A pleasant 24C at mine.   Hardly cold. 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

Still annoyingly sticky here - knocking up towards 30 again !

Fed up with it - want a nice cool sub 20 please 🙂

Thorney Island reached 30.6C according to the Netweather tracker. I make that 38 days of 30C+ too but I think the Met have found an extra two somewhere. They tweeted on Wednesday 12th saying it was 37 days, and then we have also had Thursday, Friday and Saturday so that makes 40 days.

We've had quite a few 29s recently so maybe some manual sites have hit 30c.

Car thermometer reading 30.5C or 31C in various places between Chichester and Portsmouth this afternoon including passing by Thorney Island so I'm not surprised at the reading there, And Wiggonholt, another local and sheltered location, didn't look/feel in the least dodgy.

Incidentally, if you want to walk round Thorney on the public coastal foot path, it is still a military area. When I did so, a few years back. you had to stop at a gate and show your face to a camera before the control room would unlock it remotely for you., and then check out again on the way out.  Still in force AFAIK.

Both Thorney Island and Wiggonholt maxed at 30.6C. The reason I thought it looked dodgy is that it rose from 25.2 up to 28.9 and then back down to 27.0 in successive hourly readings. But it does look OK in the end.

So, maybe 40 days of 30C now?

Fair point. There were occasional random gusts of wind around here today but I wouldn't have thought enough to cause this sort of variation.

I get that sort of variation all the time on my weather stations, almost always as the wind shifts. Kent and Sussex in particular I think have a tendency for this, with coasts, linear downs and a patchwork of forest and open land. 

Happens all the time down here on the south coast, and it's often amplified in the urban areas. 

Yes and one to watch, some one other side already dismissing it but remember many was dismissing it on GFS showing the recent heatwave, they kept dismissing it to the day which prove them wrong when it reached 38.1c and my garden was 38.7 as GFS was showing 38-39 in the Midlands.  Very dry run with few rain spikes never higher than 1mm which mean nothing, had a 2mm spike for yesterday when it was sunny and dry.   

When I see some more models showing it, I'll call heatwave No7. I reckon we've got 10 days before it shows. 🙂🙂🙂

The ens temp graphs from GFS stay refreshingly close to norm; only in the last day or two of August do op and control take off as outliers from the main pack - and as for ECM quite boringly average from all members. Don't bet the farm yet.

I see now hints of warmer weather slowly rising from end of the weekend to September.  I see some very cool 850's t hit Nicosia on last day of August which was not there on 00z runs show possible cooler weather in E Med and warmer to hotter here by September. 

Sadly we need to bypass the anti summer/heat haters/rain lovers protesters on the M25 today as they are on the gantry with their banners up.  Lot of hatred and dimissing toward GFS on 06z. never seen this outrage before toward a model.

If we need rain can we do Nicosia type that come with big storms, hail, heavy proper rain that we should be looking for on the models but there no sign of it. 

Today here so far 28.5C still warm but no heatwave threshold for me as i set it at 30C plus. 

Really? The 850s head up to the teens but the 2m temperatures only give a couple of days of 27-28 max in the south then back to the lower 20s.

EDIT: 25 here tomorrow and 27 on Tuesday going by the 12z GFS, so there may well be a couple more days to eke out yet. After that though it looks like a cold front will finally make it through - all the others so far have been feeble affairs, or have undergone frontolysis as they're passing.

Should be finally gone by Wednesday , hopefully for good this year . 🤗

The cooler duration of 4C on the 12z ensembles had been delayed and dowgraded from a 5-6 days to 2-3 days before rising back to average so temperatures likely to be low 20's to mid 20s.  Today was 28.8C under 11C 850s so down to 4C mean 22-23C here.  Will warm up at the end of the month for September possible heatwave but not showing at the range yet.

Currently 27C

Dew point 20C 🥵

https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/daily-top-20/maxt