Some very light rain at The Oval. Not enough to save England or the weather forecasters' blushes!

The heat is proper ramping up here now with a significant jump in the past hour thanks to the sunshine coming out. Impressive given I'm just a mile inland and we have a light onshore SSW'ly today. It must be hellish inland with these dewpoints.

26.3c / 17.8c

Temperatures again up to 29C today but it's also a lot more humid. At one point dew points at a local station almost hit 20C (19.4C).

Fairly cloudy afternoon with some sunshine also  breaking through..

Max here 29.7C without any sun. Remarkable day IMO.

They have! And we are all sat hear overthinking next week - crazy how these little things can appear out of the blue.

I agree, very tropical. Goes to show, that if not for this cloud the Aperge forecast of a few days ago would have been pretty accurate.

Felt very warm here today light winds and 26.1c. The humidity is quite noticeable. The weather band broke up into a Mosaic of cloud types and deep blue sky. No rain.

Not according to the Met Office feed for Bristol.

It's actually been good ish news here as the front clearing through earlier will hopefully lead to a nice day tomorrow.

Yes remarkable, it got to a high of 30.7c and the cloud is breaking up now.

I’d be miffed if that shower hit me and ruined my parched ground lol

Heavy showers were being forecast as long ago as Friday for places south of/close to the M4 but S Wales and the Cotswolds have exceeded expectations. But those of us in the SE remain parched as ever

Would be the first hosepipe ban in Yorkshire for 27 years.

Just not on any forecast in the past three days!

Not even when it was falling.

This is clearly evolving differently to how it was supposed to. Alex Deakin last night was saying that 'by Wednesday afternoon' the front would push southwards over England with little to no rain to speak of'.

It's currently straddling South Wales to Leicester and unless those echo returns are showing rain that has evaporated by the time it gets to ground it's looking quite wet in several areas. 

Bristol, which was due to be dry all evening according to the MetO at 5pm now has rain programmed in from 9pm towards 11pm. That's nowcasting not forecasting.

I had to laugh when I heard that last night. The one utility that most people can reasonably afford and they're talking about rationing it.

I'm sure we'll look back on this decade and laugh, but right now it looks grim.

 Yes a significant mis calculation on the rainfall today with the current radar showing growing blobs in a line across . Just saw the BBC forecast and he was in total denial of any rain today , oh no he did mention a few spots yet some areas look to have had a small soaking

 Bearing that in mind the accuracy of the coming hot spell cannot be taken as gospel.

It's not just the SE which is parched though.

We are really desperate for some rain here in the east of Scotland (that is very well demonstrated by the fact that there was yet another grass fire on Arthur Seat here in Edinburgh), but we are still not getting that.

The BBC are taking their sweet time in posting tonight's Weather For The Week Ahead on their Weather website, just when there must be extra interest in wanting to know how this will pan out! It's often available by 6 pm.

Come on BBC, you're slacking!