One up for Elizabeth Rizzini who picked out Ross-on-Wye as today' most likely hotspot on BBC at breakfast time this morning

Did she look at the UKV chart by any chance 😉 

At least she took the trouble to look and mention it

GFS has a 30C in Devon but UKV and Arpege aren't interested. I think that's our lot for this spell.

The 19th 30c+ day of a remarkable year so far, the previous most I've recorded here was 11 in a year. Still at just over 30.1c as the average daily max for July, not including today's higher value.

Yes and there some cool nights to come then warm up so time to look for heatwave 4 and hope this time give other areas some 30's too, like to see those further north who did not get a heatwave this year.   Last rain here was 22nd June when the storms came up and hit London hard while here was slight dampness.  So by 22nd July would be already 30 days but my longest dry streak was in 2018 at 60 days so a tall order if we can get this year to over take?  Mile End in London did 74 days which is very tall order to beat it.  This would take us to September to see first rain to arrive.

If it was a round 31.0 then that’s 43.5 points for the event, and probably our lot. 

as a reminder, second and third in recent history were August 2003 with 48.4 (in 10 days) and July 2006 with 47.3 (in 14). 

Sp fourth place in my lifetime. That’s on its own without considering the May and June events. 

At the end of summer (30 Sept unless there’s an October heatwave expected) I’ll calculate the seasonal score, which I think will blow other years out of the water. 

I saw a graph from Twitter that had every year since 1945. https://x.com/SnowbieWx/status/2077335147448283555?s=20

1980: 0

1981: 0

1982: 4

1983: 14

1984: 8

1985: 1

1986: 5

1987: 2

1988: 1

1989: 11

Total: 46. 

The 1960s only managed 25 in the entire decade - so we've already had more this year than in the whole of the 1960s! The 1970s had 60. The 2020s have already had 105, as of today, which beats the previous decade record holder, the 1990s (with 104), and we're only two thirds of the way through the decade.

Thanks. My guess is we won't go past 46 this year, but it's not out of the question given that heat can readily extend through September these days.

Try doing this with gardens as full of plants as ours. Takes me 2-3 hours every evening.

Fortunately we missed a single drop of rainfall here and it slipped south of here. Fingers crossed that the verges take an even more bleached than they are approach.  Amazing summer weather. 

Will be touring around the country side tomorrow to see the beautiful parched landscape. I remember seeing those parched landscape on the 1995 Last of the Summer Wine that programs shown stunning parched Yorkshire landscape. I kept focusing the landscape than the men acting.  

'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder' ... myself I prefer living to dying plants

Wasnt the 80s a cool decade overall, like the 60s. Ir maybe that's just my imagination!

Scroll down for concise summary of 30C + records and map

You are thinking of Fashion.😄

A lot of trees round here are starting to drop their leaves. The young trees which managed to survive after being planted on a new "country park" near a housing development in summer 2022 (!) look to have been just about finished off now. Many of them are now totally brown and dead looking.

BTW looks like 31.3C was the final max yesterday at Ross-on-Wye.

Tree planting programmes are a waste of money unless you can guarantee rain or organise a rota of people with watering cans.