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Caddy's forecast was for light rain tonight, a sunny morning. Top temperature 2c, but 'feels like' minus 6c in strengthening winds. Clouding over during the afternoon. Snow showers in the evening and then heavy snow Thursday night. Graphic showed deepest snow cover in a diagonal line from Thames Estuary down to Brighton. Regards

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I think I might have tempted fate a little there. Had quite a severe storm for the last 40 mins. Extremely heavy rain, and much thunder and lightening, and still it continues.

A day of heavy thundery showers and very brief sunny interludes. Several lightening flashes and plenty of thunder, though nothing too violent. Not sure how many distinct storms, as the thunder has been rumbling around on and off for most of the afternoon.

If you actually read the MetOffice website, I think you'll find they haven't announced a heatwave, there is currently an alert / 'watch'. The heatwave warning will only be triggered when certain conditions are met including night-time minima. All the details are on the MetOffice website. Whilst you may not be affected by 30c temperatures, there are many elderly people in urban areas who will be affected by daytime temperatures of 30c and night time temperatures of 20c. It is for the benefit of the health services that deal with the elderly and others that these warnings are issued.

Both London and Charlwood near Gatwick reported to be 30.0c (not rounded to nearest degree)

That sounds a bit odd when the MetOffice quote it as 30.0c on there own site as the temperature for London. I think I said that 15 minutes ago

Officially a 30c report now. London weather centre recording 30.0c (without rounding) at 3pm.

Are you sure about that ? The reason I ask is that at 1pm, the hotspot was London Heathrow at 29.6c (Which some websites have rounded to 30c), whereas at 2pm, the temperature at London Heathrow was down to 29.1c, so are we sure the temperature actually reached 30c? I don't know the answer to that, I just thought I'd raise the question.

I see the 1pm temperatures are now out, and London Heathrow is 29.6c, with Charlwood and the London Weather Centre at 29.3c

Charlwood now at 28.7c. I think 30c is almost certain for today

A warm and sunny start to the day. It had reached 21c by 7.45am. It didn't drop below 18c in downtown Brighton last night.

Yet another very poor forecast from the BBC and NetWeather for this part of the country. BBC was taking of 'becoming hazy as the day went along'. NetWeather forecast for Brighton has a 0% chance of rain before 15:00. It has just stopped raining here having poured for about 3 hours from 07:30 and it's still completely overcast, windy and just 13.8c !

Nick. If you were still living in Sussex you would know that we have not had long periods of dull weather here. The weather has varied considerably from location to location across the UK. Last Saturday was stunning in Brighton with almost unbroken sunshine and light breezes. Whilst some days have been overcast, others have not. Today has begun with cloudless skies and temperatures of 8c and a forecast high of 13c. Tomorrow looks equally good. As for the models for next week, it looks like it will turn unsettled. Not much in the way of snow except in hillier northern areas, but certainly turning more unpleasant with cool, wet and windy periods B) The GFS goes for highs of 11 to 13c quite widely today

Not that boring here today. We've had quite a variety of weather. A thick fog to start the day, lifting into low cloud by mid-morning. Then the sun broke through to give a pleasant, blue-sky period around the middle of the day, before the clouds starting building in the afternoon and now we have moderate rainfall.

An interesting programme for sure, but not sure it showed 'weather junkies' in a very good light. At the start of the programme when you arrived in Taiwan and you were jumping around in a somewhat demented manner with your Danish friend, I was just thinking there is the possible risk for major loss of life here and these two are just after a personal adrenaline rush. The scenes of the hail storm in the US Tornado were very dramatic, but I think the whole programme painted a rather sad picture, sorry.

Temperatures still about 9c here. Rain has restarted with a vengeance. Getting a bit squally.

My understanding is that although the rain has moved up from the south so far, the wrap around effect behind the low (which is moving up the Channel) means that the rain to your North West will start moving back towards you.

I'm not sure that is correct. The BBC News24 forecast said that it would turn back to rain/sleet in the South East as it cleared because the precipitation was much less intense.

And there was me hoping that if we continued at the current rate we'd reach 25c by midnight. I guess I'd better put my shorts away again then

9.4c here as well now. An increase of almost 5 degrees in 90 minutes... and it's stopped raining.

Moderate to heavy rain here for the last 10 hours. Temperature rising rapidly in the last hour - now up to 8.2c !

Well I can't grumble. We had 14cm on Monday, so missing a few flurries this evening doesn't really worry me . Off out for a pint or two I think <_<

I think the centre of the depression is due south of Brighton now. If you look at the radar on the MetO website, the 'rain' over Worthing has move back west again and a new area has appeared south of Eastbounre and appears to be moving N. Def seems to be an anticlockwise circulation centred about 30 miles south of Brighton. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html

It hasn't reached the east of the city. I'm over near Elm Grove / Racehill