Out of interest does anyone have a list of yesterday's maximums? I'd be interested to see how Cambridge botanical Gardens and Brogdale fared.

CBG was 38.0C. No report from Brogdale AFAIK - not even sure it still exists as a site?

 

I posted a final list on yesterday's thread near the end - not including CBG obviously)

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Shame that Gringley On The Hill didn't top the list. 

 

  Not far from me. 

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It just started raining, and it remains 34C here and 36C at our nearest Met station. Weird feeling: cool raindrops in an oven.

Not sure if the Met Office keep records for the hottest temperature in rain but if they do, today just smashed it.

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Exactly. Looks like a nice place with a great name!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gringley_on_the_Hill

Sorry to the folks at Coningsby but your name is somewhat boring. 

I'm not sure GOTH's like being top of anything 

 

I’d never heard of it; but it sounds like something out of Midsomer Murders!

We just call it Gringely, sounds less romantic to locals. 

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CBG was 38.0C. No report from Brogdale AFAIK - not even sure it still exists as a site?

 

I posted a final list on yesterday's thread near the end - not including CBG obviously)

Brogdale still exists and you can get the 15 minute readings here:

https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/view?siteID=37860072

It was 40.3C twice, at 3.30 and 4.30. Quite possible if snuck higher in between but we’ll find out tomorrow. If so, then yah-boo to Coningsby, the record returns to its ancestral Kentish home.

EDIT: sorry, I think that data is from Faversham town WOW site. We’ll see what Brogdale brings tomorrow (it definitely still exists).

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Edinburgh came within a whisker of recording its own hottest day on record today as a maximum temperature of 31.2°C was recorded at Edinburgh Gogarbank. That is only 0.4°C short of that record from 2019, but was enough to give Edinburgh its hottest day of this year so far for the second day in a row.

This means that unless Edinburgh does go on to experience its hottest day on record at some point in time during the rest of this summer, that figure is probably unlikely to be beaten during the rest of this year.

 

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Still holding onto 29.9 C but that decaying cold front is nigh as the wind has just picked up and I can see high cloud approaching in from the south west. Not quite the dramatic wall cloud formation that we had on this day in 2014.

Looking back to today, after a slightly shaky start my cat and elderly mother took the heat in their stride once I got fans up and running and kept curtains closed.

PS: Temperatures dropping now, currently 27.5 C. 

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Still holding onto 29.9 C but that decaying cold front is nigh as the wind has just picked up and I can see high cloud approaching in from the south west. Not quite the dramatic wall cloud formation that we had on this day in 2014.

Looking back to today, after a slightly shaky start my cat and elderly mother took the heat in their stride once I got fans up and running and kept curtains closed.

I think this week shows how effective a red alert for high temperatures is. People modified their behaviour and took precautions. I certainly felt more comfortable than I sometimes do in cooler heatwaves, because I was doing all the recommended things, particularly shutting off the house and getting wet as often as possible.

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Its over as a rush of cool westerly air arrived at 19:35hrs.

34.7c

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It just started raining, and it remains 34C here and 36C at our nearest Met station. Weird feeling: cool raindrops in an oven.

Not sure if the Met Office keep records for the hottest temperature in rain but if they do, today just smashed it.

Hottest was 35C during July 2018 in Epsom when we had first rain after exactly 60 days without rain, it was 36C then drop to 35C when rain came, was nothing exciting or stormy enough.

 

I think this week shows how effective a red alert for high temperatures is. People modified their behaviour and took precautions. I certainly felt more comfortable than I sometimes do in cooler heatwaves, because I was doing all the recommended things, particularly shutting off the house and getting wet as often as possible.

You certainly did. 

32.7c, cool bliss!!

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I can also confirm that for the second day in a row, a new station record was once again set at the botanic gardens in Edinburgh where today's maximum temperature was exactly 31.0°C.

That makes today the second day in a row when the temperature has been above 30°C at all three of my local stations in Edinburgh and only the first time ever, that the maximum temperature on any single day has been at or above 31°C at all three of my local stations.

 

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I think this week shows how effective a red alert for high temperatures is. People modified their behaviour and took precautions. I certainly felt more comfortable than I sometimes do in cooler heatwaves, because I was doing all the recommended things, particularly shutting off the house and getting wet as often as possible.

 My youngest brother is a DJ by night and bingo caller by day in Ingoldmells on the Lincolnshire coast.  He had this afternoon off because there were not enough people in the pub to play. Inside has no air con, but it isn’t usually needed on the East Coast, and the outside terrace was too hot for people to sit out. 

I got wet as often as possible too.  Two of my sisters came round to share the pool and walked the short distance home in wet clothes at the peak of the heat.  Another dip is needed to get me extra cool before bed. 

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Its over as a rush of cool westerly air arrived at 19:35hrs.

34.7c

Yes, dropped to 34c here too and it feels very refreshing. Who would tgink we could ever even say that !

Northolt has failed to deliver its 1800Z synop, presumably due to the fire. But I think 40.0C was the max there.

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OK I think this is the final list of all the stations that matched or broke the old record, now updated to include the manual readings. I make it 48, or 47 if you discount Waddington. Edit: The Met Office say 46 in their summary: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weather-and-climate/2022/july-heat-review

Coningsby 40.3C
Waddington 40.3C (discounted by Met Office due to non-standard exposure)
Heathrow 40.2C
Pitsford 40.2C
St James's Park 40.2C
Gringley on the Hill 40.1C
Kew Gardens 40.1C
Cranwell 40.0C
Northolt 40.0C
Cambridge Botanic Garden 39.9C
Cambridge NIAB 39.9C
Charlwood 39.9C
Cranwell 39.9C
Scampton 39.9C
Wittering 39.9C
Bramham 39.8C
Monks Wood 39.8C
Nottingham WC 39.8C
Battersea Heliport 39.6C
Teddington Bushy Park 39.6C
Topcliffe 39.6C
Woburn 39.6C
Bedford 39.5C
Normanby Hall 39.5C
Wakefield (Thornes Park) 39.5C
Sheffield 39.4C
Sutton Bonington 39.4C
Wisley 39.3C
Buntingford No 2 39.2C
Chertsey Abbey Mead 39.2C
Marham 39.2C
Cawood 39.1C
Holbeach 39.1C
Ryhill 39.1C
Writtle 39.1C
Brogdale 39.0C
Mildenhall 39.0C (highest hourly reading)
Santon Downham 39.0C
High Beach 38.9C
Wellesbourne 38.9C
Coleshill 38.8C
Iver Waterworks 38.8C
Leeming 38.8C
Benson 38.7C
Church Lawford 38.7C
Coventry 38.7C
Houghton Hall 38.7C
Stowe 38.7C

 

There are also two airports that recorded 40C METARs (the 39C METARs could have been below 38.7)

Humberside 40C (rounded)
Doncaster 40C (rounded)

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I can hear thunder booming away to my east - the front must have sparked up just after it went through - typical!

Down to a beautiful 26c here now. 

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Waddington has been overlooked by the Met Office for some reason despite tying for the lead!

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