I think somewhere will have got to 36c today either Heathrow, Kew or St James's Park

35.3c here as the top for the day, has dropped now. We're been usually a good few degrees shy of Heathrow, and the other recent hot spots over the last few days so interesting to see we have been higher today. 34.4c currently.

Great day to be cutting weed in the river, 'twas a hot one.

Yep we're past 30C at a local station, too. Noice! 

Temp started going back up, now 35c @4.30pm, clouds have dissipated a bit

32C here now and can see some few clouds to the south of here.  If any clouds goes above the house and sunny same time the temps will shoot up further only when it get shaded it drop back.

My weather station is not official in any way and no doubt reads a couple of degrees too high.

This afternoon my temperature record has been broken; 36.8C at 16:19, beating 36.4C recorded on 25th July 2019. However that might partly be down to the lack of wind to aspirate the sensor.

The visible sat shows the location of the subtle forcing zones quite nicely. Now the inhibition has been breached, the budding cumulus will form anywhere with some lift from the base height up such as a CVZ on a wind shift boundary. The southerly drift turns sharply to the east more or less down the A30 line and that’s where I’d expect any storms to form from this point, drifting N with time.

Blimey. Pass me the universal translator Mr. Data.

Right. That's it. Over the heat now.

BRING ON THE STORMS

You have finally seen the light, Mark. 

TWO more roasting days. Don't forget surprise bonus Thursday with a cheeky 33C somewhere.

You know I love a good record. Equally, I will be extremely annoyed if it doesn’t go bang after suffering these last few days.

On balance I decided to taking my laptop into the garden was a better option than working on my desktop in my office.

Works fine until you get a thunderbug behind the screen! (Happened to me a couple of decades ago, with a Psion 3c - my pride and joy at the time. It somehow got behind the screen and died, and for the rest of that Psion's days it remained there.

Incidentally, anyone else noticed no Tweets from the Met Office or associated accounts regarding recorded highs this afternoon? Odd.

Feeling hot and humid

Are they also suggesting England to win the next World Cup?! Lol.

Maybe they're all out installing a more comprehensive network of weather stations?

It was suggesting 35C in its previous run so that’s a reflection of less cloudiness in the forecast. 

GFS gives 34C tops tomorrow, Arpège has one pixel of 36 near the South coast but otherwise 34. Both bring in the storms earlier than Arôme.