rain, rain, rain & thunderstorms !!!! hurray !!!!!

[MattyJC]

Just looked at www.metcheck.com and they have a severe weather warning out for South and South east England predicting heavy rain and thunder.

Hooray! must be my fault, I put some guttering up on the shed on the lottie yesterday...this should fill that barrel!

Matt   8)

[MattyJC]

[pete10]

Its just dropped a huge load here in Reading thank you god  :)

[ACE]

I could have told you all it would be precipitating today.  It is our summer show day :'(

[busy_lizzie]

Was woken up about 4 am by a very loud bang here in Whitley Bay - huge clap of thunder and flashes of lightening, and then a torrential downpour. 
Was back to the sunshine this morning, but the sky is becoming overcast again this afternoon.  It is the town's Wild West extravaganza today, so people will be hoping any rain keeps off for the moment.  Hope your summer show goes well for you ACE.  :) busy_lizzie

[lorna]

Hope the rain has reached DP :)

[sarah]

a good drenching of rain lasted about an hour here, preceded by a sky sooo dark that the street lights came on .

[Palustris]

Just like the rest of this month, not a drop!

[Doris_Pinks]

Hope the rain has reached DP :)

Lorna, Last night we had thunder, Amphibian about 9 miles away says he had torrential rain, we had some, but hardly enough to wet the pathways :'(  Then today, lovely black clouds rolled in, HUGE claps of thunder, and about 3 mins of rain..............harrumph, better than nought I guess!

[Hot_Potato]

What a wonderful sound.....it's called.......rain!!! :D

been steadily raining as Pete says above, here in the Reading area since just before 1 o/c and no real thunderstorms to 'scare me' into turning the computer off!....

keep it up please - we need several hours of this to do any good.

Do hope all those needing rain will get some soon.

[Garden Manager]

No thunderstorms and very little rain here in dorset today despite the forecast. Enough rain to wet everything but the soil where its needed!

Yet I keep hearing about all these tremendous storms people keep having.

Just not fair. We need RAIN!

[Hyacinth]

We got it! we got it! ;D God's turned his sprinklers on all over my garden (sounds as though he's moving the garden furniture about as well :P)

[lorna]

DP Just spoken to sister-in-law Chislehurst. Chris said "How lovely to have the rain and much cooler" Not here it ain't!! Drop of rain but now nothing again, overcast and humid..

[Palustris]

Still nothing, not even a breath of wind, wall to wall blue sky and it is hard to even breathe!

[Hyacinth]

Still raining here ;D Cold, too.Had to put a pair of sox on 8) Spect I'll have to put my wellies on in a bit & go to close the greenhouse.Gotta keep my babies warm :P :D

[Robert_Brenchley]

There was continuous thunder to the south around 2.30 this afternoon, and it was obvious we were on the edge of something major. It never moved north though; we got a couple of hours of honest rain, but not the floods we need.

[katynewbie]

 ???

Hang on, rain all over the place and none here in Oldham? Something has gone horribly wrong, questions should be asked in the house, we need a public enquiry...sorry, been lottying all afternoon, the sun has got to me!

;)

[Palustris]

10 minutes howling wind, 10 minutes drizzle, now wall to wall sunshine. One very dead and dying garden!

[caroline7758]

Big storm here in North Yorks-  :D the washing's soaking but I don't care as long as the water butts at the lottie are filling up!

[Roy Bham UK]

:( Not enough rain here to write home about :( barely kept the dust down :'( and no thunder or lightening, that I like to watch :'(

[Simon05]

big thunder storm here (mansfield) this after noon, rained for over an hour, should perk things up in the garden. as well as the weeds, lol