How did you sleep last night? If your answer is ‘like a baked potato but when you accidentally put it on the grill setting instead and the whole thing ends up like charcoal and you just end up eating the beans out of a tin…’ then welcome to the club. It’s grim, but it’s nearly over because storm clouds are brewing.

The UK has just enjoyed or endured depending on your inner thermostat and access to factor 50 the longest stretch of hot weather in decades, with temperatures of over 34C in Central London for the sixth day in a row, the first time that’s happened since 1961. But as parks and commons turn from green to brown, colleagues mysteriously decide to WFH again and you start crossing the street to catch the shade like you’re avoiding sniper fire, fear not; it’s all meant to change today.

The government has issued a Yellow Warning for London as the weather is expected to turn wet and stormy today with warnings of torrential rain, lightning, hail and poor visibility on the roads. Meanwhile the Environment Agency has issued flood alerts spelling the end of our run of tropical weather.

Along with rains and floods, the Met Office’s Chief Meteorologist, Paul Gundersen, has said “Today warnings cover much of England, away from the east coast, Wales and parts of Scotland.

“The storms will be isolated but where they happen there will be frequent lightning, gusty winds and intense, heavy downpours with 30 to 40mm of rain possible in less than an hour and, in isolated spots, a small chance of 60mm falling.

There will be frequent lightning, gusty winds and intense, heavy downpours with 30 to 40mm of rain possible in less than an hour…

“With the continuing hot weather, large swathes of the UK continue to be at risk from thunderstorms and potentially the impacts from heavy rain, into the early part of next week”

In other words, let’s get out the board games because it’s going to be a total washout. And after the last few days, I’m not sure that I’ll be entirely disappointed…

UPDATE: It’s 11:00 and still no rain
UPDATE 2: Hmm, 12:00 and still no flipping rain
UPDATE 3: I’m gonna call fake news on this, it’s baking outside at 14:00
UPDATE 4: It’s just past 16:00… So. Much. Rain. I’m soaking… 
UPDATE 5: It’s 18:00. Was that it?
UPDATE 6: 23:45 and trying to go to sleep with like five fans in the room, this was literally a damp squibb
UPDATE 7: As in electric fans, not enthusiastic supporters…

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