GFS 12z is going for 27C on Sat and 28C Sunday. Often you can add a couple of C to the raw values so 30C looks possible to me.

It never forecast to have heat this weekend as it due to arrive after a very warm weekend to be a very hot week ahead.

Hard to disagree about August 1995. It is at the very least on a par with the very best summer months I can remember.

In fact, had the final CET for that month been another 0.4 or so higher, it would have dethroned the then record holder as warmest month on record which was July 1983.

Fair enough, I was going on the low-res charts. And the pattern looks better for prolonged settled weather now - the higher temps were always associated with the LP getting closer to us. 

We had a remarkable run of sunshine until end of last week because no Atlantic much had crossed the country for weeks so all that was left was remnants of convective activity. Now a couple of frontal systems have introduced some damper and messier air which will take a while to clear out again.

I missed the majority of the hot weather as I was on holiday with my then girlfriend in Greece. Arrived back on the last 30C day.

GFS 12Z impressive to T+180. If anything warmer than the earlier run. High pressure centred over the southern North Sea and the small low to the west drawing up warm air from the south. Interesting!

GFS T+195 and the high has intensified and sits over the Baltic Sea. Classic heatwave set-up.

Time to get some new tea leaves Tim! More upgrades coming!

Furnace heat by the middle of next week.

As long as you don't end up counting all the tea leaves

Almost ludicrous GFS run. We will all be roasted alive if that comes off.

31C at 9am on Friday...

EDIT: 35C at 12pm

That's a potential 2003-beater.

FWIW 10 August 2003 had very similar 850s as those progged for next Friday on this run: about 18-19C in the southeast corner.

If that came off this time around, we'd have the benefit of a longer period of drought and heating beforehand. I reckon we'd beat that 38.5C mark.

Saturday certainly shaping up to be a 2003 beater.

But remember end of next week is FI. Still fun to watch though. ENS will be more important.

I remember that day.. it was 38C in London but only 28C here. I was pretty pissed off. 

Would be great if we could beat our record of 34.4C set in August 1990. 28 years and counting..

I think this run has to be the high-water mark. It can't get any better for heat fans surely? Just look at that - that's no glancing blow, the 18C isotherm is almost hitting Newcastle!

By T+240 the high stands firm over the Baltic states, and the low to the west also just stays where it is. Sustained prolonged heat. Potentially quite frightening.

LOL it is literally off the charts! Brian you need a new temperature scale 

Hope you don't mind... I just edited your image link and put a static snapshot in so it won't refresh tomorrow. You are absolutely right, the temperatures have gone off the scale. 

No problem - I was going to save that one for posterity anyway!

The heat across Europe is crazy on this run. 

Probably  a 100f maybe even 40c run from GFS. unlikely but possible in the set up that could happen next week.