It'll just be my luck that Edinburgh will get a storm this morning 🙄

Here in Nottingham, a bit of moderate rain 🙄

Torrential rain now falling here in Hawick in the Scottish Borders with some very intense echoes showing up on the latest radar map.

I haven’t noticed any thunder or lightning yet but there are some lightning strikes showing up just to my south on the latest radar maps.

Here in the Borders, we are just outside the official yellow warning area for thunderstorms as the Scotland-England border is marking the northern boundary of that warning area but given that we aren’t all that far from the northern boundary of that warning area, there’s always the chance of those storms reaching us here.

Just seen a flash of lightning here in Hawick with the odd rumble of thunder in the distance.

If there is, I’m sure that Noodle Doodle will report that on here if he’s in that vicinity.

It been the case they been very wrong all the time period.  A proper storm require incoming black clouds with heavy downdraft behind after sunny earlier on. Was very often in the past. Now I see is bog standard slate grey and outbreak of rain. 🥱🥱

I've been away for the last couple of days so am not certain what happened. However, I wonder if the higher CAPE values were mostly shown by UKV  / MOGREPS-UK? For example, the Arpege output didn't look particularly potent yesterday.

I saw one of those forecasts yesterday from one of the main forecasters who goes by the name of 'Aidan, and I always get the feeling when he's presenting that he more likes the idea of giving a presentation than being overly concerned with the content of them. Alex Deacon is a much better forecaster in my opinion. Genuinely passionate about the weather and it shows. 

As that has happened, it has expanded but the thunder and lightning from that has died away so there shouldn’t be any chance of anybody in Edinburgh hearing any distant rumbles of thunder in the distance from that.

That is in line with what I would expect as the yellow warning for thunderstorms is just an England only one.

Yep, lovely rain for the allotment,and garden…at no point was it heavy…so no run off and definitely no flooding! Met office usually very good with their warnings..but clearly on this occasion for West Sussex, an amber warning  was rather wide of the mark…

It's been raining here in the SE Midlands for a few hours now, light to moderate. No Thunder and lightning yet though, but thought we'd be lucky to see any of that  we were yellow warned.

My pal txt me from Edinburgh, a few rumbles as the heavy downpour passed through.....what did I say? Just plain rain all morning in Nottingham 🙄

Latest report from the former amber zone. A puddle has been spotted

Still no puddles here, and the smidge of dampness reported earlier is rapidly evaporating.

However the radar does look hopeful that we might get something and the sky is darkening from the SW.

Today's total here is now 10.2mm. 

34.2 mm so far today at Kew Gardens since midnight

A wet day for sure but not in amber warning territory

At last! 

Some proper blobby rain which actually wets the ground which I haven't seen in a long while.

The only downside is that it has revealed my roof guttering needs some maintenance.

Nothing particularly exciting IMBY but at least wetter than the last amber warning 'event'!

Currently sat on 15.49mm of rain, the bulk of which fell from 04:00 to around 07:00 - have had a succession of mostly light to moderate showers since then but no thunder at all as far as I'm aware. Currently in a clearer patch and although there's a few echos heading my way they're of the 'light' variety so suspect that's largely it for the day. 

Most of the stations within 10-15 miles of me seem to be between 10mm and 20mm, with the odd higher reading so a wet day so far but not exceptional. Interestingly the totals are generally higher the further east you head in Kent, to around Wye way anyway - given the main bulk of the rain was further west it suggests there's been some heavier showery bursts there than IMBY.

Assuming I don't manage to dodge the showers tomorrow, it does seem likely I'll end up exceeding last July's rainfall, which would mean both summer months IMBY are wetter than 2024, an amusing quirk albeit temps are significantly higher. 

Louise Lear on BBC admitting not as much thunder as expected, . It is odd here that after the bit of rain this morning it came out very warm and humid and years ago would of expected a Thundery shower to pop up , nothing.🤔

When we had that downpour earlier on, I saw that it was heading towards somewhere close to Edinburgh and at that time, I told my Mum that someone in Edinburgh might hear the odd rumble of thunder from that. Turns out I was right with that one.

Very heavy rain here now, looks like a lot more to come.  No thunder here today.

Steady heavy rain here from 1pm but no thunder yet either. Still going.

Just noticed from the latest radar maps that a few lightning strikes have made it all the way up to the far north of Scotland just to show that this hasn’t turned out to be as much of an England only event as the official thunderstorm warnings would have made us believe.

Hi Roger, the deluge has finally died down here, just light rain now. We've had 33mm of rain today, most of it in a couple of hours this afternoon.

It's just about stopped for now, Andy - a good soaking. I shall take the opportunity to go and lock the village church before it starts again! No hint of thunder. [Yet]

Addition...

Raining again... just before 5pm.

Had a decent spell of rain for about an hour after lunch which actually managed to double the total to 12mm - welcome and useful for the garden and allotment but not really enough, at least so far, but I think more is coming.