A real shame that the extreme heat is off the cards. That seems pretty much certain now. Still back up to 30c will do. Shame we won't be seeing mid-30s and I think we are pretty much running out of time for that. Got, at most 2-3 weeks left for that.

Plenty of scorchers tonight!

Maybe, but the last two times the UK all-time highest temperature record was set was in August. In 1990 it was set on 3rd August (37.1C) and then in 2003 it was exactly a week later; 38.5C on 19th August 2003. IIRC both of those early August very hot spells came after some previous hot weather in the July of each year.

It was only a few days ago next week was looking decidedly cooler. Then things reverted hot again. We may or may not reach 35+ but to be honest, that would demand a setup throwing a major spannner in the works for a prolonged beautiful August. So keep calm and carry on. 

Now we have virtually the entire suite above the 30year average from 1st August with only one straggler trying to spoil the party... Shall we call him, Shropshire perhaps.

Ah, thanks Kieren. I knew it was the 10th of August 2003 that the record was set- that was a typo on my part!

http://old.wetterzentrale.de/pics/MT8_London_ens.png

Just using Shropshire as an analogy for a ‘rotten apple’ scenario. 

To be fair, I think we have more than 2-3 weeks of potentially hot weather in the UK. The meteorological summer ends on the 31st August, so we have 6 weeks to go. The hottest UK temperature of 38.5C was recorded on 10th August 2003 in Faversham, Kent. Incredibly, 36.1C was recorded in Halstead (Essex) and at several locations in London on 19th August 1932. Even on the 31st August 1906 34.9C was recorded in Maidenhead. So all August days have the potential to reach or even exceed 35C. 

It wouldn't surprise me if the biggest heatwave of all this summer takes place in August.

Monday looks very hot for s/e Brian according> Apege

30c by 10:00 hours

Then 16.00

Roasters are still there

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gefs_table.php?x=0&y=0&lat=51.5085&lon=-0.12574&run=12&ext=fr&mode=7&sort=0

Just noticed,Night time record temp under threat?

very very close to a very special chart for the s/e ecm mean at 144

12z run's look pretty hot don't they? 

Or potentially very hot for the se Gav

Outlook for Wednesday 25 Jul 2018 to Friday 3 Aug 2018:

Temperatures nearer normal in the west, but generally very warm elsewhere, with hot or very hot conditions at times, especially in the southeast.

UK Outlook for Saturday 4 Aug 2018 to Saturday 18 Aug 2018:

Temperatures remaining above average for most, with the potential for further spells of very warm or hot conditions, and possibly very hot, especially in the southeast

Yes and would start seeing daily 30C temps or over being recorded every day to end from the latest runs.   I still think we could get 35C if condition is right regardless the uppers but one thing it need it is the removal of the clouds that had been far too much and not welcome since it not doing anything to rain or give storms but potentially deliberating the temps maxes like today incident.

No weakness in sight ecm mean fab block n/e looks like shades of 76

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten.php?map=2&model=ecm&var=1&run=12&time=192&lid=AVG&h=0&mv=0&tr=24#mapref

The heat continues to build. I would love to beat 1976.

1976 is the benchmark and was considered as almost untouchable.

The tide mark continues to rise though. Given our warming climate in recent years a challenge of this sort was to be expected. 

That chart is an excellent example of why almost the whole of the northern hemisphere from the mid-latitudes north is experiencing very warm conditions at the moment. Huge area of high pressure dominating the whole of the Atlantic. Same again across the Pacific. Another large high across the far north of Scandinavia. 

The only low pressure is a flabby belt of relatively lower pressure from the far north of Canada across the Pole to Siberia. 

Very blocked and very difficult to see much changing really until the Arctic starts to cool down. I would not be at all surprised to see the very warm conditions continuing throughout August and most of September. Any precipitation is likely to be mainly in the form of showers.