To sum up last night...
The heaviest rain i have ever seen around 22:40 (this was beaten 65mins later!!), sounded like hail (though it wasn't), big splatters, typical convective stuff. Lasted 3 mins, has been dry since. Nice deluge for the garden a few puddles around.
Peak of storm #1 passed to the north by 11pm, still one or two forks but at its peak forks visible in every direction every 3/4 seconds Some very close, although the thunder wasn't as loud nor as prolonged as normal, which is sad really
23:10-23:30 nothing much, strikes every 10secs with most short and quiet thunder, occassional crackles
23:32 light rain, lightning more frequent and a lot of fork and cloud-to-cloud, some overhead. Loud thunder at times
23:45 the best of tonight kicked in - absolutely torrential rain, my drive is flooded! Extremely frequent lightning, almost constant, and overhead, and very loud thunder to boot. However the thunder is still quite short and snappy, not as long and not "window shaking"
00:00 As the date changed a very bright CC strike right over me issued an amazingly loud crackle and boom, bet that woke the neighbourhood up
Rain continued to pour until 00:15. Thunder easing off the northeast now, though still lightning every 15-20secs.
Deja-vu of 13 Sept 2006, that happened on a Wednesday evening too. Weds is the day for storms here in the southeast, and for once it was overhead and didn't just "clip the east of Kent"

That was the most amound of forks i have seen at any one time (apart from my kitchen drawer). There were occasions where many individual forks flashed at the same time. I like the way the lightning 'flickers' about 3 times for each strike.

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