Have you seen the weather forecast for next week?!

[TokyoSushi]

Looks like it's going to be hot hot hot!! Does that look right Ohyoubadbadkitten & Gloria

Yes, that looks about right to me, if we don't get any clag from the storms.

I’m always pro-thunderstorm but I shall gallantly go against this one if it means the orange sex pest gets a better protest turn out!

Thanks fox

Give a big shout from me, please, OYBBK

Will do Magi. There is a chance of showers in the afternoon, but I don't think they will be too much of a bother.

It is actually raining in Bristol, proper rain. It's been a while (17 degrees at the mo, positively chilly!) - the lawn is looking brown instead of yellow!

I suppose I ought to look at the forecast beyond the specificities of London tomorrow afternoon

I'm off to Rural Shropshire/welsh border for a week starting Monday 16th July

Showing rain everyday atm

North west England and parts of northern Wales may see thunderstorms later today.

I remember the nice weather broke at exactly the same time last year (11th July). I had a lunch and was planning a summery dress, had to change in to jeans and never wore my summer dresses again that year!!
Voice of doom!

It’s interesting that it is panning out similar to last year, though the heat and dry spell started much earlier and was more consistent.

Hopefully we will get some brief rain and then it will perk up again.

The weather app Yr. No (which I think is quite good?) is showing rain in the SE from next Weds til Sat when the 10 day forecast runs out.

Really hoping for good weather on the other side of the rain!

@LighthouseSouth it's pretty rubbish up here just now. That light drizzle that just fills the air it's very grey and over cast. We aren't forecast much of an improvement any time soon. It's not stopping the dolphins though so if you do come up check out the rspb fb page for details on when and where to see them.

Updated thunderstorm weather warning from the metoffice (extending the warning a bit further east) but it sort of fits with the map on Netweather's storm forecast here.

More thoughts from Netweather and TheWeatherOutlook.

@MinorSole6

Thanks, I didn't know about the dolphins, yay!

Still unsure about going, found a great hotel deal but flights extortionate at short notice, we are only going to escape the heat in London. One forecast is marking that down now, so confusing.

Is there anywhere I can check the last time it rained where I am? I honestly can’t remember!

I was looking for that the other day, you might be able to get met office rain station data. I got it through uni though. It rained here today.

Some thundery showers showing up here and lightning strikes here.

'Tis a muggy 26C here (Leicester) I'm sooo hoping the line of rain/storms showing up on the netweather radar over Wales, makes its way slowly over my way and there'll be rain later.

I have an outdoor event/ pretty dress no jacket type affair tonight. So after weeks of lovely weather and no rain I’d rather it held off here! Beautiful sunshine at the moment and every weather forecast saying a different thing but I’m going with the met office which shows only a small chance of rain.

Traditional NW-England-only weather this morning

Glad of the rain here, though more of a sprinkle than a soak, but it’s stayed cloudy all day & the house is lovely & cool inside. Bliss.

In that case Delatron, may the rain stay away until after your event!

We're off on holiday tomorrow so lots to do. I really don't want to have to spend an hour watering everything at the allotment this evening. I keep looking at the netweather radar, trying to judge whether any of the showers are going to make it my way.

It's raining in London!

Do you guys know if there is a site that shows historic weather data in a tabular format, please? I want to look up when it last rained where I live! Hope people are enjoying the rain, nothing here yet!

Here is historical data that you can search by day.
www.timeanddate.com/weather/uk/london/historic

Looking at where I live the last time it rained was a month ago today, and that was just drizzle.

Good website there, SimonBridges! Can't remember the last time we had rain ~ possibly late May/early June. And we didn't get any yesterday ~ after all the radar watching and dark clouds that formed, it all went north of us and hit Nottingham. So it was off to the allotment last night for a watering session!

Thank you! Looks like we haven’t had anything here for more than a month - it’s astonishing how dusty everything is getting without it.