Is that official?

If so that makes four stations that have broken 40.

Our high was 38.6c, cannot believe it .
There was a peak then the cooler air arrived immediately, maybe if this replicates some stations will get their max just before the change in air masses.
Bramham 39.5c , could it hit 40c.

33.4c now, dropped 5c in a few minutes. 

A very hot 40c here!!!!!

An historic day!!!!

To get that on just the one day during yesterday was amazing enough as it was, but to have now got that on two back to back successive days in this manner is just unbelievable.

Boys boys boys not today.....pleaseeeee 

I'm beside myself here with excitement.

36.8c near the SE coast ! 

Must be frustrating for many station's holders who want to see 40C have to live with 39'er figure.   Now 38C as it been 100F for 5 hours. 

MetO / UKV was the winner for me today. It was the only model which showed a marked cooldown due to a change of airmass this afternoon. It remains to be seen whether it's correct that temperatures will shoot up once the sea breeze switches off!

GFS has 40C for Leysdown right now. It was a degree under yesterday (37 vs 36 in reality), but today was spot on (38) - until that sea breeze set in. It's now 29C, which is what was forecast by the Met Office forecast. The Met Office then has it warming back up to 35C in an hour and 20 minutes - we'll see!

(Here in Sittingbourne it's been near enough 40C. Hotter than when I was in Vegas, with a discomfiting "slightly hard to breathe" feeling going across the playground at work. The car said 41 as I made the short journey to the hotel down the road. It was making a racket, too, all sorts of whirring noises once I turned off the ignition!)

That's amazing. Whereabouts- is that W Sussex?

Edit - no that was a silly question; I can se the high temps along the kent & E Sussex coast.

Brilliant.

40.3 in Lincolnshire 

To then exceed 100F 7 years later is astonished.

The forecast late peak for Yorkshire/Lincolnshire failed to occur then?

I have the immortal words of Dave Angel, Eco Warrior ringing in my ears today: "The world is burning and we're not learning."

In the meantime, no more comments from anyone on this (off) topic.

Madness, like the south of France. We peaked at 35c on the downs and still 34-35c, not bad for 580ft asl and less than 3 miles from the coast.

Chart showing the airmass change. IF (big if) the wind changes enough to bring the hot airmass back, it'll be another spectacular rise.

Also a couple of 40s in Lincolnshire area, and temps may still be rising there. 

Not sure anywhere will hit 41 but high 40.X is a possibility.

Coningsby in Lincolnshire reached 40.3C, probably still rising. Bramham near Leeds was 39.5C so could have exceeded 40C. 

We had a beautiful little hot shower Rob about half an hour ago when the temp had already dropped from 34 to 32 under growing cloud. I could smell the dust first- reminded me of W Africa at the end of the dry season it was so strong. There's a name for it- petra something. A few distant rumbles, now it's cleared & the sun is back but it's damp now- smells and feels like a horticultural greenhouse.

Quite a lot over 40c now at 4pm. All v close though 40.3c the high

Petrichor!

Met Office tweet: 29 stations have beaten the old record!

https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1549421924052246534

Looks like 5 have beaten 40C too: Northolt, Heathrow, Kew Gardens, St James's Park, and Coningsby. No mention of Waddington there.