On Sunday, 7 February 2016 23:20:15 UTC, Dave Ludlow wrote:
Gust front has just passed over here with thunder, lightning, rain
intensity 72mm/h for a few minutes and fence-threatening gusts!

In the 2 years of running my VP2 (anemometer at 3m almost surrounded
by houses) the previous high gust was 34 mph, this one just hit 39mph.

Considering this is the night *before* the storm, interesting!

--
Dave
Fareham (W).

Same thing here, exactly as per title. First stroke at 2347 followed by a very long and loud muffled roar, and another one at about 0003. Rain hurling itself at the window but all fairly brief.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 557 ft, 169 m.