After a cloudy start to the day, the Sun has broken through in increasing amounts although it is still rather breezy.

Currently around 22°C here in Hawick.

Yateley's in the 18-22mm zone of rain in the last 12 hours... but a few miles west it's 48-60, and a few miles SW has 76-96mm of rain accumulated - torrential.

The heaviest though is Fairford, which has seen between 200 and 250mm of rain in the last 6 hours! Yup, that's roughly 8-10 inches of rain today. Here's the 12-hour radar total via NetWeather's radar page:

https://ukwct.org.uk/weather/radar.jpg 

30.3C maximum 

Dry and largely sunny albeit hazy at times in the afternoon.

Wow. Sounds like there was more than 20mm back home though. One person locally measured three inches in 45 mins. Think  that was Hartley Wintney or Hopk. 

Sunny again after yesterday's cloudy spell in the afternoon with light airs.

Here's the 24 hour rainfall chart from NW for your area, taken by summing the radar echoes over the course of the day. Yateley just crept into the 22-28 category in the end. And yup, Hook had a lot more!

https://ukwct.org.uk/weather/radar2.jpg 

It's currently 18.7, dew 18.0, with an overnight low of 15.4 (which, despite being well above average, felt pleasant compared to the previous two nights' 19C). Yesterday's high was 24.0 and we'll smash that effortlessly today.

And the Met Office “last 24 hours” page has the highest rainfall being Kenley with just 18.8mm. I wonder if any official measurements caught the downpour? EA sites maybe?

It wasn't anaprop, as there were clearly defined torrential downpours not just there, but elsewhere. The only other alternative would be hail, but even then as the storms were so slow-moving there should have been something said - my old Kent Weather Book has plenty of wintry-looking summer pictures as the result of prolonged hail storms!

File it under "odd", I guess.

Sample radar image from 15:05 yesterday, for your interest!

https://ukwct.org.uk/weather/radar3.jpg 

Uk has now had six 30c days - 2 in June ,3 in July and 1 in August. 

There is some rain in the forecast for here today but not until around teatime and the temperature is forecast to reach around 21°C here once again.

Currently around 16°C here here in Hawick.

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/IFAIRF6/graph/2024-08-1/2024-08-1/daily 

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/ILECHL6/graph/2024-08-1/2024-08-1/daily 

A line of showers to our west though and wind increasing from the south

I don't think that you have too much to worry about up there though.

I've just had a look at the latest radar map and there doesn't appear to be much to that line of showers which you mentioned.

Furthermore, the fact that Edinburgh is currently experiencing a dry summer shows that it hardly ever rains there anyway as most on here may well know from my previous posts on here.

The data for here further emphasises that. There are no official stations close to where I am just now in Hawick and the only station in the Borders is at Charterhall where a total of  91.0 mm of rain was recorded during July which actually makes last month the second wettest month of this year there so far.

That is not all that far off double Edinburgh Gogarbank's total for the same month and adds up to an exceptionally wet month down here overall. Because of that, those of you up there can't really have any real complaints in that regard.

Incidentally, only had a weedy 0.2 mm yesterday much to the disappointment of my reseeded lawn in the back yad.

This bit of SE England reached 24.6 earlier, albeit it's gone down to 23.4 as some cloud's moving in from the west. Hopefully that'll cap temperatures for the next few hours and avoid a very warm day! (MetO raw has 28C here this afternoon).

There's no wind to speak of and the dewpoint remains exceptionally high - 19.3.