DaveL

Here we had 74.6 mm in October and with today's 23.8 (so far) it's 91.4mm this month already - with showers stil happening. The garden is pretty squelchy now. One thing I've noticed in the last few days is my VP2, it's increasingly under-recording by 10% to 20% so I have to go outside to check accurate totals in the check gauge. Inspection and clean-out required!

With Jupiter just above it!

All I can say about the rain, 52mm here this month already, is "not before time". Southern Water today finally cancelled the hosepipe ban here! Though I don't expect to see too many people out watering their gardens tomorrow...

I recorded 30mm of rain here yesterday, and by the time it stopped around 10pm, the temperature was below 9°C. Horrendous weather, squelch. Thank goodness for the dry day today with plenty of sunshine, the 13 degree max wasn't too bad considering, though it's already teetering on the bottom edge of 10.

The last Ryanair Dublin to Bournemouth flight of the day was diverted after lining up to land at Hurn airport - to Stansted - obviously high winds! At 3 metres above ground here, a 33 mph gust at midnight sent a wheelie bin or three spinning. Up on the roof, my 33 would be around 50 mph. Met Office currently forecast 58-64 mph gusts around here at 1 am. Southampton dockhead currently reports 45 kts force 9, gust 54 knots (peak 64 knots/74mph) so it's a wild wild night there and along the coast.

Same here, overcast afternoon and still it reached 20.5°C! Bits of barely perceptible drizzle late afternoon, below the minimum recordable amount and still 16.3 as I write. Madness I tell ye, madness!

Last night's minimum here was 15.7°C, the highest min since 4th. September (+6.7 on the monthly average). 17.9 max so far, keeping up this month's pattern of having every day to date above the monthly average maximum of 15.5°C. Very pleasant outside too even in the breeze, phew what a scorcher.

Was in between two thunder cells here this time round, very dark skies and sopme distant thunder and lightning buit only an additional 2mm of rain so far, making 15.4mm for the day. So far. The other 13 mm fell earlier this morning and I was oblivious to it zzzzz

Caught an intense cell a couple of hours ago, 9:55pm, hail as well and it knocked out my Sky TV for a few minutes - Louise Lear in mid sentence no less! Shows up at 120mm/hour peak on the graph but it was likely significantly higher for a minute or two. 8 mm of rain measured in less than 10 minutes. From the radar, the whole thing developed from moderate to intense then back again within 40 minutes or so as the shower band moved NE. And I was in the bulls eye. EDIT looks like the trigger for the sudden development might have been the Needles headland and Freshwater Down, 10 to 15 minutes before reaching here.

Almost made landfall in Nova Scotia as a hurricane and was redesignated as Post Tropical Cyclone shortly before landfall, when still at category 3 on the S-S scale. Made landfall as a cat 2 Post Tropical Cyclone. Never heard of that before - ever! FIONA Graphics Archive: Initial Wind Field and Watch/Warning Graphic WWW.NHC.NOAA.GOV

Was a bit less chilly here last night, 5.9°C minimum and 3.7 on the grass, but only 19.1 max this afternoon in the sunshine. Autumn has arrived.

Minimum 4.7°C here last night, grass minimum 2.8 so no kind of frost here. Reached 19.9 this afternoon with sunny periods in a light northerly, quite a pleasant day. Indoors it dropped to 21 point something this morning, so the house is still quite warm.

An actual real-life actual thunderstorm, so rare here, yay! Rain peaked at 167 mm/hour so far, still bucketing down, half an inch of rain in under half an hour 15 minutes so far.

You were lucky! Now when I were a lad..... ummm, well anyway, we got the western end of that proper SE and E England deluge, 19.8mm of rain this morning here so the grass will definitely need a cut very soon. And another day faling to reach the magic 21°C (20.3 max), 2nd. time this month what IS happening to the world?

Rain or drizzle on and off here for most of today, overcast all day and it's not often I've had that this summer. 19.7 max, now 18.6 and looking like the coolest day since July 1st.

I've checked the manual gauge properly now and it's 12.2 mm today then, and I've completed my 61 manual bucket-tips after catching the spider and removing its evil web. VP2 and Wunderground now show the correct daily total albeit at the wrong times! The world is back in order.

Well that was a shock to the system, torrential rain for a while this morning, proper showery and I got a bullseye from one small cell, it peaked at over 90mm/hour at 11:20 according to NW radar! Anyway, the net result today is about 12mm of rainfall so far. I say "about" as that's from a quiick look at my manual check gauge. Because... the VP2 shows precisely zero! It was all spidered up, cobwebs galore around the tipping buckets arrghhh. Physically check your rain gauges folks! So now I need to work out how to fiddle correct my Wundergound data for the day, which cannot be edited there. That's a lot of manual tips I'll have to do today lol.

Minimum 17.0 (higher than yesterday) and it''s now reached 28°C which makes it day 8 of the heatwave (27 is the threshold here). Sun has managed to break through the cloud. (Almost) needless to say, no rain so far and inside it's still 27+ in every room, windows open or no. Will it REALLY ever end?

Just got in from the beach at Lee on Solent, streets and cvarparks still packed like sardines. Temperature down to a wonderful 22°C just as we left, and all the way home as well! Until that is I opened the door, almost got blasted back out again by the heat, and looked at my lounge thermometer. 28.7°C! The entire house is one huge storage heater, even upstairs where I left all the windows open it's 27.5 ... it'll take days to get rid of all that lot.

Peaked briefly at 33.2 here in (fairly) glorious sunshine at 12:20 then the sea breeze arrived with a brief 12 mph bang and knocked it back to 31, where it's remained ever since. To cap it, the sun is now weak with little shadow, for the first time in days so lots of high cloud - and some cumulus visible on the N-NW horizon. The day started off well though, having got down to a refreshing 16.7°C compared to 18.0 the night before but there was little wind so indoors it's been 27 to 29 throughout.

The highest half-hourly METAR for the airport (Lulsgate) is reported as "32" C so a 35 maximum nearby would be surprising, and either it, or the airport instrument/site, could be suspicious. It's at 189m elevation though. Gloucester AP, Cardiff and Pershore all reported 33 though so you never know!

Southampton Airport METAR is currently joint 2nd. in the list (with a lot of other airports) at 33°C - its highest reported temperature of the week. Here we hit a heady 33.2 at 11:37 and I thought a new station record was on... but grrr that pesky sea breeze capped it.and it 's been 31-32 since then. I see a scattered line of small cumulus to my north, over the South Downs I think - now that's a novelty after the last few days!

Southampton Airport, temperature almost flat for 5 hours and currently at its high for the day: Screen location is up at 2 metres and with acres of green around it, so that's as low as we are likely to see in that area - and it doesn't report decimals or the maxima.

Looks to have topped out here at 33.7 at 12:45 when the sea breeze veered the wind from NE to SE, earlier and slightly stronger than yesterday so no station record here by the looks of it. Mind you, it only dropped the temperature by a degree or two, somewhat less than yesterday, so if the breeze drops away, you never know! Currently 32.6,C.

34.3C here just before the sea breeze arrived at 2:30pm. From previous comparisons, this will be about a degree above a stevenson screen in these conditions so let's say 33 in reality, which compares well with Southampton Airport that hit 32 in a spot half hourly report. The thing is though, comparing like with like, 34.3 is within half a degree of my all time station record going back to 2013 (set last month) and that could go tomorrow. "Nowhere near as hot as last month" said the BBC weather chappy - well he knows where he can stick that analysis lol.