Bluebreezer54

I'm hoping to move down to East Sussex sometime soon and really enjoy the whole Bonfire Society thing they have going on down there. I haven't been to the Robin Hood one yet, but thouroughly enjoyed the parade and firework display at the end of Hastings Week just recently. It's a great atmosphere. Section 5 and the Sambalancas always impress. Grey, wet and miserable here in Nw London currently.

You obviously weren't around earlier in the year then when this thread imploded

Unlikely to happen, and not for any weather related reasons

That's a good read and thanks for posting the link Paul. It really is a bugbear of mine.

Lol Jules, just what I would expect from the media.

There is no such thing as a 'mini tornado'. That is just a term used by the lazy media when reporting events here in the UK.

Waiting with baited breath

Victor criticising the Met Office yet again. What a surprise. On a positive note, I enjoyed Meso's video. I'm about 5 miles south of Watford and it was an entertaining couple of hours with frequent lightning and quite a surprise given the conditions at the time. I can't recall ever seeing a thunderstorm develop when it was so misty and murky. I can only think it was a highly elevated storm because at times the thunder was barely audible, but rumbled on for 30 seconds or more. Every now and then the lightning lit up the whole sky. This storm lasted for just over 2 hours, but for the first 90 minutes there was no rain. A most unusual storm

Just had a similar occurrence here in North West London Paul. It was misty and murky with distant thunder rumbling from about 4:15am this morning. For the next 2 hours there were 5-6 lightning strikes a minute with the thunder rumbling on for 30 seconds or so. There were some very close lightning strikes with louder thunder at times. For the first 90 minutes there was no rain at all. Very surreal and I would think quite unusual, especially at this time of year ?

Stunning and scary in equal measures there JP. Thanks for posting it

Thanks for sharing that charming image.

Apology withdrawn Further research on a number of weather websites seem to confirm what I thought, that grass minimums of 0c or lower do count as a 'ground/grass frost'. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/frost/types-of-frost http://weatherfaqs.org.uk/node/26

Fair do's, but the stations I quoted recorded a GRASS minimum of 0c or lower and I took that to mean a ground frost but apologise if that is not the case. The official temperatures are recorded at a height of 2 metres above grass level, which probably accounts for the difference.

It was not intended as a criticism Jax so I hope you haven't taken it that way. I was as surprised as anyone to learn that we have already had a ground frost in this region in August.

Au contraire Jax. Several official weather stations in the South/ South East recorded minimums below 0c and a grass frost overnight August 20/21st. I can't find the link but those stations were Benson, Lyneham, Boscombe Down and Bournemouth ( Hurn ). A good few more stations recorded minimums close to 0c. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see similar reports on Sunday morning.

My thoughts exactly. In fact it's been the coldest night and day of the week, and quite probably the entire summer here, as confirmed by my local official Met Office station. ( Raf Northolt....4.3 miles away ) Minimum of 6c, crept up to 12c by 9am and only reached a max of 17c with very little in the way of sunshine.

Hello and welcome RazorRob. Some tremendous video and photo's there and thanks for sharing them. I was on the seafront at Hastings when that beast of a storm struck and also have some video of it which I will try and post here. In all my years of watching storms in the UK I can honestly say I have never seen anything quite like that as it approached across The Channel that Friday evening. The storm which followed and hit the south coast a few hours later was spectacular for it's lightning display, and went on for over 2 hours. Epic event.

And there was I, prepared to turn over a new leaf Jax

On reflection that is probably fair comment in recent days and I'm not too proud to apologise. Time to review my medication perhaps ?

Cracking views on your Brumcam again Arnie

Or better yet, don't report them at all unless you know they are accurate within a reasonable tolerance. If the max at a Met Office station near you is reporting 22c, don't say its 25c where you are because that's just worthless. Not having a go, just trying to give you some ( hopefully ) helpful guidance.

Fair do's but reporting spurious/inaccurate weather conditions are really not helpful are they ?

Lassie, I was being serious. You have been reporting temperatures several degrees above those being reported by a number of weather stations in this area, including official Met Office sites for some time now. It's quite possible that your thermometer or whatever equipment you are using is wrongly sited.

Lassie with all due respect if you are going to post temperatures, the least you could do is recalibrate or resite whatever equipment it is you are using to record them because they are way off the mark, and have been for some time.