The area of low pressure over England which resulted in a lot of rain falling over the last day or so in many parts of the UK is now moving out into the North Sea, but there continues to be the risk of showers in many areas as that happens.

That shower during today is forecast to be lower than what it has been in recent days and Gavin P. pointed that out in his latest five day forecast when he stated that any one place would probably be rather unlucky to actually get a shower during today. However, that doesn't necessarily mean that you won't get any showers where you are and Gavin P. did also indicate in that video that if you are unfortunate enough to get a shower or so during today, you will soon know about it as these could still be very heavy and possibly thundery.

Because of that possible risk of thundery showers is still there albeit with a much reduced risk of that happening in any given area, I thought that it would be a good idea to start this thread immediately just in case you have any showery activity of that sort of nature within the next day or so which is worth reporting here.

https://mobile.twitter.com/DerbysPolice/status/1156917243629965312

Whaley Bridge being evacuated 

It's a sunny start here and already 17 C at 7.30am

Originally Posted by: Crepuscular Ray

Looks like Edinburgh is getting thunderstorms again. They've had quite a few this year!

Yet all of the rain has stayed to the west of us here up until now with another much bigger storm having just developed to my east. I did come under a few splashes of rain on my way home, but that has never really came to anything until now with the Sun even making a defiant return after a while, yet a total of 1.0 mm of rain was recorded from that nearby storm at Edinburgh Gogarbank as at 2pm this afternoon.

Having said though, you're right in that there has been a fair few storms this year which is a far cry from other recent years where you would have very often been posting on these threads whilst you were here, that big thunderstorms were forming nearby with some very vibrant echoes showing up on the rain radar maps, only for those storms to then die a death over the Pentland Hills whenever they have got anywhere near here.

Edited by user 04 August 2019 16:49:13(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Originally Posted by: Col

 

Yes indeed, pops up from nowhere! I can hear distant rumbles of thunder from your storm from here.

Same here.

The atmosphere looks charged. 

So much thunder at the moment, it's pretty much continuous booming and rumbling! Some very close strikes.   Some tropical bursts of rain mixed in, really large drops!