I was actually looking at the UK summary maps each day on Roost Weather and it’s notable that the heat was by no means nationwide. Unfortunately I clicked through too many days and am now locked out of the site temporarily!

Was talking to my own mother yesterday and she said this spell was nothing compared to 1976 (she was in the UK at the time also). Which I think is fair enough in a sense, but I really doubt temps reached near 40c in '76 and I really doubt the humidty and dewpoints were nearly as godawful high as during this current spell. 

I don’t understand why people are so quick to engage with them. Perhaps my perspective is different from that of many others, because for me, it would be both a waste of time and have no value. My view is that the best approach is simply to present the evidence and data, and leave it at that.

I do take your comments on board Bert I don’t cover 76 in a protective shrine perhaps it was hard times.

Bit what made the  76 heatwave even more impactful imo  was that it coincided with a 16- month-long drought. Very little rain had fallen since May 1975 meaning water resources were already seriously depleted and the ground devoid of moisture even before the heat ramped up.

In fact summer 75 had seriously deleted cereal crops before the heat wave.

We were hungry potatoes were scarce my parents as were millions  forced to queue at standpipes in the street just for basic water supplies.

Not fun

As for idiots and fires yes they happen in every decade when the opportunities arise.

As you say if something happened like this with modern summers it doesn’t bare thinking about.

An even more incredible rise at Donna Nook, from 24.8 at 6pm (the highest of the day) to 33.4 at 7pm. I seem to remember something very similar happened at that station in the an earlier heatwave, maybe 2019?

In other news, it looks like there was no Herstmonceux radiosonde at midday today - the exact time most likely to set a record!

I assume as we have broken the May record that this thread will go into the Archives?

Yes, but perhaps give it a little longer before archiving. 

40.7 Reckange

Luxembourg all time record 

39.9 Kleine Brogel

HOTTEST JUNE DAY IN BELGIUM HISTORY

39.4 Ell

HOTTEST JUNE DAY IN NETHERLANDS

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2knzzwprgo 

Still quite remarkable in that it is still just a couple of miles from the N.Sea. Probably helped by the NW wind so a long hot land track.

A smashing little place that I know very well and have been there many times. On the Little Ouse and of course on the sandy soils of the Brecklands in a frost hollow. A bit different to June 1962 when it recorded a record low minimum for June of -5.6C. ............. and of course the winter of 1962-3 followed 6 months later! Kids of today won't be able to boast that they were around to witness these heat records as they will all be broken again in their lifetime unlike all the cold records of my youth which we are unlikely to see again barring catastrophic geological events.   

At least this time for once there were storms down here, but the legacy of it lives on... 32 upstairs and 27 downstairs as of 4AM this morning, on a par with that hot couple of days in July 22. I know people in newbuilds will have it even worse, our buildings are just not designed for these conditions.

Wales has had its 2nd, 4th and 10th all time hottest temperatures during this spell.

Can’t believe the models are spreading hinting at another heatwave. iPhone weather already picking this up. 

This has to be one of the most oppressive heatwaves for some time, and I'll be glad to see the back of it, to be honest.

The heat of 22 and 25 was drier with low humidity and very low dew points, making it more bearable both by day and by night.

This oppressive heat will prepare me for my trip to China in July, where it will be very humid/hot and wet/thundery.🌩️

This thread actually already covers that by means of the word “onwards” in its title.

However, it is now running to 56 pages and Brian would never usually allow a MO thread to run to more than around 50 pages before starting a new thread.

On that basis, I would be probably be a good idea to start a new thread for the next heatwave.

14 so far, 7 in May , 7 in June

28c, 30c, 29c, 30c, 31c, 34c, 36c, 33c, 33c, 35c

It looks like the next heatwave might start even earlier than I expected without even as much as any cooler and wetter start to July.

With the way that this is going, it's probably not going to be long now before we're constant stuck in heatwave conditions in every summer with cooler and fresher conditions in summer becoming something which just never happens anymore, let alone any actual wet and unsettled summer weather.

I wonder if July, then August and possible September to break all the records so that 5 months in the row to break records? Interesting if this happen.  Just a pity this month failed to reach 100F and I think we had a chance but the storms on Monday night had altered the high temperatures forecast but still a good heatwave.