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You obviously did not read my post in its entirety - I also said half of all June days were warmer than 20C, and the average daytime temperature was nearly 1 degree above the long-term average. That's right - the average daytime temperature was warmer than average - meaning the temperatures you actually experienced during the day were warm! In fact, the final 15 days of the month were downright lovely - no cool weather to speak off, and virtually no rain whatsoever. Consistently in the 20-23C range, and the wind eventually abated, meaning it felt pretty oppressive at times due to the higher humidity. PS - I was one of those who commented on how poor June was - but June changed for the better, and the warmer to thirds of the month cancelled out the cooler third, easily.

It's also the key in northern France's weather, ditto Western Germany, Netherlands, Belgium. Seems they get better weather than us anyway.

Usually when the continent us hot, we are too i.e 2013, 2006, 2003, 1995 and so on. Less hot in absolute terms but usually just as hot if not hotter relative to average. It is certainly not unreasonable to expect some of their heat to move over us for more than one or two days as it has done in the past on countless occasions. Anyone who suggests otherwise is lying.

I'm starting to get the same feeling that I had in May regarding July's weather.. looks bad, cool north westerlies and no sign of sustained warmth. I hate this god damned climate sometimes.

Well you obviously have a very dodgy memory because June 2015 was much sunnier and slightly warmer than any of the past 5 Junes - 2010 excluded. Half of all days in June 2015 were above 20C and after the 2nd, there was practically no rain - just fleeting, short-lived showers. If that does not constitute a good month, what, pray tell, does?

In all honesty, June was a decent month in Leeds. It started off poor, but improved gradually as the month went on. Average high was 19.7C compared to the 1981-2010 average of 19C. The mean as a whole was a little below normal - but still within normal range (i.e 0.5C either side of average) - and that's only because we had a string of very cold nights early in the month - hence why looking at means/CET values alone do not necessarily tell you everything. Oh, and it was definitely a sunnier than average month, and on the dry side - only 22mm - with 17mm of that falling on the 2nd. Plus it was the first June since 2011 to exceed 25C - and 30C for that matter. So June 2015 gets a thumbs up from me. Nothing special, but pleasant enough.

Yeah just had thunder but the lightning activity is to the north of here.

I saw yellow lightning on Friday night, part of a small storm passing 20 miles west of here. Was a very unusual thing to witness.

Rain on and off all day here and a very cool 18C was the highest it got (21-22c is the norm here for July and August). Later in the week looks good but will it last? Current output would say... no.

GFS is starting to look very 2010-esque with a ridiculously prominent NW-SE split rearing its ugly head, no idea why this idea keeps on recurring - can't it just bugger off? ECM is looking pretty rubbish too. Hopefully UKMO is closer to the money. Sigh.. only in the UK can you watch the models and pray that summer will remain. In most other countries it's pretty much a certainty.

Exactly.. August 2008 might have been close to average but that's only because nighttime temps were kept high due to the ridiculous cloud & rain levels. Daytime temps were very disappointing - highest temp all month was 23C here.

Hm.. seems like the torrential rain we had here has developed into a proper line of storms as it cleared east of here. Just our luck really, lol.

Some very torrential rain here - and now just had a CC strike with thunder.

A good storm here - at one point we had lightning every 7 seconds. Most of the thunder was kind of eerie and strange sounding - some of it sounded like an aluminum sheet being shaken, and sounded very high up -but we had one thunder clap that sounded like a shotgun and made me jump - and it was accompanied by a close CG strike (we had about 2 or three other CG strikes as well). Had 16mm in the end. All in all, I am VERY pleased. Waited log enough. Still some flashes at 5am this morning - 2 hours after it started.

Lightning animation map: http://www.lightningmaps.org/blitzortung/europe/index.php?bo_page=archive&bo_hour_range=7&bo_oldmap=6&bo_oldani=1&bo_map=6&bo_year=2015&bo_month=7&bo_day=3&bo_hour_from=21&bo_hour_range=10&bo_animation=now#bo_arch_strikes_maps_form Difference between last night's storms and Wednesday's storms is that last night's affected millions of people. Wednesday's supercells, while amazing, trundled through some very sparsely populated areas of the country. I mean, how often do you see a line of storms 200 miles long moving through the UK?

I can now hand in my membership at long last.

Wow, some amazing lightning on that cam!

Wow, some brilliant CG strikes to my west - with distant thunder. Great show!

Oh, yes - just saw a flash clear as day.

Okay, I thought I saw lightning earlier and was losing it - but I DEFINITELY slaw a flash just then.

Leeds Bradford Airport the same - 40% chance of thunderstorms with hail.

It was 25C here today - but now it's 14C thanks to the rain earlier. Brr - feels very cold.

This year, things are reversed. The places with the least amount of thunder on average are somehow getting the most. We should be getting around 10 days of thunder a year.

I remember one time a few years ago when storms were dying as they crossed the Channel to England but this big massive clump of storms was rumbling away in the Norwegian Sea like a boss, LOL. Can't win.

That's what I'm thinking - and I suspect that's primarily the reason for the Met Office's warning. Certainly warm today at 25C - now 23C and humid. We'll see.