Almost unnoticed today is yet another day with maxima at 28C in a few places in East Anglia. Could we possibly squeeze a 29C somewhere like Lakenheath?

 

Trust me, it was noticed by me - not the day to be lugging dozens of printers around a school! 🥵🥵

27C at work in Sittingbourne this afternoon and it certainly felt it. It was in the mid 30s in the upstairs classrooms in our 60s blocks, just as well school's still out for summer.

Interesting graphic

The graphic is interesting, but not that accurate - it has all of Sheppey in the 35-37.4C bracket, for example, but it reached 39C widely. My own station (VP2 with FARS) reached 39, but it was above 38C for a couple of hours.

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/ILEYSDOW1/graph/2022-07-19/2022-07-19/daily

(The sea breeze kicked in big time in the afternoon, see if you can spot it! )

Sarah K-L just announced on BBC that MetO have confirmed that Shirburn model farm in Oxfordshire had an overnight min on 19th of July of 26.8°C, by far the record for the UKs hottest night ever.

 

Trust me, it was noticed by me - not the day to be lugging dozens of printers around a school! 🥵🥵

27C at work in Sittingbourne this afternoon and it certainly felt it. It was in the mid 30s in the upstairs classrooms in our 60s blocks, just as well school's still out for summer.

 

The graphic is interesting, but not that accurate - it has all of Sheppey in the 35-37.4C bracket, for example, but it reached 39C widely. My own station (VP2 with FARS) reached 39, but it was above 38C for a couple of hours.

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/ILEYSDOW1/graph/2022-07-19/2022-07-19/daily

(The sea breeze kicked in big time in the afternoon, see if you can spot it! )

 

 

 

Also, what an interesting period between about 8 and 8.30pm when the temperature seemed to rise from c26C to 30C.

Sarah K-L just announced on BBC that MetO have confirmed that Shirburn model farm in Oxfordshire had an overnight min on 19th of July of 26.8°C, by far the record for the UKs hottest night ever.

Appropriate then that last night’s warmest minimum was not far away at Oxford airport, with 21C. Several tropical nights around the country last night including CET station Pershore.

Sarah K-L just announced on BBC that MetO have confirmed that Shirburn model farm in Oxfordshire had an overnight min on 19th of July of 26.8°C, by far the record for the UKs hottest night ever.

I saw that on Twitter. It doesn’t surprise me - at the time I was surprised that the overnight minima reported at the time were quite a bit lower than modelled so I thought somewhere might have beaten the reported figures. 

Re that graphic of max temperatures, I wonder how they produced that given the sparse coverage of official stations?

Which begs the obvious question of whether the Coningsby record will be surpassed. I do have a vague recollection that the Brogdale record was only confirmed a month or so after the event.

I did have a look at the manual stations which report monthly via the WOW website at the end of August and nowhere seemed close to the Coningsby record, so I very much doubt it. (Brogdale maxed out at 39.0C, FWIW.)

A consistently warm August. Here, only 2 days have failed to reach 20c (long term average roughly 19.5c here) and it looks likely 20c will continue to be breached.

5 days of 30c plus is also special for here.

Minimum of exactly 19.0C here last night. Second warmest night of the year, behind July 18th by 0.1C. 

 

Appropriate then that last night’s warmest minimum was not far away at Oxford airport, with 21C. Several tropical nights around the country last night including CET station Pershore.

Looking at the minimums on Meteociel, Pershore recorded 19.6C overnight, so not quite a tropical night. London Heathrow (20C) and London St. James Park (20.1C) did though.

Looks like we have a (rounded) 30C in Norwich. Another to add to the list of 30+ days, or just short? Guess we'll see later.

Also, what an interesting period between about 8 and 8.30pm when the temperature seemed to rise from c26C to 30C.

It shows the airmass changes well on that day. Hot continental to start with, dewpoints relatively low (below 15C). The temperature rises in a near perfect curve.

Then, for whatever reason, a sea breeze picks up, bringing a lower layer change to the air. The dewpoint shoots up, the air temperature falls and the wind becomes more uniform in direction.

