Pretty sure the record is 3 days which has happened three times.

June 25/26/27 1976 had 35.4, 35.5, 35.6.

August 2/3/4 1990 had 36.6, 37.1, 36.1 - surely the hottest three day period ever?

August 10/11/12 2020 had 35.5, 35.7, 35.4 (and had six consecutive days over 34C, from the 7th to the 12th).

BTW Southampton Oceanographic Centre had a high of 37.1 today (but not official).

The Met Office have 33°C for tomorrow, whilst the BBC have 31°C. Given the way this heat wave has evolved for my location, I have a feeling these will be slightly overdone as well. Maybe 29/30°C will be tomorrow's high..?

Thanks for this, still an outside chance then as Saturday looking hot still for some. Surprised August 2003 didn't have 3 consecutive days, that was a hot period, I remember working outside in that and getting heatstroke one day, never felt so low on energy than that afternoon.

2003 had August 6th, 9th and 10th very hot but the 7th and 8th were cooler. 

I haven’t seen any other mention of the amazing 37.1 at Southampton Oceanographic today, which matches the 1990 record. Unofficial of course. 

Until now perhaps. The next 2 days may well bring us maximums to surpass this.

ARPEGE and Arome 18Z have knocked the temperatures right back. I think it’s linked to thunderstorms coming up from France tomorrow. Arome in particular has a lot of rain and kills the temperatures. 

Maybe, but people have said today wouldn’t break the record and that the red warnings were unjustified in recent days, so I guess we’ll see

One things for certain - it’ll be another stifling day 

Very, very unusual for beach towns. 

Working fine here?

I was abroad in Kenya on safari during this period. I remember reading about it in the newspaper and on CNN in the hotel room when we returned to Nairobi.  

It turned out to be an interesting month. Saddam Hussain invaded Kuwait as well

Humidity is stinky to.

I am in Braunton, N.Devon. It is 03:30am outside. Still 26.2c outside . Crazy! Never remember a night time minimum so hot ever!? What is strange is how London is actually much cooler at 20c. 

Tomorrow still looks hellishly hot down here, with a "tropical night" leading into it too. I'd not be surprised to see a small red warning issued later this morning for East Anglia and Kent. 

https://ukwct.org.uk/weather/obs2.jpg 

I don't understand why they can't just run a query which says "Find the max temp for (day) in (region)" and use that as the value instead...

Edit: Just seen it was 22.7C in Ventnoor in 1976. Surely that’s Gone.

It's 19.4, dew 18.2, having risen slowly from the overnight low of 19.1 - the warmest night of the current spell here. 

Less good news for record hunters though as the models seem to have firmed up on a potential thunderstorm limiting the highs today and especially tomorrow. Looking like we might scrape a few tenths higher than yesterday but the 38s look very unlikely.