Re: BiB - actually that's a very good point, and one that wasn't hitting me in the eye until I read your post. I've scoured all the August records since 1900, and the only directly comparable day occurred on 27th August 1942 (of all years, who would have imagined that?!) when 34C (93F) was reached at Sprowston (Norfolk) on the 27th, and that was the last year when such a high temperature was reached so late - link to met office monthly summary for August 1942

Although it's recorded in Fahrenheit with no decimal places, and 34C as a discrete figure is actually 93.2F. That said, I may have been wrong about 34C at Cavendish. I heard that on one of the forecasts yesterday, but now the hotspot references are to Gravesend, with 33.9C, which is 93.02F - so still officially a match

Other noteworthy temperatures for Augusts since 1900 include:-

31 August 1906 - 34.9C at Nottingham

29 & 30 August 1930 - 33C at Cardington (Beds) followed by violent thunderstorms !

19 August 1932 - 36.1C at Camden Square (the actual highest temperature so late in the season)

Good point also about the dryness, and something we commented on in another thread recently (has grass stop !!!) It is an amazing contrast to the early Summer.

We just can't seem to sustain the South Easterlies sufficient to start the thunderstorms. Shame.

it is... deep seated southeasterlies off the med brings some very nice air, humid but sometimes infused with the scents of the french mountains and forests. once there was a strong pine scent..

All the juicy thunderstorms went to the West of me last night

The BBC interactive weather maps have been down for over 24 hours now. The daily forecasts at the top of the page are still working, but nothing else.

A major fault on the Met Office servers perhaps? I can't remember if the BBC manage the interactive map themselves or route it though to the Met's own system.

The old magnetic weather maps back in emergency use?

Are they the Met Office's produced maps that are used on the BBC forecasts or the BBC's.

So may we be seeing brand new weather maps once the new providers of the BBC weather forecasts replaces the met office.

I looked at the European visible satellite image this morning and was struck by just how little cloud there was across the entirety of mainland Europe from west to east. The continent, including us here in the UK seemed to be bathed in sunshine for everyone, except some storms in an area at the tip of North Western Spain.

Also tonight I have been struck by the noticeably sudden and very welcome drop in humidity.

Blimey, the BBC Weather maps on their main weather page have been down for about 4 days solid now.

Pretty major outage.

The weather reports are often wrong, no biggie.

It is September next week so we need rain.

Which maps are you referring to?

I can still see everything I normally see, including the forecasted synoptic charts.

It's the interactive weather map lower down the page, that lets you scroll left to right for the next 5 days, giving the graphical forecast.

It stopped working about 4 days back. Tried both Chrome and Firefox, same problem. Tried clearing cache, etc. Does nothing.

It's happened before and fixed itself, with nothing changing at my end.

If you mean this one:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2635167

...it's not 'lower down the page', it's on a separate page and works just fine. I can't find anything there that doesn't work. Maybe they've done an update and you are using an old link?

Yes it is 'lower down the page' actually:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2643743

And no, it doesn't work just fine for me and I'm using the correct link.

Significant thundery activity building up over Southern and Central England.

Thunderstorms beginning to widely break out all around my location right now. The lightning radar is suddenly massively springing to life across central England as I write. One decent torrential downpour and I could have more rain in half an hour than in all of August so far.

Midweek the BBC charts were forecasting 28c in southern England today but here the temp is currently just 17.8c.

But you said "the BBC Weather maps on their main weather page" so I checked that one. The page you have now linked is the BBC local London weather page, not the main BBC weather page that you get by clicking on "Weather" in the top menu.

Anyway, the interactive map lower down the local weather pages also works well for me in Firefox on my PC, it looks like an issue with your browser or computer, if that's what you are using.

24C here and hazy sunshine. All the action is further to the North and West.

lightning radar

It's a glorious day up here in the north east but tomorrow promises to be like yesterday - very wet. Followed by sunny weather on Monday. In other words, a typical bank holiday weekend...

Jeez...on the weather page, from the weather page, related to the weather page. Who cares, stop being pedantic. You knew full well the map I was referring to.

What is it with this forum? The amount of silly pedantry...

No wonder I couldn't see it - I was looking at the Met Office website. Like a prat, I failed to notice you'd put BBC.

Agreed. Not functioning on mine either.

One of the storms near Peterborough is currently showing a rainfall intensity of ~200 mm an hour on the Netweather 500m radar !

Near me, all the action has been to the north west, starting around Salisbury and heading NE. So another dry day here, still only 38 mm for the month. Max today so far is 24.7 but it's more cloudy now and 22.9.

Thank you!

It does happen every now and then, but usually within a few hours they fix it. It's just surprising to see it down for so long this time.

Perhaps they haven't tested it with the latest flash versions that people have on their computers? Mine are always up to date. I could try rolling back to an older flash version I guess.

It's not exactly important or anything so probably not worth it. I'll just wait and see.

So I tried to help and get this. FFS, you said the main weather page, people can't read minds. The interactive map isn't down, it's your device browser or app. Goodbye.

You tried to help by being as pedantic as possible? What do you expect?

And the fact it also suddenly isn't working for blueblade above surely must tell you something?

It's not pedantry for goodness sake, I clicked on what you said, the main weather page. How would you expect anyone to know you were looking at the local London weather page until you posted the link? Seriously, I tried to help and I got nothing but grief. For the last time, the interactive BBC map you mentioned isn't down, it's either something more local to you and anyone else who has that issue, or it's intermittent (the hardest kind to resolve).