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"But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand." — Jerome K. Jerome
30.2c @11amCurrently down by 0.3c from 31st July.
Temp rising 2.4c an hour
Watford
ASL 35m
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/IWATFO32
I’d estimate a high of around 33 point something today but would be nice to scrape 34.
Location: Teddington SW London 14m asl
'Kid in the snow, way to go, it only happens once a year, it only happens once a lifetime, make the most of it.'
'Fox in the Snow' - Belle and Sebastian.
Not one for keeping stats but it’s already showing 30c at Southend at 11.08am which is usually a few degrees down on the highest. Very uncomfortable.
All eyes on convection today spoiling the heat party. Ideally here in London we stay clear until 5pm then have something cataclysmic just as the sun is going down, with enough fearsome downdrafts and evaporative cooling to sort out my increasingly intolerable indoor temperatures.
So far so sunny: https://en.sat24.com/en/gb
Originally Posted by: TimS
Currently 28.6C with local stations reporting dewpoint's in the low 20's
Cambridge at 31c looks to be the highest at 11.20am
Wonder if the Friday to Thursday period could end up being the hottest week on record for the UK in terms of average daily highest maxima (and possibly highest mean too)?
Originally Posted by: Rob K
Must be close to meet the criteria as you have specified, i.e. average daily highest maxima. Of course from a CET perspective it must be miles off with the real heat focused on the SE for most of the days and even large areas of England must be wondering what all the fuss is about!
Reading University Whiteknights 31.4C at 1150
My station is reading 31.9C at 1200
If it stays sunny it is going to be a record breaker here today.
Looks like the heat might have got to Brian's servers, very slow loading at the moment.
Originally Posted by: warrenb
I was reading that some people’s internets were slow because of the heat. If you have a router in the sunshine, maybe too near the tv which can chuck out some heat etc, there are components in there which will slow the speed to nearly standstill. We had this a few days ago.
32.0c @ midday only 0.5c below July 31st at the same time (37.3c)hourly increase +1.8cCould get to 35c again, then it will be 3 days in a row.
Originally Posted by: Phil G
FWIW, the site is fine - loads pretty much instantly.
As for routers, they're actually little PCs running Linux in most cases. If you let the CPU get too warm it'll underclock itself to save itself (older ones just died!) and if that happens performance will go through the floor.
Don't keep your routers in strong sunlight.
Looks like we should get to 34 for a sixth consecutive day.
30.0C now here so the heat more widespread today.
Meanwhile I am recording a more bearable 23.7 c at 12.30 pm here at my coastal edge of Folkestone. Even though humidity are still in the high 70% with very little wind, it is feeling a little fresher (not quite so in-your-face oppressive) when outside. Thank heavens for that thanks to high cloud from a decayed French cell.
Originally Posted by: Jiries
Yes, even areas like Bristol are joining in the heat today. It feels more humid out there today. We had a short torrential downpour last night, and some shady areas are still damp from it. That might slow down temperature rises in this area.
Jiries- if only you still had your legendary shed in Surrey. I wonder what temperatures it would have measured this week!?
Working at Luton Airport, Beds (160m asl)
Originally Posted by: GezM
Over 40C our shed earlier
Beckton, E London
Less than 500m from the end of London City Airport runway.