Victor Meldrew!

[Florence Fennel]

Well, I don't b****y believe it! Scorching sunshine until three o'clock this afternoon here and then for half an hour really dark, thunder and lightning, a hail storm with the biggest stones I've ever seen and now it's scorching hot sunshine again. Wow, the British weather!

[ginger ninger]

Yup, we've just had it Flo. Flash floods as well, don't ya just love British weather. So glad we decided not to go out this afternoon. Watch this...it'll be worse tomorrow cos were gong out.

[arpoet]

We had lots of thunder, but just a few spots of rain.. my mate who lives 2 miles away had flash floods.

[Ian White]

Any chance of some of the wet stuff down here please

Ian

[francesbean]

Had terrific thunder about an hour ago - sky very grey but no rain at all - then it rumbled away to the north. Now blue skies and back to normal.

francesbean

[Nicos]

Oh wow...how fantastic!!!!

We've had it 26C today with high cloud cover...and increasing humidity.
At 3pm we had one almighty crash of thunder.....then......nothing!!!


Our soil is dry down to 3"...so little use for sowing seeds outside without regular watering- which I want to avoid!

Sad thing is that these heavy rainfalls just run off the land- so a lot is wasted.
I hope those of you with water butts are chuffed though????


Me thinks we all REALLY need to concentrate on water conservation- major style...Flipping heck ...what happened to 'April showers'????

Out of interest- how big were the hailstones???

The biggest I've ever seen in the UK were a tad less than 1cm...but several years ago in Italy( July) ping pong ball sized!!!

[Polly Fouracre]

We need rain desperately. Oh, how I wish it was feet deep in snow again, I hate the heat!!!

[Aberdeenplotter]

Been a cracker of a day up here but it has rained from about 4.30pm. We were desperately in need of moisture though so no complaints.

[bearded bloke]

Flipping heck ...what happened to 'April showers'????

For many years now they have been run on a modified British Rail timetable ,whereby instead of being 30 minutes late they are 30 days late

[Chitfaced]

Loved listening to the rolls of thunder while sitting out with a glass of wine at 6pm... then spats of rain since then. My garden smells beautiful. Hoping for fresh buds tomorrow.

[miffy]

Loved the lovely weather this holiday as usually it rains at Easter when off school and then turns lovely as soon as the school gates open again! However with you all re needing some of the wet stuff as the garden is totally parched.

[Hans Mum]

Any chance of some of the wet stuff down here please

Ian

& here please we got about six drops yesterday followed by thunder and nothing!!!! its about six weeks since we last had any

[ginger ninger]

Wow, the rain has done it's job...everything looks so much healthier this morning. It was much cooler last night as well. Only thing is the sun hasn't got over the yard arm this morning yet, bit overcast.

Hope all that want rain get rain soon...nice and steady so it penetrates the soil deep for ya.

[Poddington Pea]

I never thought I'd want rain as much as I do right now!!!
The weather man forcast a storm for Saturday, then it moved to Sunday. Yesterday light rain was forcast for today. Now they say it will not rain this week I for one was looking forward to that rain, it's not fair they got my hopes up......

[Two_Sheds]

Yesterday was our hottest of the year... up to 17c woo woo !
We were promised a thunderstorm but it missed us. Here's one from last summer: YouTube - hailstorm, 2 Aug '10