32C 

Sunny 

Dp. 16C

The office far too warm, so that's it for today. Near enough 5pm which is good enough.

Noticed towards the northeast some rather bulky looking clouds forming. 

29.3c max. 29.7c

1014.8mb falling

According to Weatherobs Southampton made 32.1ºC (actually 32.05º) on an hourly reading at 4pm but I am not sure how the Met Office rounding works...

UKV 3Z has a 32C tomorrow in Dorset. Today it maxed at 31C (at least on the whole UK charts) so we might squeeze a higher temp tomorrow depending on convective developments.

Partly cloudy with the odd puff of wind from the SE. The air outside reeks - it'll be the humidity and the warmth amplifying smells.

19.2, dew 17.3, with the overnight low so far being a very warm 19.1.

Yesterday's high was 25.4.

Last night I came back from the lake and it was still 26.3C at 10pm. So I sat in the garden with a drink and enjoyed the ambience of a tropical sort of night without the mossies. The bunched solar garden lights I've placed in large glass biscuit jars look great. I also lit the hurricane lamps to increase the ambience further. A good night for a garden party if ever there was one. The N. alata heavenly in their fragrance too.

Some thundery material now showing up on the radar. Will it or won't it result in a sound show in daylight?

Otherwise calm and mainly sunny.

Maybe a light show tonight?

Scotland's minimum's were between 2 C and 8 C last night. I recorded 5 C and several locations had ground frost 🥶

Such an amazing range for a small country. Although it's feeling very autumnal it's a completely blue sky and the forecast last night mentioned the warm air wafting north for a couple of days before it all gets swept away east!

Borders & Highlands 7 C

Isle of Wight 23 C

With only one more overnight period officially left for this month, Edinburgh Gogarbank has just had what is likely to be its coldest night of this month with an overnight minimum temperature of just 5.2°C.

No ground frost though and getting a ground frost in what should be our warmest month of the year would just be ridiculous in any case, especially given that we often struggle to get any frosts even in the middle of winter.

Down here in Hawick though, the temperature is forecast to reach around 23°C during today and today has started off with unbroken sunshine here which is something which hasn't been seen in these parts at any time during this summer up until now.

Currently a rather cool 11°C here in Hawick, so we have a long way to go to get anywhere near today's forecast maximums although the temperature can shoot up by quite a lot in a very short space of time in that very strong sunshine.

Certainly a big range in the overnight minima, from 17C + on the south coast (and 18.9C in Jersey!) to just 1.7C at Tulloch Bridge - a ground frost for sure I would have thought.

https://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynres?lang=en&state=United+K&osum=no&fmt=html&ord=REV&ano=2024&mes=07&day=31&hora=06&ndays=1&Send=send 

Edit: in fact many of those lows were actually from yesterday morning. The actual 6pm-6am minimum at Portland was 19.9C according to the Met Office.

https://x.com/metoffice/status/1818528073630777542 

Felt really oppressive in the sunshine.

Currently 29.5C with some thin high clouds and an intermittent breeze 

The sky is strange today, very hazy with a coppery look to the sun, pollutants?