Azazel

Ben naturally.

Saw my first "cauliflower convection" of the year yesterday. Usually see it in April. It's been a very quiet year:(

dire...mainly for the notable absence of storms/big convective showers and heat with an almost constant stiff gale blowing. My friend thinks 2012 was worse, but I honestly don't remember it so I must have blocked it from my memory:p

thunder heard here post-squall

That second picture is definitely a rainshaft. First one is pretty interesting though. Squall just passed through here with some fairly impressive rain

Shhhh i'm trying to use reverse psychology on the weather gods;)

Good luck everyone. London will be the place to be no doubt

If this is the case, and I read this quite often. Why don't they tweak some of the parameters a little bit so it doesnt?

I really am dreading this winter after that pants summer. It's weird because I actually get nostalgic and excited at the arrival of autumn. Those mellow, still-warm days where the sun is lower in the sky and everything is a beautiful golden colour, mixed with the smell of a bonfire. Bliss. I then get excited again when I get that first "Winter tinge" - usually when the sky is a purpley colour and looks heavy with snow. However, January and February can get lost. Absolutely dreadful months and the hardest 8 weeks of the year for me.

I think a more accurate way to predict these events in future would be to take whatever the models show and shunt it 200 miles East with a thin line all the way up to Lincoln just incase.

Yeah, thats definitely it for us, unless that ridiculous storm in NE France takes a sharp left turn (it wont) Nothing happening in N or NW France. LAMMMMMEEEEEE

according to satellite, cloud does appear to be thinning/breaking down to the south-east which I think will be great for Kent/London and later East-Anglia this PM. However I think anywhere to the West of the IOW has had it, the detritus left over will inhibit anything surface based.

moderate rain here now from a featureless grey cloudbase

it's a typical autumn day here. South East getting the goods as always:p

Everything going to plan i see. All the activity out in the channel and hasn't really moved much since I went to sleep apart from an Eastward shunt. The sun will fail to break through the clag and nothing of any real note expected here. The most boring summer of all time continues. At least its nearly over.

with regards to finding sleep uncomfortable; this year I've only struggled once and that was on the record-breaking day. The last couple of summers I can recall several nights where its been too sticky. This summer however, i've found myself often sleeping with the window closed and even cold enough to the point of requiring a hot water bottle on some nights. I know it technically speaking, hasn't been all that bad down this neck of the woods, I still think it's been the dullest I can remember, with an almost constant gale. Complete write-off. It's definitely made me want to relocate to more southern-climes, or heck, just over the channel, so at least i'm guaranteed some seasons, rather than the perpetual Autumn we seem to suffer all year round that some of you vampires seem to enjoy;)

my gut feeling is heavy, thundery rain tonight into the early hours of the morning with sporadic lightning to the South East and London area. This will clear northwards, but leave a tonne of clag in its wake. Lack of cloud breaks in the south will stop anything surface-based developing in the south Thursday PM; however, the north-east will see a violent supercell, say somewhere in Lincs. Bank on it

Lincs looks the place to be then;)

getting those autumn vibes now, the light level is changing ever so subtly - especially when i get home from work. I actually like Autumn, but i'm still mega p****d off we didnt get a summer this year

goes down as the crappiest summer I can recall in my lifetime i'm afraid IMBY. Two or three hot days, one of those exceptionally so, does not make a summer. 95% of the time, its been cloudy, cool and with a gale blowing. One decent plume event/elevated storm in July which was admiteddly very cool (wasn't overhead though) but absolutely nothing surface based here. Not seen a single cumulonimbus in daylight and not a single clap of thunder outside of that little hot spell. The most boring year of weather imaginable continues. I am genuinely dreading how tough this winter is going to be for SAD sufferers after having no summer to recharge.

dreadful summer by my admittedly high standards. Autumn has arrived early, though it never really left apart from a few fleeting moments here and there. Looking forward to our warmup and heatwave in september-october when the nights have drawn in considerably and summer is over proper. Too little too late.

Just got back from the London gig - that storm over towards that way looked amazing from here.

I wouldn't mind seeing her "humdingers" or her "warm front" - eh? eh??? Seriously though, good luck for everyone tomorrow. I'm at a gig in London so i might see something on the way home:)

Does Lucy Verasamy still present the weather?

I honestly feel so so sorry for anyone living north of say Birmingham. I want to give everyone in the North a hug. Summer down here has been so decidedly average and benign (apart from the hot snap last week and storms that followed) but up north it looks like it's been absolutely woeful.