At exactly the same time fellow storm chaser Alastair had observed storms to the south of his Winchester home. His rushed to set up his array of photographic equipment and caught what only can be described as some incredible lightning photographs.

Martin and Chris set off from the coast and headed towards the New Forest for a further opportunity to observe the lightning. However the storms were moving rapidly north and so they tracked after them on the M3 directly towards Winchester. At this point it was realised that UK Storm Chasers were about to embark on there first UK chase.

It was agreed that we needed to get ahead of the storms and so we set an area North East of Reading as our initial target. On reaching the M4 several spectacular CG’s and CC’s were observed and the UK Storm Chasing team were extremely optimistic. However the optimism was short lived as the storm began to lose its electrification but UK Storm Chasers did not give in and chased the decaying storm to its death just north High Wycome.

Although not the most successful chase, we saw a few good lightning strikes and managed to get a half page article in the Hampshire chronicle the following week.