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31.7C / 89F here right now. Today is the last ‘comfortable’ day before the next heat injection arrives tomorrow. It’s now looking like 4-5 consecutive days of 35C / 95F+ in places with a high of 38C / 100F on Saturday. The chances of a thundery breakdown are diminishing with each passing hour. 10 days into August and still not a single drop of rain yet. Only 1mm / 0.03 inches over the past 6 weeks here. Some parts of southern England have had no rain at all since June now and even that was just a few mm. The only greenery left really in southeast England is from the South Downs NP forests just outside of London, as seen on NASA imagery. Western Europe in general is proper parched. 

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88f in london with 32% humidity UV index 7 today. The hottest area on wunderground looks to be west London in the low 90s. Heathrow is  slightly cooler than Northolt on wunderground. Looks like the max temperature will be 37-38c for London Heathrow on Saturday, the temperature for Sunday has slowly been increasing though up to 36c. @UK_PalmsI saw that satellite image earlier today the south east looks very dry right now. I wonder what it will look like after this weekend. Odiham is currently 40 days without rain I'm guessing that is the driest part of the UK at the moment.  

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1 hour ago, UK_Palms said:

31.7C / 89F here right now. Today is the last ‘comfortable’ day before the next heat injection arrives tomorrow. It’s now looking like 4-5 consecutive days of 35C / 95F+ in places with a high of 38C / 100F on Saturday. The chances of a thundery breakdown are diminishing with each passing hour. 10 days into August and still not a single drop of rain yet. Only 1mm / 0.03 inches over the past 6 weeks here. Some parts of southern England have had no rain at all since June now and even that was just a few mm. The only greenery left really in southeast England is from the South Downs NP forests just outside of London, as seen on NASA imagery. Western Europe in general is proper parched. 

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@Foxpalms All I know is that the drought is getting beyond a joke now. I think Odiham is the Met Office station that has gone the longest without any rainfall (40 days) but that is only official stations, so you can sure as hell bet other places have gone even longer. I have mentioned before that official station coverage is few and far between & not sufficient. The last rain that did come in June was minimal as well for most places in southern England. Some spots are probably much drier than Odiham overall, especially in the south London dust bowl.

I have only had 0.6 inches of rain here this summer and other places will be even drier. I have only had 1mm in 6 weeks and nothing at all for 4 weeks now. A few places may have only had about 3-4 inches of rain all year so far. I’m on a paltry 4.6 inches here for the entire year. Judging by the extent of the drought in Clapham Common, I am inclined to say they may have had no rainfall there this summer. It is a total dust bowl there. Anyway I maxed out at 31.8C / 89F in the end here today. Parched is an understatement now.

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@UK_PalmsWhat I wonder is how the grass is going to grow back from the state it's currently in. Are the council's going to put hundreds of thousands of grass seeds on the fields during October? My grass is watered everyday and still isn't happy with the heat. Does anyone know what a better type of grass night be because I'm considering replacing it with whatever that is. It seems to be the heat that's making it look bad considering it's watered everyday.

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19 hours ago, Foxpalms said:

@UK_PalmsWhat I wonder is how the grass is going to grow back from the state it's currently in. Are the council's going to put hundreds of thousands of grass seeds on the fields during October? My grass is watered everyday and still isn't happy with the heat. Does anyone know what a better type of grass night be because I'm considering replacing it with whatever that is. It seems to be the heat that's making it look bad considering it's watered everyday.

You could put in warm climate grass, but it won’t like your cold winters. The cool climate grass you grow can’t handle that sort of heat, even when watered a lot. 

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Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

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20 minutes ago, Tyrone said:

You could put in warm climate grass, but it won’t like your cold winters. The cool climate grass you grow can’t handle that sort of heat, even when watered a lot. 

Is it cooler weather or freezes that would effect the tropical grasses? High here is 9.5-10c with a low of 5.5c in January. Coldest night usually in the higher end of 9b. Would it be the coldest night or just cool weather in general. Either way I would rather have good looking grass in the summer than in the winter. Is Bermuda grass or st Augustine grass good or are there better species.

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Currently 32.9C / 91F at 6pm after a max of 35C / 95F this afternoon. Praying for some rain next week otherwise we are screwed. It’s a barren wasteland out there.

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A few cacti wouldn’t look out of place in the parks since the grass is completely dead and gone now.

