Tuesday the 9th of May was yet another day of strong thunderstorms developing widely across England. It was relatively quiet here up until 3pm when convection started to pep up, and I was hearing occasional rumbles from a storm that developed to my north. Its outflow generated a photogenic shelf cloud which didn't take long to pass over, and produced strong wind gusts as it did, almost knocking my tripod and camera to the ground. This same outflow also spawned a thunderstorm over Milton Keynes, drifting ENE as it matured towards Bedford. This led to a remarkable display of mostly negative C-C (cloud-to-cloud) lightning to my south even with some bolts being directly overhead at times. I filmed this storm with two separate cameras to ensure I captured the most amount of detail in these strikes as I possibly could.
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