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A repeat of 47 or 63 would be an utter disaster for wildlife, unlike people they can't go indoors & switch on the heating! A short, sharp cold spell, yeah I'll take that as I & hopefully other animal lovers will be supporting their local wildlife but & long severe winter like those two, no thanks, I remember reading a report of how much of the uk bird population was wiped out in the '63 winter & god that made grim reading.

Second flash and the resulting thunder was a lot closer than the first!

Just had thunder & lightning here, got very heavy rain just starting to hit with red echoes on the radar.

33c reading on the car temp now & yep I can certainly believe that!

Car reading 31c when I used it a short while ago.

After a brief lull we have more thunder & lightning.

Certainly one hell of a light show out there at the moment!

39.5 in London.

Hope everyone is enjoying the partial eclipse of the moon, looks awesome, for once the weather is playing ball.

37.8c London Heathrow Friday 28th

Not seen a thunderstorm like that here in Weston for years, there was a quick mention on points west about a primary school that was struck by lightning, didn't mention which one though.

What a thunder storm that was, flooding everywhere, had one lightning strike right above the house with less than a second between that and the thunder which shook everything in the house!!

Absolutely detest stormy weather looks this, hopefully this will be the last god damn storm we see for a long time.

When is this crud weather pattern we're stuck in going to end, really can't stand this constant wind and rain, bring back that gorgeous early spring warm weather we had before this current unsettled spell set in.

God I can tell I'm getting old when some of the biggest stars from 80s TV shows & movies that I loved as a kid are passing away. Rip String fellow Hawke, I bet you & Dominic (aka Ernest Borgnine) are having a blast up there.