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My garden based weather station is reporting 29.8 - rural site. MetO forecast 28C max.

About 2C ahead of the curve here in NE Hants. Just reach 26C and MetO had us down for that temp at midday.

I have a couple of questions that hopefully the more knowledgeable members can answer for me. When the models show 2m readings, are they taking into account local topography to a fine detail or just in broader geographic terms i.e. in a city like Southampton with both built up urban areas and a sea coast does the model average out the temperature across a broad area? With that in mind, is it therefore possible local readings will go substantially (and potentially dangerously) higher than maxes shown? TIA

Would the further North have lower chances of setting records because they haven't had as much heat in the preceding days?

That is quite the anomaly! Absolutely incredible! Has there ever been such a marked one before or is this more of the potential record breaking variety?

Updating mine. I am now going for 40.3 on Monday 18th, Hampshire

Beautiful start to the day, 8.15am and 22°C - making the most of more usable temperatures in the garden before it all gets a little unbearable.

38.1 Hampshire 17th

Thank you fpr sharing - it's beautiful. My sister returns to UK today and is just hoping no storms are about when she hits the skies! The storms there have been magnificent: I have massive storm envy right now!

Sister in Limoge on her balcony again...with another huge storm for the second night in a row. She is doing a FB live and hopefully has set the link to public as I said some storm fans might want to take a look. https://m.facebook.com/sharon.hillboulton/videos/1071676160419986/

My sister is currently watching some great show from her hotel balcony in Limoge...and I am a little jealous!

Currently enduring post COVID foggy brain and therefore my ability to get my head around meteorological nuances today is somewhat limited. So. I will rely on those more knowledgeable tonight: OH has offered to drive me to the coast if there is a chance of seeing some light shows - so what do you guys and gals think? We'd be heading down Solent way. Is it worth a chance?

Great capture...and so enjoyed that you left the excitable soundtrack: I get all shouty and excited too, so much so OH edits out the sound

Just hit rain now in Fareham as we head to the Solent - lightning flashes all over the place, rain getting heavy.

Bit of a late decision to head South tonight and currently driving down M3 with OH. The sky is already being lit up beautifully from the West.

I fancy another chase tomorrow, but am limited a bit on distance to travel (I.e. within an hour or so of Fleet). Am looking at Selsey or thereabouts - what are anyone else's thoughts on that choice of location and/or any better suggestions ( I don't know those areas so well). TIA x

Watching from the Solent last night, I have to agree...it was certainly spectacular and for the first time ever we had to head home while the lightning was still active. An amazing night.

And one more from me, the best capture of the night!! VID-20220516-WA0007.mp4

Caught a lovely show from the seafront at Lee-on-Solent last night. I love how the lightning reveals the cloudscapes from the blackness. 20220515_235851~2.mp4 20220515_233644~2.mp4

Currently at Lee-on-Solent seafront, watching lightning pulses across the channel from three distinct areas - East, West and directly South.

Likely to be some delays with landings/take-offs impacted by wind levels. I am not an expert but did a quick Google search, and it seems than speeds above 35mph can be problematical (depending also on direction).