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8 hours ago, Foxpalms said:

Is it cooler weather or freezes that would effect the tropical grasses? High here is 9.5-10c with a low of 5.5c in January. Coldest night usually in the higher end of 9b. Would it be the coldest night or just cool weather in general. Either way I would rather have good looking grass in the summer than in the winter. Is Bermuda grass or st Augustine grass good or are there better species.

I don’t know if it would work for you but I’ve got kikuyu grass which does get frost burnt but rebounds quickly and even if it dies a bit from drought, a sniff of water and it’s back again. St Augustine is what we call buffalo grass here, and that is slower than kikuyu, needs more water and heat, but is less invasive in garden beds. Kikuyu grass is what most of the paddocks are filled with here and sports fields use it as it can be ripped up bad but back again in a few weeks. The other one we use a lot of here is probably more for warmer climates is Cynodon dactylon, or what we call couch grass (pronounced cooch). I hate the stuff because it’s highly invasive, can tunnel down deep below garden barriers and almost impossible to get out of garden beds. There are many variants the most common called wintergreen. Of the three I reckon couch grass is more tropical. It’s tough though. It should be classified as an agricultural weed but I think it’s native to tropical parts of Australia, so that probably can’t be done. 

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A windy and partially cloudy day going for a top of 15C. Bring on Spring. 

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Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

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As you can see, not too bad, except when you tack on the humidity/ Dew Point..  Could be another active night ahead, but, well see..

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Bit- o' - Irony so far this season:  Las Vegas is having one of their best Monsoon seasons in the last 10-12 years..

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Compare that w/ Tucson, ..at the Airport at least.. Other parts of town are doing quite a bit better.

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Forecast as we head through mid- month looking alright.. Again, we'll see about any rain chances though..

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Looking REAL nice next weekend down south. ( Crosses fingers this forecast holds )

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Not bad out after some big storms ..that skipped this side of town ( again, haha ) earlier..  Lots of flash flooding on the northeast side of town where several places saw 1.5- 2.00"+ ...in about an hour.

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Big flash flooding in a few spots near Tucson as well, more the result from storms in the higher country ( ...of the Catalinas ) than storms overhead / around town down there. Video is a great reminder of why  ...when you're out hiking in the mountains, you always have to watch creeks this time of year.  Might not see a drop where you're at, but, can still get into trouble fast if you're in the wrong spot at the wrong time. 

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Max of 35.7C / 96F here in Surrey Arabia on Friday afternoon. Definite hotspot around Guildford area. Quite a few 35-36C readings.

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Minimum of 20.4C / 69F as well last night with some places staying above 21C / 70F. Roasting at night with my bedroom not dropping below 29C / 84F last night.

 

115 separate wildfires across the UK on Friday, including 17 in London. Buildings burnt to the ground, again. Fire crews pumping millions of litres of water into the fires every minute, despite the drought emergency. So not ideal obviously. Further strain on water resources to deal with fires. 

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I actually have no water again at my property. Like the taps aren't working. I think it is more due to low water pressure than a lack of water in general. The water companies have waited too long to declare an official drought. They have done it now but it is too late. Mind you I now get a £1000 fine if someone captures me on camera using a hosepipe, so things are being taken more seriously now. Will some rain arrive next week for us in southeast England? Even if it does it will never be enough to fend off the drought. The rivers are emptying completely. 

Currently 33.7C / 94F at 1pm on Saturday here. Going for a max of 36-37C / 98F this afternoon. Then it is rinse and repeat again tomorrow... 

 

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15 minutes ago, UK_Palms said:

Max of 35.7C / 96F here in Surrey Arabia on Friday afternoon. Definite hotspot around Guildford area. Quite a few 35-36C readings.

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Minimum of 20.4C / 69F as well last night with some places staying above 21C / 70F. Roasting at night with my bedroom not dropping below 29C / 84F last night.

 

115 separate wildfires across the UK on Friday, including 17 in London. Buildings burnt to the ground, again. Fire crews pumping millions of litres of water into the fires every minute, despite the drought emergency. So not ideal obviously. Further strain on water resources to deal with fires. 

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I actually have no water again at my property. Like the taps aren't working. I think it is more due to low water pressure than a lack of water in general. The water companies have waited too long to declare an official drought. They have done it now but it is too late. Mind you I now get a £1000 fine if someone captures me on camera using a hosepipe, so things are being taken more seriously now. Will some rain arrive next week for us in southeast England? Even if it does it will never be enough to fend off the drought. The rivers are emptying completely. 

