suffolkboy_

Not here. Only had 5.6mm from Tuesday's episode. Not had an awful lot more today. Will take an awful lot more to overcome the last two dry years.

So, has anyone taken the plunge and bought the new WeatherLink live system from Davis? "Now you can stream your sensor data live, effortlessly, to any smart device in your Local Area Network (LAN). WeatherLink Live receives your data from your outside Sensor Suites and add-on sensors and transmits it via Wi-Fi to the WeatherLink Cloud. Setup couldn’t be simpler. (And you can keep your tool box in the garage!) Just download the app, follow the steps, and you’ll be viewing your data on your phone app or desktop in minutes" I like the thought of being able to see the data on my station when I am out and about, but at £250 I'm hesitant to make a purchase until I know if it's as good as it sounds!

Best storm for a few years here. Strong gust front which has left a lot of debris on the road. Lots of power cuts locally and a few sirens. So much more comfortable now, dropped the temperature from 28C to 22C now.

MetOffice text forecast for tomorrow now saying maximum temperature of 39C for East of England. Always tends to be accurate as it's forecaster written rather than automated from raw model data.

I'm sure it's pretty accurate. Official stations near me showed slightly warmer in a few locations. That temperature was recorded at 1.34pm. There was high level cloud sweeping in from the west that day which them tempered maximum temperatures. Highest temperatures were Bury St Edmunds eastwards that day, so many stations as you say did record 32Cish as a max.

Woken up by incredibly loud thunder, house shaking stuff even when at a distance. Heaviest rain my station has ever recorded in 14 years! 1284mm/hr!!!! We only got 1.6mm but we had it in the space of seconds.

Looking back on my records, I recorded 34.3C on 27th July last year which was the peak of the hot spell, think we may well beat that on Thursday. I updated my weather station two years ago from a bog standard David Vantage Pro 2 to a new one with FARS (Fan Aspiration Radiation Shield - for more accurate temp readings) - it was definitely the right choice with these incredible hot spells this year and last.

37.4C Hertfordshire Thursday

Well that would certainly make my weekend at Latitude rather interesting! Best pack a mac!

Note that there are new cells developing rapidly north of Rennes (west of the main focus currently). I have a feeling that the radar is really going to come alive over the next hour.

Now watch just north of Rennes burst into action quickly.

Impressive rainfall rates out towards Woodbridge. Looking close to 150mm/hr so must be a hail core I would assume. I',m in a rubbish on the edge of it.

Impressive rainfall rates on the Suffolk coast right now. Radar suggests close to 150mm/hr. Must be a hail core I would assume. Just getting a rubbish on the edge here but can here the rumbles in the distance.

Something suddenly developing just south of Colchester. Could this be lift off already?

Drove home from Norwich about an hour ago. The amount of standing water and the heavyness of the rain between Long Stratton and Diss, I wouldn't be surprised if some stations did record that, or more.

Interesting to see something a bit more lively suddenly appearing just south of the main rain band on the last 2 or 3 radar returns. Looks just north east of Hastings over the past 20 minutes

That's temperatures at 6am, ie minimums. We had colder than that in December 2010.

Happy Birthday! (it was mine too!). Good to see some promise in the charts again. If nothing else at least it will lift the mood here a little compared to the past week!

Quite a substantial change of wording on today's update...and not for the better unfortunately.

I love Berlin. I was there in January last year and on the day I left it was -6c during the day with light snow. Glad I packed my thick coat.

Already had a bit of graupel in Suffolk this morning.

Radar accumulation suggests that the highest 24hour total near Hastings is over Sidley, which shows a total of about 40mm. Quite localised though. Most areas around there show more like 15mm

24mm of rain in 30 minutes. Drought is over

Watch out Norfolk! This storm is crazy! Best I’ve seen in years! Constant lightning, 50mph gusts and rainfall rates touching 200mm/hr!!

So...I can finally see some towering cumulonimbus to my south, and the radar is showing showers breaking out in the Thames Estuary. Could this finally be something on track for east Suffolk/Norfolk?