Chris Fawkes on the BBC website says the high minimum last night was 22.7 at Herstmonceux, so not quite as warm as Cardiff the previous night.

BTW we also missed out on a thickness record, by the looks of it, unless today's from Hertsmonceux beat it. GFS has 578 at midday with 579 in the afternoon (but readings are only taken at 11Z and 23Z).

It definitely can't! There's a breeze here too, but from the WSW, and it's a baking, drying breeze. 

It's just hit 35C here (21.7 dewpoint), only the 3rd time it's managed it in my life (Aug 03 and Jul 22 being the other two - and both of those were over mid-afternoon as a sea breeze kicked in. That's unlikely to happen today).

It feels pleasant here, way to the west of you after the mid-thirties of recent days. 

What's your record?

There's some cloud here at the moment and it's actually quite windy. I may need to put the parasol down. 

Upstairs indoors is 3deg warmer lol.

39.1 on the 19th July 2022. Same weather station as now, a Davis VP2 with fan system, and it was on a similarly breezy day.

You can see when the sea breeze kicked in (the temperature drops sharply, dewpoint rises) and when it was effectively turned off again in the evening!

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/ILEYSDOW1/graph/2022-07-19/2022-07-19/daily 

Wow , prob won't beat that then. 3rd highest still very significant. 

The temperature is still going up in this area although it took quite a hit from the cloud. We're only half a degree up since 11am.

See the graph here: https://pondtailweather.com/trends.htm

From Chris Fawkes on the BBC live page:

"The hottest place at midday is Cavendish in Suffolk at 35.8C

Some patches of cloud will probably cap the temperatures in southeast England at about 35C this afternoon.

The highest temperatures today look most likely in Norfolk or Suffolk this afternoon with temperatures perhaps going as high as 37C or even 38C.

Rhe chase is on then for beating the all-time June temperature record of 36.7C recorded yesterday at Merryfield, Somerset."

Maybe they base it on the amount of time above a certain temperature? E Anglia was relatively cooler yesterday and the heat looks like pushing through fairly quickly.

I'm sure that would be their reason, but with the likely hottest temperature of the whole spell in EA , they look a bit silly.

I've been wondering much the same given what the models were showing, 39C to 40C over us, for the past few days, for today

Yesterday, we stacked our fridge freezer with cold water and ice cubes and prepared to use our cars as very short term air-conditioned refuges. Being older with a heart condition tends to make one quite cautious. However, local roads were melting yesterday, including the A140, under much lower temperatures in strong sunlight. Driving out to get stuck in tar today seems a bit risky!

Indeed , it was a ridiculous decision not to include EA in the Red zone. 

Not the first time the Met Office have got it badly wrong. 

Cambridge showing 36 so good match. Mildenhall showing 36.3°C

Always a stall at this time, I wonder if there is a scientific reason for this. It usually lasts until 14:00 and then things creep up again.