having my own airconditioning on for first time of the year :flutter:

Thunderstorms for England and Wales
 

Although there remains significant uncertainty in location and timing, areas of
thunderstorms are expected to move northeast across parts of England and
Wales from late Wednesday through to Friday morning. Whilst not all locations
will be affected, some intense thunderstorms may occur during this period with
torrential rain, hail, frequent lightning and strong gusty winds possible. Rainfall
totals of around 30 mm could fall in an hour, with some locations potentially
receiving around 50 mm in 2-3 hours, although these will be fairly isolated.

https://www.metcheck.com/DATA/IMAGES...RSTORM_168.jpg

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather...ate=2021-06-16

Netherlands: first tropical day

some places now 32C


tomorrow we'll get up to 35C

UK range at mo 12 C to 27 C

Spanish plume will bring lots fo thunderstorms to south of England from about 10pm

could be very lively

NL: we might get thunderstorms, possible hail tomorrow evening


but also on friday could still get tropical locally but still also with thunderstorms


and then we go down again into 22 average on Saturday, but going up into 26/27 days after that

having my airconditioning on earlier than normal today, my room didn't cool down one bit last night :(


and today another day of hell with 35C :idc:

https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/...ecord-2380867/

Death Valley a daily heat record of 128 degrees fahrenheit (53 degrees celsius)

:o


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and we're staying in US, in california

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/to...cid=uxbndlbing

https://www.foxnews.com/us/californi...ency-heat-wave

governor Gavin Newsom orders state of emergency due to heat wave, strain on energy grid, telling people not to put the airco on all at same time, but to be careful with the power grid

NL: our thunderstorm we had here early in the morning (more like 5:30 i think, quite a fierce but short storm)

tonight we'll have another one in the evening more


and thankfully some cooler weather incoming next couple days :hee: although cooler still good enough to go outside

On Tuesday morning Altnaharra in Sutherland (up a bit from Dornoch) recorded -2.4C

The coldest June night in Scotland for 40 years!

Now bear in mind it gets dark there at midnight at mo and sun up at 4am that is quite a feat

Not GB news infilterating this non political thread :oh:

No it's good news that GB News are using the UK Met Office

unlike the BBC

who do they use :suspect:

MeteoGroup, a private weather forecasting organisation from Holland

:idc:

Seriously why though, that is mad

The Met Office's weather forecasting contract with the BBC was lost over arguments about the 'dumbing down' of weather forecasts and problems with the Met Office's mobile app, according to BBC sources. The Met Office has provided data for BBC forecasts since their first ever weather bulletin in 1922.

Meteogroup undercut the MO and the BBC took another step down the rabbit hole

it was all down to the money the met office wanted in the end.


There are quite a few weather providers these days, each with their own speciality, but they are all pretty good and cheap too

no they are not good nor have the resources the met have

GREAT FOOTAGE HERE:

Mini Tornado hits Dagenham,
causing thousands of pounds of damage
Friday

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/06...4664016421.jpg

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/06...4662855222.jpg


Video on link
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...chromelessDM_0

It is the Weather
no need to turn into Slim

:joker:

hot week ahead and a hot weekend (not today) but warming up from tomoz

101mm of rain yesterday in Hammersmith

conversely the total amount of rain in Islay in Scotland for July up to 6pm yesterday just 0.6mm