Froze were the Days

Really!?! are you talking about your country?...it is in the south and south east of the UK, 26c here yesterday and you feel the humidity at this time of year with the highest SST's.

Well its a very good tool if you want to keep track of 'today' and what happened years back...MetO use this on their CET tracker.

Nope!...that's why we're +3c above the CET 1961-90 series, not really normal.

Well tropical maritime then - by and large it seems to come from a tropical direction (certainly this month) most of the time either continental or maritime.

Finally at last! hammering rain, lightning and thunder...the dogs are pooping themselves.

Not from the shower that went over me 20 minutes or so ago and now moving westwards...can't help thinking on the coast is not the place to be.

Steady rain now no thunder here - as I said underwhelming.

2017-18 winter had little high pressure over the country - Dec occasionally had ridges to the uk from the Azores and a brief northerly plunge mid-month, Jan was largely a mobile mild month and Feb known for the very cold end but not anti-cyclonic in nature. You have to think we will see a return of a somewhat colder winter at some point, not sure if we'll still be in an easterly QBO for the upcoming one or if SST's have changed that dramatically particularly over the north eastern Pacific. By the way doesn't that area of HP ever go away in that area, seems to be there most winters of late.

Well that 'menacing' shower is almost over me and have to say very underwhelming...a few spots of rain and nothing more.

100% spot on!...but only a minimum of 25c and wall to wall sunshine will do for some.

Still flippin' dry here...missed what storms which were to the north,

ermm yes...and move further west away from our region.

Just seen the BBC lunchtime weather with Chris Fawkes...still looks very underwhelming in this region (though he did harp on about the fact rain could be torrential if you got some), could be the odd storm tonight but they looked like decaying or moving away westwards, Thursday has defo been downgraded with little in the way of convective activity towards East Anglia, Friday looks like more widespread but by then wouldn't at all surprise me to see more cloud cover and steady rain as opposed to T-storms. Just my take on it...hopefully I'll be proved wrong.

Depends what weather station you have and if the thermometer is housed, I have a Stevenson screen and is reasonably accurate although attached to the north side of a shed (should be more in the open).

That's a tropical looking garden!...lush grass as well, must have been watered regularly? 28.2c currently.

My dad left me some notes to base on his eulogy (he passed away in 2018)...one of his 'loves' was rain on a lawn/garden after a dry spell in summer which exacerbates all the smells of grass, roses etc. God bless! 26.1c currently.

Some people think this summer before this month has been bad...simply put in my location there just has not been enough rain/unsettled days to warrant it, my lawn is about as brown as it's ever been. 25.5c already outside...no wind all sun, will breach 30c easily at this rate (I'm on the coast).

I know you shouldn't take the BBC weather graphics as gospel but tomorrow and Thursday showed little in the way of convective activity to the east of London and towards East Anglia...I'll be amazed but not surprised if out towards my location we experience little in the way of lightning and thunder but as we know with such conditions difficult to pinpoint.

End of summer?...don't 'bank' on it, end of summer by calendar month that's all. As another poster mentioned September is largely a summer month now days in the south. On another note amazing how the warmth and humidity just seems to be extended, very strange synoptics we're now witnessing.

Rain this morning but very clammy - partly cloudy 25.1c

and?...not here, that's where the severe T-storms will stay. Probability for us says steady/heavy rain with the odd rumble of thunder.

What utterly silly hot temperatures across Europe currently, parts of northern central Spain are cooler than here,,,and only altitude in the Alps can you escape any real heat. Sad times.

Went for an early walk this morning, surprised to be greeted by this down by the waterfront....I thought it was a tad piping. Mommy make it stop.

If you weren't following the GFS (which I rarely do) it was always going to be at least 3 days of heat (predicted from last weekend) and even the ECM to a degree has extended it to near Thursday over the last day or so. Key here: don't follow the GFS...

Not as hot here on the Essex coast as yesterday...max of 28.3c and partially cloudy through the day.