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An amazing lightning storm here in Aldershot, not particularly heavy rain but frequent and quite intense lightning. I guess these storms are pretty elevated as thunder is fairly muted considering how close the lightning is. This is up there with the long remembered May 2018 London storms!

Just continuous lightning here from east to west to my south with the odd very close and huge flashes. Pretty spectacular!

Just been watching the storm to the south of Guildford flash away as it moved north north east, very frequent lightning and muted thunder, but strangely went from lightning every 8-10 seconds to nothing in an instant. Like someone just turned it off. Now watching new flashes directly south getting closer.

Disappointingly been a rather cloudy day here with the blue sky never far away although the warmer temperature is very welcome. Off to the south of France tomorrow and the forecast has gone from wall to wall sunshine to thunderstorms all next week. Looks like we’ll be in the unsettled bit between the cooler north and the heat in Spain

Doesn’t seem anywhere near as windy here as the previous windy Saturdays last month despite this being a named “storm”. Currently quite calm here. Still, it’s yet another utterly atrocious weekend day for a summer month, very wet early and again this afternoon with a rumble of thunder. Sunshine measurable in minutes (about 3) and chilly. With almost no sun all week the house is really quite cool, more like March than August

Another miserable wet and cool afternoon to cap off a rotten summer month, certainly one of the worst in recent years. Just one “hot” day on the 7th, the rest average at best. Way too many cloudy, wet and windy days for high summer the worst of them alway falling at weekends.

After a reasonable week, today surely is about as grim as it gets for late July in southern England. Not even 16c, zero sun all day, windy and rain or drizzle continuously from about 11am. And based on current forecasts looks like there’s no sign at all of anything summery on the horizon. June is a distant memory now .

My house is old and draughty and doesn’t retain warmth at all, the upstairs south facing bedroom peaked around 19 today which to me feels cool enough for a sweater and is depressing for mid summer.

A thoroughly miserable autumnal evening, really grim for mid-July. Winds easing a touch now but has been very gusty all afternoon. Such an odd summer, July has swapped with June. House starting to feel distinctly cool now after several cloudy cool days. Grim

Yes I think this afternoon could be a bit of a write off for the outside courts

Text forecast from the Metoffice for tomorrow seems to be the complete opposite of the hourly icon forecast. Text forecast suggests rain arriving overnight cleaning during the day whereas the icons have a dry night and rain arriving around midday with a wet afternoon. Either way it’s the first time we’ve had heavy rain symbol in the forecast locally for a very long time. Hoping for some decent rain that does a bit more than just dampen the ground as it’s dry as a bone here.

Latest forecasts don’t look so promising now for a spell of heavy rain here in the early hours of tomorrow, all looks to have shifted quite a bit west. Just can’t catch a break, as after that it’s looking pretty much dry again for the foreseeable

Once again we’ve completely missed out on any decent rainfall here. Just enough to wet the ground. Too far south again for any of the storms, and the rain coming up from the south has largely fizzled out by the time it reached there. Holding out for Tuesday now

We were so close to the storms could smell the petrichor but other than almost continuous rumbling thunder all we got here was a few spits of rain, so frustrating as garden is crying out for a good soaking. A triangle from Aldershot to Woking and down to Guildford somehow managed to have the storms go completely around us.

We’ve got that claggy cloudy post storm sort of morning, without having had the storms . Nice comfortable temperature though.