The sea breeze then dies as a front approaches from the west into the evening, with the wind veering SW'ly. This destroys the low-layer cooler/humid conditions and returns us to hot continental.

That then cools into the night.

It was a remarkable afternoon. I spent it in Sittingbourne, at work, a few miles away.

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/ISITTI33/graph/2022-07-19/2022-07-19/daily

The cooler sea air didn't make it that far inland until the evening - and it was a scorching afternoon as a result. You can see the same dewpoint rise / temperature fall as I had at home, just more muted. It even has the small rise as the layer was destroyed.

The sea breeze at home saved my server in the back bedroom from overheating - it "only" reached about 38C indoors, whereas without the cooler air and the wind it would have gone well into the 40s.

At work - I went to the airconditioned luxury of the Holiday Inn down the road. It meant it cost me to go to work that day, but that hotel was worth every penny. It was 19C in my room there, whereas at home it would have been too warm to even use the portable a/c - they conk out at 35C!

A consistently warm August. Here, only 2 days have failed to reach 20c (long term average roughly 19.5c here) and it looks likely 20c will continue to be breached.

5 days of 30c plus is also special for here.

The coldest day of the month here so far was 22.6C - 17 days have hit 25C and two have hit 30C (including today). At least the sea has kept things a bit cooler here at the top end, but the payoff is the very warm nights... 17 or more as a (very brief) low hasn't been uncommon.

The last time it failed to reach 20C was the 30th June (19.9C) and the last colder than average day was the 19th June (by a fraction of a degree). The last time it was one degree or more colder than average was the 5th June - nearly three months ago!

Looks like nowhere quite made it to 30C today - three stations maxed at 29.5C.

Herne Bay reached 29.9C. So near and yet so far...

And this probably brings to a close the heatwave thread of 2022. Nothing worthy of being called heatwave in the foreseeable future although some very pleasant temperatures to come.

Farewell summer heat. Until 2023.  

It got off to a bit of a slow start in June, but in the end it has been a great summer, even up here in the North West. Even though the heat has been more episodic around here, the cooler and cloudier spells have still been very useable, rather than tedious washout days where you can't do anything outside, which is a massive plus. There's only been a handful of such days since mid-June.

It's also nice to see August actually be a proper summer month for once. It has been a massive let down over the last 20 years, and the only times it has been the best month of the summer was when the rest of the summer was mediocre. For it to continue, or even improve, the great weather before it was well-needed.

The only thing it has really lacked is a good thundery spell, but hopefully (looking at the models) the beginning of autumn might provide that fix!

And this probably brings to a close the heatwave thread of 2022. Nothing worthy of being called heatwave in the foreseeable future although some very pleasant temperatures to come.

Farewell summer heat. Until 2023.  

Good riddence i say. For me this summer has been unbearable most of the time and perso bothnally i define summer 2022 as utter crap!

June was ok,a pleasant month but July and August

Whats happened to the cool summers, sub 15c we used to get 2 or 3 of each decade.

 

The coldest day of the month here so far was 22.6C - 17 days have hit 25C and two have hit 30C (including today). At least the sea has kept things a bit cooler here at the top end, but the payoff is the very warm nights... 17 or more as a (very brief) low hasn't been uncommon.

The last time it failed to reach 20C was the 30th June (19.9C) and the last colder than average day was the 19th June (by a fraction of a degree). The last time it was one degree or more colder than average was the 5th June - nearly three months ago!

 

 

That really is staggering. 

Maybe 7-8  below average days here in July , less in August:  5/8/2022, 29/08/2022 and yesterday was probably about average for end of August.(18.5).   July average max 22.3 and August 23.3c so as good a July/August as you can get here really. 

Quite easy to get cooler days here, either from easterly muck (not really this year) or from cool N-Westerlies.    Even in the best of Summers. 

People across the country including here say 1976 was 3 months of hot weather which definitely won't have been the case here.

Just a quick scan and there are plenty of cooler days certainly here: 

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Putting this excellent thread in the classics section tomorrow.