Not been so bad as expected today. Reached 31.2C under clear blue skies but my closed door and window regime stood up well and it was kept down to 26.8C indoors. For once the proximity of the N.Sea worked in my favour and a pleasantly cool breeze sprung up late afternoon making it safe to venture into the garden thereafter. Already down to 21C by 9.30pm.

I think that was the eighth 30C day this year, and today is the ninth: 31.4C at Astwood Bank the highest so far.

Yes and it's already 9 as many place above 30c today.

31.4c in Astwood Bank highest so far

34c looks likely today 

I had just edited before your reply. Tomorrow looks a cert for 10, as well. Beyond that, who knows... Sunday should hit 30/31 in the west according to UKV, and Monday might scrape it in East Anglia.

Yes I think we should get 11 by Sunday.  Monday looks 50/50 atm.

Astwood Bank 33.7c at 4pm

Closely followed by the two Pershore stations. Giving the CET a boost today!

https://i.imgur.com/iTdC8tk.jpeg 

Looks like Astwood Bank peaked  at 34.4c 

Widespread 90f 

I’m seeing 34.7C reported which is a date record, surpassing 34.4 in 1921. I went to check the previous record and TORRO have already updated their page! 

https://www.torro.org.uk/extremes/date-records/max-temp 

I thought yesterday 33.4C was going to be the peak but today it reached 34.6 at 17:05. Must be some extreme thermals around as it's been raining clumps of hay all afternoon.

High of 32.6C here. Our third day above 30C this year, and also our 16th day above 25C.

A fantastic day up this end. A high of 28.3°C under virtually cloudless skies for the entire day. I love days like this.

According to the latest Met Office forecasts, Sunday's predicted maximum even down in Hawick in the Scottish Borders (one area which had until now, been tipped to get a possible 30+°C maximum at around that time) has now been downgraded to around 24°C and this would result in there being no heatwave even there, despite the fact that tomorrow's predicted maximum for there is currently around 28°C.

I was watching this afternoon's live stream from the Met Office on YouTube and it would appear from this that the issue regarding Sunday appears to be with a low pressure system approaching from the east rather than (or possibly in addition to) any actual easterly flow. If that is the case, this could result in it cooling down slightly a bit more generally, and not just here on the east coast although it would still be the east coast which bore the biggest brunt of that.

Beyond that, the Met Office forecasts appear to be going for another warm-up towards the end of next week, though not to the threshold of a heatwave just yet.

Valley on Anglesey an unusual 9am hotspot this morning, 26.7C at 9am!

Thankfully none of the 34C+ forecast for here a few days ago although I'd already said I didn't think that would happen. So peaked at 31.2C on Thursday and yesterday was a bearable 29.3C (!). Doubt I will get past 30C again in this heatwave which makes a change as I am usually in the hotspot but the N.Sea has come to the rescue..

Could be a day for the Welsh. 

Porthmadog 28.9c already 

The BBC 5-day Weather forecast for London looks dubious at best. It's got 26c and rain for Wednesday and 28c with rain for Thursday. 

The Met Office App has 35c for Usk today.

It took top spot in Wales yesterday so will be interesting to see if it does again.

I'd like to see an all time Wales top ten temperature day. 33.1c is the figure to get to for 10th spot - we were 0.4c shy of it yesterday. 

Do you have a list of the top 10? Would be interesting to see when they were. 

Here's the Welsh top ten - surprisingly low and makes you realise how extreme 2022 was as an event.

I was sure Valley got to 33.5C in August 2003 and Porthmadog got several 33s in 2018 so surprised they’re not on the list. 

It's a list I screen grabbed from a bbc news article a while back so whilst I've no reason to doubt their accuracy it may be incorrect. The BBC cite the Met Office as the source of the data in their graphic.