A Face like Thunder

Mrs FLT got soaked by a sudden and heavy shower whilst on a trip out near St Helen's today. Back in Crewe, we've had drizzle all afternoon, not heavy but a real nuisance and so dark and gloomy as well.

Chris.R I should have guessed. It has been raining here over the last hour. Nuisance rain rather than anything more substantial but rain nevertheless.

Yellow weather warnings for thunderstorms have quietly disappeared. Our friends in Yorkshire & Humberside are reporting rumbles of thunder off the East coast. And folk in London & the South East on the Storms thread are still catching up on their sleep after Wednesday night. In other words, not a lot is happening at the moment. Am I being premature in suggesting that nothing much will happen for the rest of the day?

Dry, cloudy and very still at the moment. Not sure about the forecast rain but certainly nothing here yet.

23C at Southport today, but tomorrow, oh dear, heavy thundery rain from the off, particularly around Manchester and the Pennines area, and none-too-warm either.

Cheshire Freeze certainly doesn't look like it at the moment, with the sun out and feeling pleasantly warm in a gentle breeze. However, I had the same thought yesterday and we ended up with a heavy shower late afternoon, so we may not be completely out of it yet.

My dad had a bird's eye view of the 1927 total eclipse and remembered seeing the shadow coming towards him on the beach near Redcar in North Yorkshire just after 6am on a previously sunny and cloudless morning.

A heavy shower at the end of a generally pleasant day yesterday. There seems to have been a bit of rain overnight, judging by our garden furniture, but a dry, bright start to the day and quite warm again, with little or no wind to speak of.

Chris.R rain has been forecast for the South of the Region for tomorrow but not thunder and lightning as far as I know.

Philip Eden reported this as a 'poor summer with frequent flooding', particularly between 6th and 14th July. Brazell (London values) had 8 out of the last 9 months with below average temperatures, 8 out of 12 months with higher than average rainfall and 8 out of 12 months with below average sunshine levels. And of course the year ended with the Boxing Day blizzard, affecting a wide area of England and Wales, so yes, a truly memorable year, but for all the wrong reasons.

A dry bright start to the day but with quite dark clouds around. Wind has dropped right off and a warmer day in prospect as a result.

Eagle Eye that's near enough the area most likely to be affected by t & l, as shown by Tomasz S on tonight's BBC1 weather forecast.

A gorgeous day here and quite warm despite the gusty wind.

An unusual scenario for Wednesday into Thursday. Warm air on an Easterly from the Continent meeting cold air from the W/SW. Normally you would expect it to be the other way round, wouldn't you?

Dry and quite bright although signs of it clouding over. Mild despite a very blowy wind.