Very interesting! 

It now becomes the 5th hottest day ever and the 6th above 100f.

Also Wiggonholt and Cardiff Bute recent figures rejected for being dodgy. 

The RAF's aerobatics team were due to return to RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire last week following its tour of the US, but were grounded due to poor weather predicted for north-eastern regions of Canada.

In an update, the team said it now anticipated continuing its multi-leg journey back to the UK next week.

"Regrettably, this revised timeline means the Red Arrows will not be in a position to complete performances at Airbourne: Eastbourne International Airshow, the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo and Lyme Regis Lifeboat Week," a spokesperson said.

Red Arrows pull out of displays over poor weather

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx8jx8qkpxo 

Darren does not like the heat but he very smart and got the AC long time ago and able to live and sleep comfortable as I don't see him bother about this year hot weather due to having AC in his home.  So why doesn't the heat haters or summer hater follow Darren example get their AC units in their home?  I don't see any of them have one.  Brian have one in his bedroom i remember he mentioned it.   

Today will be very interesting day and last time to see those such high 30s temperatures for 2026.  

With regards to heat, I take the complete opposite view. I look for decent summers which are warmer than average, drier than average and sunnier than average. However, I don't like it being too hot.

In past years, there has been occasions in which there has been a lot of snow around to the extent that even those snow lovers who crave that all the time have then got fed up with that. In my view, this period which we are experiencing just now is just an extension of that but in terms of the heat and dry conditions, rather than snow. I personally, have got fed up with it being hot and dry for so much of the time, and would just like to see something cooler and wetter for a change. For that reason, I can perfectly understand why NW has its heat haters thread. I am also fed up with high temperature records being broken all the time (why can't we see some low temperature records for a change which would at least compensate for that), so I can understand why NW wouldn't see high temperature records as such a massive headline as a result (if they happen only rarely, that is big news but if they happen all the time, they are hardly big news any more as they have now just become part and parcel of what typically happens all the time).

For me, those are the actual reasons why I joined NW myself although I still don't post on there as often as I post on here. As consumers, we are perfectly free to either buy a product or not buy that produce regardless of how aggressively that product is advertised. In the same way, we are all free to either be a part of this forum or not be part of it as we so wish. The same is also true for other forums such as NW. This means that if we don't agree with how Brian runs this forum (thankfully, I don't fall into that camp myself) but see something on another forum which we would like to be part of but which Brian typically wouldn't allow on here, we are then perfectly free to jump ship and join that other forum instead.

That works the other way round as well of course because if we are a member of the NW forum already but don't agree with how that forum is run, we are then equally free to jump ship and join this forum if we see something on here which Brian encourages or allows us to discuss, but which are discouraged or not allowed on the NW forum. I would imagine as well, that there are plenty of members of this forum who fall into that camp, although there are probably also some members of the NW forum who fall into the category which I described in the last paragraph above.

It's all just a matter of personal opinions at the end of the day, and the fact that some people will always have completely different opinions from others.

I like to go there to read the models post as some are very informative but sadly I been reading lot of protesters which majority are heat haters, rain lovers or anti-summer and hatred/dismissing toward GFS models lately which got worst today readings.  It a shame really and admin or mods doesnt seem to take them down which they used to before in winter arch rivals between cold and mild lovers.  Those protesters are currently in M25 gantries today in full force now with their banners showing sun, HP, GFS, summer season being crossed out.  Never like this in 2018 dry summer before.

Lightweights! True cold weather fans (like me) would never moan about snow or it being too cold etc. 

Mind you, these days I'd be delighted just to see a covering of snow... it's coming up to 6 years since the last one here, the longest gap in my 46-year life.

Same here i never get tired of snow but always wanting more since i was a kid, always looking at the window for further snowflakes like that.   Last snow event in Jan when i got up to 10cm I still want more snow and hard to accept knowing is the last lot, Even during the Feb 2009 thames streamers which I got 28cm out of it I still want more deeper. 

Summary for period 01/06/2026 to 16/08/2026

Temperature (°C):

Mean (1 minute)  19.8

Mean (min+max)  20.1

Mean Minimum    13.0

Mean Maximum    27.1

Minimum          7.1 on 20/07/2026

Maximum          37.1 on 13/08/2026

Highest Minimum  19.9 on 26/06/2026

Lowest Maximum  15.0 on 06/06/2026

Rainfall (mm):

Total for period 51.2

Wettest day      15.0 on 02/06/2026

High rain rate  96.0 day 02/06/2026

Rain days        9

Dry days        68

Amazingly my overall means pretty much match yours - but the mean max and min are around 2C different. I guess it shows very well how being half a mile from the coast moderates things compared to being in the middle of southern England! Here are my stats for summer so far...

