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Not even normal for Colchester either, 33c on the patio in the shade, and we have had a bit of cloud an hour or so ago to take the "edge off".

34 outside, 27 in the kitchen, 26 lounge, 24/25 bedroom. Curtains and windows closed, white blackout blinds down in the bedroom. Large Australian style sun sail shade across the kitchen windows outside.

Bit early to be asking that yet

Stop arguing over '76, two different types of heatwave. One was lower temps but far longer this one short and sharp and more intense. With' 76 you were able to acclimatise, it became easier and everyone adjusted their day accordingly this one isn't so easy to. Both in their own ways are/were dangerous.

I think you have made an important point there, we tended to collect and store much more rainwater than we do now. My grandmother never used tap water for the spuds and veg or laundry, that came from a big tank outside, saying soft water was better to cook with and the laundry cleaned better. With grandfather growing fruit and veg extensively there were water butts everywhere water could be collected. The thing I remember most from '76 though was the wildfires, especially on the railway cutting banks and heathland around Ipswich, day after day, and later after harvest uncontrolled stubble fires.

Very different overnight, bedroom didn't drop below 25c, most nights that means a water cooled fan on, only had it on lowest last night and didn't have it water cooled either. Slept right through.

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Big guess here, Sunday, 35.8°c, Possibly somewhere near Gravesend.

This should now be backed up by studies done during the pandemic and when few air craft was in the air. Anyone seen any studies during that time?

This is something I have wondered about for a while now. The Clean Air Act was passed in 1956, mostly due to the heavy smogs experienced in the years before. Additionally since that time we ha e also seen a huge increase in air traffic. I once counted 17 aircraft in the air at the same time visible from my back garden (flights from and to Stanstead, Heathrow, Southend and Gatwick, high level non stopping intercontinental flights and a couple of helicopters.) At times I have seen a clear sky first thing gradually turning to a hazy milky mess by lunch time as contrails drift and merge. Has anyone studied, or can point to a study which has looked into the effects overall of the Clean Air Act and also the explosion of international air traffic? How have these effected the ability of sunlight to increasingly reach the ground, the trapping of heat under the haze caused by contrails etc of aircraft?

And treated to an amazing sunset.. The photo doesn't really show it in all its glory tbh Edit, a better one perhaps..

Nothing since though from these skies...

Just a single clap lol very elevated. Light rain otherwise and all gone still.

Quite a sharp clap of thunder in Colchester out of a fairly ordinary cloudy sky. Quite unexpected.

Probably one which every one in Cornwall will remember until eternity, 16th August 2004 and the Boscastle Flood. Caused by convergent sea breezes across Cornwall and the Brown Willy effect in an uncapped atmosphere pushed cloud tops to over 40,000 feet which saw prolonged thunderstorms in the hills and moorland behind Boscastle. Lesnewth, a village some 2 or 3 miles inland saw 7" of rain, other reports saw 8" of rain, in just a few hours. The result was the catastrophic flood in the village of Boscastle as the water made its way down the valley exactly 52 years after Lynmouth suffered the same in 1952.

Thundery shower running NNE/NE through Essex, just approaching Colchester.

Tornado in Germany injures 43 people, police say WWW.BBC.CO.UK Officials said the tornado cut a path of destruction during violent storms in the west of the country.

Just read that Rammsteins gig in Leipzig is being evacuated due to the weather conditions.

Mine was just basic 'O' level geography. Most is common sense tbh though, something planners seem to have little of? I just wonder how they have never sat and asked... Why have we never bullt on these areas before for hundreds and thousands of years?

Most is down to us meddling with flood plains and water courses thinking we know it all. A river has a flood plain for a reason, and it can, and indeed will take it back when it needs it regardless of what we do. Two events stand out for water course meddling, Lynmouth and Boscastle. Both were due to the rivers been encroached on, the river which is mostly fairly small most of the time saw its banks made taller and narrower as the villages expanded, until one day the river needed its larger volume and it just took out all that had been put in the way. This was also seen in the US when they had to remove some of the dams and levees on I think it was the Colorado/Missouri/Mississippi River system to allow it to flood onto its natural flood pains, previous to this it just went round the obstacles and flooded it anyway and far worse. In protecting new build developments on flood plains we are now seeing older developments and towns flood far more than they used to where previously their flood defenses would have held easily. The watershed of the Severn is huge, and so are its flood plains, tbh, I ask, what do they expect? Someone once said to me about encrouchment on rivers and we did a little thought experiment and some back of a fag packet sketches and calculations. I said my garden is 5m wide, and 55m long and imagine it's all concrete. I then asked how tall a tank would I need with a base of 1m² to hold the water from a 25mm/1 inch storm rain on my concrete garden. A surprising 6.875m tall...just under 23'. Just 25mm/1 inch of rain. Now imagine the roads, the driveways, paths, the roof areas etc, of new build on flood plains draining into the rivers earlier than they would have done previously, what will it do? Drain faster and flood elsewhere further downstream, probably in older developments and towns. Our ancestors would be laughing their socks off right now.

BBC catching up, article posted 20 minutes ago.. West Midlands rocked by earthquake WWW.BBC.CO.UK The 2.8 magnitude quake could be felt over a 12-mile radius from the Walsall epicentre.

I've heard them in Ipswich when they were still used for the Cold War. Old WW2 sirens and were tested every year. Many were gradually decommissioned after the Cold War and some were recommissioned for flood alerts. A really mournful sound only matched by fog horns lol

Having watched over the past few days and how the warning system works, I personally don't think there is a solution. The weather in the UK is inherently complex in severe weather scenarios and the variations can be quite large even at small distances. Additonally as a storm tracks in a shift of even 50 miles can make a lot of difference. Certainly doesn't help having two warning systems (how likely/impact) running side by side with the same warning colours though.

Had to laugh at this even if it's not a laughing matter... Moments later the tree smashed through several rooms, causing extensive damage to the property on Friday morning. After shedding a few tears, Mr Good said, the family "did the very British thing and went to the pub". Storm Eunice: Huge 400-year-old oak tree falls on to house WWW.BBC.CO.UK A family 'does the very British thing' after their house is storm damaged... and goes to the pub.

Turned into a blustery night here now, occasional showers. The front coming through earlier certainly dumped some serious rain but not as windy as I was expecting. I wonder how common it is for 3 strong storms to cross the UK within a week?