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Didn't really bring much here with just a max gust of 40mph. Quite a few twigs and leaves on the ground mind you.

I feel like anything of 40mph or higher does deserve a warning to be honest even if it's just a yellow one as i have seen winds of that level take twigs or even small branches off trees which could still cause injury if unlucky enough to be under a tree with debris possibly hitting sensitive parts of the body such as the eyes. Personal property can be damaged as well at that level though it would be very minor with mostly just things like fences getting into problems. I would agree though that the most noticeable damage seems to alway's start occurring once you get to the 50mph or higher mark.

A few models have dropped our winds by a good 10mph from when i last looked. We were going to get 60mph gusts but at the moment its looking more around 50mph. Got 42mph up the hill yesterday with just windy weather so with a named storm I do wonder by how much more than this we will get.

It was the night of heat lightning here with very faint occasional flashes to the East and Southeast from 11:00PM to 3:00AM while under clear starry skies. Ok I didn't see anything directly or have anything nearby but heat lightning is still worth it and better compared to there being nothing at all.

Don't know if East Wales had storms last night as I could see very faint flashes to the East and Southeast of here from about 11:00PM to 3:00AM. Glad I got to at least see some heat lightning for several hours though as that's still much better then not seeing anything at all.

Saw two faint flashes to the east of here around 9:45PM so I am assuming that was from the lot of showers that were to the southeast. Had quite heavy rain for a bit but there are clear skies now and I haven't seen any more faint flashes. Better get off this thread now as I assume that's it for here and I think I am going to get quite upset seeing all of the reports of lightning going on in the South of England.

And the worst thing about it is that it doesn't seem to make a difference to the amount of thunderstorms people get.

The only slight hope I have right now is that some of the latest Cape charts give us a decent amount of the stuff for a time around 9:00PM or midnight so although still not to the levels the southeast is expected to get later its still better then having zero.

Way too far I would have thought.

I had a different impression from what I have been seeing on forecasts over the last few day's. There has been a risk of thundery showers for here since Friday evening, just that the main intense stuff was suppose to be for today into this afternoon. Just got to hope that we get some unexpected stuff in the next 12 or so hours now otherwise this event for here has definitely been one of our worst busts for thunderstorms.

Nothing here through this whole 24hr period other than on and off outbreaks of rain. Not happy about the prospects for tonight now as at the last minute the risk of storms for our area has completely vanished. Knew everything would shift further east as the time came, as it alway's does. Should have trusted what my gut was telling me last night when people were giving me hopes that today and tonight would be better.

Difficult to know what to do right now. Not sure whether to stay up tonight in case something shows up or take most of my chances tomorrow but risk most of the lightning activity being confined to the south and southeast. I don't see any point for me personally staying up for this as I worry that the lightning is just going to hang about the channel to the south of England and not be able to make it's way up here before the night is finished.

Hope something happens tonight before the main stuff tomorrow otherwise we ain't seeing any nighttime storms this time around unfortunately.

Latest Met Office Video Forecast Barely mentioned any lightning over the next day or two, mostly just heavy rain or showers with risk of flooding. Looked like most of anything for our bit is going to be tomorrow during the day so I think our chances of any night time stuff is decreasing. No mention of anything thundery tonight like it mentioned yesterday with now just more of the same that we have at the moment which is just yucky overcast skies and bits of light rain.

Just a slight risk? Not great chances for most places going by that forecast apart from the southeast.

I could see a distant storm here that I think was in Mid Wales yesterday evening. Started being able to see lightning as it got darker but there seemed to be more cloud to ground to start with and then as it got later it was more intra-cloud but couldn't here any thunder.

Pictures of the mid Wales storm before it got dark and I could see the lightning from it. Probably one of the widest anvils I have ever seen.

We had distant lightning and faint rumbles of thunder here to the West last night around 12:00AM and 1:30AM. It was probably the best visible strikes of forked lightning I have seen since we moved here. If someone had taken pictures they would have looked very good. One of the forked bolts was a vibrant white colour and it looked much closer then it actually was because it was so big.

Surprised no one noticed the distant lightning and faint rumbles of thunder to the West last night around 12:00AM and 1:30AM. Probably the best visible strikes of forked lightning I have seen since we moved here. If someone had taken pictures they would have looked very good. One of the forked bolts was a vibrant white colour and it looked much closer then it actually was because it was so big.

Spent most of the early hours awake and measuring the wind up our local hill in around Brongest. Wasn't as bad as I'd feared thankfully and looks like any damage was limited to leaves and twigs everywhere but I still had a max of 41.5mph and a few more of 40mph or 41mph and with most gusts in the 30's mph. Was quite loud standing next to the ash tree that's up there when the biggest gusts came but it sounded more amazing then it usually does in the Winter when there are no leaves on the tree and you just get that usual howling sound. I am also not sure if i saw two flashes of lightning for a very short period to the south around midnight as i first wen't out and i was making my way up the hill.

Spent most of the early hours awake and measuring the wind up our local hill. Wasn't as bad as I'd feared thankfully and looks like any damage was limited to leaves and twigs everywhere but I still had a max of 41.5mph and a few more of 40mph or 41mph and with most gusts in the 30's mph. Was quite loud standing next to the ash tree that's up there when the biggest gusts came but it sounded more amazing then it usually does in the Winter when there are no leaves on the tree and you just get that usual howling sound. I am also not sure if i saw two flashes of lightning for a very short period to the south around midnight as i first wen't out and i was making my way up the hill.

Wish this type of weather would wait until autumn or winter because although i like windy weather as much as thunderstorms i can see this causing some issues overnight. I don't think i have known there to be 50mph+ gusts forecast inland during August, that is going to cause quite a bit of tree damage. Annoyed we didn't just get the thundery weather we were suppose to get because that would have been less worrying and more enjoyable particularly at this time of the year with trees still in leaf.

Even the stuff for tonight has been downgraded since yesterday evening. We had a 40% risk yesterday but now its only 20% and the only place a higher risk exists is Scotland yet again. Very fed up with how the models are dealing with next week as well as they have completely changed from what they were showing just a few days ago. Not that I am surprised mind you, I knew it was going to happen as it always does.

Quite a few charts on here overdo many things with the weather. Quite often wind forecasts for example are way overdone with gusts alway's showing 70mph+ yet it almost always ends up just being 30-40mph, and this is just at a day or so out. So I highly doubt these charts will verify, and I don't wan't them too either because it would be way overboard and not needed and for interesting thundery weather you only need storms to be able to produce a decent amount of lightning and not golf ball sized hail.

Looks like we are one of those places that are not going to get much sun today. We had sunny intervals this morning but now this afternoon it's become very cloudy and can't see us getting any hotter than the 23C we got yesterday unless this cloud shifts. Thought we were on to get at least well into the mid 20's today but right now under this cloud it's only 21.9C. Hopefully we will get something thundery tonight to make up for it.