Emz by the Thames

No T&L but woken by the sound of very heavy rain, car park apppears to be flooding.

Overlap sort of warning update: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/#?tab=warnings&regionName=se&fcTime=1466118000

I'm meant to be seeing in the solstice on a beach in Suffolk...but it's looking like it will be cloudy/possibly rainy Monday morning. Not doubt the sun will come out and it will be glorious the minute we put the bags in the car to come home on Wednesday - so that's the forecast - it will be dull while I'm on holiday, then sunny after

Can see confection loveliness already. I can see me taking many pointless visits to the top floor today

Just about in the marginal zone today, will rig up the camera. Last few days have been a let down but we live in hope! Fear of thunder and lightning is has several names - brontophobia being one. I know this because my grandmother had it so bad. She used to turn the TV up loud, then hide in the under-stairs cupboard until the storm had passed. I had a phobia of it when I was little and couldn't bear to be alone during a storm, I'd wake the whole family up. It wqs strange really as I was a well-travelled, intrepid little tomboy, not really fearful so I don't know if the fear was innate or learned. It isn't normal asking your Dad if you can sleep inside a Faraday cage!!I still don't know if fear to T&S is nature or nurture. Surely we must be programmed to escape wide open spaces in a storm. It all changed a few years ago when me and my partner went to a county show. We encountered rain on the journey and parked miles away as the car park was full. While walking over fields towards the arena, my partner turned to me and there was a look of horror on his face. 'What is happening to you hair?!' he said and snapped it on his phone to show me. I looked at the phone, my hair was stood upright with static. We were at least 2 minutes fast running time from the arena below....but we ran like hell! Boom of thunder shortly afterwards left me shaking...but in a twisted way, addicted..Since then, I'd been addicted to the adrenaline rush of storms.

Gorgeous skies. I love watching clouds going in different directions. Wonder if we'll be lucky and get TS here?

I know I'll get ridiculed but....headaches, today and yesterday...I know it's a wives' tale but it sure is a co-incidence that with the storms comes the headaches. Something bubbly looking to my south, it's though the trees so not clear but something of interest. How nice was it falling asleep last night with the rumble of distant thunder (but all the while feeling jealous of those to the S/E taking a direct hit!) Sun has just come out.

Thunder and lightning!!!

Yellow warning for most of the S/E tomorrow: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/#?tab=warnings&map=Warnings&zoom=5&lon=-3.50&lat=55.50&fcTime=1465254000&regionName=se

Forecast says brightening up this arvo - no sign of that, it gets lighter...then darker again! This week I've had enough of damp washing lying about! Watched the Southwold webcam last night as we're off there in a few weeks - it looked apocalyptic Drizzle, sea fog, sweeping beam of a lighthouse in the chilly mizzle....is this really June!? Roll on Sunday.

It seems to have been autumn for about the past 9 months.

Trees down causing problems both on the Chiltern Line and in local roads, hubby had to de-tour driving to work due to a tree being down near Great Missenden. As for me, trying to get piles of washing done on a dehumidifier on laundry setting is no fun. And at just 11.c outside the heating has come on. It's like November. Hard to believe it's meteorological summer tomorrow

The Meh is above us but I can see glimmers of sun poking though. Trying to decipher rain risk for later as I will be outdoors all day, not easy. Does anyone else obsessively look at long term forecast once they book their holiday? I'm off to coastal Suffolk in 3 weeks and just obsessively looking at long term forecast, even though thinks are subject to change several times...it's daft but I can't stop myself!!

Thunder and 45 degree hail 10 minutes ago!!

Beautiful day. I'm still not clear about the next few days in terms of how cold things are going to get and if there is a frost/snow risk. I have a flowerbed but I live in a flat so have no greenhouse...really don't know what to do with my young plants which are currently outside and under plastic. My Dad always says there's no frost after 6th May...not sure how accurate that is!

Yellow warning for many in the S/E. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/#?tab=warnings&regionName=se&fcTime=1460674800 Honestly, it's been like watching a storm nursery here the last few days, I wouldn't mind just hearing a bit of distant thunder.

Blue skies here now...and a big cauliflower to my south west. We're just outside the warning area, shame. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/#?tab=warnings&regionName=se&fcTime=1460588400

Feels so odd today, mist this morning, humid one minute, cold wind the next - can't take my eyes off the various clouds. A storm just a fraction north of here, more soon hopefully (even though I'm working outside!!)

Thunder!! Knew it was coming 10 minutes ago as I now know a convective raindrop when I see one! A Happy Easter indeed!!

Can you imagine this forum if it actually happened? Shame forums we're around last time it happened, I would have liked to have read people's reactions! Chilly 0.5c at 6am, sunny now...make the most of it though as cloudy meh is a-comin.

Only seen rain here..but the wind is strong...I'm typing this fast as the lights keep dipping!! (Harrogate had snow again this morning according to my family....harrumph!!)

Looking at the streetlight...blobs of sleet in the rain now.

Sleety light rain...and risen from 0.c to 3.1.c in the last few hours Meanwhile my sister sends me numerous lovely Whatsapp images form snowy Harrgate......

Found myself singing Visage's Fade to Grey this morning....surely because of this endless grey! It's so unseasonal and horrible but at least the sun popped out this morning. Reading 14.5.c here currently and I've just been to B&Q in a long sleeved shirt.

Tree down near Cookham bridge, fire crews there as a woman has had to be released from a car, A355 nr Amersham tree down, pretty rough out there. http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/14037898.Pictures__Two_people_injured_after_tree_falls_on_travelling_car/