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15mm here now so far today. A good soaking.

12.4mm here in South London so far today. A good soaking. The allotment will be loving this. Remarkably cold though, only 11.8c.

Proper drenching rains over London now. Much needed.

I just love this chart. A weather enthusiasts dream. Wind, rain, thunderstorms, the lot. Summer certainly on hold. Met Outlook not looking at any improvements, certainly in the south, until later in June, after midsummer day. Need the rain down here anyway.

Quite alot of activity heading towards NE France and Belgium. Don't often see that. Not!

Not too bad this morning in South London. Patchy rain. Storm Miguel? How utterly ridiculous!! Imagine the panic if some of these forecasters, including some on here, were in the States or anywhere that gets even moderately wild weather.

Yes indeed mate, and about time too. I think we ll do OK for rain in SE over next week or so. Here's hoping. Very badly needed.

Certainly looks like an unsettled and pretty wet couple of weeks coming up for most of England and Wales. Latest update from Met would appear to back that too.

Speaking of 'floating boats', looks like we will be needing some. No need to post charts this time. Output is dire for the next 10-14 days. Certainly a very dire soggy start to summer, more especially midlands northwards.

I'd make the most of this weekend( Midlands southwards) as the next two weekends could be total write offs.

The GFS 00z paints a very nasty start to summer all the way till mid June. Haven't had time to look at the other models, I expect they are the same. Can't help feeling we are looking at another 2007 or 2012 summer. It's going to be a grim one I feel, especially away from Southern England.

GFS out to mid June paints a dire picture if it's summer your after. Should be warm down south mind.

Pressure looks to stay stubbornly low across and around the UK right out until the 8th.A very damp start to meteorological summer.

ECM for this day next week looks like putting summer on hold, to say the least. Plenty of much needed rain with that LP that looks like it may hang about for some time. Summer 2007 repeat anyone? It's possible!

Summer definitely on hold according to this chart. Could get pretty interesting down here if this LP develops further and moves in over the south. Hope so!

Yes, the trend is certainly there now in the latest outputs.

The latest output would tend to suggest that the SE will do well to hit 27c on Saturday. The Midlands northwards 20c max. All downhill then from Sunday. One day wonder hot spell.

Yes indeed. Just forecasting isolated showers now for tommorow. Beginning to wonder if we will ever see any meaningful rain here in the capital.

Couldn't agree more. I think the moderators, like the usual posters on there, have a weird desire to live in a scorched parched dust bowl. And woe betide anyone who posts otherwise. Sad demise of what used to be a good site.

@Badgers01Did the little fella vote? He might as well have given the bonkers mess we are in! 25.2c now in South London. Just hot enough for me. Not an oppressive heat which is good.

25c just now in the capital. Not an oppressive heat either. Fair weather cloud. Very nice.

My point is illustrated perfectly below. It's the Met Office forecast issued this day last week. As anyone can see, it's inaccurate in the extreme. That's my point. The early part of the week was supposed to be unsettled and showery. Best week of the summer so far. Thursday 23 May - Saturday 1 June Thursday sees a gradual return to more unsettled conditions. Early rain in the north will clear leaving a few showers. Elsewhere after a mostly dry morning with sunny spells, strengthening winds will spread cloud and rain northeastwards across many west and southwestern parts of England and Wales. This more changeable weather is expected to continue into the Bank Holiday weekend with all parts seeing rain or showers at times, although by Monday the southwest should see some drier and brighter, more settled conditions. Through the rest of the period, confidence is low, but it is probable that the weather will change only slowly, with drier more settled spells occasionally interspersed by wetter, more unsettled weather. Temperatures are likely to be close to or slightly above average. https://www.metoffice.gov.uk

This time last week and over the weekend they were predicting a wet and windy Bank Holiday weekend, now its forecasting just scattered outbreaks of rain... in the North. Look, its always going to be fairly miserable weatherwise north of the Watford gap anyway so I suppose they are accurate when they say it's going to be pretty awful up there. I was talking about down here where the vast majority live.

They could not predict a pint in a pub. None of ofthem.Including the publicly funded Met Office. Useless and perhaps more useless than 10 years ago.

They are probably panicked by the latest long term met office forecast which is pretty woeful it must be said, if its summer weather you are chasing. There will be a fair chunk of summer gone if that forecast is in anyway accurate. And that is what the models are showing.