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picturesareme
09 June 2026 19:11:20
Distant thunder from a storm to my north at the moment.
Brian Gaze
10 June 2026 11:43:40
Just drove through the most amazing storm, hail and flash flooding episode I've experienced in the UK. I was returning from skiing in Hemel Hempstead and as I set off the heavens opened. I reckon between 20mm and 40mm of rain will have fallen in minutes. It was extraordinary. Back in Berko (about 4 miles) only 4mm of rain fell. 
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Retron
10 June 2026 13:11:41
Hail here too, but nothing like that (3 minutes of 2mm hail before it reverted back to just rain). Still, it was more frozen precipitation than we had all winter!

EDIT: The radar is messed up too, the deep purples here (>120mm/hour) are hail mixed with rain.

Second EDIT: More hail! This reminds me very much of the 80s, indeed I don't think I've seen so much hail in summer for decades!

Third EDIT: And a rumble of thunder as the storm moves away over the sea. Sunny for now... but only 13.6 / dew 10.0, having been 17.2 before the first shower.

This has to be the most interesting June day in many a year, weather wise. ⛈️

Leysdown, north Kent
Retron
10 June 2026 14:43:44
The heavy stuff is further south now, with the odd rumble.

One of the PWS near Canterbury had a direct hit from it: 8.9C at half three in the afternoon in mid-June is truly exceptional (11C below average) - but still not as exceptional as that May heatwave!

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/IKENTSTN2 

Leysdown, north Kent
Retron
10 June 2026 16:21:38
What a view! This is from my bedroom, I popped up there to see the storm that's heading in this general direction... will it hit, I wonder?

EDIT: Yes, a glancing blow at least - sheet lightning and thunder, the fourth storm I've heard today, and the third to produce rain. A remarkable day!

Second EDIT: Torrential rain, hail (2mm again), a slushy covering in my porch - and a peak of 82mm/hour rainfall rate (actual rain, not hail). Constant rumbling too, with lightning east and west, it doesn't have a chance to fade before the next one comes along. My own personal disco, I think!

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Third EDIT: Another storm has now popped up to the west, ka-boom. Five storms in a day, aside from those 80s summer nights where the thunder seemingly went on for hours, this has to be a modern record. And now there's more torrential rain!

Fourth EDIT: Sixth storm of the day now... more heavy rain. I'm out of superlatives now...

Leysdown, north Kent
Retron
10 June 2026 17:52:56
My neighbour sent this photo of the sand school at her stables, which are a couple of miles away in the direction of that cloud I posted earlier... that's hail, of course, not snow!

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

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Leysdown, north Kent
Jiries
10 June 2026 19:01:53

Hail here too, but nothing like that (3 minutes of 2mm hail before it reverted back to just rain). Still, it was more frozen precipitation than we had all winter!

EDIT: The radar is messed up too, the deep purples here (>120mm/hour) are hail mixed with rain.

Second EDIT: More hail! This reminds me very much of the 80s, indeed I don't think I've seen so much hail in summer for decades!

Third EDIT: And a rumble of thunder as the storm moves away over the sea. Sunny for now... but only 13.6 / dew 10.0, having been 17.2 before the first shower.

This has to be the most interesting June day in many a year, weather wise. ⛈️

Originally Posted by: Retron 

Quite strange you get so many considering being in the coastal region when in the summer most showers are inland based than coastal areas which stay dry and sunny. 

The picture of the hail is my dream to see this happening here, i only saw some last month before the heatwave arrive.  None today just general bog standard boring rain showers.  Like to have a Nicosia hailstorm type to occur here that give you few inches deep.

picturesareme
22 June 2026 16:31:34
Im surprised nobody has mentioned that rather violent area of thunderstorms over Devon and the west country. 

A huge amount of lightning being detected.

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22 June 2026 16:41:05
I wonder if it's near Dev's farm?
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South Dorset

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Chunky Pea
22 June 2026 16:44:07

Im surprised nobody has mentioned that rather violent area of thunderstorms over Devon and the west country. 

