. Didn’t cut the grass round it apparently. “ External factors in the surrounding ground upkeep” 

If they’d remembered to cut the bloody grass it might have reached 40.5C.

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Still a hot 30C here at 10pm.    Despite the radar showing rain here, it's completely dry at the moment.

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Looks like Waddington has been discounted by the met office.  Apparently the upkeep of the ground around the site to blame.

More info on their Twitter 

Imagine if it had been the only 40C report today. 

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Imagine if it had been the only 40C report today. 

Then I think they would have overlooked the grass. 

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Yep, raging fires in the news because of the dry conditions, lets send up some Chinese lanterns.

 

Tonight we've unbelievably had reports of 'Floating sky lanterns' (also referred to as Chinese Lanterns) in the Earls Barton area. These pose a HUGE fire risk all year round but tonight, it is quite frankly reckless and endangering life, wildlife, crops & property. PLEASE STOP! pic.twitter.com/PycedFTSJ9

— Northamptonshire Fire & Rescue (@northantsfire) July 19, 2022

It just won't cool down tonight. 27.8C outside at 22.40 hrs !!

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I have to say considering we got to 40.2C before 1pm, ending up with 40.3C was a bit of a surprise.

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Still a hot 30C here at 10pm.    Despite the radar showing rain here, it's completely dry at the moment.

Same here - bright echoes directly over on radar but clearly not making it till ground level.

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31c and nearly 11pm!!!

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I have to say considering we got to 40.2C before 1pm, ending up with 40.3C was a bit of a surprise.

I noticed many stations began levelling off at some point. I’d be looking at stations where it’s sunny with only a light breeze and the temperature would begin jumping up and down for no reason - say from 39.5C, down to 39.1C, then up to 39.4C, rinse and repeat for half an hour. 

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22.8C here so about 17C cooler than it was 7 hours ago.

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Yep, raging fires in the news because of the dry conditions, lets send up some Chinese lanterns.

 

Tonight we've unbelievably had reports of 'Floating sky lanterns' (also referred to as Chinese Lanterns) in the Earls Barton area. These pose a HUGE fire risk all year round but tonight, it is quite frankly reckless and endangering life, wildlife, crops & property. PLEASE STOP! pic.twitter.com/PycedFTSJ9

— Northamptonshire Fire & Rescue (@northantsfire) July 19, 2022

 

FFS!!

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I noticed many stations began levelling off at some point. I’d be looking at stations where it’s sunny with only a light breeze and the temperature would begin jumping up and down for no reason - say from 39.5C, down to 39.1C, then up to 39.4C, rinse and repeat for half an hour. 

As the Met explained in a tweet there’s only a certain amount of heat in the air even when fully mixed. 

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Just stepping back and reflecting for one moment.

40C is one of those things that you wonder might happen, but assume probably won’t. That it has happened now in 2022 is quite incredible.

I can’t think of any weather event or threshold in my adult life as important as this one: not the snow of 2010, or the record and 100F in 2003, or any storms, floods or droughts in the last 25 years, and we’ve had a fair few. This is so much further beyond the normal range than anything else I’ve experienced.

40C. 40C!

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Just stepping back and reflecting for one moment.

40C is one of those things that you wonder might happen, but assume probably won’t. That it has happened now in 2022 is quite incredible.

I can’t think of any weather event or threshold in my adult life as important as this one: not the snow of 2010, or the record and 100F in 2003, or any storms, floods or droughts in the last 25 years, and we’ve had a fair few. This is so much further beyond the normal range than anything else I’ve experienced.

40C. 40C!

Amen. 

Well, that was a cheeky storm. But only gave me 0.6 mm of rain in passing.

Temperatures has dropped down to a more humane 21.6 C, still swampy though as humidity has shot up to 85% but at least there is that brisk west breeze.

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It just won't cool down tonight. 27.8C outside at 22.40 hrs !!

Sounds horrific to be honest and you have my sympathies. 14c here with a nice NW breeze coming in the window but I still find it oppressive. I really hate summer, not so much for the bright sunshine and lush greenery everywhere, which I embrace, but for temps and humidity like this. Just not built for it and I don't think most pasty arsed, light eyed N Europeans are. 

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it's crazy the temp just rose about a degree in 20 min from 27.5c to 28.4 this day w3atherwise will take some beating 

27.6c here...at 23.51...crazy

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Just stepping back and reflecting for one moment.

40C is one of those things that you wonder might happen, but assume probably won’t. That it has happened now in 2022 is quite incredible.

I can’t think of any weather event or threshold in my adult life as important as this one: not the snow of 2010, or the record and 100F in 2003, or any storms, floods or droughts in the last 25 years, and we’ve had a fair few. This is so much further beyond the normal range than anything else I’ve experienced.

40C. 40C!

Not to mention 100F as far north as Yorkshire. The UK didn’t even reach 100F until 2003, and now half of England has passed that threshold, with many towns & cities smashing previous records by up to 5 degrees.

Yorkshire and London’s record high temperatures are now only 0.4C apart.  

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