Is it just me counting the days & hours till this heatwave is supposed to end??

[paddy555]

Dartmoor, an area of high rainfall, except it's not.

where is our share?

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

We have rain.. AND thunder!! I'm hoping this is the end of the humid close weather here and we can start to head towards autumn

 

[Red-1]

Current lightening map:

Hey, you show the lightning and thunder we had. Just the one, accompanied by 5 rain drops. They were big drops, but only 5 of them.

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

We have clattering thunder and lightening here!! Really loud and torrential rain.. it will all have flooded by the time that I leave work, but it's exciting. My desk is next to the window so I'm having a jolly time.

 

[Errin Paddywack]

We had the downpour at our field as well and a bit of light rain as I came home but dry now and so humid and airless.

 

[twofatladies88]

Bliss!!! Hot bath tonight and am now snuggled under the duvet- feels lovely and chilly ?

 

[SO1]

Still really hot here. 26C in the flat even though we had some rain.

 

[twofatladies88]

Oh no SO1 hang on in there- it must come down soon.

 

[SEL]

We got some decent rain at the yard yesterday. House is 5 miles away and got very little.

I'm now glaring at the grass telling it to turn green and grow

 

[Errin Paddywack]

Several hours of steady rain here overnight and looking very gloomy and threatening now. Lovely.

 

[ester]

Our rain just got cancelled again, they keep dangling it in front of us then taking it away again ?
was supposed to be monday, then moved to tuesday (nothing happened) and wednesday - but they've changed the forecast to nothing today either.

 

[AntiPuck]

Rained all night here in my part of Worcestershire - really hoping it continues, we need a good week or two of this at a steady pace!

 

[twofatladies88]

Rained all night here and sky still very grey. Lovely cool temperature too thank goodness.

 

[Pinkvboots]

We had rain last night but ground was dry this morning but at least its a bit cooler.

 

[Tiddlypom]

We've got somebody else's rain atm, sorry if we've pinched yours, ester. None more was forecast for us, but we still have it.

We're outside the official drought areas, too.

*greedy*.

 

[tatty_v]

We had rain overnight and this morning it’s overcast, cool and windy. Got every door and window open to try and get the house temperatures down whilst I can!

 

[twofatladies88]

Fat lady no 2 was shivering when I went down the field before and my little man was very cold when I brought him in - he had been standing out in the rain in front of the field shelter!

 

[The Fuzzy Furry]

*joins ester on the missing rain bench*

 

[ester]

40% of a dribble on Monday (they will scrap that), nothing more in the forecast (up to the 30th).

 

[MiJodsR2BlinkinTite]

We've had a good bit of rain here (East Devon). Got soaked doing the Neds yesterday, but no-one minded!

Weird having to remember where you actually put your wet-weather gear the last time you wore it, which was a VERY long time ago, and then when you do find it it's all gunky, smelly & horrible!

Ah well.

 

[ester]

This was supposed to happen yesterday, it looked so promising!

 

[The Fuzzy Furry]

40% of a dribble on Monday (they will scrap that), nothing more in the forecast (up to the 30th).

If we miss the 'forecasted shower' this afternoon between 12 and 2, then apparently that's it for the month too!

 

[ester]

For the most part I appreciate the fact that it’s drier here than Somerset but not right now. We must be at least 8 weeks without rain now

 

[lynz88]

We have had little bouts of rain here in Surrey yesterday and today. Today it was supposed to downpour all day but we had 1 very heavy shower and a few smaller showers and sun/cloud mix. I see that the rain in general keeps getting pushed back and I've just looked at my grass in my back garden and noticed it has suddenly sprouted. The rain that we have had in the past 36 hours or so has been good though - not consistently heavy to produce flooding - just enough to help soften the ground and bring plants back to life.

 

[SO1]

26C in the flat with fan on. It has rained but still very warm here.

The only consolation is that winter I still sleep with windows open and no heating most days as the flat is so warm.

Oh no SO1 hang on in there- it must come down soon.

 

[Pinkvboots]

We had a bit of a downpour early evening yesterday and was due more today but its gone down to 5% chance of rain so I think that's our lot!

It was still 17 degrees last night

 

[Surbie]

If we miss the 'forecasted shower' this afternoon between 12 and 2, then apparently that's it for the month too!

We have had little bouts of rain here in Surrey yesterday and today. Today it was supposed to downpour all day but we had 1 very heavy shower and a few smaller showers and sun/cloud mix. I see that the rain in general keeps getting pushed back and I've just looked at my grass in my back garden and noticed it has suddenly sprouted. The rain that we have had in the past 36 hours or so has been good though - not consistently heavy to produce flooding - just enough to help soften the ground and bring plants back to life.

Crazy how localised it is! We had a bit in the morning, and a good couple of hours of heavy rain yesterday late afternoon. It's rained overnight too (my stable roof leaks...)

Hopefully I'll be able to pull the ragwort this afternoon now the ground is a bit softer.

 

[Surbie]

....and just started raining again here, tho none on the forecast. Looks like a nice gentle shower. Sorry for pinching someone else's!

 

[cauda equina]

The rain seems really random at the moment
Usually the Met Office forecasts are very accurate but they've been way out this week

 

[Surbie]

8 hours of steady rain here so far today - if that doesn't turn the fields green I don't know what will! We had proper big lightening at 5am - Cobbus was unusually sensible about it so I'm assuming he was busy plotting something else...Fingers crossed there aren't too many hoolies in the field today cos it will be slippy!