A huge amount of lightning being detected.

Originally Posted by: picturesareme 

Some amount of lightning on Blitzorg. Was that even forecast? 

Patrick,

East Galway, Ireland.

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22 June 2026 17:03:20
Sort of but not in the form it seems to be. It's near Matty now. 
Vale of the Great Dairies

South Dorset

Elevation 60m 197ft

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Rob K
22 June 2026 17:15:34
I can see it out to my west, very black. Much more activity than forecast. Arpege didn't have a sniff.
Yateley, NE Hampshire, 73m asl

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mistuk
22 June 2026 17:38:28
Just west of me in Amesbury. Really black sky - not seen any lightning or heard any thunder yet…
picturesareme
22 June 2026 17:40:38
Midsomer Norton has seen at least 33mm of rain falling in in the space of 1hour ⚡
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22 June 2026 17:44:53
PWS at Glastonbury 64.8mm
Pat, Crawley Down, West Sussex, 121m asl.
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22 June 2026 18:35:03
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wy8p4yp31o 

Pat, Crawley Down, West Sussex, 121m asl.
moomin75
22 June 2026 18:38:54
A violent storm right overhead just split a silver birch tree in two 20 yards from the bottom of my garden. The scariest thing I've seen and heard for many years.

Totally unforecast. 

Witney, Oxfordshire

100m ASL

Matty H
22 June 2026 18:41:49

A violent storm right overhead just split a silver birch tree in two 20 yards from the bottom of my garden. The scariest thing I've seen and heard for many years.

Totally unforecast. 

Originally Posted by: moomin75 

To be fair potential storms were forecast for pretty much the area that got them

Yate, Nr Bristol

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moomin75
22 June 2026 18:49:17

To be fair potential storms were forecast for pretty much the area that got them

Originally Posted by: Matty H 

Nothing was forecast for here, although I accept these things can pop off anywhere, any time. But it was very very scary.

I hope noone was hurt in the house that was hit near you Matty ❤️

Witney, Oxfordshire

100m ASL

Matty H
22 June 2026 18:51:14

Nothing was forecast for here, although I accept these things can pop off anywhere, any time. But it was very very scary.

I hope noone was hurt in the house that was hit near you Matty ❤️

Originally Posted by: moomin75 

Was definitely forecast by the MetO mate 

As far as I’m aware no one was hurt, which is something 

Yate, Nr Bristol

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bledur
22 June 2026 18:57:03
Edge of the storm band here but temps have dropped 6 degrees from 28 to 22 in the last hour
picturesareme
22 June 2026 21:00:36
Could see another area develop over the English channel in the next few hours. We now have a thunderstorm symbol on the automated for 1am - 🤔 🧐 
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22 June 2026 21:35:08

Could see another area develop over the English channel in the next few hours. We now have a thunderstorm symbol on the automated for 1am - 🤔 🧐 

Originally Posted by: picturesareme 

https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/maps-and-charts/rainfall-radar-forecast-map 

Shows a modest shower trundling along the coast towards Brighton, and then - as  has happened so often in the last couple of years - veers off to the south east, expands and intensifies. By 0600 Tue it's really hammering the coast of Normandy.

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fairweather
22 June 2026 21:50:42
Unsurprisingly it rained in London then decided to drift north of me and Retron. Same old. Would love to see a storm or downpour like the one on the football right now. I expect most people will be thankful for the cooler than predicted night temps.
S.Essex, 42m ASL
picturesareme
22 June 2026 22:10:22

https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/maps-and-charts/rainfall-radar-forecast-map

Shows a modest shower trundling along the coast towards Brighton, and then - as  has happened so often in the last couple of years - veers off to the south east, expands and intensifies. By 0600 Tue it's really hammering the coast of Normandy.

Originally Posted by: DEW 

Looking at how the met have it developing could be another MCS and that by the time it hits Normandy just predominantly thundery rain rather than full blown storm

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