Classic unstable cloudscapes earlier. Got to 30.5C st exactly midday here, relatively humid with dew points exceeding 16C. Hope I can get some sort of storm here, unlikely though.

Two hook echos potentially indicating a tornado! 🌪️

Following verification, temperatures peaked at 35.8 °C at Faversham on 1 July, making this the highest temperature reached so far this year. This surpasses the previous figure of 34.7 °C recorded at St James's Park, which was reported on the same day.

And here's the 12Z. 3 consecutive GFS runs with these temperatures. However, this run shows the pinnacle of the heat getting swept away by the 14-15th of July, which has also become an increasing trend in other models at around the same period. Heat could easily come back again.

Mammatus clouds today this morning in corby

radar-indicated supercell in northern france. stuff like this is expected to head to southern england. theres going to be good low-level directional shear for southern england to keep these supercells rotating 👀

Rotation seen in this area of cloud exiting western Africa is the precursor of likely tropical storm formation. Latest computer model forecasts suggest this could become the first Atlantic hurricane of the season at some point in the coming week.

Wouldn’t be out of place mid-October, but this is Ryhill near Wakefield yesterday. Thanks to Sue for the pic

A downpour was heading for me earlier and this is a picture I took before it hit me. One of the best cloudscapes I have ever seen; asperitas, mammatus and virga all in one!