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Just heard through the Sis in law there are thunderstorms around Reading way. If anybody could keep this thread updated as to which direction it is traveling in, I have a bar of soap at the ready
Must need that storm as the breeze is coming this way from your direction and there's a strange pong in the air!!!!!
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Just heard through the Sis in law there are thunderstorms around Reading way. If anybody could keep this thread updated as to which direction it is traveling in, I have a bar of soap at the ready
If you have a shower and touch your body with soap you'll disineigrate you smelly, manky, crusty old git
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If you have a shower and touch your body with soap you'll disineigrate you smelly, manky, crusty old git
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As I work outside a fair bit, I tend to keep an eye on this site, its live-ish
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/
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Devon is currently as hot as holy hell , in a sauna, in memphis, in june - at midday today the car thermometer reckoned it was 32 deg ( okay so they over read , but it was still 'king hot)
Currently the thermometer on my wall reckons its 22 deg - I'm writing this while sat on the sofa wearing only my pants , with a fan on , drinking a tall glass of iced water
Currently the thermometer on my wall reckons its 22 deg - I'm writing this while sat on the sofa wearing only my pants , with a fan on , drinking a tall glass of iced water
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Hi, it's the Cloud Master here.
Indeed there were some small popcorn type storms over Berkshire this afternoon. It was caused by pockets of hot and humid air rising from the ground surface being able to break through an inversion layer of warm and dry air in the mid-level to feast on the cold air above it.
Think of shaking a bottle of fizzy pop (the hot and muggy air at ground level) but nothing is happening because the cap (the inversion layer) is still screwed on - but take that cap off and suddenly *whoosh* there are spray all over (the thunder cloud).
That's how that harmless innocuous-looking cumulus quickly became a towering cumulonimbus in the space of only half an hour this afternoon.
But because those popcorn type storms were very slow moving (almost standing still), it was able to cause very localised flooding as the torrential rain fell in one place for ages (a micro downburst, if you like).
The storm risk will be much reduced tomorrow as winds start to come in from the north east (in from the North Sea) so things are going to feel a little cooler and fresher for a while but still quite sunny. That should come as a relief for those who has had enough of the heat and humidity (although it never really got that bad over here at my end).
But I am seeing signs of a "Spanish Plume" set up for the middle part of next week, that's where a cold front moving in from the Atlantic come up against the hot and humid air sitting over the UK and produce widespread thunderstorms.
By that time, it will have ushered in a change to cooler and more changeable conditions, so with that to mind it looks like the tail end of this month is set to finish off on a more traditional note.
Of course, it doesn't mean that is it for this Summer as I do think that August will be a month of alternating hot and sunny spells and cooler and thundery spells.
Indeed there were some small popcorn type storms over Berkshire this afternoon. It was caused by pockets of hot and humid air rising from the ground surface being able to break through an inversion layer of warm and dry air in the mid-level to feast on the cold air above it.
Think of shaking a bottle of fizzy pop (the hot and muggy air at ground level) but nothing is happening because the cap (the inversion layer) is still screwed on - but take that cap off and suddenly *whoosh* there are spray all over (the thunder cloud).
That's how that harmless innocuous-looking cumulus quickly became a towering cumulonimbus in the space of only half an hour this afternoon.
But because those popcorn type storms were very slow moving (almost standing still), it was able to cause very localised flooding as the torrential rain fell in one place for ages (a micro downburst, if you like).
The storm risk will be much reduced tomorrow as winds start to come in from the north east (in from the North Sea) so things are going to feel a little cooler and fresher for a while but still quite sunny. That should come as a relief for those who has had enough of the heat and humidity (although it never really got that bad over here at my end).
But I am seeing signs of a "Spanish Plume" set up for the middle part of next week, that's where a cold front moving in from the Atlantic come up against the hot and humid air sitting over the UK and produce widespread thunderstorms.
By that time, it will have ushered in a change to cooler and more changeable conditions, so with that to mind it looks like the tail end of this month is set to finish off on a more traditional note.
Of course, it doesn't mean that is it for this Summer as I do think that August will be a month of alternating hot and sunny spells and cooler and thundery spells.
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Don't I know it Pete, been down there delivering today. An ice cream at every port of call
Although nothing bettered the cappuccino and dollop of clotted cream one I had just outside Monkton on the A30 
Ok smart arse!!
Just wondered if it was moving in any particular direction Ian or more than likely it will just fizzle out.
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To paraphrase John Bird's Collective Broadcasts of Idi Amin, "I is standing on top of da control tower and it am bluddy hot!"
Water butts are empty and I must remember to fill them from the tap before they slap a hosepipe ban on us! (And said refilling will cause it to rain. Heavily and persistently. For months!)
Water butts are empty and I must remember to fill them from the tap before they slap a hosepipe ban on us! (And said refilling will cause it to rain. Heavily and persistently. For months!)
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Remember that one well Nod.
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When I got in my car to leave work yesterday, it told me it was 41 degrees!!! After about 10 minutes, it dropped to a chilly 34.
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Sat indoors in Salisbury (Near Porton) and it's a steady 26c. Outside it's 27c in the shade - no air con unit in sight, keep trawling ebay!
Managed to take one of my radio control planes out yesterday due to some good thermals but soon totalled it once I lost sight due to sweat dripping into my eyes
Went to a nature reserve on Monday to get some BIF's but soon lost the nerve as the shelters were a whopping 43c inside! (used the thermometer Samsung app!)
Managed to take one of my radio control planes out yesterday due to some good thermals but soon totalled it once I lost sight due to sweat dripping into my eyes
Went to a nature reserve on Monday to get some BIF's but soon lost the nerve as the shelters were a whopping 43c inside! (used the thermometer Samsung app!)
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No. Don't drink that muck!!