"Waghorn" Brief light rain shower and sharp,close lightning strike here
from mid
level instabilty ~0640.Rumbling in distance,

Things destabilising fast here.Impressive Ac and high based
towers.Receiving some hard and soft ~1cm hail.Main development looks over
Essex.


Now clearing a bit. Hail was brief.But still towers nearby.V black over
Essex.Almost continuous thunder in distance.
http://www.isleofwightweather.co.uk/live_storm_data.htm
(BTW nice page)
suggests the plume is widely destabilising over the SE,

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regards,
David

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