Hector the Convector

Same thoughts here with my niece. She's heading to Stubbington I believe. I haven't checked the latest output yet but I assume the risk is still there for severe gales

Throwing out a few cgs to my north east now. Perhaps somewhere between me and Winchester? Hard to tell

Yeh I think I see what you mean, from my location in Fair Oak. Looks angry to the east of me

Thunder overhead here at the moment, all c-c I think

That's the spirit! They do seem a bit boom and bust, or pulse-type showers at the moment - as was mentioned in the forecast from Convective Weather. Hopefully we'll something though

Yeah I just heard them too. Although I am to the north of the cell. I'm looking east now

Cool - yes I saw the above screenshot earlier today too on my local FB group. That strike occurred about 1.5 miles from my location, but the thunder was something else.

Morning. Is anybody able to confirm if the lightning strike in the Southampton region at 6.30 this morning was a positive charge strike? I'm not sure which site/detector is best to determine this. It was one hell of a clap of thunder. Reports of it heard over a wide area

Almighty crash of thunder here in Eastleigh at 6.30. loudest I've heard in a long time

Also i'm pretty sure this separate clip is the sound of positive lightning. The flash was some 10 seconds prior to the bang. The power behind it was incredible. I'm glad this particular strike didn't hit the tower! Best listened to through headphones (go easy on the volume though :-p) positive lightning.mp4

Good evening! I was on Birmingham uni campus yesterday filming a nasty thunderstorm. I'm pretty sure that the Old Joe clock tower next to me took a direct hit. Sadly i wasn't filming it directly at the time, but I captured the audio nonetheless. The tower is over 100m high i believe, so the slight delay between flash and bang would suggest that it was struck. lightning.mp4

Yes totally agree, it was one of the best night time storms I've seen here to the east of Southampton. I viewed the storm approaching from the top of the local car park until security told me to leave. I was there happily minding my own business watching natures light show...but he was more convinced that i was there to throw shopping trolleys off Tesco car-park roof. Clearly us storm chasers have that look about us?. Or maybe it's just me . Oh well never mind..went home and enjoyed the storm as it came directly overhead. May upload some video late, but here's some still's

@bigguscumulus Great capture there! I saw that one too :-)

This webcam is pretty cool. Every now and then it pans around to show the cloud structures to the Southwest of St Malo. Hopefully we will see these in the South later!

Someone 60 miles west of Rennes reporting constant lightning. Doesn't surprise me looking at the lightning detector!