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It's good to see a more settled and warmer spell shown on the 06z compared to the 0z early next week after this weekends brief but much needed rain in the south. Just compare the charts and you will see.Certainly a more positive picture for those looking for a warmer end to August.

On a positive note this weekends warm spell across England has upgraded in terms of temperatures.

Yes it is. Others took much better photos here http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2016-07-29/dramatic-footage-shows-twister-above-the-skies-of-essex/

I watched this form from some distance away. http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2016-07-29/dramatic-footage-shows-twister-above-the-skies-of-essex/

Just spotted a funnel cloud West of Haverhill. I took this photo but it really doesn't show much.

Just spent two days on the Essex coast in Walton on the naze and Clacton. Lovely sunny weather apart from this morning but both days reached 25c so now that's 12 days in a row of 25c or above. I do however appreciate this is very localised.

Very much a continuation of weather we have seen for the last 7 days with anyone from a line from say the Humber to Bristol seeing warm settled conditions (23-25c) and those further northwest seeing more influence from the week trough to the north west. As we have seen generally seen the settled conditions have actually been more widespread than the models have been suggesting with this weekend being a fine example I suspect that this may continue with the trough digging south West next weekend to give us another shot at hot weather. Out of interest; what was originally described as 2 or 3 warm days has tuned out to be 7 continuous days hot and sunny weathe between 25c and 31c here in Essex

The 12z gfs run is much better for high pressure next week and as such quite a bit warmer. Here are the 06z and 12z for comparison.

According to the 18z we are back on for very warm to hot weather over the weekend across England and Wales. Let's see what happens tomorrow morning although we are now that bit closer in terms of how close the warm up is.

Comparing the 18z to the 00z we see the Azores having a greater influence towards the end of next week across the south than was shown previously in this time frame giving a better medium term Outlook. However the 18z did go in the show a warmer end than the 00z.

Painfully slow waiting for it to brighten up. Still only 13.4c at 11am and the edge of the cloud is still 70 miles away!

It was 4.1c at 6.45am and it's now 19.9c. I think we can hit 25c so that's a pretty big diurnal change.

The latest charts are actually suggesting that about area from Bristol to the Wash will become very mild from Sunday afternoon with temperatures reaching 14 - 17c for a few days so not cold for everyone.

Clear blue skies and already 11c. Perfect

We have heavy wet snow here in north essex

Heavy soft hail here. Frosty as well so sticking.

Where are you located Lassie?

Turner very mild between 2pm and 4pm hitting 13c with blue skies. Much milder and spring like once the rain cleared than I thought.

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I'm just to the east of the front and I'm really surprised to have a temp of 1.9c having fallen from 4c two hours ago.

That band has run right across me at the best alignment possible for intensity. Started as dry snow and everything settled for the first 10 minutes. Then it turned sleety for 30 MINS with no accumulation but has turned back to quite heavy snow for the last 25 minutes. Now a good covering but it's just clearing. Should freeze hard and provide a good base for any further showers if they occur. Temp started at -0.1 then rose to 0.9c now back to 0.2c.

There's a frost here at the moment and the precipitation must be just 2 or 3 miles away so I expect it to at least start as snow before turning sleety.

Well it's snowing in Long Melford and Bury is just a few miles north.

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Temp of 2.1 here and the skies are currently clear. This bodes well for when the showers arrive. Dp of -1c