Second year in a row where the highest temp of the year was recorded here in Galway locally. 25.2c today and 27.6c on Sept 8th last year. Humidity today and currently is horrendous.  Between 75% and 82% inside the house alone, causing wallpaper to sag. Roll on the storms of Autumn. 

Scotland had its own contrast, but E-W; Lossiemouth max 13.8C but Achnagart (on the mainland near Skye) 27.0C

I was caught in between those two extremes. A few hours of sun late morning into the afternoon pushed the temperature up to 23.3C. 

I tuned into a few minutes of the Scotland v Australia cricket match in Edinburgh on BBC Sport. Dull, misty and 14C. Those Aussies must have wondered what they were doing up there! 

Sometimes wonder what I'm doing up there too 😂

Meanwhile it's my 10th day in the Algarve, sunny throughout and 25 - 30 C. A wonderful climate down here if you like sunshine!

There no sun and some places in the south had just over 0hrs of sunshine so very dull start and here also very dull only 6hrs yesterday while around 1hr rest of the first opening days.  Can't wait for a northerly blast that will bring more sunnier weather, feel warmer factor and not under HP zone.  This HP is very bad one with man made front created over the south to ensure to spread clouds to rest of UK while rest of Europe around us sunny.   Had to postpone trip to Epsom today due to adverse wet and severe dull weather.  Next attempt to go there 5th October.

Yesterday  spent time making indoors warmer yesterday to store up warmth for next few days until the northerly arrive with full sun and warm up indoors again.  I hope this strong northerly is a final time to kill those phantom warm cloudy spells that ruined this year summer, good for Darren to get some cooler nights to sleep in and lower DP.

You're not the only one having to postpone things - I was meant to be going to the wolves today, but I'd had a week of crud sleep culminating in tossing and turning last night, and got some eyelashes in my dodgy eye, which was very painful! It's still sore now.

Words can't express how much I'm looking forward to getting rid of this putrid humid airmass. We've lost the heat down here but the very high dewpoints remain - 18.3, dew 17.0 as I'm writing this. GFS shows dewpoints of just 2 or 3 during the day midweek next week, and while I doubt it'll be that low, I'll happily take 10 or lower. It'll feel very, very different within just a few days!

Not sure how much DP here but perhaps a bit lower than you but so horrible air mass that been around here for months even today very cold humid and damp despite app fictional sunny spells and 22C.  19.5c in the conservatory mean outside 14-15C after 40.5 yesterday so will go back to low 30's once this welcome northerly arrives.  Should be ok next week to go to wolves.  

You seem to be the literal definition of a "melt" atm.  Hope you feel better soon! 

Yes it been a very poor summer including the SE all thanks to the nasty heat spikes, it might be fun to get high temps for a few hours and few hours of sun at any location but you need to be aware of severe penalties on before and the aftermath of this heat spikes.  It give you days and days or weeks of cloud, rain and dull weather and strong evidence it happening too many this year warm/hot spikes, yesterday warm spike I was not keen as I more worried about aftermath and that how happened now overcast, cool and damp and London to south coast had got severe penalty with rain and cold preventing me to go to Epsom today.

Seriously hope those heat spikes banned and not come back next year, just return to traditional UK heatwave 32-33C with lot of settled spells in between short unsettled spells that qualify for a good summer last recorded back in 2018 and part of August 2022 and Sept 2023.

......but I'm not there, I'm half way through my 3 week Algarve visit and it's day 11 of total blue skies and 25 - 30 C! So I'm gloating 😎

I think it might be considered bad form to gloat about the weather in foreign climes 🙂

I can be forgiven.....I lived through the famous East Scotland Spring and Summer of 24, I'm just having therapy to face the next 6 months 😁