Power cut warnings?

Perhaps because they have a very low threshold for making alarming predictions? Every time there is the slightest sprinkling of snow in winter they issue terrible warnings about travel disruption, almost all of which don't come to pass.

Presumably because the Met Office knows where lightning is likely, not NESO. And they may have an inkling where over reliance on solar energy will put the grid at risk

And current weather is merely pleasant, not 'dangerously hot'

Though the humidity is higher than I would like Not everyday one can sit naked in front of a computer with a window open.

And that m'Lud concludes the case for the defence.

LOL!

Good thing no one is within half a mile of said window

They are billed as "due to heat" rather than specifically to lightning.

Mmm. Sagging overhead cables perhaps?

The local rags love running scary headlines

"powercut warnings for these 71 locations"

But all I can see on the meto's own site is a generic warning

"High risk of failure of heat-sensitive systems and equipment, with the loss of power and other essential services, such as water, electricity, gas or mobile phone services"

Must make doing that clip for Pornhub far easier.

GH

Sorry, but nothing about my ageing body is in the slightest bit erotic.

The girls are far more likely to reach for a cold Pym's cup than my shrunken limp organ...

Lightning is a function of very high rainfall, and any kind of precipitation is extremely difficult to forecast. I can't imagine a useful lightning forecast can be made.

Can and is, especially in the short term (next 12 hours)

Now you cannot say exactly where a storm will form (as in Lynmouth

Right now the rain radar shows a small frontal system off the west of ireland. That MIGHT be storms in Ulster later on

And the south of england and wails is showing very light precipitation, that might build up later.

Here in east anglia it's clear skies,but excessively humid. Almost cold beer humid, and that just needs a bit of cold air sliding underneath to let all hell loose

I was brought up on these, and this shows that there are fronts around and some lows over Biscay and Iberia.

All conditions that usually end in a bit of a bang

Air this warm and moist is inherently unstable.

No immediate sign of storms...at leats in the south east. By the way the you tube channel from the Met is thankfully devoid of nearly all climate change propaganda and sensationalism. Yes, it's going to be a week in the 30°C plus area for the 'beautiful south'

But then, it was, in 1976, too

Right Tortilla, salsa and beer, and pretend i am in Mexico....

• "On 15 and 16 August 1952, a storm of tropical intensity broke over south-west England, depositing 229 millimetres (9.0 in) of rain within

excessive use of fans?

Look summer electricity usage is way within winter limits and we have the gas power stations to cover it.

Demand is a pissy 37GW and half of that is being covered by gas and nuclear. That cannot be the problem

It has to be heat affecting equipment and infrastructure. It does bad things to overhead railway wires for example

Not here. Well they may get excessive use but they are powered by portable solar panels.

It was bit of an unlucky choice of places for my parents to choose for their Honeymoon,though fortunately they were staying in Parracombe upstream from Lynmouth , even so someone died there.. The B+B was flooded so they moved on to stay with relatives in another part of Devon.

GH