A mere 3mm rainfall here since yesterday - but will some impressive thunderstorms in the afternoon. Pathetic compared to Scotland.
Roger

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Bit of convective weather yesterday morning

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Some heavy showers here this afternoon.

Got soaked on my run.

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Some rumbles of thunder here recently with a shower - looks very ominous to the south at the moment.  

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Few rumbles of thunder here in Sheffield & torrential rain.

Decent thunderstorm going through here now, plenty of heavy rain and quite a bit of lightning & thunder.   

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I can see it on the Radar, Andy - but it is not yet building in the Witham valley as far as I can seen. I live in hope!

Hope you are keeping well up there.  I went into Lincoln yesterday and it was pretty busy - the roads were dire around 5pm rush hour.

Take it steady!

Roger

 

 

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Thanks Roger, that thunderstorm kept going for quite a while, and only slowly eased away around 7pm after starting about 6pm.  Found 14mm rain in the gauge, although some of that was from earlier showers.  

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  We had heavy showers with thunder from late afternoon into the evening.  

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A first for me (and the guys in the office) earlier - from our panoramic windows, overlooking the playground, we'd seen that the clouds were looking threatening.

A call went out: "Oh, that cloud looks like a tentacle!"

Turns out - it was a funnel cloud. It only lasted 10 seconds or so, but was swiftly followed by another, a thin, ropey-looking affair. That too swirled out of existance soon after.

There were no more to come, but the clouds remained menacing until we left for home.

The cell responsible shows up well on the radar, it was to the WNW of Sittingbourne.

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Plenty of thunder around today, with some storms breaking out in the London area in the past hour. Still dry here.

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Yes, I coped it full on. one of the best T storms I have seen for years. Localised flooding in town

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Been hammering it down with thunder and lightening for getting for an hour here now

would expect some local problems with big puddles

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Major event in west london. I think we were lucky here!

 

Torrential downpours with thunder and lightning are breaking out across the UK at the moment.

There are particularly heavy downpours across S England and W Scotland, with localised flooding possible.

Image: @metoffice pic.twitter.com/8Dx1NZLMap

— Liam Dutton (@liamdutton) July 12, 2021

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Dry just down the road here in Croydon, although regular rumbles of thunder.

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Haven't even heard any thunder yet although looks like some showers are breaking out only a few miles to the east.

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Beautiful cloudscapes today in the brief times I was outside but the thunder and lightning remains an elusive phenomena for me.

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Newsreel footage of serious flooding in Bournemouth and Poole from last night's rain, cars submerged etc.

https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/19437380.flooding-causes-disruption-dorset/ 

This afternoon 3 pm, a very local storm in Chichester. I set out in the dry, passed through an area where it was tipping down and out of the other side dry again, Only a mile in it and the same on the way back nearly an hour later.

Then things livened up with several claps of thunder. The remarkable thing was that our robocat (purrs when you stroke it, miaows when the lights are turned on and off or  when the TV is switched on) was giving a miaow each time there was a flash of lightning even though that flash was not visible to the eye, just heard the thunder.

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Thunder here between 1800/1900z today. Storms were towards Bordon but little rain here

It must have been quite an experience in the conurbation yesterday. I mentioned some spectacular cloudscapes but when I went to lock up last night I noticed that the plastic rain gauge was overflowing with at least 60mm of rain. Some must have fallen early morning but we had some Mooominian downpours in the evening that even my daughter commented on.

The other thing DEW your robocat. Two late aunts used to have something that was marketed to them as a 'Sleepy Pussy' which when placed on ones lap purred and vibrated if stroked... I'm going to hazard a guess that your 'robocat' is merely an advanced version of what they had in the early 2000's?

 

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I think their version is still on sale, but the upgrade lifts its paw and turns its head along with the miaows and purrs.

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Rumbling around here yesterday between 2 and 4 with one massive overhead crack

I was amazed that we missed all of the action yesterday. Hardly a drop all day. Just a few miles to our south and east they experienced a couple of hours of heavy rain. My wife's return from London after work, typically an hour door to door took 2.5 hours due to flooding on the tubes and signal failures on the trains.

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Looking at the radar echoes it was quite a narrow band of intense rain running approx NE/SW crossing NW and SW London and the W suburbs out to Slough or thereabouts

Heavy rain and frequent thunder and lightning here from about 16:00-17:30 yesterday with Kew Gardens recording 48.4mm which was enough to close Richmond Station due to flooding

 

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See also:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-57825759 .