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Yes we have also had some showers but no lightning activity as the sferics map clearly shows.

Had a max gust of 31mph in the garden during a passing shower in the evening.

What I have noticed over the years with these Newspapers is that they never seem to be precise enough. For instance they mention 60mph winds to hit Britain but dont refer to which places are going to get these sorts of winds. It looks like it has indeed been a bit lively for Northern areas today but down here the highest gust I recorded on my weather station was only 31mph. They should have instead said that Northern Britain would get them but nowhere else.

Blimey thats a big wave!

For where you are it probably would be colder then 2C due to being further North. I was just talking about the UK as a whole.

Probably 2C maximum!

The heating system and radiators haven't been used in our house since March this year but it probably will be turned on sometime this month. End of October is when we usually put it on.

Today has been the first in a while which has actually felt a little bit like Winter. Maybe because the temperature didn't rise above the mid teens.

Your forecast map for us in the Southwest has been pretty much spot on ESS. A typical windy day it has been down here.

It is quite gusty here at the moment with just recently some moderate showers blowing through and with a current temperature of 12.3C.

One day that I will never forget in terms of thunderstorms was on the 31st of August 2005. Here in Wiltshire on that day I can remember the mourning being very warm to hot and seeing a few scattered Altocumulus Floccus around in amongst sunny skies. Then past Midday it became cloudy and i can distinctly remember telling my mum about whether or not she thought there would be thunder as I was becoming annoyed with the forecast showing Northwest England being affected by some. And she said probably not. It was only when I was whatching an episode of Stargate SG1 in the afternoon when I looked outside to the southwest and saw the most widest covouring of very dark based Altocumulus clouds was when I had a gut feeling that we were in for something. And sure enough from around 5:00pm onwards was there the most closest lightning I had ever seen. I can still actually remember me and my brother being quite frightened as we were young at the time seeing proper cloud-ground lightning strikes no more then about a mile away from our house. The safety meter to the house wen't off a few times as well probably because of how close the lightning was.

What I find quite strange but interesting is how a lot of the time lightning seems to strike just the ground rather then trees or objects which are above it because with trees being higher up you would have thought that it would be striking one every time there is a thunderstorm. It may well be that the saying of lightning always strikes the tallest object in the vicinty is a myth as well or maybe at least not always true.

Since I have been alive I have never known or seen snow falling at that time of the year including snow which has settled. Most of the time the weather either seems to be mild with drizzle to light rain or cold, clear and frosty.

Well at the moment it is quite windy here at Mere with some short bursts of light to moderate rain.

I am a new member to the forum and back in July this year at my school i was told that indeed Maths was an important subject to have for meterology and especially if you wanted to work for the Met Office.