Somewhere could set a new record for holding the record for the shortest time !

After an overnight low of 24.5C it's currently 32C here.

A couple of 38c on XCW!!

No, it just niggles me it takes so many hottest day titles. So many compared to any other station, even surrounding ones

Just to clarify. Always felt there’s an influence that leads to this. It’s unnatural. 

Re Heathrow, the annoying thing is it is perfectly sited in a Southerly airstream to get very high temperatures because it is on flat land in the lee of the highest part of the Downs / Surrey hills, gets that all important katabatic warming with low dewpoints (we saw this on 10 Aug 2003). So you would expect it to be up there on days like this.

Yep, and this is the one I watch as these are airport Metar reports.

35.6 here. I wonder if we can make 36 before the cooldown starts. It can't be too far away...

Edit: down to 35.3. I think 35.7C might be the peak but we will see...

My local site at Kew Gardens showing 38.4 at 11:00

... and it feels like iy too

38C 100F now here.

Charlwood not that far ahead seems ok.

All of our new record maxima are unnatural - this wouldn’t be happening without our impact on GHGs.

Rob - where is your local reporting site? You always seem lower than I’d expect. 

Down to +21.5c here in Okehampton from a low of 25.1c last night! STarted to rain! - all heading your way! a 4.0c drop in temperature since 0800am this morning. Nice and fresher but humid.

Hope somewhere can reach the magical milestone of +40c before the breakdown occurs later this evening, there is still at least 4.5-5hrs of warming left, but it depends on cloud cover as well because as we all know cloud cover can supress temperatures - yesterday we reach +34c here in Okehampton but the cloud prevented it from rising further, however we saw quite a lot of Alto-cumulus casterallanus clouds.- We all know what this means along with flying ants! - So watch out!

Nottingham Watnall reported 36.3c at midday. That beats yesterday’s 36.2c record, which beat the July 2019 record of 36.1c. 

gap in obs in SE Scotland mean we don't know how close Scotland is to an all-time record. Kielder Castle (a few miles from the border) is at 30.9C, i believe that is the first >30C reading there, and Chillingham Barns (quite a way north in Northumberland, maybe 10 miles from the Scottish border) is at 31.8C. 

38c here now.

Baking hot outside and that's in the shade!!!

Snap, 34c here too and rising. I think Arome HD had 38c for today .

I've never really fully trusted data from airports either. They nearly always record higher temps than other nearby stations.