I believe they requested climb as they passed to NE of Chelmsford for the transit back to base. They may have been on route but high and above cloud.

Not seen here just S of the published route near Dedham,sky was largely clear with just a little cumulus.I'd have logged it as Cloudy,Fine,& Clear when I was working.

I thought, from watching some of the news footage, that the PdF were almost lost in the Reds' smoke. I was hoping that we may have seen one big arrow, with Red One leading, the rest of the Arrows to starboard and the PdF to port. Trailing red, white and blue, it would have been most impressive.

I was slightly north of the published route to try get a pic looking across and with sun behind and they took me by surprise being north of me so may that's your answer.

Looked absolutely brilliant over central London, well done both teams! PdF were far enough behind not to be lost in RA smoke. They both looked superb and the combined effect was stunning. They also looked lower and faster than I am used to seeing on these sort of flypasts, but that may just have been the effect of the two arrow formations being so close.