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DEW
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31 July 2024 22:12:01
Hoping for some activity from the first day onwards
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Chichester 12m asl
Saint Snow
01 August 2024 08:26:34
It's extremely rare that thunder wakes me up, but last night... wow!

I half woke up when the first really big crash came, but nodded back off. Similar happened some point (maybe soon) after, but a little more awake. Then the loudest crack of thunder I've ever heard simultaneously accompanied a bright flash. So near I heard the crackle build to the full crescendo.

Woke me, Mrs S & our youngest up. And, reading the estate's WhatsApp group this morning, half the estate, too.

Really impressive - but, as I was still sleep-bleary, a bit unsettling. We got one more clap a few mins later but a fair bit away, then a very distant rumble.

I went back to sleep to the sound of rain hammering down.

Martin
Home: St Helens (26m asl) Work: Manchester (75m asl)
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Retron
01 August 2024 08:37:33

It's extremely rare that thunder wakes me up, but last night... wow!
....
I went back to sleep to the sound of rain hammering down.

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 


Great. You get the nice weather (i.e. not damned humid), then you get the pay-off for our insufferable humidity down here! Always happens. 😂

Down here there were a few spots of rain but nothing more. The remaining convection is dying away and, as yet, no sign of this afternoon's potential trouble. The dewpoint's still 18.7, and that implies a lot of moisture available should anything develop.

The MetO text forecast still uses its unusual language, mind you:


Today:
A cloudy start with some showers, these gradually easing. Bright or sunny spells developing, before heavy showers and thunderstorms, possibly severe, develop into the afternoon. Hot and very humid. Maximum temperature 30 °C.

...and the convective risk remains through tomorrow, too...

Friday:
Any mist or fog patches soon clearing to a bright start. Sunny spells with scattered showers, possibly heavy with a risk of thunder. Maximum temperature 30 °C.
Leysdown, north Kent
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NMA
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01 August 2024 11:30:09
The forecast for here is for slow moving thundery showers. The BBC app shows them arriving in half an hour and lasting till 16.00 hours.
The radar suggests otherwise with a tiny almost invisible blip in the middle of Lyme Bay and a heavier affair over the Brecon National Park in Wales which is of course another country. I suppose they can still form today but I have my doubts they will, yet again. Love to be wrong though. A little rain would not go amiss for the garden.
Vale of the Great Dairies
South Dorset
Elevation 60m 197ft
The Dub Version
01 August 2024 12:06:24
Well I had large echos over west london this morning on net weather radar.

Actual conditions, very high cloud , hot sunshine, and all PPN evaporating before it got to ground.
You couldnt make it up
Berkshire
ballamar
01 August 2024 12:26:46
Convection starting storm popped up over Swindon and sky is completely different to yesterday. Not sure I am in best place but to west of London looks prime for some big storms
NMA
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01 August 2024 13:32:44
Incredibly oppressive this afternoon at 28C. Two showers seem to be forming a mile or so to my north.
Vale of the Great Dairies
South Dorset
Elevation 60m 197ft
tierradelfuego
01 August 2024 13:35:28
Nothing showing on the radar for here, but it's raining as a start, storms look to be up in the Cotswolds for now.
Bucklebury
West Berkshire Downs AONB
135m ASL

VP2 with daytime FARS
Rainfall collector separated at ground level
Anemometer separated above roof level
WeatherLink Live (Byles Green Weather)
GezM
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01 August 2024 14:15:26
Some heavy showers now appearing in a zone between the M4 and M40 and west of there. Moving north east
Living in St Albans, Herts (116m asl)
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Retron
01 August 2024 14:19:09
Using the NW radar rainfall totals, an area just east of Fairford takes the prize so far - between 96 and 120mm of rain in just one hour! 😲
Leysdown, north Kent
warrenb
01 August 2024 14:25:14
Not sure we will get a Storm, but at 29c with a DP of 21c it is horrible down here.

