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Misty start here. It's brightened up somewhat this afternoon and is oscillating between 18 and 19 degrees. It's been nice to have such mild weather for the last few days.

The leaves aren't off the trees yet in Portishead, well not in my area anyway. We've had a fair amount of rain in recent weeks, so the trees are pretty happy.

Grey start to today but it looks like it could burn off and warm up. Was down in N Devon yesterday, it was apparently one of the warmest places in the country yesterday. Very pleasant and with the lack of autumnal cues (no leaves off trees, etc.) it really didn't seem like October. More like August.

Been drowning in torrential rain in Ireland for the last few days so nice to come back to drier and much warmer weather! Hard to believe the difference.

Some chance of an isolated tornado today, although probably too far west to trouble us. Nevertheless, nice to know that the possibility is there.

Mucky start to the day today. Looks like we are in for a run of days with low pressure tracking over or near us. Maybe some respite on the weekend.

Had some heavy rain here earlier, and the radar suggests more on the way. Not obviously in the Met forecast, although the CAPE for this weekend was always forecast to be quite high, though perhaps not this early.

Been watching the lightning from that storm for a few minutes from my top window. The cell appears to be about 50 miles away as the crow flies, but I can still see the flashes pretty well.

Interesting 'double peal' of thunder I recorded a few minutes ago. The flash of lightning sadly didn't register well (if at all) on the video, but you can hear the thunder start at 0:22 and a second very loud crack, like a branch snapping, at 0:27.

Some very occasional loud thunder and biblical rain. The electrical activity hasn't stopped the local dog walkers using the nature reserve, which is full of pylons (it's the terminus for Hinckley C electricity).

Hearing some distant thunder now. Let the fun begin...

No atmospheric action last night, however there is a tidy little electrical cell heading our way currently. Fingers crossed.

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Yep my car is absolutely filthy, must have been one or two showers last night.

20 degree dew point here at the moment (77% RH) so I don't think a shower is out of the question.

Yes, hard to tell how accurate the readings are. Clevedon is an idiosyncratic topography, which I won't even attempt to describe here, so I imagine that there are temperature variations even within a mile or so. Moreover, there's a lot of concrete and tarmac in the centre of Clevedon and it certainly feels warmer there than it does where I live. Throughout the year, we in Portishead are typically a couple of degrees warmer than elevated Lulsgate, which seems to be the most 'official' of the Bristol weather stations, and that is reading 27 degrees at the moment. And we are usually a degree warmer than the 'Marty Hicks' weather station in north Bristol, which at the moment is showing 28.x degrees. Weather data for Horfield and Filton, Bristol UK WWW.MARTYNHICKS.UK Current weather data from an automatic weather station since February 2004, including webcam, monthly archive, live updates. Temperature, humidity, rain, pressure, wind, solar and UV The Clevedon station I referenced has a current observation of 29.6 degrees, so more or less in keeping with that very generalised statistic. I don't bother taking measurements in my own garden as I once used to as it appears to have its own weird microclimate, probably because of south facing windows reflecting onto brick wall and decking that seems to have been uniquely designed to cook the soles of one's feet!

We get the heat when there is enough E in the wind. Time of day can influence also. There are big tides at the moment with low tide around late afternoon. On a big tide the area of estuary between Clevedon and Portishead practically empties out, thus any cooling sea breeze effect is reduced.

Clevedon

North Somerset cracked 30 degrees today. Missed it as was up near Evesham, where it was warm but maybe a couple of degrees cooler than home.

Lovely start to the day here. Looks like it's going to be a cracker.

Grey day, looks like it might drizzle

So some heavy showers and rumbles of thunder at different times today. Not much of which was in the Met Office forecast!

Looks like it could be quite an entertaining day weatherwise on the south coast. I hope some of the fun and games heads further north but not looking too likely.

Mostly cloudy here today despite Met Office promising sun...

And a little patch of rain heading in our direction. It may peter out before reaching us - we'll see.