Just watched a 4 engined airliner appear from a thunder cloud!! We are not really on a flight path and I have not seen one that big before. ... 747 perhaps?? Anyway, it seemed to be heading Hinckley way'ish and getting lower... eeeek! Stumped me, that has!!
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WOW ! amazing lightning here !!! And very booming thunder , fantastic

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Storm has now passed after 2 hours of rain with thunder and lightning

Last night's temperature and rainfall rate graphs. 

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Hi all,

Here's the first of todays videos then,

The Morning Thunderstorm Update;

http://gavsweathervids.com/stormwatch.html

Not sure whats going to happen this aft/eve to be honest.

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Sun peeping through now. It feels like its going to be a steamy afternoon here if it says clear for long enough.

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Looks like last night's storm is all I'm going to get. Still, thats way more than Rochester normally sees.

I think lack of reports from the SW of the UK over the last 12 hours or so says it all really. As i indicated yesterday I felt that the main focus of the storms was likely to be more Northern and Eastern areas of the UK as there was not enough of a continental influence to the wind down here to allow them to form in time before having passed over. Instead we were the breeding ground for all you folks points North and East and I see little to change that over the coming days. Nevertheless I got a free lightning show from the storm that did defy the odds round here as it formed to my West and passed to my NW just before dawn depositing 27mm at Hartcliffe and delivering almost continual lightning for a while. My rainfall total was 0.4mm making 2.4mm for the month of July to date. Anyway well done to all those that got their wish and it might not be all for some of you yet.

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Barely a drop here just to the E of Durham. It all avoided us by a mile or so. Hoping for some light rain for the lawn, but no thunder by the looks of it.

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Moderate rain has arrived here. I wonder if we'll get any thunder...

What a cracking thunderstorm we had this morning, started about 6am and lasted about an hour, frequent lightning and massive cracks of thunder - it actually woke us up!

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Absolutely stonking here now. A surprisingly fresh breeze has kicked-in from the SW, the sun is out and the air has been swept clean. No storms but you can't have everything!

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Getting really dark again from it seems all directions can hear it in the distance partner in a panic again

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

just a question of time for me in Chelmsford

 

Sunshine and feels tropical outside. Cumulus clouds, one or two with pileus

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Had a bit of that this morning, but without the sunshine.

Since then the sun has emerged and the wind has become intermittent. For lunch I sat out in the sun during a few minutes of dead calm and I swear I could have cooked eggs on my torso - some of the hottest sunshine I've ever felt in this country.

Needless to say, the hint of freshness has departed again, but despite that, it's not too sweaty. Looking at the wind reports on xcweather, it seems like the central swathe is a region of mixed airflows - the convergence zone between the SW winds in the SW and SE winds in the SE. How very appropriate...!

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Since my last report James the breeze has subdued and it's feeling muggy again. Thought we might be on the fresher side of the trough but now not so sure with dps fairly even east to west.

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Looks dodgy towards my NE which I presume is what people over in Essex is getting excited about

I got a splitting headache and thats usually a sign of a storm because I dont normall get them apart from when there is a bit of a bash and crash or one too many lagers

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Sun is shining a bit now, cloud clearing quickly from the south. Feels sultry outside. Here's hoping..

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Well, that was a bit meh.  No thunder or lightning in Aberdeen and it appears the line of showers has pretty much passed through.  Is there supposed to be more later on?  We can't buy a storm here...

Am I reading that rainfal rate correct  - peaking at 45cm per hour? Thats a downfall!

Yes it was quite a storm, woke us up at 6.10am. So we got up to watch it. I was worried about the large tree on our front garden as there were some violent wind gusts and I thought the tree might fall on the garden at one point.

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now logic tells me ,as i have just gone over 30 degrees DP must be over 20 that some seriously bad storms should kick off here later ........ ok maybe 25 years ago they would of . see in France that would not be a problem , but for some strange reason Southern UK seems to have a problem

edit now at 30.5

Darker to my south now. I do believe I might get a shower and break the 20 odd day drought.

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I actually slept through all of last nights thunder and lightning here!

Often happen actually, because I'm really quite hard of hearing.

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Sorry to hear that, Gavin.
I said, I'M SORRY TO HEAR THAT, GAVIN!

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