Phil G
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:19:10 PM

Originally Posted by: TimS 


 


I think this is just a feature of which sites publish half hourly SYNOP readings automatically. The majority of those locations that feature on XCWeather are airfields. Many of them are very rural, little more than one strip of runway surrounded by fields. Not "airports" in the sense you might be thinking of. The non-airport sites, many of which end up posting the daily UK max, don't report half hourly but just give daily max-mins.


XCWeather is, after all, a site for glider pilots. Essentially it's not surprising that a site publishing weather reports from a base of mainly airfields ends up showing the highest temps at airpot sites.



I was just thinking that with so many aircraft related sites monitored. Add Mildenhall Royal Air Force Base to the highest temps at 33c at 1.08pm.

Rob K
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:26:09 PM
32.6C currently at the concrete metropolis* of Blackbushe airport

* grass and heathland with three small runways. The Blackbushe weather station is 100m asl and usually a degree or two cooler than nearby official stations, so I wouldn't be surprised if Farnborough is well above 33 by now.
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Matty H
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:29:18 PM

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 


 


Miles and miles ahead of winter 2010. Summers always generate more traffic than winters.



Makes perfect sense. Normal people buzz about summer weather not about feeling cold and miserable 


redmoons
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:31:20 PM
Lots of places at 33c with top being Luton airport
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TimS
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Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:32:00 PM

Originally Posted by: Phil G 


I was just thinking that with so many aircraft related sites monitored. Add Mildenhall Royal Air Force Base to the highest temps at 33c at 1.08pm.



Landuse definitely makes a difference to daytime temperatures - not UHI per se (UHI is largely a nocturnal phenomenon and is most pronounced in city centres rather than places like airports), and I the fact is airports are generally open areas, there are not so many trees around and as they are often low altitude and flat they are more likely to be in arable zones, all of which lend themselves to lower humidity, larger diurnal ranges and high daily maxes.


Essentially everywhere on the world's surface other than true wilderness areas (and nowhere in the UK) the climate is influenced by human landuse change. Deforestation in the tropics is probably the extreme example, where whole regional climates can be affected. As a species we have changed the land cover, topography, humidity, albedo, and soil moisture of vast swathes of the continental land masses. It means that, even before we consider greenhouse gases, all temperature readings in the British isles are arguably artificial, even in somewhere like Aviemore or Altnaharra.


 


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picturesareme
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:32:19 PM
31.3C currently 🙂
Gusty
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:35:20 PM

Originally Posted by: Quantum 


 


Then again these are the environments people live in (not airports, but similar heat islands in urban environments) so perhaps these temperatures are relevant to people's experiences in a way cairngorm summit is not (and is more a meterological curiosity).


 



100% agree. 


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ozone_aurora
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:38:05 PM

So what was UK's highest temperature yesterday, i.e., 11.08.20? (sorry if I missed it).

Tim A
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:38:34 PM

27.3c here and sunny, chance of a 30c here at my location if the cloud stays away and the cool north sea air stays away.


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redmoons
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:39:04 PM

Originally Posted by: ozone_aurora 


So what was UK's highest temperature yesterday, i.e., 11.08.20? (sorry if I missed it).



35.7c Heathrow


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Ally Pally Snowman
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:39:06 PM

Originally Posted by: ozone_aurora 


So what was UK's highest temperature yesterday, i.e., 11.08.20? (sorry if I missed it).



 


35.7c Heathrow


 


Bishop's Stortford 85m ASL.
redmoons
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:40:14 PM
anyone know what the date record was today?
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Ally Pally Snowman
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:41:50 PM

Heat looks as widespread as it has done all heatwave today. Many locations 33c. We should see somewhere get to 35\36c later and maybe somewhere other the Heathrow on top later.


 


Bishop's Stortford 85m ASL.
Retron
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:42:03 PM

Originally Posted by: redmoons 

anyone know what the date record was today?


33.9.


http://www.torro.org.uk/hightempsyear.php#August


 


Leysdown, north Kent
Ally Pally Snowman
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:43:08 PM

Originally Posted by: redmoons 

anyone know what the date record was today?


 


33.9c from the classic summer of 1911. We should beat that shortly.


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redmoons
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:44:12 PM

Originally Posted by: Retron 


 


33.9.


http://www.torro.org.uk/hightempsyear.php#August


 



Cheers looks like that would have gone already


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Watford
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Phil G
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:48:33 PM
On locations, whatever happened to Gravesend, Kent? Kept seeing this area as a hotspot a while back, but I haven’t seen it featured or mentioned for some time now.
Ally Pally Snowman
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:51:56 PM

Originally Posted by: Phil G 

On locations, whatever happened to Gravesend, Kent? Kept seeing this area as a hotspot a while back, but I haven’t seen it featured or mentioned for some time now.


 


The land was sold for a theme park.


 


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/famous-weather-station-closed-191601/&ved=2ahUKEwjF0KmM2pXrAhUUu3EKHSUxCbsQFjAAegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw3bicrn7kAc5ipmmh3utkny


 


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warrenb
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:56:54 PM

Sky brewing here now and a few towers going up to my north around Sevenoaks.


Hungry Tiger
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:59:04 PM

Anyone hit 34C yet.


 


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