️⛈⚡️⚡️

Bloody hell. I went off asleep and got woken up by huge crashes of thunder. All that stuff lurking out in the Channel obviously came ashore with a vengeance.

Can't remember such storms, and I go back a long way.

All kicked off here now. I've done a mad dash round to close all of the windows out of fear of a bolt hitting the scaffolding. Also had to put the bucket under the hole in the roof because I genuinely didn't believe the storm would be this bad. I think our power has been knocked out as Wi-Fi is down. But that doesn't mean much when you're out in the sticks because it barely works as it is.

Huge thunder and lightening just moving away now in Herts.loudest thunder I've ever heard!

WOW!!!! This is amazing. Been going for ages

No hope of sleep here, I'm watching the lightening from the lounge window with a cuppa

Epic storm been rumbling for hours in suffolk. Lightning map overwhelmed but managed to grab this....

Think we're just getting it now. Big blobs of rain and lots of grumbling in the distance!
In Gloucestershire

Grumbling? I mean rumbling. Have to excuse me I've been awake all night waiting for it to get here!!!

Think it's the one we've had in Briz you are getting, which has been decently rumbly/flashy all night

I went through and stopped each individual ad on ad tracker that made lightning tracker work - turning them all off didn't work. After about 5 ads it started working...for a while, then had to do it again.

Just overheard on BBC news that there were 100,000 lightning strikes overnight.

Can't believe that huge one is still going, seems to have just cleared the Norfolk/Suffolk coast. Wow.

whojam Im glad it all missed you :) Fingers crossed for today too.
sounds like a lot of excitement for some!

Once again there's potential for severe thunderstorms today once I'm out of bed I'll investigate the level of risk

I can't believe but all three DC slept through that last night. Our new windows are effective then!

After all of my excitement I pretty much slept through it

DD woke me up to ask me if it was Zog in the sky, I couldn't be arsed to find my contact lenses and force them into tired eyes so went back to bed. I was in that not quite awake get to the kids zone.