Apologies for the dreadful photo - taken on my (poor) camera phone whilst driving up the A1 north of Doncaster at approx 17:30 today. I've had to zoom into the image to show the cloud. As ever, it was much clearer (and seemed 'taller') to the eye. As I got closer I saw it recede rapidly back into the cloud. Pretty sure it was a FC, local BBC news programme this evening describing a 'mini tornado' over Castleford. Hope it was, if so, my long awaited first!

A few miles further on, around the area the cloud had been, the sky looked like this.....

The rain was 'tropical' for a time - havent seen anything like it for uears.