Moderate rain and several loudish rumbles.

After missing all the showers for the last several days, we finally had one here in Arborfield.

11.4mm fell in 14 minutes (13:39-13:53), maximum rain rate 75.6mm/hr. No thunder observed. Month's total rain now up to 55.2mm.

Loud thunderclap

High Summer continues here with the sun blazing at the moment and the temperature passing 22c.

Really gusty here and dark , with thunder and lightning  seen/heard to the west, but the storm is missing here.

Nothing in Glasgow all day. A clear area on radar, albeit in the Yellow met office warning zone.

It's been the same story here in Edinburgh as per usual.

If anything, it is actually worse here in that regard because our previous yellow warning for thunderstorms was actually upgraded by the Met Office to an amber warning with that supposedly coming into effect at 12 noon.

It has clouded over a bit here now after some earlier sunshine, but it continues to remain as bone dry as ever in this part of the world.

The latest radar map is showing a small cluster of showers to my SW, but these don't look like amounting to much and there aren't any lightning strikes showing up with that on the detector maps.

Furthermore, I wouldn't even rely on us actually getting any of those showers here anyway, given that Edinburgh generally doesn't get "interesting" weather.

A couple of storms have passed us by but haven’t heard so much as a rumble and we’re still warm and dry here.  

The 13th of July was the last time that an official rain day was recorded at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

However that only came with a total of 1.2 mm of rain for that day with Edinburgh Gogarbank recording a total of just 0.2 mm of rain over the course of that same day.

I wasn't actually in Edinburgh on that day as I was down in the Scottish Borders where there was a couple of showers during that evening, but that was my one and only blot within what actually turned out to be my hottest and sunniest week down there since 2014.

As far as Edinburgh is concerned, our last significant rainfall across all three of my local stations came two days earlier on 11 July 2021, the day before the day when I travelled down to the Scottish Borders and as I write, we have still had no measurable rainfall here since 13 July.

With all of the hot weather which we have had, this has resulted in the ground becoming baked hard and solid, so we could really do with getting some rain now.

Thank you 

I have more but i've had issues with my phone since the storm so still need to upload to youtube. Looks like the nearest 'official' station picked up an inch from the storm however certainly more than fell over the city.

http://i.imgur.com/qG07Ubt.png 

anyone got eyes and ears up in Scotland? that rain band hasnt really shifted much since last night... theres an Amber warning out for it. 100mm +?

Some absolutely massive bangs over Manchester city centre over the past 30 mins.

Torrential rain, too, with some hail mixed in.

Quite a poky storm passed through. Sky looks fierce to WSW