I had to get my teenage daughter in the middle of the lake! She was SUPing and the winds and currents got too strong, she could not make it back to shore by herself. Almost as scary as seeing you knickers fly off to neighbours' garden!

I think this 'storm' is beginning to look like elicit sex - all anticipation, a bit of huffing and puffing and dampness, and all over and done with before it really started.
The wind picked up, the clouds built up and the sky darkened, but after a few spots of rain, it's already calming and the sky's brightening.

I did explore around the next day and found no evident signs. Unless it struck the lightning arrester on the church spire nearby- but that's a good 9 minutes walk away.

First Cb blown over towards Valais. Next one is rising in the Geneva region But, generally, there is not enough moisture yet for a good TS :]

It probably struck the lightning rod on your house.

She was what? Good old fashioned English please.

I would guess 'stand-up-paddling' ...... standing on surf board with a double paddle.

Was that it?

Five minutes of rain in Geneva??!! Everyone had their windows open and a man was shouting in the street... And people clapping... and happy.

We need a thunderstorm... Badly.

Nobody is sleeping properly, and waking up all sweaty and yucks is not nice.

A friend of mine put his three kids in a cool bath at 3 in the morning.

So glad that she is ok.

There have been a number of drownings in Switzerland these past few days, be careful everyone.

I can't see one- at least, not the spiky one that I see on the church spire. But I suppose there is no other explanation....

I wish someone put me in a cool bath. I don't have a bath or anyone to put me into it

It is called paddle board, or paddle boarding (also paddleboarding) - no need to come up with quirky names

It's become extremely popular in my parts, with two rental shops to chose from.

I was thoroughly tempted, but a young guy actually drowned while using one, in the middle of the afternoon and not very far from the shore it sort of out me off trying

Wow eek! We live in a 5-storey modern building which I would imagine does have one of those lightning rod thingies. But there is a really, really big church about 150m away which is MUCH taller. Perhaps it was that? And yes, I suppose it did sound more like a balloon pop but ridiculously loud. I heard no reverberation just one big single bang sound. The light seemed to be all around. It "felt" close kind of quiet around it if that makes any sense, it was very very eerie. Felt like it was just me and the bolt! The alarm didn't sound like it was coming from the tiefgarage or the parking spaces outside though, it sounded a block away. I don't know whether the electricity went off or not as everything was off except for the computer which was "off" but just in sleep mode. If you wiggle the mouse while it's in sleep mode it comes on, and it came on so perhaps there was enough vibration in the building to have done that. It certainly wasn't me doing it, I was nowhere near it. This is all so really interesting!

My tan is insane! I got undressed today for my (2nd of the day!) bath and clocked my bottom in the mirror, it's SO white! The difference marks where my bikini has been is really quite impressive. I took pics but they're a bit NSFW

Won't be sleeping on my balcony; look at the thermometer! Almost 30!

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This was the reading driving through AargOW this evening

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It's raining! The air feels cool. :-)

Go rain go! It is already so much cooler!

Yesterday around 7:30 pm, it got somewhat cloudy and windy. I promptly opened all the windows and promised the kids that if it rained I woykd run on the terrace naked and dance a happy dance.

Result? The sky cleared up, the storm never came, and we had another stifling sleepless night...

And it was WARM rain!