I wouldn't go quite that far, but it's good.

We're in Crete next week, so miss some rubbish weather here. But we're in Devon end of July/early Aug and really want the weather to play ball for that.

It looks a lot cooler and more average for the next 10 days though, only building the heat again in the longer range.

As ever, it's where that line is drawn - as it can cover a multitude of sins!

I've seen it drawn from Humber to Bristol Channel and from Forth to Solway.... and all points in between.

Wednesday the 9th seems to be the date the next heatwave might start. Will it be the Big One? 

When you say 'the Big One', are you referring to extreme temps? Or to a prolonged spell of dry and warmth?

It'd be good if Brian allowed polls on the forum. I'd be interested in whether people would prefer the school summer holiday period - the 'traditional' summer - to be, say:

1) a week with temps into the mid-30's and perhaps 40c but otherwise average and unsettled

2) 7 weeks of dry, sunny, warm (temps mid-high 20's) with the odd TS

The Big One for me would be 2 weeks of high 30s, basically 76 but now. 

I like heat but working in London isn't much fun when it's over 32ish. 

June here has been superb mid 20s to low 30s for 3 weeks. 

I'd pick option 2 though if I had to.

Be nice if the heat could extend well up into Scotland and we have the high pressure further North East.  

Had some lovely weather here and it has been warm, dry, but borderline at times with periods of cloud and wind around the top of the high. 

Anomoly not evenly distributed across the basin though, with the cooler waters to the north near balanced out by the warmer waters in the mid section that roughly aligns with the mean position of the Azores high. 

GFS 6Z not quite as hot as the 0Z but still very warm to hot. Another run at the top of the GEFS pack though.

I think this is a backlash from a few years ago when everybody was accusing the BBC of a S.E> bias which maybe there was some justification for. Certainly a few on here used to moan about it. Now they have gone all regional and as usual with this sort of thing they have overreacted and the S.E. is under represented to the extent that sometimes in the towns they put up in the outlook for the next couple of days sometimes the nearest one to London is a 100 miles away when all the regional capitals should be there. It is 18 million people who are affected after all!

Off to Crete next week too - Plakias

33.2C here now at 14.40. Generally peaks around 4pm in these conditions. Hottest day of the year so far.

If the latter means the warmest, and 2nd driest, June on record (going back to 2003 and 2007 respectively) then I can confidently say I've already had it  😉     

I'll be quite happy from now on if it rains every 3 days and the temp never rises above 24c again.     Ever.

If you want a repeat of June, go to the Mediterranean - that's what it's for 😛      

The ECM ensembles still show the next week to ten days in the S.E. not really rising above 25C before the hot stuff starts to reappear.

😅😅😅😅😅🤣

The extent of the heat over Europe at T288 on the GFS 12Z is just staggering. The 20C isotherm covers most of Europe, from the Atlantic to the Black Sea, as far north as northern Germany.

I never understand why people head west expecting drier weather . Far more likely to be dry in somewhere like Broadstairs than Bude for instance.🤔

Yes if you are a heat and dry weather lover you have been totally spoilt by June so lets have the cooler temps and rain and the Hotties will just have to lump it😁

Certainly getting downgraded on BBC forecasts.🙄

Yet another hot GFS run, ending in a run of six 30C+ days with no end in sight.

The control run is even hotter, culminating in a run of four 35C+ days and heat still building at the end of the run.

If any of these are near the mark then 2025 will be one for the record books.

And a 7th and probably 8-10th 30C on the cards looking at the 384 pattern. 

ECM looks a bit odd, and AIFS goes in a completely different (but not bad) direction. 

That's been the case so far Brian, the s.e has had force field around it with pathetic amounts. The grass is dead dust.

I think there’s likely some truth in that. I have seen more coverage on the BBC recently of the European (ie continental) heatwave than that down here. Both are unpleasant, and worthy of coverage, but it often seems that they don’t want to risk SE bias. 

Sorry to do this to you moomin!