Currently 33.7C / 94F at 1pm on Saturday here. Going for a max of 36-37C / 98F this afternoon. Then it is rinse and repeat again tomorrow... 

 

What have all these photos of fires got to do with your current temperature? You can't help yourself. No one responds to your bushfire thread or Mediterranean climate thread etc.... So you bombard this thread with your rambling.  At least your weather will go back to being cold and damp soon so you'll go quiet for nine months.

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3 minutes ago, sandgroper said:

What have all these photos of fires got to do with your current temperature? You can't help yourself. No one responds to your bushfire thread or Mediterranean climate thread etc.... So you bombard this thread with your rambling.  At least your weather will go back to being cold and damp soon so you'll go quiet for nine months.

Well it's clearly relevant to the temperatures and weather going on right now. I did post my yard temperature in my post above, so its not like my posts are completely unrelated. I don't see you kicking up a fuss when Silas posts lengthy weather posts, not that there is anything wrong with that. I enjoy seeing Silas's posts and they are admittedly shorter than mine. But I think you just kind of have it in for me in general. Even when I have posted small posts before with no links or pictures, I have had negativity or rudeness from you.

Also why are you even quoting my posts, which then further duplicates them into the thread, when you could just @ me? Ironically you have duplicated my entire post to make an additional post in here that doesn't even state your yard temperature or make any mention of the weather. I understand the point you are making about my posts, but it is kind of ironic how you have done that. Maybe you are a bit annoyed about your wet, benign weather. I guess winter does that to people. Also I have only updated my other thread once in 3 months.

Anyway, I am up to 34.8C / 94F in my yard at 2:30pm now. The warmest Met station right now is in Charlwood in Surrey. 2 more hours of solar heating to go.

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16 minutes ago, UK_Palms said:

aybe you are a bit annoyed about your wet, benign weather. I guess winter does that to people. 

Are you for real lol? I actually love our winter, as I have stated many times, they are short and a nice cool change as against yours which last about nine months - according to all the English blokes I work with. But you go right ahead, post what you like, enjoy your sub tropical climate while you're riding your unicorn through your fantasy land, I'll move on and won't bother here anymore, I'll enjoy my short Mediterranean winter before the long hot summer arrives while you spend nine months in the cold, dark Turkish...sorry, Surrey winter. See ya kiddo.

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1 hour ago, sandgroper said:

Are you for real lol? I actually love our winter, as I have stated many times, they are short and a nice cool change as against yours which last about nine months - according to all the English blokes I work with. But you go right ahead, post what you like, enjoy your sub tropical climate while you're riding your unicorn through your fantasy land, I'll move on and won't bother here anymore, I'll enjoy my short Mediterranean winter before the long hot summer arrives while you spend nine months in the cold, dark Turkish...sorry, Surrey winter. See ya kiddo.

Our winters "last about 9 months". Get out of here. I know you're being sarcastic, but I'm sick of this cool/wet stereotype about the UK now. Especially for southern England and London. I had 16C / 61F on New Year's day this year. The winters aren't as cold or wet as people make out. Our 'summer' pretty much lasts from May - September nowadays, so about 5 months. Springs have become extremely dry and sunny too nowadays. So the better weather usually lasts from about early April - mid October here nowadays, which is 7-8 months. 

Also what is this 'fantasy land' that you are referring to? I'm sorry but you are talking nonsense. Are you saying we didn't have 40C temps in July? Are you saying we don't have a major drought here? Are you saying the thousands of wildfires aren't real? Are you saying we aren't having a true Csb summer/year here? That is all just a fantasy is it? I got a load of stick last year for saying we are trending towards warm-summer Med (Csb) in southeast England, but the evidence this year is compelling. It isn't some dreamed up fantasy. Your comment is ignorant. 

Anyway, it looks like I have registered a max of 35.6C / 96F today.

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It's very pleasant at 21.6ºC in my garden.  Nice coffee morning weather.  We had a tropical night with the overnight low of 20.3ºC.  A long run of days now all around 30ºC, the longest such spell I've ever seen here.  It feels like the weather of a warmer country.  The palms love at - especially the Washingtonia which is producing a new frond in just over a week.

