The rain was here for a short while but has already cleared away. As that has happened, the clouds have actually broke up a bit which has even allowed us to see the odd sunny interval (in this exceptionally sunny year, the Sun always seems to find a way through here in the end, regardless of the synoptic setup) although it's a bit late for that now in my books.

Currently around 17°C here in Edinburgh.

A light 'count-the-raindrops-on-your-fingers' shower in the Downs this afternoon. Then the sun came out and temp in Chichester is back to 29C.

EDIT: And it's over, I just had to go outside to experience it! Reminded me of being on holiday... It's left surfaces maybe 75% covered in damp splodges, didn't trouble the gauge of course! It's now 27.3, dew 16.6.

So only weather porn then 😀

I was about to post the same! We reached 32.2C here today which is likely to be accurate from past checking against official figures and it hazed over, I came back in and said to my wife  "it smells like rain!" and a couple of minutes later we had a couple of minutes of big drops at 31.5C. Probably the hottest I've seen rain here as well but I was actually in Cambridge on the day the then record was broken ~ 38.6C ? and then there was a massive downpour at about 6pm when it might have still been hotter.

Cue various bawdy comments such as "phwoarrr", "what a big one" (referring to hailstones) etc, etc! 😂

Did you get a brief shower earlier, out of interest? There was just enough left in those clouds for a few damp patches on the ground, but that's since evaporated at the sun's come out again... and the temperature's going back up again!

EDIT: I see you posted as I was writing that! Rain in the 30s has to be even rarer... makes me wonder what the record is here in the UK! 

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/ICAMBR249/graph/2022-07-19/2022-07-19/daily 

(There's one Cambridge station on that record-breaking day... you can see the rain, and can see the temperature plummet - in relative terms - as it started.)

It's 25C with a RH of 19C here now. This is the hottest it's been here this spell - it's just weird. I suspect it is now warmer here (at 18.21pm) than it was at any point here in any June in the 1960s.

We had a quite heavy shower here around 3pm, lasted a few minutes and soaked all surfaces. Temperature was about 26C at the time after hitting 30C earlier.

Sunshine here again and up to 27.0c

Such a humid day. High still 28.3c before lunch. 

Punched up to nearly 22c in Edinburgh at 6pm but the cloud is winning out over the sun. 

The sun is out here now too and it’s the warmest that it has been all day at 19.2°C currently.

Given what kind of a day this has been, this is not a day which deserves to go down as still ending up with a 20+°C maximum in my books but it seems that with ongoing climate change, we're becoming increasingly guaranteed to get that most of the time in the summer anyway these days regardless of what kind of day it's been like overall.

It's just a pity that it increasingly never seems to be like that in the winter when we're looking for a frost at night, or some snowfalls.

I was promised 27 C today with hazy sun and thundery showers later

We got a cold foggy morning, 15 C at noon. A couple of hours of light to moderate rain in the afternoon

Sun out late afternoon and up to 22 C at 8pm???

Crazy!!