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Very heavy rain shower at 12.30 with small hail at 1231. I reckon this is the heaviest rain at this station in July. The reason being the showers are home grown and maturing overhead coupled with an offshore westerly wind. The shower moved away east and turned into a slight thunderstorm over the New Gilston/Largo Law area of east Fife. Heard 2 loud rumbles of thunder at 1240 and 1242h. Edit: distant thunder at 1252 and 1254hr.

A slight thunderstorm and associated downpour tracked NE over Glenrothes, Markinch and Falkland in the past hour. Heard about 6 rumbles, saw 1 flash and last thunder at 1438hr. Light rain.

Just heavy rain here

can hear distant thunder to my south-west where the sky is dark

An energetic thunderstorm passed directly overhead at 10am today. Frequent C-G lightning and very loud thunder. Brief power cut with car and house alarms going off and dogs barking for miles around. Very heavy rain with large raindrops for about 30 minutes, although nothing spectacular. A lightning strike set a house on fire in the Kennoway Burns. I spoke to one of the fireman and he said the house is gutted. He also said another house was struck in the nearby town of Buckhaven. There was a 2-car accidient on the Kennoway to Leven road. One of the telegraph poles has been shattered in pieces, don't know if caused by the accident or from a lightning strike. I first heard thunder at 9am to the south-west and the last thunder at 11am to the north. The sun came out this afternoon as it became very humid. Max 20.7C. Recent rain shower.

Max 22.7C today with cooling SE breeze.

Reading, on the evening of the 2nd/3rd? July 1999. Electrical storm dumped 2 inches of rain in an hour on the Reading Uni field site. It was a very warm evening after a hot day. The storm's originated over the Cornish peninsula.

Hottest day in this part of Fife (max 28.6C) since max 28.6C recorded on 21st August 1995. 3rd day in this hot spell with max at least 28.0C. My site is not official, but the equipment is all Met Office spec. Nearby RAF Leuchars, a Met Office site, hit 28.9C i believe, pipped by 29.0C at Aboyne, Aberdeenshire.

Hottest day of this remarkable spell, max 28.6C with no seabreeze. That makes it the hottest day in Baintown since 28.6C recorded on 21st August 1995 (site 300m NW of current one). The 3rd day with a max at least 28.0C in this spell. Still 25.5C at 8pm. The westerly wind increased this afternoon and has veered NW. Towering Cumulus congestus around 2-3pm. As for the haar, should become extensive tomorrow night after a sunny day. I should add although my site is not official the Stevenson screen and liquid in glass thermometers are Met Office spec and the LIGS were recently calibrated at a UKAS lab.

Max 28.1C, 0 around 2pm....still 27C at 5pm with westerly breeze (no seabreeze) as yet. The westerly breeze picked up this afternoon. Thick patches of Cirrus and Altocumulus after 2pm prevented an even higher max. What a difference the wind direction makes...on Tuesday 9th NW wind max 28.0C....Wednesday 10th, haar with east wind (off the sea), max 15.8C....Thursday easterly flow max 19.6C....

I've looked through my station records and drawn up a shortlist of hot days (max >=25.0C) at my site. 1. max 28.6C 21st August 1995 (different site, nearby open grass field) 2. max 28.0C 9th July 2013 3. max 27.6C July 2006 4. max 26.4C 10th July 2005 5. max 26.4C July 2009 6. max 26.0C 9th August 2003 7. max 25.8C 8th July 1999 8. max 25.6C 16th August 1997

Hit 28.0C here around 2pm with a variable wind from between west and north. Seabreeze came in at 1430h but still 24C at 3pm and 22.5C at 4pm. I'm certain this is the hottest day locally since August 1995.

Been sleet/wet snow all day.

A near blizzard here, where did that come from??

Another beefy snow shower with snowpellets

A moderate snow shower with big fluffy flakes, lying on the grass.

Just been a moderate shower of snowpellets, the heaviest for days. Min air temp -0.1c. Max air temp 1.4C, up on 0.8C yesterday. Dewpoint -5C at 1550hr.

I went for a walk onto my local hills at 200masl. A lot of drifting and blowing snow up there. I even witnessed a couple of 'snowdevils' or 'snow twisters', little vortices of swirling snow rising several metres into the air.

Remember it well. That was a powdery snow frontal breakdown. We got about 13cm with 2 feet drifts. Currently, 0.9C/0.0C/-1.5C

Got a fresh dusting of snow, its lying on the concrete which dried up this afternoon when the -5C dewpoints came in.

Altitude is definitely key around here...i live 15km SW of St ANdrews. I've still got about 2 inch lying on the grass. 2-3km south of here on the coastal strip near the Forth, the ground is brown/green. Less than 1km north of here, at 200masl, there's a good 4 inches.

Not as bad as I'd hoped it be. Snow has got heavier since 9am but it is not settling, except on top of snow already on the ground. There's an uneven cover, averaging 6.5cm with snowdrifts ranging from 15cm to 2 feet deep. Min temp -0.7C.

it's off here, a bit of blue sky above, but black clouds to east and a heavy shower moving up the Forth. The thin cover remains, not melting.

Its eased off again, in between showers, but we have a thin cover even on the paths.

Blizzard-like now, its getting worse. Edit: the concrete has gone white.