Summary for period 01/06/2026 to 17/08/2026

Temperature (°C):

Mean (1 minute)  19.9

Mean (min+max)  20.2

Mean Minimum    15.0

Mean Maximum    25.3

Minimum          7.3 on 10/06/2026

Maximum          35.8 on 26/06/2026

Highest Minimum  19.7 on 26/06/2026

Lowest Maximum  15.9 on 11/06/2026

Air frosts      0

Rainfall (mm):

Total for period 75.4

Wettest day      20.4 on 10/06/2026

High rain rate  103.8 day 23/06/2026

Rain days        15

Dry days        62

Pressure (mb):

Maximum          1030.92 on 03/07/2026

Minimum          997.40 on 04/06/2026

Yes that is pretty amazing the similarities. I'm surprised your highest min is lower than ours, I thought a tropical night would be common given the moderation you mention and your mean min being much higher than here.

The 19.9c we had was from memory 1.5c above the previous record, a 16 or 17 is very warm for here.

Someone has posted a chart of 25C+ days in London since the late 1950s. It encapsulates Southern English summer climate history better than anything else I’ve seen. 

https://x.com/thesnowdreamer/status/2089755332427862024?s=46 

(Can’t post the pic so you’ll need to click the link).

25C is the common European definition of “summer day”. I agree, although in the right conditions 23 or 24C can be pleasant. It’s the old BBC red symbol threshold. 

1. In the 1960s London was averaging only 11 of them a year. That’s scarcely imaginable. The 1990-2020 average is 30 days. This year we’ve already hit over 70.

2. It shows how climate change has progressed: the really warm outlier summers come rarely, and the trend is spiky although the peaks are getting higher. But at the other end of the spectrum the worst years are getting steadily and monotonically better. Virtually a straight line. A 1960s style summer now would be a huge statistical freak (and incidentally this also shows just what a statistical freak 1976 was, and 2007 too).

3. You can really pick out the “good” years. 1959, 1975 and 76, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1995 etc etc. 

4. But you can also see exactly where our “average” year now is: a summer as warm as 1949, 1990 or 1997 is now normal. A summer like 1994, 1999, 2005 or 2013 would now be below trend. Those are summers I remember fondly for warmth. We’re almost at the level of 1983 being average. Give it a decade. 

A bit of thunder and lightning wouldn't go amiss though.

After my mum passed away in March aged 84 following a long battle with Alzheimer's, I tried to make this Summer as my own with regular bike rides and sitting outside on garden chair almost daily. The green on my beloved lawn will return, but I don't miss my old tomato greenhouse workplace.

Yesterday was day 51 in a row that reached 25C somewhere in the UK. Today might possibly make it 52. Before this year the longest such streak I could find was 40 days in 1995. and that was way ahead of any other year.

We have our 52nd day: 25.6 Writtle, according to NW. Seems a bit high, but we'll see if the Met Office accept it tomorrow.

Tomorrow will definitely break the run, sadly. But this is a fine example of what global warming does to our baselines. 25C is kind of the new 70F / 21C. I’d say 30C is our new 80F / 27C - heatwave entry level. 

Only 20.6 here today since June and it a shame it didn't copy what Nicosia got a proper storms, just severe boring bog standard light to moderate showers, dirty smell of the rain and no winds to make a move faster. This type of set-up is a nightmare as it reminded me of bad summers in 2007 to 2012 that was hit by daily slow moving showers, they really destroy summer season and they fully stink too, not fresh rain as I felt in abroad or in thunderstorms here.  

Yes stink is right. No petrichor here, just the tang of freshly rehydrated urban fox urine.

I notice that when we get those horrible rain showers it really stinky type and yes there was no petrichor, but i got those during rain bands moving in, thunderstorms or April showers but not this type of summer killer showers.  All the ajar windows was shut when the stinky showers came as it start to stink inside.  Will open when the stink gone hopefully tomorrow.  

It made it to the extremes page, as did 25.1 Teddington.

Not as warm so far today - at noon we've 20.6 Langdon Bay and 21 Southampton Weather Centre as per NW.

Today seem to be warmer despite uppers drop to 4C and tomorrow 3C  The August sun and the still very dry ground still boosting to 22.8C and conservatory 38C after it dropped to 31.5c yesterday since mid June as July never went below 35C.  Hope today bonus dry day as before they predicted rain showers to Friday seem to be cancelled thankfully.  

It'll still be chilly at 19c, but at least dry

Here's hoping for a nice September (mists & mellow fruitfulness), a cold and dry end of October/early November, stormy mid-November, and an early onset of winter as we move into December (a la 2010). We can but dream!!