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Oh, OK, maybe different radars make the direction look different too. I was only looking at rainfall on NW. I suspect I'll not be awake to find out either way. Have a good evening all.

Not convinced we'll get a whole bunch down in our tucked-away corner with the ENE trajectory. Just drizzly stuff here so far and some decent gusts.

Dog beat me to it...

Sorry, my mistake. I went to all the trouble of converting from what I thought was kph only to now see that it's already in mph. I stand corrected.

Looks like 40-45mph or so along the south coast and where the reds are darker on the map. Somewhat less for the far SE corner and East Anglia at 35-40mph. These are gust windspeeds so the constant wind will be quite a bit less. Definitely a bit breezy though. EDIT: See below...gusts up to 70mph. Sorry, thought the map was in kmph. Very breezy then.

That area of lightning in north/central France is pretty amazing. 450 strikes per minute near Dijon. Really cutting the mustard (I'll get my coat). Don't think it's heading this way, however.

Yes, mine too. Currently showing 06:15. Raintoday.co.uk still works though.

Really? You don't think that some of the radar and chart watchers here aren't doing a better job? Especially locally? Maybe we have a better class of amateur here then.

Yesterday was just lovely. Headed up to Broadstairs (not quite how I remember it from as a child in the 1970s) on a cloudless day. Today, a couple of hours of medium intensity rain and now the sun's out, but it's feeling rather sticky. On the Met Office front, their Mobile apps and PC widgets have been absolutely hopeless this year for my area. The independent forecasters have done a much better job around here, and the netweather amateurs generally even better. It costs £100m's a year of taxpayer money to run...it needs to get the weather right, and if it can't, it should go back to the wonderful magnet things from the 80s, or maybe look out of the window occasionally.

Totally overcast all day here, with occasional drizzle and light rain. All homemade local stuff which appeared from nowhere and isn't moving anywhere at all. 'Orrible.

Quite agree BW. If the Met Office had forecast the opposite of what they predicted, they'd have been a lot nearer to the actual weather. Thanks to all the amateur forecasters on here...you have been great. Cheaper than the MetO too

Looks like almost a pure northerly direction at the moment, so the extreme west of our region. There is another growing lump of intense-looking activity south of Caen which puts the south-east much more in the firing line. A good few hours before it gets here though, I think. Maybe 5-6 hours until landfall and then the same again up to your way, BW, if it makes it that far. Very wet second half of the night and morning here. Even at 2am, when the rain had started, the MetO widget was saying dry for the rest of the night and all day today. Not impressive at all. Currently 16.1c and 98% humidity. Welcome to the rain forest.

Warmed up quickly from the 7.5c first thing. Now 17.5c and sunny, though the skies are quite white rather than blue. Infernal wind has dropped right off, so looks like a good'un.

The bright blob on the channel has a lot of lightning in it. Headed for the extreme south-east. Ahooooy there Alexis...

Looks like it's just going to glance off the far south-east corner judging by the trajectory on the radar. MetO app is still forecasting heavy rain from lunchtime onwards though, at least IMBY. You're another 30 miles or so east, so who knows?

After a foggy start the skies have now cleared, leaving a nice sunny day though with quite a fresh breeze. 22.6C at the moment / 76% humidity.

Missed the festival this year which I usually come up for. 2014's was hot too (I think I went on the Friday) with thunderstorms in the evening. In a couple of weeks' time, it's compulsory to be a pirate in Hastings. Always a good laugh.

A pleasant 21.2c with a light breeze and a cloudless sky. Proper summer day, just lovely. Even have the afternoon off *yay* so out on the motorbike it is.

Drizzly dreck here and something of a breeze. 18.8c.

Nowt here. 20.1c, 69% humidity, fresh breeze and light cloud cover. Feels fresh as a daisy. Fascinating to see the regional variation even from TB21 above, a mere 25 miles to the west of me.

Same just to the west of you, Alexis. Temp rising as the cloud clears away, now up to 22.7c and the high of the day having been stuck in the high teens until early afternoon. Feeling a little less humid at 78%.

The skies are clear here again and now 30.7c. Blimey.

Temperatures here stopped rising mid-morning at the 27c level when some white cloud pushed in. It's clearing a bit at a time from the south with some blue patches now visible and the temp has quickly risen to the current 28.7c. Humidity of 49% not too bad for the moment, though it does feel very warm out there.

We had a short period of intense rain after the long drawn-out affair, now just passed. Should have dampened the garden nicely and washed the roads for motorcycling, my new hobby after 30 years away from them. I'm happy for the sunny stuff to arrive now. Please. MetO has cloudy conditions for the rest of the week - I was interested to see a poster above suggesting that a model that it uses doesn't do very well on cloud cover. The other various forecasting apps are suggesting a much sunnier outlook for the SE. I don't want to get into MetO-bashing, but it does seem that weekends which they have forecast gloomy conditions for have actually turned out pretty sunny and warm. I feel sorry for tourist businesses who are either preparing poorly based on the information or are seeing customer numbers down as potential visitors mistakenly stay at home.

Big crash just now, but still dry Edit: About a minute of heavy rain with big droplets. Amazing how quickly the cell developed. Nothing but a small blue blob offshore; 10 minutes later and 12 miles inland it's turned into something much more thundery. Power went off, of course.