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16 hours ago, Ryland said:

It's very pleasant at 21.6ºC in my garden.  Nice coffee morning weather.  We had a tropical night with the overnight low of 20.3ºC.  A long run of days now all around 30ºC, the longest such spell I've ever seen here.  It feels like the weather of a warmer country.  The palms love at - especially the Washingtonia which is producing a new frond in just over a week.

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That's the same growth rate my washingtonia robusta a new frond a week this summer. The low here was 20.5c last night. Currently 75.2f/24c Manchester looks slightly cooler tonight wunderground is showing 70f there at the moment and Guilford looks pretty cool tonight temps already down to 64f on wunderground there right now. What was the max temperature Manchester has seen in August? 

 

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Max of 34.1C / 94F for me here today. Down to 17.4C / 62F at 2am, although it is supposed to cool off as of tomorrow, down to 29-30C / 85F with the real possibility of some rain in the form of thunderstorms. Rain finally? The heat and dry conditions are almost certainly going to return though from late next week onwards. It will be a hot, dry end to the month in what has been a very hot, dry summer. The August average high so far at Heathrow is 29.1C / 84F after the first 14 days. Average low is 16C / 61F. Zero rainfall and 132 hours of sunshine.

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So the first half of August is done now and still not a single drop of rain. That could change in the coming days, but no amount is going to be sufficient to recover the drought deficit. All of the stations in the southeast are on 0.0mm for the month so far. That after having only 0 - 1mm during July. Only 2 weeks of summer left now and my summer total is 0.6 inches, nearly all of which fell in June, which was also a pretty dry month as well. A full on Csb summer by definition. I expect September to be the same pretty much.

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I have never seen the river Thames as low as this. The photo was taken on the section of the main river right next to Kew Gardens. You would struggle to get a canoe through that.

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Pretty nice evening after dodging a pretty gnarly storm, only getting in on some on again, off again rain..  More possibly moving through over the next few hours ..and from an unusual direction. very uncommon for storms to roll through town from the southwest during the heart of Monsoon Season.

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A teaser of today's atmospheric antics.. More in the "Cloud photos" thread once finished editing.

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7 hours ago, Foxpalms said:

That's the same growth rate my washingtonia robusta a new frond a week this summer. The low here was 20.5c last night. Currently 75.2f/24c Manchester looks slightly cooler tonight wunderground is showing 70f there at the moment and Guilford looks pretty cool tonight temps already down to 64f on wunderground there right now. What was the max temperature Manchester has seen in August?

My hottest day in August so far was yesterday, 31.0ºC.  That's following three consecutive days of 30.5 or 30.6 - remarkably uniform.  It's currently 21.1ºC after a low 20.7, so that was the warmest night for me for August too.  I usually think of August as cool and rainy, this year has definitely bucked the trend.  We were lucky to have a pretty wet July and a fairly average rainfall year so far, but August has been very dry.  I hope the forecast thunderstorms turn up - from past experience, I'd say it's unlikely here but fingers crossed.  In any case, forecast temperatures are returning to normal from tomorrow - every day between 19 and 22 and cloudy, so I probably won't have anything exciting to post about the current conditions for a while!

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3 hours ago, Silas_Sancona said:

A teaser of today's atmospheric antics.. More in the "Cloud photos" thread once finished editing.

I am a bit jealous of that sky @Silas_Sancona!

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4 hours ago, Ryland said:

My hottest day in August so far was yesterday, 31.0ºC.  That's following three consecutive days of 30.5 or 30.6 - remarkably uniform.  It's currently 21.1ºC after a low 20.7, so that was the warmest night for me for August too.  I usually think of August as cool and rainy, this year has definitely bucked the trend.  We were lucky to have a pretty wet July and a fairly average rainfall year so far, but August has been very dry.  I hope the forecast thunderstorms turn up - from past experience, I'd say it's unlikely here but fingers crossed.  In any case, forecast temperatures are returning to normal from tomorrow - every day between 19 and 22 and cloudy, so I probably won't have anything exciting to post about the current conditions for a while!

For June,July and August there's been hardly any rainfall here was supposed to rain today but no sign of rain. Sun and clouds at the moment and 85f might get a some rain this evening hopefully. Humidity is 39% better than the 21% humidity yesterday.

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12 hours ago, Ryland said:

I am a bit jealous of that sky @Silas_Sancona!

:greenthumb: :lol:  ...It was pretty sweet..  Have seen a few storms that looked about as angry approaching this part of town since living here, but still can't pin down one - that looked as mean as yesterday's-,  that moved right overhead.. 

