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And not much forecast for the next week either. Garbage weather

Wind is so strong its even blowing towns into different counties.

Extremely wet morning here, shower after shower. Very surprised no weather warning as lots of local flooding issues.

Storm Ciaran now named by the Met Office for Thursday with weather warnings for rain and damaging wind.

The warning is back

Weather warning now issued from the Met Office from 4pm today - 3am tomorrow with heavy rain and risk of flooding for large parts of the South East and East Anglia.

Definitely the best storm we've had in many years last night. It's been such a bad year I'd totally given up. Every time you thought wow this is crazy it seemed to ramp up a level. Constant thunder and lightning for about 45 mins. Rainfall rates were very impressive. Finished with a couple of louder CG strikes.

This is insane!!!

Wow amazing storm here for last 30 mins

Incredible display now to my south west. Big forks. Someone is getting a right hammering.

Heavy rain drops here now and distant flashes becoming more frequent to the south

Brest is where it always starts to happen

This weekend which a day ago looked sunny until Sunday afternoon now looks pretty cloudy on Saturday (unless in the far East) and showery on Sunday, without any big storms. So a pretty benign weekend. Roll on Met Office warning for severe weather.

Nothing remotely thundery. Overcast all day, a few light showers. Worst year for storms on record here. But we have had a decent spell of hot weather so can't complain too much.

More of a southerly breeze in the past hour and just clouded over here, 31 degrees on my weather station will probably be the max. Possible rogue downpour later?

Last night's storms were as pathetic as the summer weather this year. No disguising one of the worst summers in recent times for the South East. Little heat, limited sun,no storms etc. Is this negative? No just accurate.

I love most if what the Met Office does, especially it's YouTube content. But...on the subject of weather warnings, I would love to know how many have been issued here in the South East for storms (or winds) over the past few years. I can say none of them for those reasons have actually been merited so far here. Literally can't think of an example. So when a weather event happens which does warrant a warning do you think people will take notice/action? I think the bar for warnings should be much higher and all these very low impact ones removed.

That cloud is now taking over here too gradually from the south west, absolutely comedy.

Well we just had a minute of blue sky, must play the lottery today.

I follow the French weather channel (Chaine Meteo) and they have been predicting changeable weather up to around 8 August for the most of France with the exception of the South East part. Then high pressure moves in. Will be interesting to see if they are right. Generally speaking I've found them to be pretty accurate for the long term forecasting.

Lovely CG lightning and torrential rain here

Luckily it's sunny and very warm/humid here to the south of London,. I was expecting clouds after last night's storm. Can see the clouds to the south but definitely looking positive for later.

Was great here too in Woodhatch, explains why I'm shattered this morning!!!

Lots of lightning here now, beautiful display but mostly cloud to cloud.

Watching both Eastbourne and Worthing lightning shows to the south. Weirdly they seem to be in sync with the flashes.