The 2017 summer and thunder thread

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Likely to be another very hot period around Thursday before wei get a break down over the weekend. Sorry MG.

Amusing though - Glastonbury

It's a week away so must stress unreliability of forecast.

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30.1 recorded at Teddington. Hottest day of the year.

Tomorrow will be hotter, Monday hotter again.

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Small chance of storms Sun-Tues. However, at long range Thursday is potentially looking as good as it gets for big storms.

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31.9 in Hampton today already

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Our back garden is surrounded by brick around the bbq. Hit 36.7 in the final rays before they disappear behind the house.

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768 said:

I could do with a quick thunderstorm. This is sweltering.

New builds need to start thinking about this. I'm tempted to put the aircon on in the car and spend the next few hours there.

There is a slight chance of a storm tonight, but radar shows absolutely nothing. There's some nice cumulonimbus here, so there's hope...

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Unclear at present. Likely to be cooler and cloudier.

Can't rule out rain - most likely heavy downpours if it happens.

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Celtic Dragon said:

I'll take 25C!!! Mines currently 31C!! Little to no sleep for me tonight and it would be the week I'm the only engineer in work.

How!? Even our 3rd floor loft rooms are down to 26 now!

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Heat staying around for a few more days yet. Thursday's potential for extreme heat has disappeared, and with it the incredible storm potential that was modeled.

Some storm risk remains for Tues/Weds.

No big, wet breakdown from the Atlantic...

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MG - away from the NW it should be cooler and cloudier, chance of rain. Greater chance of rain for NW UK.

Meanwhile:

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On another note - Weds now sees the biggest storm risk. And it's a risk of big storms.

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Could be 20 degrees low in the SE tonight.

Meanwhile rural parts of Scotland at risk of frost

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Hot again tomorrow - hotspot is likely to be in the SW.

Also storms - unlikely but could be severe if they materialise in the black zone: http://www.convectiveweather.co.uk/forecast.php?da...

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Small storm north of Spalding, and heading East slowly.

Very different day here in Berkshire, hazy and far less heat from the sun. Humidity noticeably up.

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Tomorrow could be special if this model is right, yes that's 37 in the SW...

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768 said:

Oh FFS.

At least it looks like the last of this heat is nearly here.

Reached zero degrees in Scotland last night

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tezzer said:

Interesting site......lightning strikes in real time

http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php

Potential remains tomorrow for severe storms, it's a low chance but if they do bubble up they could be more severe than usual. Most likely north of the M4 tomorrow evening, up towards southern Scotland by Thursday morning.

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Melman Giraffe said:

I'm confused - So is going to be nice on Saturday

20 and cloudy... Low pressure north of Scotland will be dragging in cooler air, cloudier, something of a breeze from the Atlantic.

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When I was in Phoenix in January, it rained

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My butts are totally empty, could do with a good filling up.