The Great British Weather

Ha, it's still fucking' green.

I spent 20 years living in dust and brown grass. Fuckin' el nino bullshit.

My garden has those cracks like the ones you get in deserts. The other day I held the hose over it for a good minute and it just kept absorbing. Some ground nesting bees emerged to see what was going on though.

Mad algae on the canal as well. Hoping we get some bonkers storms at the end of this.

"Hidden landscapes the heatwave is revealing"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44767497

It's absolutely tipping down up here! And serious lightning! Loving it!

For anyone else in a storm here's a map if you want to see where lightning is striking:

https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en

It seems to miss quite a lot... but you can see roughly where a storm is heading

Edit: this one seems better http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php?map=12

Edit: it's gone already, that was like a 20 minute storm

Good word. I'll try to remember that.

flipping heck. I'd have your arm off for a thunderstorm right about now. it was 32 degrees in my little girl's room at 10pm tonight. Sat there in the chair reading her stories with sweat dripping down my forehead, WHY WONT It STORM?!

Now you know how I feel for eight months of the year... 💦

rain! actually just ran from my desk to be in it. i'd missed it, i feel uplifted and rejuvenated.

where ?

central london, moving northwards apparently.

Second patch of quite heavy rain in SE5... still hot as hell

and humid, so so humid.

It's like Bangkok. Horrible.

Does SAD apply to the summer months as well?

SE18

"Heavy rain starting in 4 min ..
stopping 45 min. later "

yeah yeah - we'll see ...

had about 10 rain drops in stratford

#notenough

thunder is rumbling in the distance now though

The lightning map's always good value on days like these

http://www.lightningmaps.org/

Just had a 5 min shower in SE London, still lots of thunder rumbles and the odd lightning flash. Hoping for some more rain.

here it comes

Reminds me of when the first rains of autumn came in Australia.
People would go nuts, take their clothes off and run around in the streets.

Nice breeze in Leyton atm.

the birds in the garden were very animated
loads of activity. they're as excited as we are

Rain up here was rather disappointing. Still welcome.

Looks like we'll have enough for me to not have to water the plants tonight - been fighting a battle to save them for months.

Bloody lovely here in SE24. The kids and I went out to wash the cars between squalls and let the downpour rinse them off as we jumped up and down in puddles.

Apologies for diable pics.

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I bless the rains

It's the End Of Days!