Weather warning now issued from the Met Office from 4pm today - 3am tomorrow with heavy rain and risk of flooding for large parts of the South East and East Anglia.
Definitely the best storm we've had in many years last night. It's been such a bad year I'd totally given up. Every time you thought wow this is crazy it seemed to ramp up a level. Constant thunder and lightning for about 45 mins. Rainfall rates were very impressive. Finished with a couple of louder CG strikes.
This weekend which a day ago looked sunny until Sunday afternoon now looks pretty cloudy on Saturday (unless in the far East) and showery on Sunday, without any big storms. So a pretty benign weekend. Roll on Met Office warning for severe weather.
Nothing remotely thundery. Overcast all day, a few light showers. Worst year for storms on record here. But we have had a decent spell of hot weather so can't complain too much.
More of a southerly breeze in the past hour and just clouded over here, 31 degrees on my weather station will probably be the max. Possible rogue downpour later?