The official 2014 warm sunshine and BBQ thread...

[Digger]

Central London quite bright and sunny at the moment.

[Carthage]

Absolutely pouring down near Glos now.
Think I heard thunder but not close by.

[wiliferus]

Hazy sunshine through clouds in Pangbourne, starting to get humid again now though.

[Gun]

Nice and sunny in Haywards Heath this afternoon, the humidity is noticeably lower than it was this morning as well, it was horrible earlier!

[MG CHRIS]

Well that was a huge let down got woken at 4am with a rumble of thunder a few lightning strikes and a heavy rain shower nothing much else was happening few more flashes of lightning then all quiet again.
Went back to sleep apart from a few rain showers nothing much other than that.

Still today rather muggy.

[russ_a]

A couple of good pictures on the BBC website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-28383607

[chriscoates]

It seems that the party has finally come to Sheffield! After a day of just general rain but nothing special, the big claps of thunder and flashes of lightning have started

[muckymotor]

I'm in Sheffield too, this is some storm. It even triggered the alarm on my car which nothing ever has before.

[Puggit]

Could see the storm over Wiltshire as I drove along the M4 around Reading

Watching a supercell over northern France (Le Havre area) - splitting up. South coasters beware! Looks like one splinter is heading towards Thames Valley. Here's hoping.

All I've seen today is warm sunshine

[Mr GrimNasty]

I thinks it's fair to say that the forecast over-egged it for last night/today, sure there was some thunder and pokey showers, but nothing like what they expected.

[Puggit]

Mr GrimNasty said:

I thinks it's fair to say that the forecast over-egged it for last night/today, sure there was some thunder and pokey showers, but nothing like what they expected.

[Puggit]

The flip side of course is I'm sitting outside in the blazing sun with a margarita cooking bacon burgers and blue cheese mushrooms on the bbq.

GTIR said he was coming but hasn't turned up!

[Jasandjules]

Had a massive thunder storm last night about 8pm then another one for about 4 hours this morning from 4am or so.

But this evening I've just had a BBQ....

[tedmus]

Been muggy and grey all day here on the Wirral.

Just had a bit of a downpour but that's it.

[Petrolhead95]

Been watching the storm for a while now. It's moving bloody fast towards London.

[DrDoofenshmirtz]

It's heading north easterly though.
Went very dark and big clouds formed over Thame area...it was rumbling but fizzled out.

[JohnStitch]

Absolutely belting it down in Northampton right now, rain and hail. Was nice and sunny a minute ago!

[JohnStitch]

Absolutely belting it down in Northampton right now, rain and hail. Was nice and sunny a minute ago!

[Puggit]

JohnStitch said:

Absolutely belting it down in Northampton right now, rain and hail. Was nice and sunny a minute ago!

Apparently the back of that storm is <cough> rotating...

[Alucidnation]

Looks like the south could be in for a settled and sunny week!