26.4C at 9.45am. Humidity enough to make even that seem stifling.

Worth keeping an eye on temperatures in Spain and Portugal over the coming days. Several places reached 43C yesterday and it could be hotter today.

Faro was already at 33.9C at 10am. In Spain, Moron de la Frontera was 37C at 11am.

Portalegre, Portugal, was apparently 31C at 4am! Don't know how reliable that reading is.

Perpignan in France was 36.1C at midday.

The hottest night  recorded  anywhere was recorded about 3 weeks ago in Muscat Oman. It was 42.6C .Imagine trying to sleep in that.

32.8 is currently the top temperature in Wisley

Can we squeeze a 34C today I wonder?

We were in Muscat, Oman last year when the air conditioning broke in our bedroom (we were staying in a friend's house). It was intolerable! I think it was only about 40C max and 30C min when we were there.

Edit: I don't know if this happened at Muscat Airport or somewhere else, but the highest minimum I can find for there this year is 37C.

https://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-app/klibild?WMO=41256&ZEITRAUM=02&ZEIT=30062018&ART=MXMN&LANG=en&1533309914&ZUGRIFF=NORMAL&MD5=

Kew gardens was hot spot today 33.2c , Europe El Granado Spain 46.4c. Met Office

Keep an eye on things as a new European record maybe set this weekend.

The record atm is 48 set in Athens in 1977.

California not far off record high temps but the interesting new record is the highest temp ever accompanied by rain - 119 F / 48.3 C but the rain only amounted to a trace, a high-level shower just about surviving to ground level in humidity there down to 15%

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Hottest-Rain-Record-Rain-falls-119F-Imperial-California

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfse_cartes.php?&ech=60&mode=1

another surge of extreme heat for spain early next week and then hopefully that's your lot

My girlfriend is Portuguese and came from a town on the other side of the Tagus River from Lisbon.So I check what the temps are sometimes in Lisbon.Ironically,they have had a below par summer,not a washout or much rain,but daytime temps several degress below average.From the beginning of May,the Uk and especially England has consistently had max daytime temps 2-3 C higher than Lisbon.Think the average for july and august is 28-29 C but more often than not,they have been getting low to mid 20C for most of the last couple of months. Portugal in general is one of the few countries in the whole of Europe which has seen below average temps this summer

I haven't heard yet if the Portuguese or all time European record has been broken.Its close,as Beja reached 47C on Saturday,just 1C below the all time record set in Athens.On the BBC they said they wont know for a day or 2 if somewhere else may have broken the record

Here is a list of the highest temperatures in Spain for Saturday. Click on the table to the right of the main picture.

https://twitter.com/AEMET_Esp/status/1026044651080433664

Highest temperature was 0.7C below the record. The highest temperature in Portugal was 1.0C below the record.

Pretty close then,it was forecast to be 43C in Lisbon yesterday ( and 41 C today),if it reached that ,it could be a new record for Lisbon which stood at 42c for august.Being on the coast,its 4-5 C lower than some places in the the south and further inland

Temperatures in Lisbon did exceed 43C yesterday:

Lisboa / Gago Coutinho 44.0C

Lisboa / Geof 43.3C

 Thanks Global Warming,i see on the news,this hot spell has sparked off some serious wildfires in Portugal..Hopefully it wont be on the same scale as last year which was on a par and as deadly as the recent Greek wildfires.Last year was incredibly dry for over 6 months

Thats basically what the Portuguese told me whilst i was in the Algarve in June , they said  conditions had been unusually poor.

The first three days i was there it was only 20c with persistent cloud and breezy conditions rising to about  25c for the rest of the week. 

The contrast is notable over the past 30 days http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/global_monitoring/temperature/tn08562_30.gif 

Just shows what a great summer we have had,and my Girlfriend even thought she comes from a southern European country has complained on a number of occasions of how hot its been this summer lol. She did go back home to see family in Lisbon last October and it was 30-32C most of the week she was there

The temp reached on Saturday is a new all time record for Lisbon, 44C,the previous record was 43C.