Edit: Saying that, something has literally just popped up to the west of here.
Tonbridge 45m 
NMA
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01 August 2024 14:48:14
The radar shows a storm to my north-east. Even a rumble of thunder.
But dry here.
Vale of the Great Dairies
South Dorset
Elevation 60m 197ft
tierradelfuego
01 August 2024 15:57:22
11mm of rain here in the last 30 mins or so, and plenty of rumbles close by. Rain is currently at 65mm/hr rate so could get up to an inch or so I reckon before it stops
Bucklebury
West Berkshire Downs AONB
135m ASL

VP2 with daytime FARS
Rainfall collector separated at ground level
Anemometer separated above roof level
WeatherLink Live (Byles Green Weather)
The Beast from the East
01 August 2024 16:22:30
Bugger all here. Forecast was wrong
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RobN
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01 August 2024 16:24:36

Using the NW radar rainfall totals, an area just east of Fairford takes the prize so far - between 96 and 120mm of rain in just one hour! 😲

Originally Posted by: Retron 


That's just about where I am just now in the far SE corner of Gloucestershire.
I can confirm it's been a very lively afternoon with frequent torrential downpours and lots of thunder.
Rob
In the flatlands of South Cambridgeshire 15m ASL.
TimS
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01 August 2024 16:41:04
Fascinating radar map: looks like the convection is running up against the Chilterns all the way round the West of London. Storms west of the escarpment, dry to the East. 
Brockley, South East London 30m asl
Stewart
01 August 2024 17:52:03
A rumbly and damp afternoon here in Southmoor, Oxfordshire. Lots of high level storm, not much lightning to see. Rain levels not excessive either but the garden got a watering. Still humid
Stewart
Southmoor or Harwell, Oxfordshire
Darren S
01 August 2024 18:03:24
We had a very impressive downpour here lasting about an hour; nearby PWSs recorded between 28mm and 48mm, and I'd estimate we had about 40mm. At its peak (>60mm/hr on the NetWeather radar) I could hardly see down the end of the garden, the patio was awash, water was flowing down the garden path to a new pond in front of the shed. The driveway was flooded about 6in deep in front of the study window.

Great fun, no watering required tonight, and two of the three water butts are full up. 
Darren
Crowthorne, Berks (87m asl)
South Berks Winter Snow Depth Totals:
2023/24 0 cm; 2022/23 7 cm; 2021/22 1 cm; 2020/21 13 cm; 2019/20 0 cm; 2018/19 14 cm; 2017/18 23 cm; 2016/17 0 cm; 2015/16 0.5 cm; 2014/15 3.5 cm; 2013/14 0 cm; 2012/13 22 cm; 2011/12 7 cm; 2010/11 6 cm; 2009/10 51 cm
bledur
01 August 2024 18:11:51

Fascinating radar map: looks like the convection is running up against the Chilterns all the way round the West of London. Storms west of the escarpment, dry to the East. 

Originally Posted by: TimS 


Yes, Chris Fawkes showed the convergence line on the lunchtime weather. Nothing here at all apart from distant towering clouds.
Mildly Disappointed
01 August 2024 20:22:38
Quite an impressive storm here this evening. Sky was darkening to the west whilst I was out with the hound around half 5. Did the weekly food shop in Redhill and headed home through some moderate rain with thunder rumbling around. Just got in before the heavy stuff arrived. Plenty of thunder but nothing overhead. Lightning map showed most of it a little south of here - Crawley to East Grinstead maybe. Plenty of rain for the garden. Always surprising how quickly it can dry out even in a short hot spell. Water butts topped up nicely. It's moved away east now but still some distant rumbles and steamy outside too. Been a long wait since the last good storm in May. Hopefully time for some more before the season ends

 
Jason
Salfords, Surrey
sunny coast
01 August 2024 21:16:06
Some good storm activity just to the north of where I am at Polegate just north of Eastbourne about an hour ago.  25 mm in places . Very localised 
ozone_aurora
05 August 2024 21:30:40
Thundery outbreaks in the SW at the moment.
Caz
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06 August 2024 02:58:47
Thunder and lightning with moderate rain here just now.  Not directly overhead and nothing spectacular but at least we got something that’s been otherwise lacking here this summer. 
Market Warsop, North Nottinghamshire.
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ballamar
11 August 2024 11:20:33
Wouldn’t be surprised to see amber warnings for some parts of the north tomorrow. Looks like a potent mix. 
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johncs2016
12 August 2024 07:28:16
There are some frequent rumbles of thunder here in Edinburgh just now where it has also become very dark after some earlier hazy sunshine.

Those rumbles of thunder are becoming louder over time with very heavy and torrential rain now also falling.
The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.

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