[Lightning Hunter]

I followed Tony's excellent advice from his convective outlook today and headed out to the Winchester area to see things kicking off. I arrived at noon, but some storms had already formed to the NW:



This shower passed overhead, but didn't produce anything exciting:



Some outflow to the north created a line of convergence almost overhead at around 1300 BST. Plenty of scud-suckers underneath, and the winds got very gusty as it passed:





When it moved NE, it formed a new thunderstorm with some really nice features. For a time, the gust front appeared to be rotating anti-clockwise around the rain core:





An interesting lowering came and went to it's south. It was about 8 miles away,so too far to see if it was rotating, but it did briefly become quite smooth-sided:







A new storm to the south, just NE of Southampton. Just 5 seconds after this shot a nice CG came down it's western side:



To the west, things were starting to look less developmental, so I headed back SE into the action:



I arrived near Portmouth just in time to see this convergence line spark storms just inland:



This storm put a CG down less than a mile away, just behind the gust front seen here:



The same storm rumbling away:



A heavy shower was now forming on the line to the west:



Nice visibility and quite high cloud bases made for ominous-looking bases today. Not a bad way to spend a Sunday:

[Chris Alder]

Great images Paul, looks like a good days work.

[Col Cooper]

Lovely stuff

I'd say that was a definate funnel cloud in there.

[RobN]

What a great day! Lovely set of captures.

[Winso]

Nice pics and account Paul. Really like the ones with the pylons.

[Tony Gilbert]

Stunning pictures Paul. Well done

[chrisips]

What an awesome set, had the same is it isn't it a funnel here today aswell, thanks for sharing

[Lee200003]

Splendid!

[Dave Hancox]

Good stuff, great account and superb intense rain shafts in there.