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 

I saw they were forecasting to do that Sunday with 42c, they might still beat it again, was suprised to see it so early though.

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.

Well if they name damaging storms, which I've never really agreed with, what's the issue of naming hot (or frigid for that matter) high pressure with its damaging effects? 

40.3c will take some beating but the heat to our south this year is extraordinary. 

I think the August number is there for the taking. Can’t believe it’s 23 years old already.

Let's go with traditional mythology for names

Celtic mythology

Aed, Irish god whose name means "fire"

Brigit, Irish goddess of fire, poetry, arts, and crafts

Grannus, god of fire, health, water springs, and the sun

Nantosuelta, goddess of fire, nature, fertility, rivers and the earth

Next year we could go with Hindu deities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fire_deities 

It's a mainland European thing that we've picked up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_night 

My portable aircon really struggled last night, as an aside, so I think the time for split a/c is getting ever closer. Much though I don't want to do it, I think I'll start getting quotes over the winter (which is always a good time to buy a/c stuff!)

I'm not sure whether we've picked it up or it's picked us up. From the link:

This criterion [20C] used to be infrequently met, with the 30 years between 1961 and 1990 seeing 44 tropical nights, most of them associated with the hot summers of 1976 and 1983. From 1991 to 11 August 2020, 84 such nights were recorded, with 21 of them occurring since 2008. 

The hottest night on record was set in the early hours of 19 July 2022 at Shirburn Model Farm, Oxfordshire, not falling below 26.8 °C.

Spain has moved from recording 'noche tropica' to 'noche torrida' [25C] to 'noche infernal' [30C]