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The Beast from the East
06 August 2026 01:18:04

I like the crisp clear frosty mornings, and returning home to a roaring fire. However, such weather has become rarer than rain in July!

Real fireplaces (not gas) are a rare thing nowadays.  We used to have one when I was a kid, and I loved it, but it was a hassle and mess so my dad got it blocked up.  And of course very dangerous. 

Purley, Surrey, 70m ASL

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The Beast from the East
06 August 2026 01:21:19

I just don't understand why all the summer stuff gets cleared in early August. It gets more and more difficult to get bbq charcoal after July. Surely if temperatures are still in the 20s or higher, keep selling it - even if it's in smaller volumes!?

Originally Posted by: GezM 

My Tesco removed all the disposable BBQs just before the world cup final on wildfire safety grounds.  Shame, as I really enjoyed using them to cook small amounts for one person.  Even the garden centres dont sell them.  I dont have a real BBQ and I'm not going to fork out for one.  Too much cleaning and mess anyway. the disposables were so easy and convenient. 

Purley, Surrey, 70m ASL

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Kelly-Ann Conway - former special adviser to the President

White Meadows
06 August 2026 04:44:27

My Tesco removed all the disposable BBQs just before the world cup final on wildfire safety grounds.  Shame, as I really enjoyed using them to cook small amounts for one person.  Even the garden centres dont sell them.  I dont have a real BBQ and I'm not going to fork out for one.  Too much cleaning and mess anyway. the disposables were so easy and convenient. 

Originally Posted by: The Beast from the East 

Very bad for the environment, mind. Where I live the local parks and beach greens have dozens of scorched patches every summer. Being too hot to dispose of quickly people either bury them under shingle still smouldering or simply leave them cooking the lawns. Crazy in dry conditions and way more dangerous than an open fire. At home there’s no excuse not to get a real bbq, they’re not all that expensive, costs saved over the long run and better for our planet. 

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Jiries
06 August 2026 05:10:36

Very bad for the environment, mind. Where I live the local parks and beach greens have dozens of scorched patches every summer. Being too hot to dispose of quickly people either bury them under shingle still smouldering or simply leave them cooking the lawns. Crazy in dry conditions and way more dangerous than an open fire. At home there’s no excuse not to get a real bbq, they’re not all that expensive, costs saved over the long run and better for our planet. 

Originally Posted by: White Meadows 

Don’t know why they create this disposable BBQ as we had none of those in the past and if other country don’t make them.  This should be ban for sale now.  I have one here a plain rectangle 1ft by 2ft with legs folded for storage and easy to clean.  Are we going to have heatwave 6 thread? 

Roger Parsons
06 August 2026 05:37:44
I can't say I've every enjoyed the poorly-cooked greasy food that passes as a UK barbecue. Still less the evening smoke and stink from local attempts. Go to any nature reserve and you are likely to see the scars of this rural ritual, not forgetting the heap of cans and other rubbish left in the car park. Don't get me on about dog mess.  What a horrible species we are. Whatever happened to "Take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints"?
RogerP

West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire

Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.

William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830

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Rob K
06 August 2026 07:53:43
Just as a footnote to this thread, it looks like we had an additional 32C day on July 16th with 32.1C at Marnhull. The highest auto figure that day was 30.6. 

I would put this in the mid July heatwave (no 3?) thread but that has been moved to classics. 

Yateley, NE Hampshire, 73m asl

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Rob K
06 August 2026 11:11:12
And one other pleasing manual station stat: I thought July 19th had just prevented every single day in July from reaching 80F somewhere in the UK, as the max reported on the day was 26.6C. However Westonzoyland in Somerset reached 26.7C which is 80.06F - so assuming that is accepted we did indeed hit 80 every day.
Yateley, NE Hampshire, 73m asl

"But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand." — Jerome K. Jerome

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NMA
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06 August 2026 11:36:41

I can't say I've every enjoyed the poorly-cooked greasy food that passes as a UK barbecue. Still less the evening smoke and stink from local attempts. Go to any nature reserve and you are likely to see the scars of this rural ritual, not forgetting the heap of cans and other rubbish left in the car park. Don't get me on about dog mess.  What a horrible species we are. Whatever happened to "Take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints"?

Originally Posted by: Roger Parsons 

Or King Alfred daffs in the middle of nowhere.

Vale of the Great Dairies

South Dorset

Elevation 60m 197ft

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Hungry Tiger
06 August 2026 13:00:59
I'm going to keep this thread running and add heatwave No 6 to the title as next week is going to deliver another run of 30s and higher. 🙂🙂🙂
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South Cambridgeshire. 93 metres or 302.25 feet ASL.



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Bertwhistle
06 August 2026 13:12:33

I'm going to keep this thread running and add heatwave No 6 to the title as next week is going to deliver another run of 30s and higher. 🙂🙂🙂

Originally Posted by: Hungry Tiger 

I think Darren has already started a heatwave 6 thread Gavin. It is clearly a separate event, with these few cooler days.

Bertie, Itchen Valley.

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Roger Parsons
07 August 2026 00:47:26
This BBC piece slots in here nicely.

"As the extremely dry spell continues across much of England and Wales, a small village in Surrey has notched up 50 consecutive days without rain this summer.

Wisley, most famous for being the site of the 240-acre garden owned by the Royal Horticultural Society, saw 36 continuous dry days back in the hot summer of 1976 - but has comfortably exceeded that number so far this year, with no rainfall since mid-June.

It comes after the driest July for England and Wales since Met Office records began 190 years ago, external."

Village sees 50 days without rain during summer heatwave

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c99872dyym1o 

RogerP

West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire

Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.

William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830

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