Another day - more weather.

[Ohyoubadbadkitten]

Astonishingly no warnings on the met office site. Been a long time coming.
Nevertheless, thunderstorms may develop today quite widespread down the eastern side of the UK

CAPE values look pretty highish around Suffolk and very high around Edinburgh. Cape is only one part of the story - its the amount of energy available to create uplift, or convection. I think that the wind shear in the south will mean that southern East Anglia does look quite likely to have storms. I've found a new toy to play with here.

However there are other factors that make storms too - moisture and dry intrusions and at the moment I dont understand enough to bring these into a forecast. So, I guess what I'm saying is remember I'm just an amateur still learning.

Wondering too, how those at the IOW festival will fare when trying to escape today after the heavy rain last night.

Ooo I'm going to have a play with that toy!

A report from the IOW festival here. Also heard on the radio news this morning that police were having to help festival goers leave, as conditions are so bad.

(They also added on the news that June is shaping up to be one of the wettest on record!)

We had the mother of all thunderstorms in Norfolk about an hour and a half ago - torrential rain. Still very windy and nasty threatening looking skies.

yup, I'm in Norfolk too, can testify to that!!

DD is off to Town Carnival today, supposed to do display dancing outside in the park. Skies are darkening as I type.

Well norfolk is next to Suffolk

Some lovely locals on the iow bbc

Any damage reports from the Norfolk storms would be interesting.

Thunder around Edinburgh on Friday. Some rain yesterday. However I was at a birthday BBQ yesterday from 5pm and it stayed dry, with even the occasional burst of sunshine, until about 2am. Wasn't warm though....Couple of heavy showers again today, but not the warmth really to kick a storm off. Am making no sense as still recovering from the party

All weather reports are great :)

OYBBK and Gloria... what are the charts looking like for this weekend in Surrey? We've got our biannual street party on Saturday and I have a horrible feeling it's going to be rubbish weather again :( I suppose all this warm weather we're going to get is going to cause thunderstorms and it'll all be gone by Saturday? (pessimist? Moi?)

I'm afraid at the moment GFS shows it to be wet and cool.
stupid weather.

grrr, if only even just the warm stuff would hang around for one more day. Stupid weather indeed :(

Thanks for the update though. I'll keep my eye on things, perhaps the movement will slow down and pause for a bit longer over us

We had a dry day yesterday,apart from one torrential downpour at 9am.We were at a country show and DD1 and I were just starting the lead rein class as it started raining.We were all drenched,but it was sunny and breezy afterwards so we dried off.The ground conditions were horrible and 2 tractors were continually busy towing horselorries off the field.We got off with no help,thank goodness for my trusty 4 x 4.