Yes northern Europe has missed out really. Scandinavia and the Baltics have had similar issues. 

What happens after that is a bit of a head scratcher. All the models, pretty much, are showing a cool down and troughs riding across the country in the third week of August. Yet the long term outlooks from the Met Office and ECM, as well as the global scale patterns (MJO phase, AAM etc) would seem to favour high pressure.

HP to the west, still close by but latitudinally elongated, could still allow fronts/troughs and would permit a cooler set up to develop, especially if features repeatedly nudge the HP cell west, before it slips back again. I suppose that's the trouble with LT signals- they can be kind of right, but don't pretend to define the subtleties of meso scale geography.

Certainly interesting what lies ahead. For once something other than blue sky, blazing sun and parched earth appeals to me.

These look to be from around August 8th to 10th; August 12th to 14th. 

Met office mentioned this morning we had matched 1995s number of 30°C + days. Looks like we will exceed that figure. 

https://www.threads.com/@privateeyenews/post/DbpjsTnHHGk/media 

I believe that's only the front cover Roger? Even so, the points they've made in their own magical way are right there. 

I'm both tired and alarmed by this weather. I can just about cope with carting the largest watering can we could buy up and down the garden every evening (although a recent bout of radial nerve palsy made this a challenge!) We 'grow our own' and as you can imagine peppers, chillis, oranges are thriving but others are struggling even with the watering.

But nobody is watering on the wild side. The press has been on the big fires (including Headon Warren on the IOW, one of my favourite spotting grounds) but the less obvious environmerntal impacts won't reveal themselves for some time. I hope the forecasted heatwaves are last breaths, even though I do enjoy weather records. A good late August soaking would certainly send the mycelia into overdrive!

We did have an early cap of Boletus luridus in the garden back in June, but only one before the drought put a stop to all that!

https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/suillellus-luridus.php 

And salted earth in parts of England too. It must have been panic time for the NT and RSPB to even consider using seawater.

Meanwhile, the hedgehog (this year's hoglet) in my garden is getting through its cat food and water I place in little glass bowls I wash out each day.  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gjp2j4zz8o 

Spot on. Same with the portable aircon units

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. 

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. 

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. 

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? 

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

Or King Alfred daffs in the middle of nowhere.

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

"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 

Brief relief ahead of fifth heatwave - as more areas could move into drought

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cvgx1k415v2o 

It's the sixth heatwave, someone ought to tell the BBC!

Car washes and swimming pools could face water bans as UK set for sixth heatwave

"According to the Met Office, there have already been three widespread heatwaves in the UK so far this year, in addition to two smaller and more localised ones in July."

https://inews.co.uk/news/car-washes-leisure-centres-water-bans-sixth-heatwave-4694192 

And Hadley shows five heatwaves too...

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/graphs/2026/daily_meantemp_cet_2026.png 

Serious question. for you, Darren.  Why are those who understand things like science and statistics unable to educate and inform the media, and the public generally? "Those who know" are failing to communicate their knowledge. Instead the world turns to superficial journalism and "influencers" as the source of "truth". Is it our fault?