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Yeh quite something when you find yourself under 200-250mm an hour rainfall rates.. the noise it makes to me is magical... my favourite weather this laying in bed hearing it come down.. Quick check out the window and may need the boat tomorrow to go to work but hey.. its tropical alright!

Blooooody hell when you get under one of those purple echos on radar you know all about it.. Costa del sauna this morning to monsoon WICKED WEATHER bamboo and other plants out there now I can hear them singing in the rain No water issues this year and growing of the scale... Perfect weather!

quick check of the Arome against latest radar shows why it is so hard to predict these kinds of convective rainfall events..

Could be due to different soil types.. Here.. we are clay.. So when it rains it is very boggy under foot.. But a day or 2 of dry weather even with no sun it suddenly firms up again.. Different in winter of course as you need much longer dry periods to dry the ground out if it ever happens at all Loving the current weather.. Really is a tropical rainforest feel with the rain.. As a grower it is most welcome to endless days of 30 degree scorching heat and sun

Complete opposite here despite numerous days of heavy rain the sun has been out and everything goes rock solid in a day or 2.. Pretty normal for summer...

Hard to say what might happen over the coming hours one thing for certain is the heavy rain is making in roads now. Most if not all lightning activity is staying firmly over the other side of the channel but wouldn't rule out the odd rumble.. High res useless as they all vary!

Not surprised there is fog... its very damp in the air and with warm humid air running over the top of cooler SSTs its a recepie for fog and mist on immediate coasts even hers 40 miles inland its misty but sun has broken through a few times making it feel even more tropical

Not surprised at the "clag" given how moist this south easterly is.. Unpopular opinion but this muggy cloudy weather is one or my favourite because bamboo loves it lol!

Costa del sauna outside.. Very muggy

haha I jinxed it! Very heavy rain and huge convective drops ! Proper tropical

Judging by the latest ICON run everything has been shoved South and West.. Ideally I want the rain.. Even the heavy rain we had at the start of the week everything is bone dry again

Still waiting for the wash out Saturday banged on by some in the model thread all week... Now even Sunday looks fairly dry till the afternoon

WOW! Must be some serious flooding under them cells to the North East of London! Bloody hell!!!

Pretty safe to say usual summer weather.. I think the last few years of mental heat early on have pushed the bar up for what we expect summer to be. For me this is perfect weather. Sun rain Sun rain continuing and is a blessing in disguise for us all as we can save water and save on the water bill! By now in the last few years everything is brown and looking sad.. I like that it is lush and green and looks and feels a bit like a rain forest! With the humidity going up over the next few days and thunderstorms it really will feel tropical!

That is one serious storm just south of Le Mans. Amazing how quick they can grow monster storms there.. a rare thing here

Tell them not to remove the stump if not damaged! It will come back! They are very very quick growing a tree of that size will not be more than maybe 50-60 years old.. Probably due to the tree being pretty dry inside and couldn't take the amount of weight in water that fell so quickly..

Yes does look like the main bulk of any MCS or storms maybe to far East but there is also mention of some random cells firing of further West.. EURO4 kinda picks them up AROME goes crazy over it... Like you say some High res not really intrested.. NMM AROME ARPEGE EURO 4

EURO4 did quite well the other day... Like you say we will have to see how things develop should see things start to fire in the regions South to us Looks like it picks up new cells firing later on "home grown" storms

Level 1 from ESTOFAX for tonight! The type up is quite something.. ... W France to BENELUX, UK and NW Germany... While the kinematic environment will be less impressive here than to the S / SE, 0-6 km bulk shear should still be more than sufficient for well-organised storms, including supercells. Storms development will be likely tied to the passage of the short-wave trough that will start over the Bay of Biscay and move quickly towards the UK. Storm activity should start in the morning hours over SW France, spreading north during the day. Storms will be capable of (very) large hail and severe wind gust. Cyclogenesis is forecast along the frontal wave ahead of the trough with backing low-level winds across N France. This will increase the amount of SRH and 0-1 km bulk shear and elevate the tornado threat by the evening hours. Currently, the exact location of SRH bullseye is not consistent among the NWP and thus it is not possible to pick up the region with the highest tornado threat. Towards the night, strong WAA regime will support widespread storm initiation and one or two systems will cross S UK and BENELUX. As the boundary layer stabilizes and/or systems cross the frontal boundary, they will become elevated, reducing the severe wind gust threat to some degree. Nevertheless, isolated large hail and very heavy rainfall threat will still be present.

37mm of rain here yesterday! Beautiful! My grass on the lawn is fluorescent its so green! Looks like more rain tonight and tomorrow before we slowly dry out into next week

Approaching 30mm now on my weather station.. Areas a touch further West than me I think will have pretty big totals ..

Never known a growing season quite like this one.. yes we started of very cold and this didn't help but wow.. the rate of growth on the leylandii etc is incredible..

Positively tropical here now! Heavy convective rain.. few roads closed around here due to surface water flooding but nothing major... The plants are loving life!

Probably the centre of the surface low responsible for this rain... it is actually actually small low pressure system engaging with a lingering cold front ... West London would be where my money would be for highest rainfall totals.. here it's been coming down hard all morning.. we need it though.. bamboo loves thus weather and I don't don't to water! Win win

Look at the size of that already! And it's early into the event as well.. To my un trained eye and would ideally like someone with more knowledge on thr subject but is that an overshooting top I see as well? Or is it a higher surface based storm within the cloud top