On reaching the M25 the situation was looking terrible with decayed anvils littering the sky only broken buy very shallow cumulus development. We decided to phone our outside data source who informed us that convection was ongoing just to the west of Northampton. We joined the M1 north and raced towards our last hope of a thunderstorm, which we sighted ahead in the dwindling light. However it no longer resembled much more than a scraggy rain cloud. On approaching its base it was only raining lightly so we decided to stop at a service station to get some much needed data, unfortunately there was no internet point in sight and we were forced to plough on in search of better resources. Following a phone call a friend of the UK Storm Chasers, David Leah rendezvoused with us at the next station north where after phoning for more info we decided to end the chase and return home.