Cakie

I’d be happy at 24c, over that and it’s a bit uncomfortable but having said that I lived in the Middle East and it rarely got below 24c even in winter but aircon was everywhere.

Yikes, that used to be my commute to work. Shows the warnings were correct

Yes, I was a bit surprised, brief as it was

Nice storm just passing by. Got out of the car and thought someone was setting off a shotgun next door

I lived in the Middle East for a few year. Yes it's lovely to know it's not going to rain for the next few months but you spend 99% of your time inside, be it at home or in the mall. Not opening your windows from April until October. I missed clouds, rain, wind. We had some spectacular storms but maybe twice a year, helped with some cloud seeding. Other than that it was just sun, sun, sun, rarely even a cloud. It gets boring after a while. I would like to have somewhere I could escape to for a few weeks at a time in the winter for a bit of sun in the Med

They do cloud seeding a lot as well. Quite hard to forecast the weather as it has a helping hand. I've experienced some really un-natural storms out there

I can concur, we were travelling through Thirsk yesterday and the flooding was terrible. Sutton Bank was equally bad but it was obviously just rolling down the hill.

My friend took this in Newton Aycliffe facing towards Darlington. pretty clean looking funnel

It is. Strange as it went a little dark and I thought I'll check the radar to see if I should bring the washing in and I got the message it's only a mile or so from me

Yes, my friend has an excellent picture. Need to check if I can post it

Just spotted by a work colleague on the West side of Darlington

Agreed, it takes months to become acclimatised to temperature and if you don't have air con it can cause serious issues. Even with air con me and my kids suffered for months in the Middle East with skin conditions, dizzy spells etc.

How strange, it's clearing up then flash and loud thunder quickly afterwards. Rumbling for quite a while

They hit the edge of Darlington and lost their power There was the odd rumble though

Looks like more developing to the West

The storm didn't get the memo, thunder and lightening as we speak and my daughter is out on an army cadet away day she will be like a drowned rat

Lightening and heavy rain. This has just appeared on the radar in the last 5 minutes

Getting dark, rain started and distant rumbles from the West of Darlington

Been out in the Dales for the day, sun was out but showers on the road. Got back to Darlington and floods. BMW burnt out his turbo trying to get through one flood. Rain gauge has 26mm of rain so far. Hoping for something from the south later

If you search D-Day on the Met Office site there is a lot of information on there for you to read

2c according to the car but felt colder than yesterday with frost. I guess more moisture in the air makes it feel that way?

Gone down to 1.3c now

It certainly feels colder. I think it's picking up some heat from the house

At last some white stuff is falling. 2.5c

I swear there is a line south of Yarm that is eating all the snow