Slept through the whole event, so probably no thunder, but 10.9mm of rain.

  I don’t think you missed much. I woke around midnight,  had a look at the lightning map and was surprised to see it had fizzled out. 

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Slept through the whole event, so probably no thunder, but 10.9mm of rain.

 

Not much to sleep through to be honest. I think there were 3 flashes of lightning with distant rumbles.

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Nothing here last night, just rain. There was occasional lightning nearby, but didn't see them; slept through it.

Some sharp showers now showing up over E Anglia as I write, with possible lightning.

 

I have noticed though that the figures for your Scottish place of abode in the south of Edinburgh are quite interesting though.

I looked on the website for Swanston weather station which is your closest weather station up here to see what impacts yesterday's events would have been there.

As I write, that still hasn't been fully updated to include that and only goes up to 9am on yesterday morning. However, I have noticed that another major rain event was picked up on 12 June 2019 which I missed out on here in the north of Edinburgh, and which therefore wasn't picked up at either Edinburgh Gogarbank or the botanic gardens in Edinburgh.

What I noticed was that a total of 42.0 mm of rain was recorded for Swanston on 12 June 2019 which meant that the total for this month as at 9am yesterday morning was 102.4 mm.

Just recently, noodledoodle has been standing in for you in the south of Edinburgh in your absence, and he was saying that it was actually the west of Edinburgh which was the most badly hit by yesterday's event. That would have accounted for the exceptionally high rainfall total for Edinburgh Gogarbank which I reported for yesterday and since the west of Edinburgh also includes that NW corner of Edinburgh where I live, that would have accounted for those real monsoon-like conditions which I witnessed where I live.

Further east within Edinburgh though, it was a different story which then meant that relatively little in the way of rainfall was recorded at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh despite the fact that it is actually the closest station to where I live.

However, it is going to interesting to see what the totals for Swanston come out like once that data is updated to include yesterday's events. If I was to make a rash guess about that though, I would expect that total to be quite high since Swanston isn't far from Fairmilehead and lies more towards the SW of Edinburgh, and other locations within SW Edinburgh such as Murrayburn also recorded some very high rainfall totals for yesterday.

 

Thanks John...good to see the Edinburgh contingent looking after the reports!

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Well that went well didn't it? 

All it took was an hour or so of delay in the storms heading north from France, for them to miss the just east of north steering flow and instead ride a more north-easterly one.

This being due to the movement, relative to them, of the shallow low.

For some reason, AROME looks to have been the only high-res model to have captured that slower storm motion and consequential more eastward track.

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A fairly average thunderstorm here. A bit of a bonus really as it wasn't expected this far east. Nothing exceptional, one flash per minute for an hour so would describe it with 9.8mm of rain and a peak rain rate of 52.2mm/hr at 04.30hrs. A second thundery shower brushed just to the west between 5.30 and 6am. 

The temperature hovered close to 18.6c throughout

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Bump.

Looking at today’s forecast data I would say there is a fair chance of some convective action in places (evident out west currently) but also potentially later this afternoon in some northern parts.

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Bump.

Looking at today’s forecast data I would say there is a fair chance of some convective action in places (evident out west currently) but also potentially later this afternoon in some northern parts.

Outside chance if some thunder here maybe?

Minor piece of history - first-ever lightning warning from the MetO:

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings#?date=2019-06-29

 

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Bubbly clouds already appearing here. Feeling very warm indeed.

Thunderstorm warning for NE England and SE Scotland for this evening.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings#?date=2019-06-29&id=3e144e85-19fc-4f95-957a-656caf28152b 

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Lots of bangs and rumbles here over the past hour - this would be stunning if it was dark and the lightning more visible!

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Bump.

Looking at today’s forecast data I would say there is a fair chance of some convective action in places (evident out west currently) but also potentially later this afternoon in some northern parts.

I was a bit surprised that the MetO didn't extend the original warning from this morning given we've seen quite a lot of activity since then, but they've now put out an extended warning for much of Scotland exuding the NW for the remainder of this afternoon and this evening.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings#?date=2019-06-29&id=8b3b6035-2275-443c-8ef7-dd1920d62469&details

 

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I'm in Windermere now and it's 25 C and steamy. Line of instability from North Wales, Isle of Man to Central Scotland with storms already breaking out. Towers going up to my west and to my east over the Pennines. Looks like a stormy evening for most of Central/Eastern Scotland and NE England

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It's now become very dark here in Edinburgh.

So far, we have only had a little bit of rain which has barely been enough to wet the ground. However, there are some very intense echoes showing on on the rain radar maps just to my west and SW, and West Lothian appears to be getting an absolute battering from that just now.

EDIT:

The rain has now become much heavier here although as yet, still nothing like what we saw last Monday when just over two thirds of the entire 1981-2010 June average rainfall fell at Edinburgh Gogarbank on just that one single day. Furthermore, it has also brightened up slightly once again.

 

 

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Virtually a non-event here as the heaviest of the downpours have slipped away to our north, although I have been able to hear some distant rumbles of thunder from that.

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The thunder has now got much louder here in Edinburgh as some more intense colours on the rain radar map are heading in this direction and it has also got very dark here once again.

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Thunder starting here now.

Once again, the really heavy rain has somehow, found a way of managing to completely miss us to our north and west, even from a position where that didn't appear to be possible in any way. Furthermore, the thunder has died away once again for now.

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