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Lightning seen to the West and fairly frequent thunder. It sounds and looks angry.

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Sat outside hearing distant rumbling. Net weather detector has a completely erroneous strike virtually on top of my house!

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Stuck in the middle here too! Beautiful anvil passing to the West.

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(Presumably) Elevated storms crossing the channel now heading for the West Dorset/East Devon area.

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Sunny and warming quickly now at 18.1c , an hour ago it was still foggy/cloudy and below 12c!

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12 minutes ago, MP-R said:

Perfect day today! Temperature sliding a bit now but clear blue skies all day. Hoping to squeeze two more sunny days at least before the breakdown.

Low cloud/mist likely tomorrow morning then thundery showers Saturday pm.

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54 minutes ago, Dorsetbred said:

One noticeable feature about the warmth is the breeze that winds itself up during the day and drops away at night.

It is always windy in Warminster on the hottest days from the SE with the wind blowing off Salisbury Plain. 

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We do seem to have jumped straight into summer. Still above 17c after 21.30 when we haven't reached 17c as a maximum this year before today!

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32 minutes ago, CheesepuffScott said:

Hope I don't see any wasps this week, my worst enemy.

Had a big one buzz into the kitchen while I was cooking tea. Gave it the benefit of a whack with my recipe book! 

Points West forecast was speaking of a thundery breakdown Saturday night into Sunday.

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Warmest day for about 7 months. Time to open doors/windows for hours rather than minutes. Time to properly enjoy the garden. Wessex Water turn up doing loud, dusty work next door!!!!

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11 minutes ago, Lyn-M said:

OK, who sent me this horrible heavy drizzle, along with the gale force wind?  Turned the heating off on Sunday, should have known better, it's fudging cold here at the moment.

The rain being this Far East is surprising me too, but I expected the wind as the low and high do battle. Thankfully the high will win from tomorrow until (hopefully) the end of the weekend at least.

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So amusing in a sarcastic way! 

7 mornings out of 9 I got rained or drizzled on in my 2 week Easter holiday work window. Now the 5 weekday mornings this week are going to be beautiful!!

13.1c, sunny spells in between all manner of cloud types, breezy too.

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Not sure why they have developed but some heavy showers have cropped up NORTH OF THE M4!

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We have lift off!!!!!! 

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Perhaps we should all hire a plane and get above the gloom!

Points West forecast promises low cloud/ fog will burn off to a pleasant afternoon tomorrow.

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I CAN SEE THE SUN THROUGH THE LOW CLOUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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48 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

Cloudy & 11.1°C

Despite below average sunshine at the moment, it seems those further North of the region have been getting the worst of it compared to those nearer the coast.

Yes we have! No sun since last Saturday afternoon! No double figure temperature since Monday.

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Heavy drizzle in Trowbridge. Not on the radar!! Will it ever stop!? This is my 8th workday this Easter holidays and the 6th I have got wet!!!!!! 

Did last Thursday and Friday actually happen!?

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1 hour ago, Mapantz said:

A little bit of un-forecast rain over night, nothing substantial. Currently 14.8 °C and sunny.

April temp average currently 0.5 °C  above the MetO derived average, and bang on my own average at 9.3°C 

Send the sun north please, it's utterly dreary and only 8.6c .

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And here, torrential bursts in the last hour or so. By far the heaviest rain of this terrible period of weather!

To think this was forecast just yesterday to go several hundred miles further north!

Only two decent days in the last two weeks! There was not a drop of rain in last years Easter holidays!

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Showers/drizzle likely again tomorrow, thought it was going to be a dry day!

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I have just emptied my rain gauge for the first time since it began to rain on Sunday morning. Despite my estimate that it's rained for 30 out of about 48 hours only 10mm has fallen. Persistent but all light/moderate.

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When is this front going to 'do one' !!?? 

We have had rain from it on Saturday morning, most of yesterday and all day today so far!

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After the mornings interesting sky and showers the afternoon became pleasant/bright resulting in the warmest day since 25th October, max was 15.8c .

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Can this be classed as the first thundery plume of the year? Very impressive sky on the Eastern edge of the heavy rain, this is producing large drops of rain.