Good afternoon all - another new poster here - I will try to behave myself!
Here in the Redhill area, it's been a very boring day so far. There has been some thunder around 1100BST from the West (around Dorking/Guildford) but this was extremely faint and no precipitation or lighting was so much as visible from here. Something was heading this way, but it died - boo! I do have reports that the storm partially carried on over the Wimbledon area, so a couple of friends were lucky at work. The base of the cell was reasonably dark but it just looked like a miserable sort of grey sky from here.
Last night was also disappointing. Many storms were around the South-East, as we all know, but the only thing of any significance seemed to be the odd spot of distant (but occasionally dramatic) lightning and a couple of more "convective" showers. It seemed the relatively dramatic slopes of the North Downs repelled anything building up too much, as some of the rain moved over Central London and put on a reasonable show.
If I'm perfectly honest, I'm not massively hopeful for this afternoon/evening, but then again there have been some interesting formations over Kent which could be a sign of rather better things to come over here, and also a "troubled", gusty breeze. One or two artefacts on the radar, too. Estofex started out as rather uncertain, but seem to be more positive just now. We shall see if the haze becomes a happier storm-filled sky!