The colin_p appreciation summer sun and storm thread 2024

[zb]

At bloody last! Had the big coat on to walk to work this morning, just about melted when the sun appeared on the walk home.

[Its Just Adz]

Warm and sweaty in Warrington this afternoon.

[julianm]

Sunshine & some warmth at last & the ladybirds are out & about!

[XF-Andy]

Very loud thunderstorm accompanied by lightning south Hampshire at the moment. Sounds as if mostly in the channel but very loud thunderclaps equals unsettled dog currently shivering and shaking in the bedroom.

[p1stonhead]

Jesus Christ I’ve never seen a thunderstorm like this one! Absolutely mental. Lightning every 3-4 seconds!

[Humpy D]

Lots of thunder, lightning and heavy (torrential) rain just passed through Romford, Essex.

[Digger]

Reached NW3. Loving it

[Joey Ramone]

Woken up at about 05:15 by the loudest thunderclap I’ve ever heard. Entire house shook. S Oxfordshire.

[Blib]

Nothing whatsoever to be heard in East Sheen.

Shirley, you lot are making it up.

[UTH]

p1stonhead said:

Jesus Christ I’ve never seen a thunderstorm like this one! Absolutely mental. Lightning every 3-4 seconds!

Where was this?

I woke up very briefly to thunder and heavy rain in Surbiton but not sure anything can tempt me out of bed to look out of the window at that time in the morning. Sounds like I may have missed a spectacle.

[S100HP]

I slept through the lot

[p1stonhead]

UTH said:

p1stonhead said:

Jesus Christ I’ve never seen a thunderstorm like this one! Absolutely mental. Lightning every 3-4 seconds!

Where was this?

I woke up very briefly to thunder and heavy rain in Surbiton but not sure anything can tempt me out of bed to look out of the window at that time in the morning. Sounds like I may have missed a spectacle.

Dorking. Utterly mental. Gutters overflowing with with rain and hail at one point.

But I looked on weather radar and we were under a very thin line of intensity so it might have been very localised

[karma mechanic]

I looked at the live lightningmaps.org and it was showing a huge mass of strikes across the Portsmouth to Brighton area, and a rate of 231 strikes a minute. On the map it looked like fireworks popping off.

For me it was pretty bright and continuous, and I'm off the western edge of that area.

[Puggit]

It reached West Berks but not special in any sense - I think it was mostly cloud-cloud lightning too.

[XF-Andy]

Just to add, I’m in Fareham and we only had a minuscule amount of rain, it was just thunder and lightning.
Some claps were loud enough to set off car alarms.
Dog never settled so it was a bloody long night! Flipping animal is sleeping fine now though….

[cuprabob]

In Ayrshire, temperature is high teens and the the sun is shining but just to spoil it, it's blowing a gale.

[JakeT]

Very still in West Berks, and humid too.

[Puggit]

Hottest day of the year - 23.1 degrees in Merseyside (FFS!)

14.1 degrees in West Berks

[Bill]

Puggit said:

Hottest day of the year - 23.1 degrees in Merseyside (FFS!)

14.1 degrees in West Berks

My wife's off this week and was really hopeful about the weather!! Not sure I'm brave enough to tell her about this.

[Puggit]

Bill said:

My wife's off this week and was really hopeful about the weather!! Not sure I'm brave enough to tell her about this.

Our Ukrainian is on the west coast of Scotland - her photos have me very jealous, in to the 20s there too