It's all relative, but to me this is pushing to extreme heat for the UK.

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

Yes spoke to soon, goes very hot at the end. A classic summer run.

Originally Posted by: Ally Pally Snowman 

I’d always opt for an early cool down followed by a reload over an extended hot spell then a long cool breakdown. So I’m liking these reloads.

Originally Posted by: TimS 

Puts on working men's flat cap: So do the members of this website [pauses] The Weather Outlook Forum Affiliated [pause] think we could be heading for another heatwave?

Originally Posted by: briggsy6 

6Z GEFS have flipped back to a hotter picture after a cool”er” set on the 0Z.

Some runs eg P29 just keep the heat going and going with no reload needed  

Originally Posted by: Rob K 

We’re all waiting for the globally warmed June/July 1976. Not yet had it despite several very hot periods in recent years. P29 is that. 

Originally Posted by: TimS 

I looked again, and it was actually 15 consecutive days of over 32C in the UK, and 5 days that summer exceeded 35C.

To have a contemporary equivalent of 1976, we'd need all three summer months to be predominantly hot, dry and sunny. Frankly, a 21st century version would cause massive disruption as well as deaths.

Originally Posted by: Nick Gilly 

I looked again, and it was actually 15 consecutive days of over 32C in the UK, and 5 days that summer exceeded 35C.

To have a contemporary equivalent of 1976, we'd need all three summer months to be predominantly hot, dry and sunny. Frankly, a 21st century version would cause massive disruption as well as deaths.

Originally Posted by: Nick Gilly 

Incredible,  really was a freak summer back then.  

Originally Posted by: Ally Pally Snowman 

Yet here in Kent we've had a warmer June and Faversham's already recorded a high some 3.8C higher than it did in all of 1976. It was more exceptional elsewhere, and I've no interest in a repeat.

Though today's been humid (16.5 dewpoint atm), it's only been slightly warmer than average - 22.6, the coldest day in weeks. It has, at least, allowed the house to cool down at long last!

I'm fervently hoping this morning's 0z GFS/MetO combo called it for next weekend, but I'm resigned to seeing yet more heat, partly as it's so frequently shown in the models, partly because it's sod's law (as I hate the heat), and partly because the models usually overdo the extent of troughs several days out, nudging things north and warming them slightly. If only the models were as generous with the -15 (or even -10) 850 isotherm as they have been with the +20 one this year!

Originally Posted by: Retron 

Yet here in Kent we've had a warmer June and Faversham's already recorded a high some 3.8C higher than it did in all of 1976. It was more exceptional elsewhere, and I've no interest in a repeat.

Though today's been humid (16.5 dewpoint atm), it's only been slightly warmer than average - 22.6, the coldest day in weeks. It has, at least, allowed the house to cool down at long last!

I'm fervently hoping this morning's 0z GFS/MetO combo called it for next weekend, but I'm resigned to seeing yet more heat, partly as it's so frequently shown in the models, partly because it's sod's law (as I hate the heat), and partly because the models usually overdo the extent of troughs several days out, nudging things north and warming them slightly. If only the models were as generous with the -15 (or even -10) 850 isotherm as they have been with the +20 one this year!

Originally Posted by: Retron 

Incredible,  really was a freak summer back then.  

Originally Posted by: Ally Pally Snowman 

What was the highest temperature recorded during the summer of 1995, out of interest?

I'm fairly sure they must have been quite a few days that summer where parts of England saw temps a few degrees into the 30s because there were a lot of days when the high 20s were reached quite widely across Scotland, both in late June and again in late July and into that August,.

Originally Posted by: David M Porter 

35.2C Boxworth, Cambridgeshire, 1st August.

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze