Kew Gardens Weather Station already showing 20.5C at midday today

Well ahead of the Date Record for 29th October of 19.8C from 2014

Torro has the date record as 20.5C today, in 1999. Still going to be smashed. 

We maxed in sunshine about half hour ago at 21.2; currently 20.5.

Wouldn't be surprised if 23 were approached in a SE spot where the sunshine persists.

The 31/10/2014 near-miss (for November) remains more remarkable though.

Even warmer at Kew...

https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1586387447071531009

Crazy temps becoming the norm.

Felt very nice to see 20C here today and really nice when I went outside in the garden to be in the sun for a bit.  Last time Nuneaton reached 20#C was in Sept so that weird why it came just now when daylight already much shorter and lower sun than in Sept.  Good for heating stay off and despite the aggressive rain this month which mostly fell at nights give way to lot of sunshine during prime hours so far much better than the recent summer.  

Farewell to 20C temps and see you next year.

A completely unremarkable and unintersting max of 14.4C here today the same temperature as as been recorded daily for over a week now give or take a few tenths of a degree.

The only thing that is becoming the norm is the inability to reach levels of warmth that were standard in the past 

16.3C the highest this month and 16.6C at Dyce. Every single October between 1947 and 1965, bar 1952 and 1960, recorded a higher temperature than this October. Yet 2019 and 2020 recorded even lower absolute maxima.

Shocking era of bland nothingness 

Metcheck                      12.55c             Anomaly         2.04c

Netweathether              13.25c             Anomaly         2.86c

Peasedown St John       12.75c             Anomaly        -0.85c. 

Despite yesterday being one of the warmest October temps on record, especially for that date, the temperature appears to have maxed at 15.9C today which is the lowest maximum for the month! This in spite of the forecast warmth continuing till Thursday. Probably due to the thick cloud cover and rain with the now lower strength of the sun.

We managed 18.2 today, continuing the predominantly 18+ days for the month. Maintaining this month#2 is impressive.

Metcheck                   12.55c            Anomaly        2.04c

Netweather                13.27c            Anomaly        2.88c

Peasedown St John   13.02c           Anomaly         -0.78c.  

Final number 12.85c so congrats to Gusty for being the closest

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/data/cet_mean_2022.txt

A first ever 11c CET year looks odds on now.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cet_info_mean.html

Thanks, Frank; nice to see I have gone up ten places to 6th. Well done Gusty 

Thanks Frank, Caz and Andrew. 

Stupid competition 

Ongoing thanks to Frank for rescuing the comp 

I echo your appreciation for Frank`s running of this competition. Iam sure all those who take part are grateful to him.

Now the final October CET figure has been confirmed by Hadley as 12.8c we are odds on to record the first 11c+ annual CET.

If November comes in mild/warm which is looking highly likley at say around 8c December needs only a CET of 3.5c to achieve an annual CET of 11c plus. Imo i think we will exceed the 11c mark by some margin and 2022 the warmest year for the uk in recorded history.

That would be a first when measuring the 12 month period as December to January but of course there are 11 other 12 month periods each year which can also be measured at month-ends. On this basis we have already had 17 periods of 11c or over - all from 2007 or later

The current reading based on Nov 2021-Oct 2022 is 11.2C but well short of the record set for May 2006-Apr 2007 of 11.6c

It would be nice to beat this in December but that is much more of a stretch

Yep, very good call Gusty. I can't believe how much the CET rose later in the month! 

Wow! Must be a record? 

Off the back of Frank's hard work in collating all the data I've been using my decidedly basic excel skills to produce a few charts. These won't be as polished as GW's efforts but assuming no one else fancies doing them, and people like my versions, intention is I'll see how I go with the remaining months and if I've got the time/inclination I'll keep doing the charts for next year's comp too if needed. 

So table to end October looks like:-

Link to larger chart

Guesses table to follow in November thread when they're all in/collated. 

Hopefully I've not copied the data over wrong but any queries/comments/suggestions just yell.

P.S Apologies for the millions of ads on the link, will see if can find better site to use for hosting.....