As mentioned, when i lived in Kansas, ( Central Plains of the U.S. ) storms that look like this, ...or even meaner,  are pretty common.

That said, further south, ...down by Tucson / far Southern and Southeastern AZ,  they see a lot of storms w/ similar cloud structure as the storms move off the mountains / higher terrain down there.. 

Some excellent U.S. storm chasers / Photographers who document our Monsoon season yearly worth checking out on Twitter / other platforms include:  Lori Grace, Mike Olbinski,  John Sirlin, Fire photogirl, Melissa Wambolt, and Becca Furnish ...just to name a few of the many great storm photographers out there...

Mike Olbinski worked with the BBC for a documentary last summer, taking the camera crew into the field numerous times to capture storm footage. Pretty sure the interview / program is available for viewing somewhere now. His timelapse photography installments are epic as well.

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Min yesterday of 1.8c then a max of 22.7C with heaps of sunshine. Rain is back today but with a minimum of 16C. 

You can almost touch spring now.

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Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

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A pleasant 88F/31C. Hotter weather arriving this week to put us back near triple digits (upper 30s C) again. Looking pretty hot into September. 

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69f/20.5c 97% humidity in London with a dew point of 68f rained heavily for about 30 minuets currently clear skies humidity should drop down to 85% tonight.

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89f with 27% humidity and a light breeze. Very pleasant again. 

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Pelting down with rain and about 10C.

Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

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I had some strange stuff fall from the sky yesterday. A quick google search tells me that is was in fact ‘rain’. A whopping 0.3mm of it to be precise, which brings my summer total up to 0.65 inches and my annual total up to 4.64 inches. It was very light rain and looking at the ground today you wouldn’t even know it had rained. Some parts of London got pretty heavy rain though, as Fox Palms mentioned.

It’s currently midday here and the temperature is a fairly cool 24C / 75F. Relatively sunny too, although there is a risk of further thunderstorms later this afternoon. I doubt I will get any more rain here though today. Even the Met Office station at Odiham, which had gone 46 days without any measurable rainfall, clocked up a staggering 1mm / 0.04 inches yesterday. Impressive! :laugh2:

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Dry-summer Oceanic climate (9a)

Average annual precipitation - 18.7 inches : Average annual sunshine hours - 1725

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Ironically, just a few hours after my last post yesterday, I got hit by a severe thunderstorm. There must have been about 20mm of rainfall in the space of 10 minutes at my workplace in Guildford. There was flash flooding on the streets where the ground was just too dry to absorb the water and where the drains simply couldn’t handle it all. Even the pipes/gutters burst and overflowed halfway up buildings. There must have been about a foot of water in the yard at work. However, just 2-3 miles away at my house I only registered 9mm. That still made it my wettest day since February though, but it shows how isolated the thunderstorms were. A further mile away from my house they had absolutely nothing.

Likewise Epping Forest in north London saw 60mm whereas southeast London saw nothing. The driest areas like Clapham didn’t get a single drop. That area will still be like a desert there. Someone on the European forum said today that they have only recorded 3.7 inches of rain this year in southeast London, which is 0.4 inches a month on average across 8 months! The severe drought clearly continues in many areas, if not all southeastern areas. Most of the rainfall just ran straight off surfaces and wasn’t absorbed, assuming it even rained at all in places. That’s the hit and miss nature of summer thunderstorms.

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My current yard temperature is 26.1C / 78F this afternoon. The severe thunderstorms are currently battering the Med regions of Spain, France & Italy now. There has been gales, floods & hailstorms that have created lots of damage across Southern Europe.

 

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Dry-summer Oceanic climate (9a)

Average annual precipitation - 18.7 inches : Average annual sunshine hours - 1725

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81f with 50% humidity in London. Has been sun and clouds today with dew point of 61f. No rain today might be a light shower between 5-6am tomorrow. Tomorrows forecast shows clear skies and lower humidity.

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Summer is here!! Afternoon shower brought 0.24" and temp down to a frigid 79F at 1:30pm but back to 90F not even an hour later 

 

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Katy, TX (Zone 9a)

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78.8f/26c in London with 35% humidity and clear skies with a UV index of 6. Low last night was 19c/66.2f

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In the mid 70s F, after a significant rain. Wonderful since I'm in East Texas where it's been triple digits with hardly any measurable rain since April. 

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