22-23 here in Methlick.

It's good having your yin to you know who's yang 

A summary of todays temperatures:

10:30am: 22.1C 

1pm: 20.7C 

3pm: 17.6C

6pm: 14.6C

What a load of crap. A westerly with an average max of 17C would likely see higher temperatures at this point.

Worse still a load of awful high cloud has spewed in too which has thickened enough to blot out some sun. 13.6 hours so far but looking touch and go as to whether 17 hours could be managed for the first time in my records. Given the uninspiring temperatures this was about the only point of interest left from this week.

What an utterly dreadful year this. First we have a pathetic dusting while the rest of Eastern Scotland is buried under 20cm+ snow, now we have to suffer 15C crap while the rest of Eastern Scotland basks in a 25C heatwave

I would gladly take your current temp right now Richard. 25.7c here under a think motionless high cloud, and with Dp's on the rise from here on in, it is only going to get worse. 

Indeed. We might completely disagree in the politics threads and you might think I'm the biggest knob ever in there, but at least we can fully agree on the weather!

Really hope this spell lasts a while.

Last year was completely bad one once the school holidays broke up.  Can't see a repeat of this year as we long over due for a decent 3 months of summery weather with brief unsettled spells only.

Hopefully it will just be a temporary breakdown but as well all know from bitter past experience, this could spell the beginning of the end of our summer.

What a lovely summer so far. I'd like to moan about all the doom and gloom and the depressing negativity when the weather is beautiful outside and has been (for a lot of us) for the past couple of months. Just get out and enjoy it and stop looking for the end and writing off summer when there's absolutely no reason to at this stage. The end to a settled spell of weather is always going to be in sight because we live in the UK. This time next week, we will no doubt be seeing hints in the models of the next settled spell of weather.

It`s too hot!!!

Any hotter would be too hot - I hate hot and humid nights! What I notice is that this settled spell is set to last longer and getting prolonged too!! Not good for my hay fever too. It's too stuffy, sticky and close esp at night.

Very unlike the UK but good summer esp for Devon so far,.

Some of us are moaning 25C is too hot, my sister in Exeter complains that 21C is baking hot in any year. Come on now! Even the BBC are hyping up the ‘severe’ weather and moaning about it.

To me it’s been a fantastic spell of summer weather, so yesterday evening I thought it would be great to head to the coast with the fishing rod as most of the sunbathers would be gone.

Wrong!

The car park was still heaving at 8pm, there were people in their birthday suits lying on the shingle and God forbid swimming, you know cavorting naked in the sea off the beach at one my prime fishing spots normally one of the most isolated parts of the Dorset coast.

It's just not on! People enjoying themselves. Whatever next?

It’s all becoming too Berliny down here. 

Happens in the parks in Berlin.. Seems to generally allowed.. 

And Studland near here too. I'm only having a rant because this is the moaning thread and it's tongue in cheek. 

The hyping up of Severe Weather is another matter. The Met Office names deep and dangerous lows so why not persistent highs that cause severe heat?

Like the current one could be High Vulcan to make people more aware of the warmth. I don't think it will catch on though even if more people die in a heatwave than are harmed in a snowstorm or Atlantic gale.

The Express is in its normal apocalyptic mode I see.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/979745/Heatwave-water-burst-main-sinkhole-west-midlands-heatwave

The water main, which runs along Chapel Lane in Great Barr, is believed to have burst on Tuesday morning, flooding the road around it, after a night in which temperatures soared to almost 30C, with one road in another part of the country reported to be beginning to melt in the heat.

Don't they have a sub editor?

Yet another crap evening with high cloud that has thickened throughout the day, blotting out the sun completely. Down to 14.0C. Absolutely disgusting stuff that is in no way suitable for getting into the garden. A month earlier and we’d have had clear blue skies and warmer temperatures but that is just the horror show that is the month of June.

Looks like we aren’t even going to manage three consecutive days hitting 20C - something that was achieved in March 2012. I would call it a lame and embarrassing attempt at a heatwave but that would be wrong as it really isn’t any kind of attempt at all.

The sea breeze just never lets up any more which wasn’t the case in the past. Look at previous heatwaves and, although the inland locations would have recorded higher average maxima than the coast, there was practically no difference between peak temperatures as there were always days when the sea breeze didn’t pick up and ruin things.

Have taken the day off tomorrow to head inland and escape this never ending sea breeze hell but even that tactic will fail if this high cloud muck spills in again. 

Constant E and SE winds = climate as bad as Shetland 

.. And that easterly muck is now closing in from off the North Sea as I write.

Since the temperature at two out of three of local stations has also being refusing to go up during today to any sort of decent levels, today has been a bit of a let-down compared to the preceding two days before that.

When I compare this summer so far with what happened last year, the only difference which I am seeing is the lack of rainfall during this summer so far compared to last year.

Last summer was a poor summer overall but even then, we still managed to get a weekend where the temperature got up to 25ºC on both days. So far, our highest temperature of this summer so far (and indeed, of this year) has been no higher than that and occurred on just one day (which was of course, yesterday).

This means that as far as the temperature is concerned, we are not actually doing any better this time than what we did last and if anything, we are actually doing slightly worse since we have yet to get two or more back to back days of temperatures of 25ºC or more in this part of the the world.

In addition to that, our sunshine totals haven't exactly been spectacular during this summer either. So far this summer, we have only had three mornings where there has been more than an hour of recorded sunshine by 8am and on most of those mornings, there has been nothing at all in the way of sunshine being recorded by that time. Yet this is the very time of year when we should be able to get a couple of hours or so of recorded sunshine by 8am without any problems whatsoever. The fact that we have only had three mornings so far with more than an hour of recorded sunshine by 8am is therefore, very poor fare indeed in my book.

Furthermore, people like Richard will rightly crave for a more zonal weather pattern in order to fix that but then even when we have had that zonal pattern of weather, most of the days have been virtually overcast and so rather than fix things in this part of the world, it actually made things even worse to a certain extent because when we had those earlier ,easterlies, we were at least still getting a lot of sunny afternoons once that east coast muck was burnt off by the strong June sunshine.

It just seems as though we can't win either way in this part of the world when it comes to sunshine totals at this time of year. 

Weeks of +25c or above with no rain for months now - could do with some cooler weather and rain (at night) just to clear the air (no pun intended) it's so hot, even by nights! I love the sun but the persistent heat both by day and warm nights are starting to get to me and looks set to continue well into weekend and next week.

Not been able to sleep well either, as it's disrupting my sleep pattern too, waking up in a sweat, feeling hot and nausea's too.

My (indoor) bedroom temperature has not dropped below 21c for 3 weeks now despite window open - feels so close, sticky and uncomfortable for sleeping at night time. One of the problems is that my bedroom is west facing so the sunset doesn't help - heats up the room like old fun and of course there is little or no wind by Exeter Quay!! :(

How many others are feeling hot and bothered esp at night time?

 The one thing about this heatwave so far has been the cool nights here. Everynight this week the temp has dipped below 12 C  so very comfortable nights.

Very comfortable nights here and the duvet is still used. Yours sounds like a case of poor insulation/construction? What would you do if you had several nights with min air temps of 16-20C and higher humidity?

Will those f#*king easterlies not take the hint for once and just go away and leave us alone!!?

They will be more that welcome to come back when it comes to the winter but for now, all I ask that they stay away from this part of the world until then because at the moment, it just seems as though doing so even for a single day is asking too much.

We're lucky in Leeds that we are well inland so although we are cooler than ares further west, we are still very warm (27.5C was my max today). Easterlies are always bad news for the east coast.