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Now 39C in Clermont Ferrand and a number of 38s. 39C in Bilbao too - i remember it getting 43C in Aug 2003 with a föhn.Somewhere may squeeze a 40C today.
and there we are: Clermont Ferrand at 40C. June French record of 41.5C still some way off, for now.
Suspect we will see 43C tommorow and 46C on Friday, so all time record also under threat.
Made it into the 24s here, but mid-20s are more localised than I was hoping for. The lingering cloud across the middle-third of England is effectively shortening the distance across which surface warming effects are able to stack.
Humid again; over 70% relative humidity. So despite the wind it feels pretty toasty now.
Fun seeing St Catherine's Point, on the south of the Isle of Wight, competing with Bournemouth Airport for the UK Max - that's extremely unusual!
I really cannot get my head around this setup. Very unusual indeed. I don't get why we're getting so much modification when an Easterly in April can deliver low 20's here due to being to the West of the Pennines.Here we are in June, a very favourable setup and the temperature is only 16.3C despite occasional bright spells. Really does feel cold in the keen NE wind. Probably warmer on Kinder Scout summit than here. Forecast temps for Saturday have been trending upwards though. Chance of 30C here. I reckon somewhere like Blackpool airport may crack 32C.
Perhaps North Wales is going to be a good spot in these parts.
Someone on Twitter just posted a pic of their car thermometer reading 55C in Clermont. Obviously that is a reading in the sun, but I have never seen anything like that!https://twitter.com/Menadeodus/status/1143895571700310017
That's insane. In the July 2013 heatwave mine was showing 42c at around 4pm one day and that's my record in this country (had a 46c near Marbella in 2007)
Depending on the position of the thermometer these can be very bad. It may just be that the engine has been running with the car stationary !
I really cannot get my head around this setup. Very unusual indeed. I don't get why we're getting so much modification when an Easterly in April can deliver low 20's here due to being to the West of the Pennines.
This is not like the easterlies you have in mind as the wind at the 1000 - 900 hPa is very strong and directly from a very large body of cold water. It doesn't allow for vertical mixing either upwards or downwards.
I have seen something similar even in the Greek islands; T850 > 25C, yet surface temps in the mid to high 20s (same as the SSTs). The locals call it natural air con and they love it.
Made it into the 24s here, but mid-20s are more localised than I was hoping for. The lingering cloud across the middle-third of England is effectively shortening the distance across which surface warming effects are able to stack.Humid again; over 70% relative humidity. So despite the wind it feels pretty toasty now.Fun seeing St Catherine's Point, on the south of the Isle of Wight, competing with Bournemouth Airport for the UK Max - that's extremely unusual!
It was really warm for an hour when the sun came out here in N Essex, even got my sun hat out. Then the clouds rolled back over us and it's a cool grey nor-easter again
Britain really does need a linear range of hills along its East coast. Around 400m would do. Clouds rolling off the North Sea are an annual bane.
A higher version of the Oolitic ridge that runs from Dorset to Yorkshire would be good too - around 2,000m. Then we’d get a decent rain shadow here.
Interesting to see that the odd sheltered spot of SW Scotland could touch 30°C for a day towards the end of this week according to at least one model.That is shades of last year once again, even if that is only likely to be very brief this time as opposed to last year, when we had that sort of weather for quite a fair length of time with those conditions also being more widespread then.
Gosport has beaten both those stations on the hourly reports, but actual max temps for those will only be released if they are a regional or national max.
We got to 25.1C here in my part of north Portsmouth but i suspect parts of town will have been warmer.
Hi Dew, hate to say it but here in Chi in the last couple of hours..beautifully hot and sunny and a strong breeze....P
Just email Boris, it'd be easy for him to promise; guaranteed delivery by 31 October.
Quite chilly this evening with a fresh force 5 NE'ly wind and variable amounts of stratus blowing hurriedly in from the ENE with a temperature of 16.2c.
Its going to be a shock as soon as that hot SE'ly kicks in on Saturday.