Teddington and Heathrow have both recorded over 32C so that is 22 days. The previous record was 19 days in 1995. 1976 managed 16, but 15 of those were consecutive! The most we have had consecutively this year is seven.

Cheers Rob. 🙂🙂🙂🙂. Thanks for those stats I wondered where we were so to speak wrt to this. 🙂🙂

Arpege only goes for 35C max though, quite a big difference at this stage.

GFS as I have just seen a few minutes ago is lining up heatwave No7. I know No5 wasn't much, but it still delivered 30s and over which to me still counts. No7 looks like the 18th to the 21st or 22nd. 🙂🙂🙂🙂

Some posters walked away because they not happy with the temperature only low 30's but for me any 30C plus I am very happy because this is UK not Med country.  Highlight of this summer is the posters how they walked away which I never seen this before, you expect frenzy of posts for temps 30C and over.

Anyone got the stats for 25C days? That’s really the baseline, where the action is. The red circles on the old BBC charts. My hunch is that recent years have been trouncing the old records for number of what I think the European mets officially call “summer day” temperatures.  

Not sure of other years but this year so far has 55 of a possible 70 days exceeding 25C (1st June, and every single day from 16th June onwards apart from June 29th). 54 of the last 55 days have had a UK max over 25C!

I have a spreadsheet with all the daily maxes for this year so it's a simple task to pull out the stats. For 2026 as a whole we have had 68 days over 25C. I haven't run the numbers for other years though, apart from 1976 which had 76 in the whole year.

Looks like today hit 33.1ºC at Teddington, which is also incidentally the 14th day to reach 33C this year.

2022 managed 51.

2018 managed 48.

Oft revered 1995 did well with 42 and 1983 had 30.

2025- the current hottest summer, not bad at 38. 2013 did well to get 33 as it was all wrapped up in July. 1911 managed 31.

1976 failed to get 30 and 2006 managed just 23. 2003's total is lower still.

With certainly at least 5 more to come, this is yet another record for this astonishing summer as far as I can tell.

Copied from another thread.

In the last 54 consecutive days I've had 50 above 25C. Then jump back to May and there were a further 9. That's for my location in S.Essex.

They should have just turned the place into the second runway!  I remember as a kid the campaigns to stop it from NIMBYS 

Looks like the 35 days of 30C is official - reported on Sky yesterday: https://news.sky.com/story/uk-record-for-number-of-days-above-30c-broken-as-new-heatwave-approaches-13571390

The BBC forecast is similar as they are going for 25°C on Wednesday, 26°C on Thursday and 23°C on Friday.

CET DAYS OVER 20c

The number of times in a year the CET was 20c or over. Original TAW research . 

Heres the results.

1 – 1995, - 26 times

2 – 2026 , - 21 times (up to August 8th, this will rise this week)

3 – 1976, - 19

4 – 2006, - 18

5 – 2025, 2022, 2018, - 17

6 – 1997, - 14

7 – 2003, 1983, 1947, - 13

8 – 2023, 1911, 1826, - 12

9 – 2020, 1933, - 11

10 – 2001, - 10

11 – 2019, 1990, 1975, 1955, 1921, 1893, 1878, 1793, - 9

12 – 2021, 1911, 1808, - 8

2026 will claim this record too, and note how in the last 8 years, only 2024 didn’t make the cut.

I think the (late) red warning last time (end of June) was not only the 39°C possibility but the hideous humidity with wbts at some point forecast as high as 30°C.

Thursday's peak heat (currently modelled as 37 over a swathe of SE to Central England (GFS Op, 6z)) comes with mid twenties WBTs and the dewpoints of around just 4°C, equating to about 13% RH.

That said, they didn't upgrade the warning till close to the record day, and an amber had been in place for the previous period. 

July and August 1983 were virtually continually over 25 c in the south.No extreme maxes but a long run of hot.

Indeed, I think it was the dangerous high humidity that was the main reason for the warning. Not being able to sweat and cool off that way can be a killer if you are unaware of the risk.