27th May - cloud clearing, sunny, 25C, humid, thunderstorm building late afternoon with heavy rain.

Weather; southern Britain is in a spell of thunderstorms, yesterday south England had what was described as the ‘mother of all thunderstorms’, with over 50000 lightening strikes and rain.

Willey; late afternoon thunder was rumbling to the south, it then stopped, but became very dark by 1800h.  We then had a thunderstorm for about 2 hours, with  over an hour of heavy rain, sometimes torrential.

It seems we have a couple more days when thunderstorms are likely.

Lamport, Northants; while visiting a vintage rally here it was good to see 15+ Swift ‘screaming’ over head and 12+ House Martins busy building nests.