Currently just 12 degrees. Expected to peak at 18 degrees.

Expected to peak at 14 degrees on Saturday.

It's just started raining.

Sooooooooooooooooo dark.

It’s like October.

Beautiful day here - blue sky, white clouds, fresh breeze.

Absolutely p-p-p-pouring down.

That's what you get in a socialist state.

Sunny here.

This is glorious Lib Dem territory now

The sun has come back out and there's no sign of puddles.

It's bûcketing down.

And unless you pronounce it the northern way, you don't get a proper impression of how hard it's raining.

At one point on my journey north I drove under a line of showers. It was 18 C out in the sunshine and 12 C under the shower clouds. That's yer actual cold downdraught.

Another dazzling July day. Is there really any point in living in Britain? Or even in existing at all?

No, none whatsoever.

Positively sepulchral out there.

Some sun, some heavy showers too. It was coming down stair rods at Annandale Water.

It's coming down in bucketfuls.

Err, an elephant?

Well whaddaya know!?

The sun's only come out.